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"Ach," the hired girl said, blushing rosy, "don't go make so much fuss about it. Ain't we old enough to get married?" "I'm glad, Millie," Mrs. Reist told her. "Amos just needs a wife like you. He worried me long a'ready, goin' on all alone. Now I know he'll have some one to look out for him." "Finis! You're done for!" Phil said. "Lay down your arms and surrender.
I have entreated Him in your behalf and your mother's, and do you ask Him also to put heaven at the end of this dark and often thorny path which most of us must tread in this world." "Oh, Millie, Millie, I'm ignorant as a heathen. I did have a Bible, but I sold even that to buy wine to save mother's life. I might better have been thinking of saving her soul.
Jucklin at the time he spoke of having sent his daughter away to school, and I was turning this over and over in my mind, when Alf said: "A young fellow named Dan Stuart often goes to see Millie, and I don't know how much she thinks of him, but some of his people are high flyers, and that may have an influence in his favor.
Mamma and Millie were never made to be working-women. They are over-refined and high-toned, but I can't afford too much of that kind of thing on three dollars a week. I'm a 'shop lady' that's the kind of lady I'm to be and I must come right down to what secures success without any nonsense."
Mildred sat at the foot of the bed, where her father could see her pure profile in the gloom. To his opium-kindled imagination it seemed to have a radiance of its own, and to grow more and more luminous until, in its beauty and light, it became like the countenance of an accusing angel; then it began to recede until it appeared infinitely far away. "Millie," he called, in deep apprehension.
The two weeks in New York wasn't so bad, what with Millie and me getting new clothes, though him and her both jumped on me that I'm getting too gay about clothes for a party of my age. 'What's age to me, I says, 'when I like bright colours? Then we tried his home-folks in Boston, but I played that string out in a week. "Two old-maid sisters, thin noses and knitted shawls!
Whose voice then? Stella's, as we say as we know. But if not Stella's, as Jenny Prask says why then there is only one other woman's voice which could have given the news." "Jenny's," cried Millie with a sudden upspring of hope. "Yes, Jenny Prask's." Millie Splay rose from her chair swiftly and rang the bell; and when Harper answered it, she said: "Will you ask Jenny to come here?" "Now, my lady?"
She stretched out her arms. "Oh, slats! I'd give my teeth for a cigarette and a Manhattan cocktail. Wouldn't I, though!" Rhona shuddered. The woman turned toward her. "My name's Millie. Now we're pals, eh?" Then she rattled on: "First time in the workhouse? Comes hard at first, doesn't it? Cut off from friends and fun and ain't the work beastly? Say, Ronie, what's your job in little old New York?"
They call it the royal suite whatever that is and the trip lasts a month. The boat sails to-morrow morning. Don't sleep too late or you may miss her." The head clerk was secreting the tickets in the inside pocket of his waistcoat. His fingers trembled, and when he laughed his voice trembled. "Miss the boat!" the head clerk exclaimed. "If she gets away from Millie and me she's got to start now.
" aging rapidly ... " a pause, " ... hasn't got either of the two houses on Mansion Avenue now ... sold them and divided the money among her children ... gave us some ... and Millie ... and Lan ... wouldn't hear of 'no' ... " parenthetically, "Uncle Joe didn't need any; he's always prospered since the early days, you know." "And what's Granma up to these days?"
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