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Updated: June 9, 2025
It was Lady Bridget-Mary's dearest Lucy and bosom-friend, who had married that handsome, grey-moustached martinet, Richard's Colonel. In Lady Lucy Hawting's drawing-room Lord Castleclare's elder daughter had met Captain Mildare, the hero of Futtehabad and Ahmed Khel.
The coldness of the questioning voice gives him a nervous shudder. He says with an effort, looking at the thick white, black-fringed lids that bide the Doctor's queer blue eyes: "By offering Miss Mildare the honourable protection of my name.
She is Lynette Mildare.... Are you surprised that in seven years a young creature so neglected should have become what you see? Those powers were inherent in her which training can but develop. We found in her great natural capacity, an intelligence keen and quick, a taste naturally refined, a sweet and gentle disposition, a pure and loving heart " Her voice broke.
"Miss Mildare is absolutely the opposite of your description," she declared. "She is quite tall, and very slight and pale, with slender hands and feet, and reddish-bronze hair, and eyes the colour of yellow topaz or old honey, with wonderful black lashes.... I have never seen anything to compare " She stopped.
He laughed, but his voice had quivered with fury, and the hand that held the revolver shook too. And his eyes seemed colourless as water against the furious crimson of his face. Still ignoring him, Saxham said, his own square, pale face turned full upon Lynette, and his vivid blue eyes constraining her: "Miss Mildare, I am at your commands.
His tone changed, became infinitely caressing. "How sweet and dear you are to be so patient with me, while I'm sending the Conventionalities to the rightabout and terrifying the Proprieties. Forgive me, Miss Mildare." The pleading in his face was exquisite.
You have helped me many times " She puckered her delicate, bewildered brows, and held her head on one side. To be made to think, and recall, and remember, hurt. " Many times, and the sick people were grateful. They often ask me now, How is Miss Mildare?" Her attention had wandered to the bronzed buttons on the Doctor's khâki coat.
I'd have faced a Court-Martial of Inquiry respectin' my conduct in the Field. For my wife has a kind heart and a keen sense of honour, and rather than bring harm upon Miss Mildare that was, or anyone connected with her, she'd have stood up to be shot! By G !" trumpeted Bingo, "I know she would!" Saxham's face was blue-white now, and looked oddly shrunken.
Lady Hannah went on: "If I were in your shoes, and such a pearl and prize and paragon as Lynette Mildare had consented to marry me, I should want the whole world to envy me my colossal good luck. I should go about in sandwich-boards advertising it. I should buy a megaphone, and proclaim it through that. I should " There was no response beyond the buzzing of the wire.
"You have taken upon yourself the duty of bringing Lord Beauvayse to book over this very painful matter.... I should like ... I should wish you to leave the task of enlightening Miss Mildare to me." "To you. And why?" Saxham waits for the answer, a heavy figure filling up the doorway, with scowling brows, and sullen eyes that carefully avoid the Chaplain's face.
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