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"Of course my father intended, as you say, that his savings should come to us, but I am sure he never meant that they should be a bother and a trouble to us." "I don't see why they should ever be that, Millicent. As it is we have both sufficient for anything any man or woman could reasonably want, and neither of us need fret over it if the treasure is never found.
You have been here a week, haven't you? How is it you haven't come over to see us yet?" "As a matter of fact, I didn't intend to call, and it was rather against my wishes that we came up here," said Millicent with the candor of an old acquaintance. "You were not very cordial when I last saw you, and I can't help a feeling that you are all of you prejudiced against me."
"I've no doubt the things are interesting, and if our friends come up they can look at them. But it wasn't Benares brassware that brought me here." "Was it not?" Millicent asked with a fluttering heart. "Certainly not! One couldn't talk with Foster enlarging upon the only rational way of rearing pheasants, and you know I'm going away first thing to-morrow."
Some wit once suggested that the national arms of the United States should contain the emblem of crossed frying-pans, and Millicent was in this respect a true American. When Wetherell began to suffer from her pies and doughnuts, the revolution took place without stampeding, or recriminations, or trouble of any kind.
A measured beat stole out of the silence, increasing until it broke sharply through the tranquil lapping of the water. Then, far up the glittering lake, a dim black bar crept out into the moonlight and by degrees grew plainer. "Of course, they may be Indians," Bella suggested mischievously. Carew included Millicent in his answering bow. "No; I believe I'm beaten. You and Miss Gladwyne were right."
I can go down a day or two before you, and get you comfortable lodgings, and will myself stay at a hotel. Although I have no intimate friends beyond those from Reigate, I know a large number of men of fashion from meeting them at the boxing schools and other places, and could introduce you both, and get you into society." "I am altogether opposed to the idea," Millicent said decidedly.
'I should never be surprised at anything where father was concerned, said Rose coldly, with a slight hint of aloofness and of mental superiority. 'Not at anything. Leonora got up, and, leaving the room, went into the garden through the side door opposite the stable. She could hear Millicent practising the Jewel Song from Gounod's Faust.
Bella asked no more questions and Millicent sat wondering how far she had been influenced by the reason she had given for leaving Clarence behind. She had undoubtedly desired to be free to devote herself to the gathering of material for her book, but that was not quite all.
Ah! that little secret of a mutual respect. Some people who are young now will wish, before they have grown old, that they had known it. He shook hands with Lady Cantourne and with Millicent. Then he stood with a deferential half-bow, waiting for the introduction to the girl who was young enough to be his daughter almost to be his granddaughter.
But hope has a little revived in the noble breast since chance brought him and his title under the scrutiny of the bewitching Miss Millicent Higbee and her appreciative mother.
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