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Updated: May 12, 2025
He had hoped great things of Bill Siddall's wine-cellar this despite an almost unbroken series of bitter disillusionments and disappointments in experience with those who had the wealth to buy, if they had had the taste to select, the fine wines he loved. So, resolving to indulge himself, he had put into his bag his pair of gout-boots.
But General Siddall's establishment presented a new phase to her and she thought it unique in dreadfulness and absurdity. The general had had a home life in his youth in a coal-miner's cabin near Wilkes-Barre. Ever since, he had lived in boarding-houses or hotels. As his shrewd and rapacious mind had gathered in more and more wealth, he had lived more and more luxuriously but always at hotels.
He presently reported that there was not a doubt as to the wealth of the little general. "There are all sorts of ugly stories about how he made his money," said Tilker; "but all the great fortunes have a scandalous history, and I doubt if Siddall's is any worse than the others. I don't see how it well could be. Siddall has the reputation of being a mean and cruel little tyrant.
To a man of Siddall's incessant and clumsy self-consciousness such unaffected ease could not but be proof positive of Mildred's innocence unless he had overheard. And his first words convinced her that he had not. Said he: "So you sent for your old admirer?" "I ran across him accidentally," replied Mildred. "I know," said the little general.
Perhaps from the death of her father, certainly from the beginning of Siddall's courtship, Mildred had been waking up. There is a part of our nature the active and aggressive part that sleeps all our lives long or becomes atrophied if we lead lives of ease and secure dependence. It is the important part of us, too the part that determines character.
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