This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1875 Excerpt: ...home? I will not attempt to point out how or when you should come; you understand the proprieties of life sufficiently. Self-control, I know, must still be within your reach; self-respect you must expect to earn slowly." She has sought in these later sentences to be tender, to be womanly-kind, but she finds the ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1875 Excerpt: ...home? I will not attempt to point out how or when you should come; you understand the proprieties of life sufficiently. Self-control, I know, must still be within your reach; self-respect you must expect to earn slowly." She has sought in these later sentences to be tender, to be womanly-kind, but she finds the necessity laid upon her to be womanly-true paramount. At last, in the struggle between mercy and justice, she lays her head down upon the desk and sobs," 0, my poor, ruined Jack!" But to the letter itself she cannot, cannot add a tenderer word, though she writes still a sentence more. "With this, Jack, I must notify you that I cannot receive letters from you. I shall look for further tidings only in the changes which may take place in your household. Indeed, a letter to your wife to-morrow will be the only worthy and honorable reply you can possibly make to me." Then she signs her name, seals her letter, picks up Jack's and burns it, attires herself for the street, goes down into the library, where she knows Cecil is. She lays the blank, sealed letter before him. "If you please, I should like this directed to Jack." "Sister! Upon my soul, Millicent, what am I to think?" But, though Millicent's cheek flushes at his tones, she does not treat him to the usual wilfulness. She stands for a moment looking straight before her, as if pondering some sudden idea. "Cecil," she says, at last, in a gentle voice, " perhaps I am doing wrong. I doubt myself if a lady may participate at all in such a correspondence independently. Cecil, you shall be father, mother, and brother to me." With a quick movement she tears the letter open, places it in his hand, and, kneeling on the rug by his side, she lays h...
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