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MILLY:
At Love's Extremes
A Romance of the Southland
By MAURICE THOMPSON
Author of "Alice of Old Vincennes"
ILLUSTRATED
Printed and Bound for the New Amsterdam Book
Company, New York City, Anno Domini Mcmi
Copyright, 1901
by
New Amsterdam Book Company
Milly: At Love's Extremes
CONTENTS.
CHAPTER I. MOUNTAIN DEW
CHAPTER II. MILLY
CHAPTER III. MR. HAWKINS NOBLE
CHAPTER IV. WHITE PLAYS "SEVING UP"
CHAPTER V. SOME LIGHT TALK
CHAPTER VI. AT THE GATE
CHAPTER VII. AN OLD PLANTATION HOUSE
CHAPTER VIII. WITH DOG AND GUN
CHAPTER IX. LUNCHEON AL FRESCO
CHAPTER X. MILLY INQUIRES
CHAPTER XI. DALLYING
CHAPTER XII. A BIT OF LOVE MAKING
CHAPTER XIII. AT THE RUIN
CHAPTER XIV. A WHISPER IN THE CABIN
CHAPTER XV. A DISCLOSURE
CHAPTER XVI. CONVALESCENT
CHAPTER XVII. DREAMS AND PLANS
CHAPTER XVIII. REALITIES
CHAPTER XIX. WHITHER
CHAPTER XX. AFTER ALL
MILLY:
AT LOVE'S EXTREMES
CHAPTER I.
MOUNTAIN DEW.
A man stood on the jutting shoulder of a mountainoverlooking a long, narrow valley, whose scatteringhouses and irregular farm-plats, seen through theclear air of that high region, appeared scarcely agun-shot distant, when in fact they were miles away. Itwas early morning; the sun had barely cleared thehighest peaks in the east, and the landscape, albeit amid-winter one, was wonderfully rich in colors. Onthe oak trees the leaves still clung in heavy brown,green and russet masses; the hickory forests, thoughleafless, made bits of tender gray along the lowervalley-slopes, whilst high up toward the mountaintops, the billowy wilderness of pines, cedars andchestnut trees added their variegated patch-work thatgradually rose