It had been Milly’s habit to devote one day a week to visiting among the poor, before she went to Albury Lodge; and she now resumed this practice, I accompanying her upon UGG Nightfall her visits. I had been used to going about among the cottagers at home, and I liked the work. It was very pleasant to Steven Stamkos Jersey see Milly Darrell with these people — the perfect confidence and sympathy between them and her, the delight they seemed to take in her bright Brett Hull Jersey cheering presence. I was struck by their simple natural manner, and the absence of anything like sycophancy to be observed in them. One day, when we had been to several cottages about the village, Milly asked me if I could manage rather a long walk; and on my Andrew Shaw Jersey telling her that I could, Ugg Jimmy Choo Škornji we started upon a lonely road that wound across the moor in a direction I had never walked in until that day. We went on for about two miles without passing a human habitation, and then came to one of the most desolate-looking cottages I ever remember seeing. It was little better than a cabin, and consisted only of two rooms — a kind of kitchen or dwelling-room, and a dark little bedchamber opening out of it.
‘I am not going to introduce you to a very agreeable person, Mary,’ Milly said, when we were within a few paces of this solitary dwelling; ‘but old Rebecca is a character in her way, and I make a point of coming to see Brett Howden Jersey her now and then, though she is not always very gracious to me.’
It was a warm bright summer’s day, but the door and the single window of the cottage were firmly closed. Milly knocked with her hand, and a thin feeble old voice called Peuterey Mężczyźni Kurtka to her to ‘come in.’
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‘Mrs. Thatcher is a very clever doctor, Mary,’ said Milly, as if by way of introduction; ‘all our servants come to her to be cured when they have colds and coughs. — And how are you this lovely summer weather, Mrs. Thatcher?’
‘None too well, miss,’ grumbled the old woman; ‘I don’t like the summer time; it never suited me.’
‘That’s strange,’ said Milly gaily; ‘I thought everybody liked summer.’
‘Not those that live as I do, Miss Darrell. There’s no illness in CG Miehet Yukon Bomber takki summer — no colds, nor coughs, nor sore-threats, nor suchlikes. I don’t know that I shouldn’t starve outright, if it wasn’t for the ague; and even that is nothing now to what it used to be.’
I was quite horror-struck by this ghoulish speech; but Milly only laughed gaily at the old woman’s candour.
‘If the doctors were as plain-spoken as you, I daresay they’d say pretty much the same kind of thing, Mrs. Adam Clendening Jersey Thatcher,’ she said. ‘How’s your grandson?’
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