Waugh.
"Wait, aunty, I don't like to go in a crowd."
Mrs. Waugh waited while the people pressed toward the outer doors.
"I wonder whether the professor will wait and join us when we return
home?" said Mrs. Waugh.
"We shall see," said Jacquelina. "I wish he may. I believe he will. I am
prepared for such an emergency."
In the meantime, Thurston Willcoxen had descended from the platform, and
was shaking hands right and left with the few people who had lingered to
speak to him. Then he approached Mrs. Waugh's party, bowed, and
afterward shook hands with each member of it, only retaining Marian's
hand the fraction of a minute longest, and giving it an earnest pressure
in relinquishing it. Then he inquired after the health of the family at
Luckenough, commented upon the weather, the state of the crops, etc.,
and with a valedictory bow withdrew, and followed the retreating crowd.
"I think we can also go now," said Mrs. Waugh.
"Yes," said Jacquelina, rising.
Upon reaching the outside, they found old Oliver, with the sleigh drawn
up to receive them. Jacquelina looked all around, to see if she could
discover Thurston Willcoxen on the grounds; and not seeing him anywhere,
she persuaded herself that he must have hastened home.
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