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Although love had at length come to Millard like an inundation sweeping away the barriers of habit and preconception, he was quite aware that Phillida Callender's was not a temperament to forget duty in favor of inclination, and the strength of his desire to possess her served as a restraint upon his action.
Who'll hear my prayers? And half a dozen of the boys said, 'I will, and he knelt down at the knee of Bill Burleson, and clasped his hands and said 'Our Father; and I tell you, sir, there wasn't a dry eye in camp when the little chap said 'Amen. And I don't believe there was an oath or a bad word said that night; every one felt as if there was an angel among us." "Thank you, John Millard.
I put the question to him. "How does a fish swim?" said Millard, smiling. "He's clever, I tell you. Once he has the banker in the car, perhaps they stop for a few moments at a club. At any rate, Manton usually contrives it so that, as they approach his apartment, he has his talk all worked up to the point where the banker is genuinely interested.
"What are you going to do, my dear?" he said. "You can not go there without risking the children. You can't send James without danger of bringing the infection into the house. But we mustn't leave Phillida without some attentions; I don't see how to manage it." "I've just made Mr. Millard my deputy," said Mrs. Hilbrough.
What he considered his aunt's oddity annoyed him. He wished she would dress like other people, meaning Mrs. Millard. He was twenty years old, and was working in a bank for fifty dollars a month, with small chance of promotion. He had wished to go to college, not so much, however, as his aunt had wished it for him, but now this was overshadowed by the ambition to be rich. And all for Madelaine.
"Pshaw, Philip, you excite my curiosity," said Millard, trying to smile, but yet a little aghast at seeing his old friend in this unusual mood, and divining that the subject would be disagreeable. "I come to speak about Phillida," said Philip. Ever since Millard's hopes had received their quietus from Mrs.
Millard?" asked Madelaine, with an upward glance, and flattering emphasis. Mrs. Millard caressed the hand that lay on her lap as she replied, "My own feeling is that we should refuse our patronage not that they are likely to have anything we'd care to buy and use our influence against it."
Millard was sitting up, a black scowl on his face as Jack and the others appeared. "Now, I've got to get this outfit back into Washington, somehow," mused Jack, after noticing that Abercrombie had allowed the other thug to crawl away to safety. "Why, of course, dear old fellow, you under stand that I'm helping," hinted the British officer. "That's mighty good of you," murmured Jack.
If Sir Oswald is still in Arlington Street, I shall make it my business to see Mr. Millard to-morrow." Sir Oswald Eversleigh had not left Arlington Street, and at dusk on the following evening Mr. Carrington presented himself at the door of the baronet's mansion, and asked to see Mr. Millard, the valet.
And thus, by the procrastination that comes of lack of opportunity, and the procrastination that comes of timidity, the spring was fast passing into summer. Hilbrough had taken Millard into partnership in an enterprise of his own the reorganization of a bankrupt railway company in the interest of the bondholders.
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