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Millie said that she scarcely remembered how she had come, but she thought that she had run the most of the way. And over and over as we walked along she repeated: "I'm awfully sorry." As we came out of the woods, where the road bent in toward the big gate, we saw a light burning in the library. Millie stopped suddenly and clutched my arm. "Suppose he won't let me come back?" she said.
I know I'm done for. I don't want a lot o' strangers pokin' round in my things and takin' care of me. I'm crabbit and they don't have no patience." "Ach, you'll be around again in no time," said Millie cheerfully. "Don't you worry. I'll run everything just like it ought to be. I'll tend you so good you'll be up and about before you know it." "I'm not so easy fooled.
"Gaining Millie Botayne's love," replied Jim. Brown looked at Millicent, and read the story from her face. He turned toward Jim a wondering look, and asked, slowly: "Then, why did you free me?" "Because she loved you," said Jim, and then he walked quietly away. "Why, Miss Peekin!"
"Oh, Roger, you are leaving me far, far behind." "What do you mean, Millie?" "Why, you are climbing the peaks of knowledge at a great pace, and what's to become of poor little me, that have no chance to climb at all worth naming? You won't want a friend who doesn't know anything, and can't understand what you are thinking about."
As I sat across the table from him, at mealtimes, and looked into his amused, small twinkling eyes, I thought continually of the Miller in Chaucer's Canterbury Tales.... Millie, too, was not slow at having her joke. She was roughly affectionate of me, in memory of old days. But I was glad to see Haberford and the East again.
"He didn't mind that, of course, for he had plenty. She lived at his house, and eventually died there. "She and my uncle never got along well, in spite of his kindness to her, and she had no friends except a Mrs. Stevens and her daughter. They're related to the Richmonds, but the money is all in the colonel's branch of the family. "Mrs. Stevens and Millie, her daughter, are poor.
"Just listen," she said to the girl, who came running. "I heard something to-day! That old Mertzheimer he he oh, yea, why daren't I swear just this once! I'm that mad! That old Mertzheimer and the young one ought to be tarred and feathered!" "Why, Millie!" said Amanda, smiling at the unwonted agitation of the hired girl. "What's happened?"
But you mustn't cry so hard. I need you. I am going to drive him into town." "Oh, my God, in this storm?" exclaimed Millie. "There's nothing else to do," Rachael said. "He may die on the way, but his mother will do what she can. I couldn't have Doctor Peet, kind as he is. Doctor Gregory his father will know. It's nearly seven now. We must start as fast as we can.
Two years ago, Martin Hillyard reflected, Harold Jupp or Dennis would have chaffed her roundly about her conquest, and she would have retorted with good humour. Now, no one spoke, but a little sigh, a little movement of uneasiness came from Millie Splay. Joan did not take her eyes from Hillyard's face. But the blood mounted slowly over her throat and cheeks.
"My goodness, Millie," she greeted the newcomer, "I never was so glad to see anybody like I am you! You pay this lady for her trouble. My money is in the wash-stand drawer. Lock the drawer open and get it out" After the neighbor had been paid and departed Millie and the sick woman were left alone. "Millie," said Aunt Rebecca, "you stay with me till I go. Ach, you needn't tell me I'll get well.
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