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"I will, my dear, gladly and truly!" "He was here before you came. He asked me " Miss Milray gave a start of alarm. She said, to gain time: "How did he get here? I supposed he was in Germany with his " "No; he was here the whole of May." "Mr. Gregory!" "Mr. Gregory?" Clementina's face flushed and drooped Still lower. "I meant Mr. Hinkle. But if you think I oughtn't "
Milray came to their table from where she had been dining alone, and asked in banter: "Well, have you made up your minds to go over with me?" Mrs. Lander said bluntly, "We can't ha'dly believe you really want us to, Mrs. Milray." "I don't want you? Who put such an idea into your head! Oh, I know!" She threatened Clementina with the door-key, which she was carrying in her hand. "It was you, was it?
Miss Milray went from Clementina to call upon her sister-in-law, and found her brother, which was perhaps what she hoped might happen. "Do you know," she said, "that that old wretch is going to defraud that poor thing, after all, and leave her money to her husband's half-sister's children?" "You wish me to infer the Mrs. Lander Clementina situation?" Milray returned. "Yes!"
Clementina herself in her association with Hinkle had worn off her English rhythm, and in her long confinement to the conversation of Mrs. Lander, she had reverted to her clipped Yankee accent. Mrs. Milray professed to like it, and said it brought back so delightfully those pleasant days at Middlemount, when Clementina really was a child.
Clementina said nothing to this, but turned briskly, and started upstairs toward her room again. The landlady called after her, "Shall you speak to Mis' Milray, or do you want I should?" Clementina looked back at her over her shoulder to warble, "Why, if you would, Mrs. Atwell," and kept on to her room. Mrs.
"I'm glad you put it in terms that are not actionable, then; for your words are decidedly libellous." "What do you mean?" "I've just been writing Mrs. Lander's will for her, and she's left all her property to Clementina, except five thousand apiece to the half-sister's three children." "I can't believe it!" "Well," said Milray, with his gentle smile, "I think that's safe ground for you. Mrs.
Milray seemed surprised at the good round sum, as the landlady thought it, which she asked in the girl's behalf. The Milrays stayed through August, and Mrs. Milray was the ruling spirit of the great holiday of the summer, at Middlemount.
No, he hasn't been here, if that will help you. I wish it would help me, but it won't, quite. I don't like to think of that old woman using you up, Clementina." "Oh, she doesn't, Miss Milray. You mustn't think so. You don't know how good she is to me." "Does she ever remind you of it?" Clementina's eyes fell. "She isn't like herself when she doesn't feel well." "I knew it!" Miss Milray triumphed.
The thought of her past unkindness to Clementina may still have rankled in her, or she may simply have felt the need of outdoing Miss Milray by an unapproachable benefaction.
"Speaking, and singing, and playing." Clementina felt herself giving way, and she pleaded in final reluctance, "But I haven't got a pleated skut in my steama trunk." "No matter! We can manage that." Mrs. Milray jumped to her feet and took Lord Lioncourt's arm. "Now we must go and drum up somebody else." He did not seem eager to go, but he started.
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