Studentenalmanak 1907 - pagina 175

A SIMPLE STORY.

E was a clerk in a great commercial house.

Besides he was a well educated young man,

rather good looking, with a very sympathie face.

At least s h e thought it a sympathie face. S h e

was a typewriter and every morning, when they went each

to their office they met

T h e first time, he had met her, he only had seen she

was a girl. The second time he saw she was a very pretty-

faced girl and so bye and bye he observed, that she had

rosy cheeks and lovely little light brown curls peeping from

under her hat, that, though simply, she was dressed with

much taste and last not least, that she had true hearted,

sunny blue eyes.

She soon realized that he paid attention to her and

could not but think him very sympathie, especially for the

way, in which he looked at her, not brutally and straight-

way into her face, as some young men do, but with some

reverance, as it seemed to her.

So they had soon got accustomed to each other and

would not have liked to miss their daily meeting, though

no word had ever been spoken between them.

When free from business, h e liked to sit at home

smoking his pipe by the fireside and thinking of her; and

so he soon came to the conclusion, that he had fallen in love

and that she would be the best wife in the world. Then

he began so fancy, how lovely it would be when he could

speak to her. "But", thought he, "she is a respectable girl,

so that I cannot speak to her in the street. And when she

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