The Galaxy, Vol. 11: An Illustrated Magazine of Entertaining Reading; January, 1871, to July, 1871 (Classic Reprint) - Hardcover

Excerpt from The Galaxy, Vol. 11: An Illustrated Magazine of Entertaining Reading; January, 1871, to July, 1871

Here are certain days in winter when London looks well. These are days when there is no fog, but just a sort of silver-gray haze, through which the golden sunlight slants with a gentle ray, and the shapes of the bare trees in the Parks are softened into something like a vernal tenderness and deli cacy, instead of standing out steely and sharp. It is an atmosphere that accords well with London, and looks kindly on it.

On such a day a girl stood at a window of a house in a street running out of Piccadilly, and gazed, as well as she might, obliquely into such fringe and section of the Park as could be seen from that spot. The sunlight fell winsomely on the girl, and gave a look of brightness to a face almost perfectly colorless, and of habitually sad or bitter expression. Perhaps it was not only the rays of the sunlight either; for there surely was a glance of expectancy, or even of longing, in those dark, restless, glittering eyes, which had nothing to do with atmosphere or ray. The girl's whole manner was eager and impatient. Suddenly alight passed over her face, and a faint color sprang into her cheeks. She started from the window and drew back into the room, and then seated herself at a piano, and played hurriedly some careless chords. But her ear was eager to listen for all sounds below.

A servant entered the room with a card on a salver, and looked round.

Some one for mamma? Asked the girl carelessly. She will be here presently. Let me see the card. Oh yes let him come in here. Mamma will be here in a moment.

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