Американская трагедия

Chapter 31

           

           Inwardlyhegrewmoreandmorerestlessandtroubled,thewhileoutwardlyhemaintainedthatsamehighspiritthatcharacterizedhimthroughouttheafternoon.Fortunatelyforhisownmood,thissamegroup,havingdancedandfrolickedeverynightforthepastweekuntilalmostnervouslyexhausted,itnowunanimouslyandunconsciouslyyieldedtowearinessandateleventhirty,brokeup.AndafterhavingescortedBellaGriffithstoherdoor,ClydehurriedaroundtoElmStreettoseeifbyanychanceRobertawasstillawake.

           AshenearedtheGilpins’heperceivedthroughthesnow-coveredbushesandtreestheglowofhersinglelamp.Andforthetimebeing,troubledastowhatheshouldsayhowexcusehimselfforthisinexplicablelapsehepausednearoneofthelargetreesthatborderedthestreet,debatingwithhimselfastojustwhathewouldsay.WouldheinsistthathehadagainbeentotheGriffiths’,orwhere?ForaccordingtohispreviousstoryhehadonlybeentheretheFridaybefore.Inthemonthsbeforewhenhehadnosocialcontacts,butwasmerelyromanticizinginregardtothem,theuntruthshefoundhimselftellinghercausedhimnotwingesofanykind.Theywerenotrealandtookupnoactualportionofhistime,nordidtheyinterferewithanyofhisdesiredcontactswithher.Butnowinthefaceoftheactualityandthefactthatthesenewcontactsmeanteverythingtohisfuture,ashesawit,hehesitated.

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