Jacquette, a Sorority Girl

Jacquette, a Sorority Girl

IT was nine oclock in the evening when a heavy train rolled into the Union Station of a great western city. Among the passengers to alight was a fair-haired girl who glanced timidly about the big, cavernous station before falling in with the procession of travellers that had begun to move toward the waiting-room. Suddenly, one face shone clearly from among the indiscriminate mass of faces outside the iron gates, and she gave a glad little cry, as a tall boy stepped forward, caught her suitcase from her, and grasped her hand. As for that, I am rather grand, to-night, he laughed, stealing admiring glances at her as he led the way through the crowded station to the street. Im down here in the governors new auto to meet a long-lost country cousin, and I find a fairy princess, instead. What more could a fellow ask? He gave an order to the respectful chauffeur and disappeared into the station, while Jacquette Willard looked after him, feeling that she had suddenly entered a new world. She sat up very straight, brushing3 a bit of lint from the jacket of her wine-coloured travelling-gown, and, more than once, she patted the sunny mist of hair about her face, and put both hands to the jaunty hat, to make sure that it was poised exactly as it should be. In a few minutes her tall cousin came back and seated himself beside her, and then they went spinning along the brilliantly lighted streets toward her uncles home. ......Buy Now (To Read More)

Product details

Ebook Number: 57462
Author: Cody, Grace Ethelwyn
Release Date: Jul 8, 2018
Format: eBook
Language: English

Contributors

Illustrator: Post, Charles Johnson, 1873-1956