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Updated: May 13, 2025
Millborne's eyes, though fixed on the fire, were really regarding attentively a town in the West of England. 'Yes, he continued, 'I have never quite forgotten it, though during the busy years of my life it was shelved and buried under the pressure of my pursuits. And, as I say, to-day in particular, an incident in the law- report of a somewhat similar kind has brought it back again vividly.
Millborne's irritation broke out. The embittered Frances joined her in reproaching the man who had come as the spectre to their intended feast of Hymen, and turned its promise to ghastly failure. 'Why were you so weak, mother, as to admit such an enemy to your house one so obviously your evil genius much less accept him as a husband, after so long?
Frankland particularly illustrated this, and perhaps something more. There were few figures better known to the local crossing-sweeper than Mr. Millborne's, in his daily comings and goings along a familiar and quiet London street, where he lived inside the door marked eleven, though not as householder.
The doctor's advice remained counterpoised, in Millborne's mind, by the aforesaid mood of seriousness and sense of principle, approximating often to religious sentiment, which had been evolving itself in his breast for months, and even years. The feeling, however, had no immediate effect upon Mr. Millborne's actions.
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