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They needn't run to more than about two hundred and seventy pages, and those well spaced out. 'This is refreshing. This is practical. But look now: let it be something rather sensational. Couldn't we invent a good title something to catch eye and ear? The title would suggest the story, you know. Reardon laughed contemptuously, but the scorn was directed rather against himself than Milvain.
'Surely it isn't necessary to let us know that, said his sister Maud, coldly. 'And in such a tone, too! protested his sister Dora. 'Who is it? inquired Mrs Milvain, looking at her son with pained forehead. 'I don't know. It happened to catch my eye in the paper yesterday that someone was to be hanged at Newgate this morning. There's a certain satisfaction in reflecting that it is not oneself.
They issued into the street, and walked on together; Milvain, with his keen eye and critical smile, unmistakably the modern young man who cultivates the art of success; his companion of a less pronounced type, but distinguished by a certain subtlety of countenance, a blending of the sentimental and the shrewd. 'Of course you know all about the Reardons? said Whelpdale.
They turned a corner of the road, and came full upon Marian's father, who was walking in this direction with eyes fixed upon the ground. 'So here you are! he exclaimed, looking at the girl, and for the moment paying no attention to Jasper. 'I wondered whether I should meet you. Then, more dryly, 'How do you do, Mr Milvain?
The English fault of domestic reticence could scarcely go further than it did in their case; its exaggeration is, of course, one of the characteristics of those unhappy families severed by differences of education between the old and young. 'I think, said Marian, in a forced tone, 'that father hasn't much liking for Mr Milvain.
Milvain, her aunt Celia, a zealous inquirer into such matters, whose letter was also under consideration. Cyril, she said, must be made to marry the woman at once; and Cyril, rightly or wrongly, was indignant with such interference with his affairs, and would not own that he had any cause to be ashamed of himself.
Suppose he does not regain his sight; could you then leave him? 'Dear, I can't feel it would be my duty to renounce you because my father had become blind. And if he can see pretty well, I don't think I need remain with him. 'Has one thing occurred to you? Will he consent to receive an allowance from a person whose name is Mrs Milvain? 'I can't be sure, she replied, much troubled.
Had he any reason for avoiding her? Did he take it ill that her father had shown no desire to keep up his acquaintance? She allowed the interval between them to become greater. In a minute or two Milvain turned up Charlotte Street, and so she lost sight of him.
What a pity you can't apply your own advice, Whelpdale! 'Now that's horribly unkind of you! protested the other. 'You might have spared me this evening. But unfortunately it's quite true, Miss Milvain. I point the way, but I haven't been able to travel it myself. You mustn't think I have never succeeded in getting things published; but I can't keep it up as a profession.
A coloured portrait of this illustrious man challenged the admiration of all who had literary tastes, and two columns of panegyric recorded his career for the encouragement of aspiring youth. This article, of course unsigned, came from the pen of Jasper Milvain. It was only by indirect channels that Jasper learnt how Marian and her parents had been provided for.
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