hed, without money, and four-and-twenty years of age. She was travelling as companion to an elderly lady when your father met her in a picture-gallery at Florence. He knew the old lady, I believe, and by that means became acquainted with the younger one.’
‘Only four-and-twenty! only four years older than I!’
‘Rather young, is it not? but when a man of your father’s age makes a second marriage, he is apt to marry a young woman. Of course this is quite a love-match.’
‘Yes, quite a love-match,’ Milly repeated, with a sigh.
I knew she could not help that natural pang of jealousy, as she thought how she and her father had once been all the world to each other. She had told me so often of their happy companionship, the perfect confidence that had existed between them.
Julian Stormont sat talking to her — and a Classic Short Dylyn 1001202 little, a very little, to me — for about half an hour longer, and then departed. He was to sleep at Fendale, and go back to North Shields next morning. He was his uncle’s right hand in the business, Milly told me; and from the little I had seen of him I could fancy him a power in any sphere.
‘Papa has a very high opinion of him,’ she said, when we were talking of him after he had left us.
‘And you like him very much, I suppose?’
‘O yes, I like him very well. I have known him all my life. We are almost like brother and sister; only Julian is one of those thoughtful reserved persons one does not get on with very fast.’
Chapter iii. At Thornleigh
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Mr. Darrell received me most graciously. He was a tall fine-looking man, very like the photograph in Milly’s bedroom, and I detected the hard look about the mouth which I had noticed in both portraits. He seemed remarkably Matt Murray Jersey fond of his daughter; and I New Balance 420 Womens have never seen a prettier picture than she made as Sunburst II Czyścibut 5325 she stood beside him, clinging to his arm, and looking lovingly up at him with her dark hazel eyes.
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