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He recovered his dignity as soon as he could, and suggested that Jenny should go up to the chamber of her new mistress. "Maybe Mrs Millicent should be pleased to take her," he said, making a low bow to Mrs Lane's maid. "She knows her way upstairs as well as I do," answered Millicent bluntly. "Have done with your airs, Robin! and prithee don't put Jenny up to 'em.
It is very horrid when they say one is good and one knows one is not; but I am very happy, and Lord Rotherwood is nicer than ever, and so is Fly. 'I am your affectionate and penitent and dutiful little daughter, 'MARIA MILLICENT MERRIFIELD.
"Millicent is one of the last women he can have anything in common with; she would simply die of horror if she heard any of these stories and he can't be interested in a word she says." "He always does the unexpected," and Stephen Strong laughed as he said it. He himself was amused at this ill-matched pair. "Mrs. Hardcastle is agreeable to look at, too," he continued. Tamara smiled scornfully.
But he was a creator of plays; and his training led him to seek to understand, and to understand with the sympathy of his emotions, the points of view of others who might stand in a contrast or a relation. He walked up the stairs with a heart full of pity when Millicent Splay caught him up. "What did I tell you?" she said, brimful with delight. "Just look at Joan!
We found that somebody had pulled out the cotter or iron pin which held the wagon wheel on." "Did any of your own men do it?" Millicent inquired, concealing her eagerness, and Thurston answered with pride in his tone: "My own men risk their lives almost every day in my service. There is not one among them capable of treachery now.
She had earned his hatred, and she had had it ever since the moment when she had spoken scornfully of the saint, a hatred which had grown and flourished like the Biblical bay-tree. To despise a Christian and more especially a Christian woman was in keeping with his Oriental mind and Moslem training; he despised Millicent not only as a woman and a Christian, but as a harlot.
There was nothing for him to do but to take his leave. "But," said Lady Cantourne graciously, "if you are determined to go away you must at least come and say good-bye before you leave." "Thanks; I should like to do so, if I may." "We shall be deeply disappointed if you forget," said Millicent, holding out her hand, with a smile full of light-heartedness and innocent girlish friendship.
"You would not like to be poor again, Millicent?" he said, fixing his glance, not upon her face but on her jeweled hands, and the woman smiled somewhat bitterly as she answered: "Poor again! That would seem to infer that we are prosperous now. Do you know how much I owe half the stores in this city, Harry?" "I don't want to!" said Leslie, with a gesture of impatience.
"I don't see why, if he had washed his hands," said Mrs Jane. "Oh, Mrs Jane! what things you do say!" Millicent had some excuse for her horror, since at that time shaking hands was a form of greeting only used between relatives or the most intimate friends. To give the hand to an inferior was the greatest possible favour.
Having arranged these matters, Mark spent the rest of his time that day and the next at Islington. "I am going across to Amsterdam on Saturday with a diamond bracelet to sell there." Millicent looked at him in reproachful surprise. "Why, surely, Mark, there can be no hurry about that. I think you might have stayed a little longer before running away."
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