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He was overwhelmed with horror. For a moment he felt such a weakness in his legs that he could hardly stand; then he walked after her quickly; he touched her on the arm. "Mildred." She turned round with a violent start. He thought that she reddened, but in the obscurity he could not see very well. For a while they stood and looked at one another without speaking.
It was only a matter of a few minutes before this was accomplished, for Betty went to rout them out. Angela came first to be followed by the two Dorothys, then Mildred Weeks and Evelin Hatfield, two girls who had come to Seddon Hall the year before. Betty followed them. "Everybody here?" she asked. "Don't you think we'd better elect officers first off? Then some one will be able to start things.
"Mildred," said Mark, "I don't know how much is meant by this suit. Here his voice failed him. With such a crowd of memories, of hopes and desires yet unsatisfied, with the crushing burden of debt and poverty, he could not command himself to say what his heart, nevertheless, ached in retaining.
"O Aunt Victoria," Beth answered in a despairing way, "here's such a lovely thing, and my head will play it, only my fingers are not long enough." Mildred had brought a quantity of new music home with her these holidays. She promised to play well also, and her aunt was having her properly taught.
From a distance, they can hardly fancy that even any little mouse could help being either drowned or starved. This will be about the last spot in the Levels that any boat will come to. You see, Mildred, our Red-hill, though it is everything to us, is but a speck compared with the grounds that have stood above water since the waters began to sink.
A paper imitation of a sixteenth-century house had been brought in, ladies had shown themselves at the lattice, they had been serenaded, and had chosen serenaders to dance with. And when at the end of his inventions the leader fell back on the hand glass and the cushion, Mildred refused dance after dance.
"Remember her! out of all question. Had the war left me leisure for making love, she was the only woman I ever knew, who could have brought me to her feet I mean as a dog, Dick." "Do you see any resemblance between her and this Mildred Dutton? It is in the expression rather than in the features but, it is the expression which alone denotes the character."
His once healthful complexion was now livid, or rather of a leaden, bluish hue; his respirations stertorous and singularly deliberate. "He is dying," Mildred moaned; "he is far, far away from us, even now. Oh, if we could have but one look, one sign of farewell!" Belle and Mrs. Jocelyn became almost helpless with grief, for it did not seem possible to them that he could rally.
He was thankful when eight o'clock struck and he could get up. He was pale and weary. But when he had bathed, dressed, and had breakfast, he felt himself joined up again with the world at large; and his pain was a little easier to bear. He did not feel like going to lectures that morning, but went instead to the Army and Navy Stores to buy Mildred a wedding-present.
"But, my darling, I skated with you constantly in the Christmas Vacation, and took your work through the Term. I assure you that you were quite awake then." "I remember nothing about it. All I know is that some one got my First for me." "But, Mildred " "Why do you call me Mildred? That's what they called me when I woke up last time; but my own name's Milly."
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