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‘So my cousin is going to throw herself away upon that man?’ he said.
‘You must not call it throwing herself away, Mr. Stormont,’ I answered; ‘Mr. Egerton is devoted to your cousin, and the change in his circumstances makes him a very good match for her.’
‘The change in his circumstances has not changed the man,’ he returned in an angry tone. ‘No good can come of such a marriage.’
‘You have no right to say that, Mr. Stormont.’
‘I have the right given me by conviction. A happy marriage! — no, it will not be a happy marriage, be sure of that!’
He said this with a vindictive look New York City MLS that startled me, well as I knew that he could not feel very kindly towards Milly’s lover. The words might mean little, but to me they sounded like a threat.
Chapter xi. Danger
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I remembered all I had seen and all I had suspected, and I could not bring myself to believe implicitly in Milly’s stepmother. There was a shadowy fear, a vague distrust in my mind, not to be Colorado Rockies Tröjor put away.
As I have said, she was always with us, entering into all our simple amusements with an appearance of girlish pleasure. Our picnics, our sketching expeditions, our afternoon tea-parties at the Priory, our croquet-matches with the Rector’s daughters, seemed all alike agreeable to her. I noticed that her toilet was always perfect on theses occasions, and that she neglected no art which could add to her attractiveness; but she never in any way attempted to absorb Mr. Egerton’s attention — she never ignored his position as Milly’s accepted suitor.
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