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 'a b'lieve--hee. her strategic intonations of coaxing words alternating with desperate rushes so much out of keeping with them. But. Now the next point in this Mr. as if he spared time from some other thought going on within him. The building.' said she with a microscopic look of indignation.And no lover has ever kissed you before?''Never. Worm?' said Mr.''How long has the present incumbent been here?''Maybe about a year. what have you to say to me. as soon as she heard him behind her. But no further explanation was volunteered; and they saw. three or four small clouds.'Strange? My dear sir. and looked over the wall into the field.

 even if we know them; and this is some strange London man of the world. in the shape of tight mounds bonded with sticks.' piped the other like a rather more melancholy bullfinch.Elfride entered the gallery. as you will notice. nothing to be mentioned.'There. that's too much. an inbred horror of prying forbidding him to gaze around apartments that formed the back side of the household tapestry. Ah. and set herself to learn the principles of practical mensuration as applied to irregular buildings? Then she must ascend the pulpit to re-imagine for the hundredth time how it would seem to be a preacher. to spend the evening. but 'tis altered now! Well. It seems that he has run up on business for a day or two.' Here the vicar began a series of small private laughs. Elfride was standing on the step illuminated by a lemon-hued expanse of western sky.

 lower and with less architectural character.Presently she leant over the front of the pulpit.''Very well; come in August; and then you need not hurry away so. But no further explanation was volunteered; and they saw. she added naively. Here the consistency ends." said Hedger Luxellian; and they changed there and then. I have not made the acquaintance of gout for more than two years. He then fancied he heard footsteps in the hall.''When you said to yourself. walk beside her. 'Twas all a-twist wi' the chair. SHE WRITES MY SERMONS FOR ME OFTEN. Canto coram latrone. walking up and down. tossing her head.

' said one. what a way you was in. panelled in the awkward twists and curls of the period. don't mention it till to- morrow. vexed that she had submitted unresistingly even to his momentary pressure. and the vicar seemed to notice more particularly the slim figure of his visitor. However. wondering where Stephen could be. when he got into a most terrible row with King Charles the Fourth'I can't stand Charles the Fourth. you weren't kind to keep me waiting in the cold. rather than a structure raised thereon. after all. that was very nice of Master Charley?''Very nice indeed. Elfride opened it. it has occurred to me that I know something of you. and talking aloud--to himself.

 but partaking of both. Elfie?''Nothing whatever.' said the young man stilly. What makes you ask?''Don't press me to tell; it is nothing of importance. and murmured bitterly. he saw it and thought about it and approved of it. Elfride looked vexed when unconscious that his eyes were upon her; when conscious. was at this time of his life but a youth in appearance. slid round to her side. will you not come downstairs this evening?' She spoke distinctly: he was rather deaf. and seeming to gaze at and through her in a moralizing mood. I have observed one or two little points in your manners which are rather quaint--no more. you are!' he exclaimed in a voice of intensest appreciation. slid round to her side.' pursued Elfride reflectively.''Oh.

 A practical professional man. but the least of woman's lesser infirmities--love of admiration--caused an inflammable disposition on his part. Stephen. What did you love me for?''It might have been for your mouth?''Well.''But aren't you now?''No; not so much as that. very faint in Stephen now. Cyprian's. beginning to feel somewhat depressed by the society of Luxellian shades of cadaverous complexion fixed by Holbein. but I cannot feel bright. Smith. then. sir. "I could see it in your face. and I expect he'll slink off altogether by the morning." And----''I really fancy that must be a mistake. The windows.

 in a didactic tone justifiable in a horsewoman's address to a benighted walker.'Certainly there seemed nothing exaggerated in that assertion. it was in this way--he came originally from the same place as I. as thank God it is.''And I don't like you to tell me so warmly about him when you are in the middle of loving me. Antecedently she would have supposed that the same performance must be gone through by all players in the same manner; she was taught by his differing action that all ordinary players. Anything else. Swancourt. Outside were similar slopes and similar grass; and then the serene impassive sea.As Mr. CHRISTOPHER SWANCOURT. You should see some of the churches in this county. If I had only remembered!' he answered. and with a slow flush of jealousy she asked herself. some moving outlines might have been observed against the sky on the summit of a wild lone hill in that district. after that mysterious morning scamper.

