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She was not unkind to Milly, but those two seemed instinctively to avoid each other.
The winter brought trouble to Thornleigh Manor. It was well for Milly that she had tried to do her duty to her father, and had submitted herself patiently to his will. About a fortnight before Christmas Mr. Darrell went to North Shields to make his annual investigation of the wharves and warehouses, and to take a kind of review of the year’s business. He never returned alive. He was seized with an apoplectic fit in the Dylan Larkin Jersey office, and carried to his hotel speechless. His wife and Milly were summoned Bape Clothing by a telegraphic message, and started Salomon Speedcross 4 Pro Kengät for Shields by the first train that could convey them there; but they were too late. He expired an hour before their arrival.
I need Lattice Cardy Czyścibut 5879 not dwell upon the details of that sad time. Milly felt the blow severely; and it was long before I saw her smile, after that dark December day on which the fatal summons Classic Cardy Škornji 5819 came. She had lost much of her joyousness and brightness after the disappointment about Angus Egerton, and this new sorrow quite crushed her.
They brought Mr. Darrell’s remains to Thornleigh, and he was buried in the family vault under the noble old church, where his father and mother, his first wife, and a son who died in infancy had been buried before him. He had been very popular in the neighbourhood, and was sincerely regretted by all who had known him.
Julius Stormont was chief-mourner at the unpretentious funeral. He seemed much affected by his uncle’s death; and his manner towards his cousin had an unusual gentleness.
I was present at the reading of the will, which took place Daniel Sedin Jersey in the dining-room immediately after the funeral. Mrs. Darrell, Milly, Mr. Stormont, myself, and the family lawyer were the only persons assembled in the spacious Canada Goose Hybridge Lite Kurtka room, which had a dreary look without the chief of the household.
The will had been made a few months after Mr. Darrell’s second marriage. It was very simple in its wording. To Julian Stormont he Salomon X Alp Leather Gore-Tex Kengät left a sum of five thousand pounds, to be paid out his funded property; all the rest of this property, with the sum to be realised by the sale of the business at North Shields and its belongings — an amount likely to be very large — was to be divided equally between Mrs. Darrell and her stepdaughter. Thornleigh Manor was left to Mrs. Darrell for her life, but was to revert to Milly, or Milly’s heirs, at her death; and Milly was to be entitled to occupy her old home Anthony Duclair Jersey until her marriage.
In the event of Milly’s dying unmarried, her share of the funded property was to be divided equally between Mrs. P.K Subban Jersey Darrell and Julian Stormont, and in this case the Thornleigh estate was to revert to Julian Stormont after the death of Mrs. Darrell. The executors to the will were Mr. Foreman the lawyer and Mrs. Darrell.
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