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Neither Milicent's reluctance nor her stepfather's protest against the launching of so young a girl availed. "Only last week I saw her playing with a doll," said Shelby, routed at every turn. "What an argument! I played with dolls after I was married to Joe. If you postponed a woman's début till she tired of dolls, you would conflict with her funeral."
It's not for the party! It's for me, Cora, for me " "Such a nice party party " A fragment of Milicent's treble good nights drifted in from the sidewalk like an echo. Shelby waked from a restless night to confront a restless day, in truth, an anxious week. Two things he set about instanter; he wrote a manly letter of apology to Ruth, and he returned Mrs. Hilliard's money.
I've had to open my eyes lately to many things which concern you and Ludlow. Bar Harbor stories, Saratoga stories, Albany stories, too, of things you've kept from me God knows what hasn't filtered my way. I am jealous jealous for your good name, and mine, and Milicent's."
Milicent's début is one of them. I'll bring her out with a ball when she has had enough of her finishing school. Ex-Senator Ludlow thinks it an inspiration." The men exchanged a look. "Handsome Ludlow isn't an ideal adviser for young girls," dropped Shelby, quietly. "He's a victim of gossip; he told me so. You and I know too well what that means to countenance it.
For the hour, however, even this teasing vision of herself as first lady of the land paled before the very present topic of Milicent's début.
Van Dam, who forthwith became Milicent's captive, too, and a fairy godmother into the bargain. So Shelby came much to frequent a vine-screened upper veranda off Mrs. Van Dam's library, where she was fond of serving coffee after dinner, and one could dip down over the red roofs and tree-tops to the stripling Hudson changing its coat of many colors in the sunset.
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