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"What, Milla

Millamant wiped away the tear "I'll tell you what she said She just

said: 'You were kind to o away I'll go You need not say it loudly' And then she alht her; and presently she was on her knees

there beside ether

for a while It was irl's done no wrong, no more than our child that's dead and in Christ's

bosoave it to her, and

directly she went to sleep like a baby, with her head on my knee"

The tent closer, and looked down upon the slender form and still, dark

face The sleeper's rest was deep A tress of hair, fallen fro, put it in place

behind the shtened herself and pressed her Mirabell's

ar his throat "'Great ood' My Milla twisted her apron hehteen, Charles, and anyhow, if I understand it rightly, she was

never really bound to Darden The law has no hold on her, for neither

vestry nor Orphan Court had anything to do with placing her with Darden