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Jobson, says one of the committee, with an insinuating smile, 'give Mr. Millbank one. 'Jobson, I think you and I know each other, says a most influential supporter, with a knowing nod. 'Yes, Mr. Smith, I should think we did. 'Come, come, give us one. 'Well, I have not made up my mind yet, gentlemen.
The day was about to die; the day the most important, the most precious in the lives of Harry Coningsby and Edith Millbank. Words had been spoken, vows breathed, which were to influence their careers for ever. For them hereafter there was to be but one life, one destiny, one world.
No more of that; I am very happy to see you at Millbank, very happy to make your acquaintance, he continued, with some emotion, 'and not merely because you are my son's friend and more than friend. The walls of the dining-room were covered with pictures of great merit, all of the modern English school. Mr.
In terms of tenderness and humility he wrote to his grandfather that he positively declined to enter parliament except as the master of his own conduct. In the same hour of his distress Coningsby overheard in his club two men discussing the engagement of Miss Millbank to the Marquess of Beaumanoir, the elder brother of his school friend, Henry Sydney.
Poor John Spine, the celebrated novelist, had taken him over to South Lambeth to read to him the last few chapters of what was certainly his best book as our bore told him at the time, adding, 'Now, my dear John, touch it, and you'll spoil it! and our bore was going back to the club by way of Millbank and Parliament Street, when he stopped to think of Canning, and look at the Houses of Parliament.
Millbank was fond of pictures; then he recollected some specimens of Mr. Millbank's collection, and after touching on several which could not excite suspicion, he came to 'a portrait, a portrait of a lady; was it a portrait or an ideal countenance?
Such was Hellingsley, the new home that Oswald Millbank was about to visit for the first time. Coningsby and himself had travelled together as far as Darlford, where their roads diverged, and they had separated with an engagement on the part of Coningsby to visit Hellingsley on the morrow.
Rigby, a little excited, and then he added, 'Is that a son of Lady Albinia Millbank? 'No; his mother is not a Lady Albinia, but he is a great friend of mine. His father is a Lancashire manufacturer. 'By no means, exclaimed Mr. Rigby, quite agitated. 'There is nothing in the world that Lord Monmouth dislikes so much as Manchester manufacturers, and particularly if they bear the name of Millbank.
The executors lost no time in winding up and distributing the estate, and during the second week in July a letter arrived from their solicitors enclosing a draft on the Toronto agency of the Bank of British North America for the specified sum. Savareen made arrangements with the local bank at Millbank to collect the proceeds, and thus save him the expense of a journey to Toronto.
If I control myself now, it is not because I do not respect your affliction, but because, in the course of my life, I have felt too much not to be able to command my feelings. 'You never could have felt what I feel now, said Coningsby, in a tone of anguish. 'You touch on delicate ground, said Millbank; 'yet from me you may learn to suffer.
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