O. Henry Memorial Award Prize Stories of 1919 by Various
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"I will never be so happy again as with the sweet little people of Brussels." "I, too, love Brussels. I studied there four years with Ahrenfest." "I know you did. My teacher, Lyndahl, in Berlin, was his brother-in-law." "You have studied with Lyndahl?" "He is my master." "I--will I sometime hear you sing?" "I am not yet great. When I am foremost like you, yes." "Gina--Gina Berg, that is a beautiful name to make famous." "You see how it is done? Gins--Berg. Gina Berg. "Clev-er!" They stood then smiling across a chasm of the diffidence of youth, she fumbling at the great fur pelt out of which her face flowered so dewily. "I--well--we--we are in the fourth box--I guess we had better be going--fourth box left." He wanted to find words, but for consciousness of self could not "It's a wonderful house out there waiting for you, Leon Kantor, and you--you're wonderful, too!" |
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