5/22/2023 0 Comments In the dark edith nesbit![]() My own house! It was grand, but rather lonely. ![]() It is very nice to feel that a good little woman is thinking of you - it helps you in your work - and it is pleasant to know she will say Yes when you say Will you?īut, as I say, my legacy almost put Mildred out of my head, especially as she was staying with friends in the country just then.īefore the first gloss was off my new mourning I was seated in my aunt’s own armchair in front of the fire in the dining-room of my own house. She was a dear good girl, and I meant to marry her some day. ![]() ![]() I was not engaged to Mildred, but I lodged with her mother, and I sang duets with Mildred, and gave her gloves when it would run to it, which was seldom. Even Mildred Mayhew, whom I had hitherto regarded as my life’s light, became less luminous. When my Aunt Dorcas died and left me seven hundred a year and a furnished house in Chelsea, I felt that life had nothing left to offer except immediate possession of the legacy. ![]() To be rich is a luxurious sensation - the more so when you have plumbed the depths of hard-up-ness as a Fleet Street hack, a picker-up of unconsidered pars, a reporter, an unappreciated journalist - all callings utterly inconsistent with one’s family feeling and one’s direct descent from the Dukes of Picardy. ![]()
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