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Harry Oldershaw, Frank Milwood and Courtney Millet, all nice boys, and I almost forgot to add, Joan Gray, that charming girl. My good man is following at her heels like a bob-tailed sheep dog. Poor old dear!
I'd heard and read so much about Boston, I thought I was sure to be happy here, for I thought the people were so noble and high-minded, and " There was a pathetic little faltering break again at this, which was resolutely repressed, and the sentence resumed with, "and then I knew my father's people had once " But at this point, "Esther," called out Miss Milwood from the doorway, "bring the exercises into my room, and we'll finish them together."
She would come back, no doubt, sooner or later; and her coming back would mean that Mildred would be robbed of her life, his own life robbed of its joy. At the end of Term the Master of Durham sent a note to bid the Stewarts to dine with him and meet Sir Henry Milwood, the rich Australian, and Maxwell Davison, the traveller and Orientalist.
Read the annals of crime; it will tell us what follows the broken spell, broken by the first degrading theft, the first stroke of the dagger, or the first drop of poison. The felon's eye turns upon the beautiful sorceress with loathing and abhorrence: an asp, a toad, is not more hateful! The story of Milwood has many counterparts.
Milwood, fired by a speech at the Harvard Club by Major General Leonard Wood, had scratched all his pleasant engagements for the summer, and was at Plattsburg learning for the first time, at the camp which will some day occupy an inspiring chapter in the history of the United States, the full meaning of the words "duty" and "discipline." Their places had been taken by Major and Mrs.
"It is one of the girls at Miss Milwood's school, Esther Bodn." "How does a girl who lives on McVane Street come to go to Miss Milwood's school?" "She assists Miss Milwood." And Laura told what she knew of Esther's assistance in the way of the French and German.
He had divined that Maxwell Davison would be willing to sell, and in his guileful soul the little Master may have had schemes of persuading his wealthy friend Milwood to purchase any bronzes that might be of value to the College or the University. Of the ladies, only Mildred and Miss Moore, the archæologist, braved the chill of the mediæval Library to inspect the collection.
"Not more than I feel in myself not of another character, that is. We live among men; we live among men who, generally speaking, know nothing about women. That's why women appear to us strange and unnatural. Your wife's quite normal, really." "But the memory alone, surely " "That's made you nervous; but I've known cases not far different. You remember meeting Sir Henry Milwood here?
I am afraid, however, that he has heard of Tom before. 'Only that night at Milwood, Miss; and then you see he had been drinking with Squire Ridge's people. I hope that will be considered, Miss. 'Well, well, go up to the Castle. 'Pray be seated, Miss, said a neat-looking mistress of a neat little farmhouse. 'Pray be seated, sir. Let me dust it first. Dust will get everywhere, do what we can.
I shouldn't think they could afford it," went on Kitty; "why, the place for her is a public school." "But, Kitty, don't you know that Esther assists Miss Milwood, that it is Esther who looks over all the French and German exercises, and makes the first corrections before mademoiselle takes them?" "Esther Bodn?" "Yes, why, Esther, you must have noticed, is very proficient in French and German.
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