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"Her deportment is scrupulously correct, and I am in her confidence regarding certain very extensive investments she cannot be an impostor, sir!" "But I tell you she isn't right," insisted Percival, warmly. "Oh, I see," said the younger Milbrey his face clearing all at once. "It's all right, dad, come on!" "If you insist," said Percival, "but none of us can meet her."
"Yes, Miss Milbrey, she's confined to her room h'account h'of a cold, miss." "Thank heaven!" "Yes, miss certainly! will you go h'up to her?" "And Mutterchen, dear, it was a regular bombshell," she concluded after she had fluttered some of the November freshness into Mrs. Van Geist's room, and breathlessly related the facts. "You demented creature! I should say it must have been."
The good-byes were hastily said, and the little train rattled down the canon. Miss Milbrey stood in the door of the car, and Percival watched her while the glistening rails that seemed to be pushing her away narrowed in perspective. She stood motionless and inscrutable to the last, but still looking steadily toward him almost wistfully, it seemed to him once.
Neither he nor your brother would take my word, and when I started to give my reasons something it would have been very painful for me to do your father refused to listen, and declared the acquaintance between our families at an end." "Oh!" "It hurt me in a way I can't tell you, and now, even this talk with you is off-side play. Miss Milbrey!" "Mr. Bines!"
He drove first to the Milbrey house, on the chance that she might be at home. Jarvis answered his ring. "Miss Milbrey is with Mrs. Van Geist, sir." Jarvis spoke regretfully. Pie had reasons of his own for believing that the severance of the Milbrey relationship with Mr. Bines had been nothing short of calamitous. He rang Mrs. Van Geist's bell, five minutes later.
I thought she must be some one awful to meet I was that scared and instead, she's like any one, and real chummy besides; and, actually, ma, don't you think her dress was dowdy all except the diamonds? I suppose that comes from living in England so much. And hasn't Mrs. Milbrey twice as grand a manner, and the son he's a precious he knows everything and everybody; I shall like him."
Indeed, I think more of you. I think it's fine and big to go back with such courage. Do you know, I wish I were a man I'd show them!" "Really, Miss Milbrey " He looked over her shoulder again, and saw that Shepler was waiting for her. "I think your friends are impatient." "They can wait. Mr. Bines, I wonder if you have quite a correct idea of all New York people."
Youth is prone to endow its opinions with all the dignity of certain knowledge. "Yet I am certain he loves me," thought she. On the other hand, youth is often gifted with a credulity divine and unerring. At the door as they came up the roadway a trap was depositing a man whom Miss Milbrey greeted with evident surprise and some restraint.
We've not met for an age." "And I've such an appetite for talk with you, I fear I won't eat a thing. If I'd known you were to be here I'd have taken the forethought to eat a gored ox, or something what is the proverb, 'better a dinner of stalled ox where " "'Where talk is," suggested Miss Milbrey, quickly.
Dear Avice, you know, is really quite as impulsive as the steel bridge our train has just rattled over. Sincerely, From Miss Avice Milbrey to Mrs. Cornelia Van Geist, New York. Muetterchen, dearest, I feel like that green hunter you had to sell last spring the one that would go at a fence with the most perfect display of serious intentions, and then balk and bolt when it came to jumping.
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