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Mr. Millborne

A mill-owner whose long-ago decisions return to unsettle the quiet life he has built beside the stream.

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Also known as Millborne

First appearance: destiny and a blue cloak

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Millborne presides over the mill, its bridge, and the small economy of trust that surrounds it, a figure of steady, unremarkable authority. What unsettles him is not the present but the past: an old arrangement or…

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LNLizzy NewberryMFMiss FranklandPGPhyllis GroveMRMilly RichardsGLGertrude LodgeMMMr. Millborne

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  • Haunting Past Actions
  • Protagonist
  • Complex Web of Love and Consequences
  • Romantic Entanglements and Consequences
  • Clever Tricks and Family Legacy

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  • Escalation
  • Breaking point
  • Aftermath
  • Closing

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