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This doll was the dearest of her possessions. She had given her beautiful coral beads to the Indian girl, and now Millicent had taken possession of her doll. She tried to remember that she was a big girl now, ten years old, and that dolls were for babies like six-year-old Millicent. But "Martha Stoddard" was something more than a plaything to Anne; she could not part with it.
"I think the obstinacy has been principally on your side, Millicent; though certainly I should not think of saying that you have been disagreeable.
If Millicent Mervill had been there! He thought of her in that courtyard, in her luxurious modern clothes. How absurd her becoming hat would have seemed, how grotesque her daintily slippered feet! How little she divined his thoughts. "What took you there to-day? Tell me." "I have an old friend there, a student." "A native, do you mean?" "Yes, a native from the country south of Gondokoro."
Jim thought he would read some of these same papers, and unrolled Tarpaulin's blankets to find them, when out fell a picture-case, opening as it fell. Jim was about to close it again, when he suddenly started, and exclaimed: "Millicent Botayne!" He held it under the light, and examined it closely.
I was very fond of my cousin." When Blake reached England, Millicent met him at the station. Mrs. Keith, she told him, had taken a house near Sandymere. She looked grave when he asked about his uncle. "I'm afraid you will see a marked change in him, Dick. He has not been well since you left, and the news of Bertram's death was a shock."
The tears in Pollyooly's eyes brimmed over in her dismay and horror at this dreadful fate of her friend; and she, the dauntless, Spartan heroine of a hundred fights with the small boys of Alsatia, was fairly crying. "You mustn't go! You mustn't!" she cried. "I didn't want to. I was trying not to," said Millicent slowly. "After mother's funeral yesterday Mrs.
But Lady Millicent is the woman nothing at all has been seen in this country like her! most fascinating! Harry, take care of your heart."
The giant mass of Corvatsch was associated in his mind with the girl's last glimpse of her beloved Switzerland, while on that same memorable day it threw its deep shadow over his own life. He turned to the mountain to seek its testimony, as it were, to the consummation of a tragedy. But Millicent could not know that.
It is possible that night might have marked a turning-point in her career had her husband listened to her, but before she could continue, his thin lips curled as he said: "Isn't it a little too late for either of us to practice the somewhat monotonous domestic virtues? You need not be afraid of hurting my feelings, Millicent, by veiling your meaning.
"I did not think that it was fair at all that I should step into Mark's shoes." "Well, it has all come right now, Millicent, and I dare say you thought that it would, even then." "I can assure you that I did not; quite the contrary, I thought that it never would come right. I was very unhappy about it for a time." "Now, young ladies," Dick Chetwynd laughed, "will you please take Mrs.
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