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Article MILDRED: AN AUTUMN ROMANCE. ← Page 4 of 4
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Mildred: An Autumn Romance.
"Do you remember the letter you wrote me years ago ? "Aye , do I not ?'" "Have you changed ?" "No ! I wish I had . " "Why ?" " I ought not to love you . I am married . " " Your Aiife is dead . "
"Dead !" " She died at Seaton Carew , in Durham , a month ago . " At these Avords poor Marmaduke nearly swooned aAvay ; he had been very HI , and still Avas very AA'eak . Mildred gave him some AA'ater and bathed his forehead with her dainty hankerchief , suffused Avith aromatic vinegar she had in her pocket , and he soon revived .
" And you Avill leave me soon , I suppose , " Marmaduke said mournfully . "Never , dear . Do you knoAV Avhat I am going to do ?" "No , how should I ?" " Well , if you give your consent , I am going to marry you . " Then Marmaduke took her hands in his ; she Avas kneeling at his feet , looking up into his facebut he could not see ; and then he kissed them passionatelyand completel
, , y broke down ; and AA'hen Mervyn and his wife came back he Avas sobbing like a child That gallant soldier discovered , the reason when he picked up from the floor a paper AA'hich fell out of Mildred ' s portmonnie , and he handed to his wife the certificate of Mrs , Matthew ' s death .
Within a week they had returned to England , Aunt Eanny , Mervyn , and Mildred . Mervyn had good-naturedly , at the express request of his wife , left her with her maid , in Bruges ( she had a sister at the Convent des Dames Anglaises there whom she used to see almost daily ) , to take charge of Marmaduke back to England . Within six months they Avere quietly married , and Mildred led her blind penniless husband from the altar AA'ith a prouder air than if he had been a prince .
Last year two important ei'ents occurred . Mrs . MatheAV presented her husband Avith a son ancl heir ( they had been married four or five years , ancl living upon Mildred's . £ 300 a year in quiet style at St . Benet ' s ) , and Marmaduke ' s elder brother died . So the little man is heir after all to twenty thousand a year , and they have just gone into the Abbey , Avhich has undergone extensive alterations to fit it for their reception .
There is not a single person in St . Benet's but rejoices at Mildred ' s good fortune , and no one thinks the less of her because she proposed to her husband . Lady Ida married the County Member after all , for Sir Hugh Tracy , a distant connexion of the late General ' s brother-in-law , succeeded him . Lady Tracy is a great friend of Mildred and her husband , AA'ho she VOAVS she never Avould haA'e married , fo ., she coidd not bear him . But this is oidy fun , and the two families are very intimate . Mildred is a pattern
Avife to her blind husband . FINIS .
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
Mildred: An Autumn Romance.
"Do you remember the letter you wrote me years ago ? "Aye , do I not ?'" "Have you changed ?" "No ! I wish I had . " "Why ?" " I ought not to love you . I am married . " " Your Aiife is dead . "
"Dead !" " She died at Seaton Carew , in Durham , a month ago . " At these Avords poor Marmaduke nearly swooned aAvay ; he had been very HI , and still Avas very AA'eak . Mildred gave him some AA'ater and bathed his forehead with her dainty hankerchief , suffused Avith aromatic vinegar she had in her pocket , and he soon revived .
" And you Avill leave me soon , I suppose , " Marmaduke said mournfully . "Never , dear . Do you knoAV Avhat I am going to do ?" "No , how should I ?" " Well , if you give your consent , I am going to marry you . " Then Marmaduke took her hands in his ; she Avas kneeling at his feet , looking up into his facebut he could not see ; and then he kissed them passionatelyand completel
, , y broke down ; and AA'hen Mervyn and his wife came back he Avas sobbing like a child That gallant soldier discovered , the reason when he picked up from the floor a paper AA'hich fell out of Mildred ' s portmonnie , and he handed to his wife the certificate of Mrs , Matthew ' s death .
Within a week they had returned to England , Aunt Eanny , Mervyn , and Mildred . Mervyn had good-naturedly , at the express request of his wife , left her with her maid , in Bruges ( she had a sister at the Convent des Dames Anglaises there whom she used to see almost daily ) , to take charge of Marmaduke back to England . Within six months they Avere quietly married , and Mildred led her blind penniless husband from the altar AA'ith a prouder air than if he had been a prince .
Last year two important ei'ents occurred . Mrs . MatheAV presented her husband Avith a son ancl heir ( they had been married four or five years , ancl living upon Mildred's . £ 300 a year in quiet style at St . Benet ' s ) , and Marmaduke ' s elder brother died . So the little man is heir after all to twenty thousand a year , and they have just gone into the Abbey , Avhich has undergone extensive alterations to fit it for their reception .
There is not a single person in St . Benet's but rejoices at Mildred ' s good fortune , and no one thinks the less of her because she proposed to her husband . Lady Ida married the County Member after all , for Sir Hugh Tracy , a distant connexion of the late General ' s brother-in-law , succeeded him . Lady Tracy is a great friend of Mildred and her husband , AA'ho she VOAVS she never Avould haA'e married , fo ., she coidd not bear him . But this is oidy fun , and the two families are very intimate . Mildred is a pattern
Avife to her blind husband . FINIS .