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That morning seemed a year ago; it was but yesterday. "Old hats and bonnets," Vesta thought, "will be no novelties to me by and by. This family of the Milburns is full of them." Then, addressing the new arrival, Vesta said, "This is your uncle, then? Where do you live?"
I drink it to keep out the malaria, and partly as a communion cup; for to-night the barefooted ghosts who have drooped and withered here are with me in spirit." "Dey was all good Milburns who lived heah, marster," said the negro. "Dey had hard times, but did no sin. Dey shook wid chills and fevers, not wid conscience." "I shall shake with neither," said the money-lender.
"You gave us a good sermon last night, Doctor"; not much more than that, and "I noticed the Milburns there; we don't often get Episcopalians"; and again, "The Wilcoxes" Thomas Wilcox, wholesale grocer, was the chief prop of St Andrew's "were sitting just in front of us. We overtook them going home, and Wilcox explained how much they liked the music. 'Glad to see you, I said.
"Oh, only over to the Milburns'. Dora asked me to come and show her the new flower-stitch for table centres. Dora's suddenly taken to fancy work. She's started a lot a lot too much!" Stella added gloomily. "If Dora likes to do fancy work I don't see why anybody should want to stop her," remarked Mrs Murchison, with a meaning glance at her husband.
The upshot was that the Murchisons were confined to a few old friends and looked, as we know, half-humorously, half-ironically, for more brilliant excursions, to Stella and "the boys." It was only, however, the pleasure of Mr Lorne Murchison's company that was requested at the Milburns' dance.
Not a mineral exists in all this low, wave-made peninsula, where my people were shipwrecked except the wonderful bog ores." The negro's genial, wondering nature broke out with comfortable assurance. "Dat must be in de Bible," he said. "Marster, de Milburns been heah so long, dey must hab got shipwrecked wid ole Noah!"
"Could he have meant Mrs Farquharson and Miss Milburn?" asked Mr Murchison quietly, when the derision subsided; and they laughed again. "He told me," said Advena, "that he proposed to convert Mr Milburn to the imperial policy." "He'll have his job cut out for him," said her father. "For my part," Abby told them, "I think the Milburns are beneath contempt.
"That's ole Spring Hill, built by the first of the Milburns; by the one that made the will leavin' his hat and nothin' else to be son. It's got brick ends. I 'spect they had money when they come here, Virgie." The quickened mettle of the girl noticed that he had ceased to call her "Miss." "Now," said Hudson, "I'm goin' to leave you here with my sister till I see about gittin' a boat.
Butter wouldn't melt in her mouth and Octavius Milburn doing all he knew against him the whole time! That's the Milburns! I cut her remarkably short," Mrs Murchison added, with satisfaction, "and when she'd made up her mind she'd have to give that extra five cents for the ducks because there weren't any others to be had, she went back and found I'd bought them."
Such considerations, however, were far from operating with the Milburns. Mrs Milburn would have said that they were characteristic of quite a different class of people; and so they were.
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