大学实用英语祭合款程1
Appointment with Love
John Blanchard stood up from the bench, straightened his Army uniform, and studied the
crowd of people making their way through Grand Central Station. He was looking for the girl
whose heart he knew, but whose face he didnt, the girl with the rose. His interest in her had
sult
begun thirteen months before in a Florida library. Taking a book off the shelf he found himself
rose
intrigued, not with the words of the book, but with the notes penciled in the margin. The soft
handwriting reflected a thoughtful soul and insightful mind
w In front of the book, he discovered the previous owner's name, Miss Ilollis Maynell With time
and effort he located her address. She lived in New York City. He wrote her a letter introducing
himself and inviting her to correspond. The next day he was shipped overseas for service in
g During the next year and one-month the two grew to know each other through the mail Fach
World War II
letter was a seed falling on a fertile
A romance was budding. Blanchard requested a
photograph, but she refused. She felt that if he really cared. it wouldnt matter what she looked
d when the day finally came for him to return from Europe, they scheduled their first meeting
like.
7:00 p.m. at Grand Central Station in New York
a"you'l recognize me, "she wrote, "by the red rose I'll be wearing on my lapel."So at 7: 00 he
wis in the station looking for a girl whose heart he loved, but whose face hed never seen
3 I'll let Mr, Blanchard tell you what happened: A young woman was coming toward me, her
fgure long and slim. ller blonde hair lay back in curls from her delicate ears; her eyes were
Hler lips and chin had a gentle firmness, and in her pale green suit she was like
blue as flower alive, I started toward her, entirely forgetting to notice that she was not
wearing a rose. As I moved. a small, provocative smile curved her lips. " Going my way, sailor?
she murmured, Almost uncontrollably I
her, and
standing
almost diretly behind the
girl
A woman
feet thrust
pirl
