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The circumstances leading to his engagement in the French service as a member of the Franco-American Corps proves this. Millard was a real human being, he had no grammar, no polish, no razor, safety or otherwise, but likewise no pretense, no "swank."
"Oh, Elmer I was only a child when I was engaged to Millard " "That's a fact. And you went on being one a good while afterward. The Apex Eagle always head-lined you 'The child-bride' " "I can't see what's the use now ." "That ruled out of court too? See here. Undine what CAN we talk about? I understood that was what we were here for." "Of course." She made an effort at recovery.
She stoutly maintained here last night that she knew a real lady living in three rooms with a husband and four children! I declare, I like Phillida all the better for this. Her impulses are very noble, but I can't help wishing she wouldn't do it. It doesn't do for one at her time of life to be too disinterested, you know." This turn in the talk threw Millard off the track for a moment.
The dollar-angle to this tragedy was that the death of Werner was simply another step in the wrecking of Manton Pictures. Kennedy, I saw, hardly gave him a passing glance. Manton we observed near the door. With the possible exception of Millard he seemed about the least concerned.
Monsieur the Viscount rejoined his young guests, and they fed the gold fish and the swans, and played Colin Millard in the shady walks, and made a beautiful bouquet for Madame, and then fled indoors at the first approach of evening chill, and found that the Viscountess had prepared a feast of fruit and flowers for them in the great hall.
The change gave her rather a chastened look, combined as it was with a timid self-consciousness when she entered the dining-room. Her aunts surveyed her with evident astonishment. "Well, Charlotte," Mrs. Millard remarked, affably, "you are really a nice-looking little girl when you let yourself alone." Aunt Virginia patted her hand and said nothing, but Charlotte felt sure she understood.
With this club he felt he had a weapon to be depended upon at need. But there was nothing in the rest of the little three-story house to throw any light upon the habits of Millard, or the place for which that worthy had departed. In one upper room Benson found a small mirror hung from a nail in the wall. In this same room was a small trunk, lid up and empty. Back to the basement Jack returned.
Now if anybody should ever condemn you for a little chaff in a great granary of wheat it would give me pain only if it gave you pain. Otherwise it would give me real pleasure, because I would like to bear it in such a way that you'd say to yourself, 'Charley is a braver man than I ever thought him." Millard had risen and was standing before her as he finished speaking.
The real leaders of the party were passed over in favor of John C. Frémont, whose romantic career was believed to be worth many votes. Pitted against Buchanan and Frémont, was Millard Fillmore who had been nominated months before by the American party, and who subsequently received the indorsement of what was left of the moribund Whig party. See Lamon, Lincoln, p. 358.
Then as he and Phillida went up the stairs that lead out of the Mall at the north of the arbor by the Casino, Millard made use of his handkerchief, explaining that he must have taken a slight cold.
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