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"Oh, mamma," she pleaded, "you know I didn't mean to offend you! I couldn't help it when you spoke so of my father. Oh, do, do forgive me!" Mrs. Milroy turned again on her pillow, and looked at her daughter vacantly. "Forgive you?" she repeated, with her mind still in the past, groping its way back darkly to the present. "I beg your pardon, mamma I beg your pardon on my knees.
A dinner-party, with no indispensable elderly lady on the premises to receive Miss Milroy except Mrs. Gripper, who could only receive her in the kitchen was equally out of the question. What was the invitation to be?
In the afternoon of the eighth, Milroy attacked Jackson with great determination and much skill. But after a stern encounter, in which the outnumbered Federals fought very well indeed, the Confederates won a decisive victory. The numbers actually engaged twenty-five hundred Federals against four thousand Confederates were even smaller than at Kernstown.
You know that the major's difficulty is our opportunity as well as I do; but you want me to take the responsibility of making the first proposal, don't you? Suppose I take it in your own roundabout way? Suppose I say, 'Pray don't ask me how I propose inflaming Mr. Armadale and extinguishing Miss Milroy; the question is so shockingly abrupt I really can't answer it.
"No!" said the nurse; "for Miss Gwilt." The two women eyed each other, and understood each other without another word. "Where is she?" said Mrs. Milroy. The nurse pointed in the direction of the park. "Out again, for another walk before breakfast by herself." Mrs. Milroy beckoned to the nurse to stoop close over her. "Can you open it, Rachel?" she whispered. Rachel nodded.
So matters rest at present, on the major's own showing; for so the major expressed himself at a morning call which the father and daughter paid to the ladies at the great house. "You have now got my promised news, and you will have little difficulty, I think, in agreeing with me that the Armadale business must be settled at once, one way or the other. Armadale and extinguishing Miss Milroy.
My purpose was to concentrate the force at Pocataligo, assume the command in person, and attack the enemy in the positions in front of Charleston, in which Wise had resisted me in the previous year. I should have been glad to make the expected movement of a column from Clarksburg under Crook and Milroy co-operate directly with my own, but circumstances made it impracticable.
Moving with great celerity, he attacked Milroy at McDowell on the 8th, the latter calling upon Frémont for help. Schenck was sent forward to support him, and reached McDowell after marching thirty-four miles in twenty-four hours.
He opened the door, and apologized to Midwinter, with marked ceremony, for preceding him out of the room. "What do you think of my friend?" whispered Allan, as he and Miss Milroy followed. "Must I tell you the truth, Mr. Armadale?" she whispered back. "Of course!" "Then I don't like him at all!" "He's the best and dearest fellow in the world," rejoined the outspoken Allan.
Oh, Mr. Armadale, what must you think of me?" Allan suddenly saw his way to a compliment, and tossed it up to her forthwith, with the third handful of flowers. "I'll tell you what I think, Miss Milroy," he said, in his blunt, boyish way. "I think the luckiest walk I ever took in my life was the walk this morning that brought me here." He looked eager and handsome.
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