-INGLES-
IDIOMA INGLES III 2010
PAG. 355 A359 APPOINTMENT WITH
LOVE
"S. I. KISHOR"
(3 COPIAS)
APPOINTMENT WITH LOVE
Sis smaures 70 ats, said the great sound clock over the
information booth in Grand Ceotval Station. The tall
young Army lieutenant who bed just come from the di-
rection of the tracks lifted his sunburned face, and his
‘eyes narrowed to aote the exact time. His heart was
pounding witha beat that shocked him because he could
rot contrl it. Ia six minutes, he would see the woman
‘who had filled such a special place in his life forthe past
thirteen months, the woman he had never seea, yet whose
written words had beeo with him and sustained him un
failing
He placed himself as close as he could tothe informa-
tion booth, just beyoad the ring of people besieging the
clerks,
Lieutenant Blandford remembered one night in par-
ticular, the worst of the Sghting, when his plane hed
been caught in the midst ofa pack of Zeros. He had seen
the grinning face of one of the Jap pilots.
In one of his letters, he had confessed to er that he
often felt fear, and only a few days before this batle,
he haid received her answer: “Of course you fear. all
brave men do, Dida't King David know fear? That's why
he wrote the Twenty-third Peale. Next time you doubt
yourself, I want you to hear my voice reciting to you.
‘Yea, though I walk in the valley of the shadow of death,
1 shall fear uo evil, for Thou art with me’....” Aad be
adja Capi BO, by Boe Coed cer Fg Gan Ot
=had reenembeced; he had heard her imagined voice, and it
had renewed his stength and skill
‘Now he was going to hear her veal voice. Four minutes
to six. His face grew sberp,
Under the immense, starred roof, people were walks
ing fast ike threads of color being woven into a gray
web. A'gisl passed close to him, and Lieutenaot Bland:
ford started. She was Wearing a red flower in her suit
Tapel, but it was 2 crimson sweetpea, not the lite red
rove they hed agreed upon. Besides, chis gir was too
Joung, about “eighteen, whereas Hollis Meynell had
Frankly fold him she was thity. “Well, what of it?” he
hhad answered, "Tm thirty.wo.” He was twenty-nine.
"His mind went back to that book-the book the Lord
Himself rust have put into his hands out of the hun-
‘deeds of Army library books seat to the Florida training
“Ganp. Of Human Bondage, it was; and throughout the
book were notes in a woman's writing: He had always
nated that wniting-ia habit, but these remarks were ilier:
tent He had never believed that a woman could see into
man's heart so tenderly, so understandingly. Her name
‘was oo the bookplate: Hollis Meynell. He had got hold
Of a New York City telephone book and found her
Sdesess, He had written, she had answered. Next day he
hhad been shipped out, bot they had gone on writing.
“For thirteen. months, she had faithfully replied, and
rove than replied, When his letters did not arsive, she
Tnote aayway, and now he believed he loved her, aad
she loved him.
But she bad refused all bis pleas to send him her
photograph. That seemed rather bad, of course, But she
Bad ceplained: "If your fceling for me bas any reality,
any bonest basis, what I look like won't matter. Suppose
{Ted beautiful Ta always be haunted by the feeling that
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=Lieutenant Blandford did not hesitate. His Singers
gripped the small, worn, blue leather copy of Of Humon
Bondage which was to ideatify him to her. This would
not be love, but it would be somethiog precious, some-
{thing perhaps evea rarer than love-a friendship for whiel
he had been and must ever be grateful...
“He squared his broad shoulders, saluted and held the
ook aut toward the woman, although even while he
spoke he felt choked by the bitterness of his disappoint-
“I'm Lieutenant John Blandford, and you—you are Miss
‘Meynell, I'm zo glad you could meet me. May—may take
you to dinner?”
‘The woman's fece broadened in a tolérant smile, “Z
don't know what this is all about, son,” she answered.
“That young lady in the green suit, who just went by, she
begged me to wear this foxe on my coat, And she said
that if you asked me to go out with you, I should tell you
that she's waiting for you in that big restaurant across
the street. She said it was some Kind-of a test. I've got
two boys with Uncle Sem myself, so 1 dida't mind tg
oblige you."
your CALLED To-puTy
In an age of fops and toys,
Wanting wiidom, vod of right,
Who sball nerve heroic boys
‘To havard all m Freedom's Bght—
Bresk sharply of their jlly games,
s
quizzes
Forske thes comrades g2y,
And quit proud homes and youthful dames
For famine, tol, and fray?
Yet on the nimble air Benign
Speed simbler massages,
‘That wale the breath of grace divine
‘To hearts in sloth and ease,
So nigh i grandeur to our dust
So near is God to man,
Whea Duty whispers low, Thow must,
‘The youth replies I con
RAPID QUIZZES, FOR YOUR
AMUSEMENT
‘Who moke each ofthe following famous phrases?
1 The way tobe stfe is never to bo seoues
2 Let facts be submated to candid world
4 Hier ond Union one and ineparele, a7 end
4 Observe good faith and justice toward al ations.
5 Grown thy good with brotherhood.
8 Congress shall make no law expecting an extablish-
mont of rligion
1, With malice toward none, with charity forall
& Give me berg, or give to death!
8. All the is of demecracy can be cured by move do-
mocracy.
10, These are the times that try aien’s soule
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