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Thus ran the exalted poem on a sheet of note-paper: "AVICE MILBREY. Avice Milbrey, Avice Milbrey, Avice Milbrey, Avice Milbrey, Avice Milbrey, Avice Milbrey, Avice Milbrey, Avice Milbrey, Avice Milbrey, Avice Milbrey, Avice Milbrey, Avice Milbrey, Avice Milbrey. And ninety-eight thousand other verses quite like it." Plans for the Journey East
Percival listened absently to the talk and watched Miss Milbrey, now one of the group in the dining-room. Presently he saw her take a lighted candle from one of the laughing girls and go toward the library. His heart-beats quickened. Now she should know his love and it would be well.
Or perhaps it were better to be concerned with a matter more weighty than dinners and antique candlesticks. The search need never be vain, even in this world of persistent frivolity. As, for example: "Tell Mrs. Van Geist if she can't come down, I'll run up to her." "Yes, Miss Milbrey." Mrs. Van Geist entered a moment later. "Why, Avice, child, you're glowing, aren't you?"
" Coplen says she is now calling herself Mrs. Brench Wybert or some such name. I just thought I'd tell you in case you might run acrost her and " "Come along, old chap," urged Milbrey; "Mrs. Wybert will be waiting." His father had started off with Psyche. Mrs. Bines and Mrs. Drelmer were preparing to follow. "I beg your pardon," said Percival, "I didn't quite catch the name." "I say Mrs.
Why, you'd be Lady Casselthorpe, with dukes and counts takin' off their crowns to you. And that other one that Milbrey from all I hear he's lighter'n cork cut his galluses and he'd float right up into the sky. He ain't got anything but his good family and a thirst." "I see. This Mauburn isn't good enough for your family, but you reckon he's good enough for me? Is that it, now?" "Come, Mrs.
Darwin wrote a big book chiefly to prove that it isn't. From the force of her environment and heredity Miss Milbrey had debated almost exclusively her own chances of happiness under given conditions; and if she had, for a time, questioned the wisdom of the obvious course, entirely from her own selfish standpoint, it is all that, and perhaps more than, we were justified in expecting from her.
Milbrey scorned to be dazzled by her triumph. "Nonsense! Shepler asked her last night to marry him." "It's bewildering! I never dreamed " "I've expected it for months. I could tell you the very moment when the idea first seized the man on the yacht last summer. I was sure she interested him, even before his wife died two years ago." "Margaret, it's too good to be true!"
For the fair and sometimes uncertain daughter of the house of Milbrey, after many ominous mutterings, delays, and frank rebellions, has declared at last her readiness to be a credit to her training by conferring her family prestige, distinction of manner and charms of person upon one equipped for their suitable maintenance.
The inflated 'r' and the smothered 'r' never quite harmonise." "Western money talks good straight New York talk," ventured Miss Milbrey, with the air of one who had observed in her time. Shepler grinned, and the parents of the young woman resisted with indifferent success their twin impulses to frown.
"I say," said Mauburn, coming up, "do you see that angel of the flaming hair with that young Milbrey chap?" The two men gazed where he was indicating. "By Jove! she is a stunner, isn't she?" exclaimed Percival. "Might be one of Shepler's party," suggested Higbee. "He has the Milbrey family out with him, and I see they landed awhile ago.
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