North Shields, which had been bought by a great capitalist in the iron Carolina Hurricanes Paidat way. He received the news of Milly’s betrothal very quietly; but he proffered her no congratulations upon the subject. I happened to be on the terrace alone with him one morning during his stay, waiting for Milly to join me, when he spoke to me about this business.
‘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 Moncler Rosean Suomi a happy marriage, be sure of that!’
He said this with a Patrice Bergeron Pelipaita vindictive look 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
The summer that year was a divine one, and we spent the greater part of our lives Roma Kid Jerseys out of doors, driving, walking, sitting about the garden sometimes until long after dark. It was weather in which it was a kind Luxury Boulder Suomi of treason against Nature to waste an hour in the house.
We went very often for long rambles in Cumber Wood, winding up with an afternoon tea-drinking in the little study at the Priory — a home-like unceremonious entertainment which Milly delighted in. She used to seem to me on those occasions like some happy child playing at being mistress of the house.
Augusta Darrell was almost always Kanadanhanhi Chateau Parka Suomi with us. I was sorely puzzled and perplexed by her conduct at this time. It seemed to be all that a kind stepmother’s could be. Her old indifferent air had quite vanished; she was more cordial, more affectionately interested in Milly’s happiness than I had supposed it possible she could be. The girl was completely melted by the change in her manner, and responded to this new warmth with artless confidence in its reality.
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 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 piumin Moncler Rod 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.
For a long time I was deceived by her manner — almost convinced that if she had ever cared for Angus Egerton |
