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The result had been, in a sense, unsatisfactory. She had beheld looking over her shoulder the faces of Mauburn, Fred Milbrey, and the Angstead twins, and had declared herself unnerved by the weird prophecy. Before the fire in the hall Percival stood while Mrs.
Good-bye, you old dear, and be good to the cold." "Let me know what you do." "Indeed I shall; you shall be the first one to know. My mind is really, you know, almost made up." A week later Mr. and Mrs. Horace Milbrey announced in the public prints the engagement of their daughter Avice to Mr. Rulon Shepler. Uncle Peter Bines Comes to Town With His Man
He and his wife are now staying over at the Bloynes." "Oh! I see," answered Percival; "you're a jester, Mrs. Drelmer." "Ristine," observed the theosophic Wilberforce, in the manner of a hired oracle, "is, in his present incarnation, imperfectly monogamous." Some people came from the music-room. "Miss Milbrey has stayed by the organist," said one; "and she's promised to make him play one more.
You know she wanted to marry Fred Milbrey, but Horace and his mother wouldn't hear of it after Avice became engaged to Rulon Shepler. I'm in the Critchleys' box to-night and I understand she's to be there. Leave it to me. Now it's after nine, so run along." "But, Mrs.
"Best thing I ever heard about Chicago," said Uncle Peter, "a man from your town told me once he had to stay in Chicago a year, and, says he, 'I went out there a New Yorker, and I went home an American, he says." The old man completed this anecdote in tones that were slightly inflamed. "How extremely typical!" said Mrs. Milbrey.
At Union Square, when he would have taken a car to go the remainder of the distance, he saw Shepler, accompanied by Mrs. Van Geist and Miss Milbrey, alight from a victoria and enter a jeweller's. He would have passed on, but Miss Milbrey had seen him, and stood waiting in the doorway while Shepler and Mrs. Van Geist went on into the store. "Mr. Bines I'm so glad!"
"But did you see Miss Milbrey?" "Oh, that's her name is it, the one that her mother was so worried about and you? Yes, I saw her. Peart and cunnin', but a heap too wise fur you, son; take my steer on that. Say, she'd have your pelt nailed to the barn while you was wonderin' which way you'd jump." "Oh, I know I'm only a tender, teething infant," the young man answered, with masterly satire.
Milbrey related an anecdote of New York society, not much in itself, but which permitted the disclosure that she habitually addressed by their first names three of the foremost society leaders, and that each of these personages adopted a like familiarity toward her. Mrs.
"But how your pa would love to see you so conscientious," he said, "and you with Wall Street, or a good part of it, right under your heel, just like that," and the old man ground his heel viciously into the carpet. When Percival found Shepler with Mrs. Van Geist and Miss Milbrey among the Oldakers' guests, he rejoiced. Now he would talk to her without any of that old awkward self-consciousness.
If he were present when her bed-time came she refused to sleep until he had consented to an interview. Avice Milbrey had the fortune to witness one of these bed-time causeries. One late afternoon the young man's summons came while he was one of a group that lingered late about Mrs. Akemit's little tea-table, Miss Milbrey being of the number.
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