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Experience of Miss Gwilt's quickness of resource in dealing with awkward questions at their introductory interview decided her on taking the latter course. "I'll get the particulars from the reference first," thought Mrs. Milroy, "and then question the creature herself, and see if the two stories agree." The letter of inquiry was short, and scrupulously to the point. Mrs.
Milroy took out the letter, her hand trembled violently, and the white enamel parted into cracks over the wrinkles on her forehead. Rachel withdrew to the window to keep watch on the park. "Don't hurry," she said. "No signs of her yet." Mrs. Milroy still paused, keeping the all-important morsel of paper folded in her hand.
And what is more, I have not trusted to myself I have had good advice." "Did you hear what I said just now?" asked Midwinter, incredulously. "You can't surely, you can't have been attending to me?" "I haven't missed a word," rejoined Allan. "I tell you again, you don't know what I know of Miss Gwilt. She has threatened Miss Milroy.
"Even in moments of sentiment, under convenient trees, with a pretty girl on my arm, I can't entirely divest myself of my professional caution. Don't look distressed, sir, pray! I set things right in due course of time. Before I left Miss Milroy, I told her, in the plainest terms, no such idea had ever entered your head." "Did she seem relieved?" asked Allan.
Milroy would have received long warning of his approach, and all chance of effecting a surprise would have been lost. On April 29, the day on which Jackson began his movement, Richmond was still safe. The Yorktown lines were intact, held by the 53,000 Confederates under Johnston; but it was very evident that they could not be long maintained.
Saying those words, with the tone and manner of a woman who is quieting a fractious child, the nurse, without waiting to be dismissed, left the room. Mrs. Milroy turned slowly and wearily on her bed, when she was left by herself again, and let the light from the window fall on her face.
"Fond of music on the water, Miss Milroy?" he asked, in his airiest and pleasantest manner. Miss Milroy adored music, both on the water and the land always excepting the one case when she was practicing the art herself on the piano at home. "We'll get out of the reeds first," said young Pedgift.
He asked me he actually asked me, last night how many hundreds a year the wife of a rich man could spend on her dress. 'Don't put it too low, the idiot added, with his intolerable grin. 'Neelie shall be one of the best-dressed women in England when I have married her. And this to me, after having had him at my feet, and then losing him again through Miss Milroy!
The ghastly faces of the dead made a sickening and lasting impression; but I hoped I did not look as pale as did some of the young cadets, who proved gallant enough afterward. We continued the pursuit a day or two through that wild mountainous country, but Milroy stopped only once after his defeat, for a skirmish.
"These conditions are, that for the next six months to come all communication is to be broken off, both personally and by writing, between Armadale and Miss Milroy. That space of time is to be occupied by the young gentleman as he himself thinks best, and by the young lady in completing her education at school.
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