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After that he went back to his work, with Crestwick; and nearly twelve months had passed when he sent a cable to England and started for that country a day after receiving the answer. Crestwick insisted on going with him. "You'll no doubt want my support again," he grinned. "There's an office I mean to rob Nasmyth of, if I can." It was evening when they drove into sight of Millicent's house.
"You all heard that stupid outburst of Millicent's last night; so there is no harm in telling you that she regrets it. She is leaving the hotel forthwith." Helen rose suddenly. "She is one of my few friends," she said. "I cannot let her go in anger." "She is unworthy of your friendship," exclaimed Bower sharply. "Take my advice and forget that she exists."
It was not his wish to represent himself as a hero, and now and then he spoke with deprecatory humour, but he betrayed something of his character in doing justice to his theme. Millicent's eyes sparkled as she listened, for she found the story moving; he was the man she had thought him, capable of grim endurance, determined action, and steadfast loyalty.
"What's the matter with him?" A little fear clutched at Millicent's heart. "I don't know Abdul couldn't discover. The man is too exhausted to talk. I'll speak to him in the morning and find out." "I hope it's nothing infectious you were very rash, Mike!" "It's probably only physical exhaustion. He couldn't eat anything, but he drank the water I gave him.
"Against my advice, though my respected employer is difficult to reason with, he kept the rascal in camp, both feeding and paying him well." "You surprise me. I should have expected a more dramatic finale." Millicent's tone might have deceived a much more clever man who did not know her husband's position. "Why did he do so?"
It was better, he thought, to fail in attempting exquisite things than to succeed in the department of the utterly contemptible; he had vowed he would be the dunce of Cervantes's school rather than top-boy in the academy of A Bad Un to Beat and Millicent's Marriage.
He could picture her kneeling with folded hands, the polished nails conspicuously bright, and eyes upraised, listening to the boy's clear, pure voice, her whole being in a satisfied sensuous ecstasy. He knew that this state of ecstasy was about as far as Millicent's religion ever carried her.
"You can and must," replied Leslie, whose passion blazed up. "I'm about sick of your obstinacy and fondness for dramatic situations. You could do anything with any man you laid yourself out to inveigle, as I know to my cost, and in this case by the Lord, I'll make you!" "I will not!" Millicent's face was white with anger as she fixed her eyes on him. "For a few moments you shall listen to me.
The honest blue eyes looking out over the sea did not falter; bravely he faced his desolate future. The white gulls soared over the water, little swishing ripples lapped on the sand, and through all the gentle, dreamy noises of the shore came the soft, unceasing murmur of the gulf. Millicent's Double
We made tolerably certain it was the work of two strangers, who hung about the neighboring settlement and disappeared immediately after the accident." Millicent's eyes flashed, her white teeth were set together, and, filled with hot indignation against her husband, she lashed the ponies viciously.
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