Read "What is to be Done?" by Nikolay Chernyshevsky online for free on Textopian. Full text with search, annotations, highlights, and AI-powered reading aids.
Now Viérotchka has been sitting long, long, on the appointed bench, and how often did her heart beat quickly, quickly, when she saw an army cap coming around the corner. "Ah! there he is; my friend! " She jumped up, and ran to meet him.
Maybe he would have regained his courage by the time he had reached the bench; but he was taken unawares, and his face was seen sooner than he anticipated, and so he was caught with a gloomy expression.