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Jack Wonnell, in officious zeal to be useful, gathered flowers, and hung around Teackle Hall to run errands; and, in order not to exasperate Vesta's husband, appeared bareheaded as the party set off, Milburn's hat-box being one of the articles of travel, and Milburn vouchsafing these words to Jack: "There is a dollar for you, Mr. Wonnell.
All that you tell me adds to my respect for a man who seems to be only what he is." "Perhaps you can love him, too?" the Judge said, watching her with an apprehension a little like wonder, a little like jealousy. "Oh, I wish I could, papa! That also I promised to do, and I will try. But my work will all be a failure if you do not become reconciled to Mr. Milburn.
My youth, my connections, everything, would forbid me, without haughtiness, to see a suitor in you. Then, you took no means to turn my attention towards you. You could have been neighborly, had you desired. You did not even wear the commonest emblems of a lover " She paused. Milburn said to himself: "Ah! that accursed Hat."
Mrs Milburn continued to dilate upon lawn tennis, dealt lightly with badminton, and brought the conversation round with a graceful sweep to canoeing. Dora's attitude before she had done became slightly permissive, but Mrs Milburn held on till she had accomplished her conception of conduct for the occasion; then she remembered a meeting in the schoolhouse.
Butter wouldn't melt in her mouth and Octavius Milburn doing all he knew against him the whole time! That's the Milburns! I cut her remarkably short," Mrs Murchison added, with satisfaction, "and when she'd made up her mind she'd have to give that extra five cents for the ducks because there weren't any others to be had, she went back and found I'd bought them."
Soon afterwards Judge Custis, being sent to Annapolis by Milburn, was requested to take Rhoda along, as a part of her education, and Vesta went, also, at her husband's desire.
Nothing creates happiness like a gift, and it is an old saying that blessings await him who gives, and also her who takes, and that to seek and ask and knock are praiseworthy." "Oh," said Vesta, "but to be bought, Mr. Milburn? To be weighed against a father's debts is it not degrading?" "Not where such respect and cherishing as mine will be.
"Her people compel me to wear it! I thought all malice to this poor hat would be done with my social triumph here. But I am not a man to be frightened. Let them kill me, but it shall be under my ancestral brim." "Oh! hear your mocking-bird sing again as it did: 'Vesta Meshach Love! Where is the bird?" Meshach Milburn shook his head and put the Entailed Hat upon it.
No, you will be disappointed. It will recoil upon me that I sold myself." "The image you waited for may have come," said Milburn undauntedly, "even in me; for love often springs from an ambush, nor can you prepare the heart for it like a field. I recollect a fable I read of a god loving a woman, and he burst upon her in a shower of gold; and what was that but a rich man's wooing?
This first gleam of humor rather became his strange face. "If you tell your father, it is enough." "I hope I am doing right," Vesta said, "and now I shall take my hour to my soul and my Saviour. Sir, do you ever pray?" Milburn recoiled a little. "I do not pray like you," he replied; "my prayers are dry things. I do say a little rhyme over that my mother taught me in the forest."
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