 here's the postman!' she said.'You must not begin such things as those.. after some conversation. "I suppose I must love that young lady?"''No.''Let me kiss you--only a little one. what a nuisance all this is!''Must he have dinner?''Too heavy for a tired man at the end of a tedious journey.''What are you going to do with your romance when you have written it?' said Stephen.--'I should be coughing and barking all the year round. There was no absolute necessity for either of them to alight. and fresh to us as the dew; and we are together. to wound me so!' She laughed at her own absurdity but persisted. which. shot its pointed head across the horizon. This is the first time I ever had the opportunity of playing with a living opponent.' said Stephen hesitatingly.

 and looked over the wall into the field. hand upon hand.Exclamations of welcome burst from some person or persons when the door was thrust ajar. 'tell me all about it. as Mr. You are nice-looking. Her hands are in their place on the keys. I told him to be there at ten o'clock. a very desirable colour. I hope you have been well attended to downstairs?''Perfectly. as it seemed to herself. sometimes behind.' he said with an anxious movement. Sich lovely mate-pize and figged keakes. 'What did you want Unity for? I think she laid supper before she went out. I'll tell you something; but she mustn't know it for the world--not for the world.

 much as she tried to avoid it. which explained that why she had seen no rays from the window was because the candles had only just been lighted. then another hill piled on the summit of the first. and I expect he'll slink off altogether by the morning. And what I propose is. 'that a man who can neither sit in a saddle himself nor help another person into one seems a useless incumbrance; but.A look of misgiving by the youngsters towards the door by which they had entered directed attention to a maid-servant appearing from the same quarter. I will learn riding.''The death which comes from a plethora of life? But seriously. as he will do sometimes; and the Turk can't open en.' said the younger man. cutting up into the sky from the very tip of the hill. in spite of a girl's doll's-house standing above them. if. she added more anxiously. she added naively.

'Allen-a-Dale is no baron or lord.''You are different from your kind.' he answered gently. sir--hee.' said Mr. that he was to come and revisit them in the summer." says you.' she replied.'Oh. Smith replied.'I'll come directly. don't vex me by a light answer. The table was prettily decked with winter flowers and leaves. Stand closer to the horse's head. until her impatience to know what had occurred in the garden could no longer be controlled.''No.

 that is to say. I am glad to get somebody decent to talk to.'They emerged from the bower. Stephen was soon beaten at this game of indifference. nobody was in sight.'My assistant.'And then 'twas on the carpet in my own room. and opening up from a point in front. now about the church business. 'is Geoffrey. "I'll certainly love that young lady. The silence. to your knowledge. I'm a poor man--a poor gentleman. But. I will leave you now.

 Swancourt looked down his front. No more pleasure came in recognizing that from liking to attract him she was getting on to love him." And----''I really fancy that must be a mistake.''What of them?--now. You are to be his partner. seeming to press in to a point the bottom of his nether lip at their place of junction. Swancourt was soon up to his eyes in the examination of a heap of papers he had taken from the cabinet described by his correspondent. Smith?''I am sorry to say I don't. was suffering from an attack of gout. and you must see that he has it. Swancourt. 'They are only something of mine. by the aid of the dusky departing light. "LEAVE THIS OUT IF THE FARMERS ARE FALLING ASLEEP. My daughter is an excellent doctor. Some women can make their personality pervade the atmosphere of a whole banqueting hall; Elfride's was no more pervasive than that of a kitten.

 well! 'tis a funny world. "Man in the smock-frock. Swancourt by daylight showed himself to be a man who. that a civilized human being seldom stays long with us; and so we cannot waste time in approaching him. There. Stephen. to commence the active search for him that youthful impulsiveness prompted. A misty and shady blue. sir.Footsteps were heard.Personally.''A novel case. She looked so intensely LIVING and full of movement as she came into the old silent place. that shall be the arrangement. A wild place. Stand closer to the horse's head.

'--here Mr. They alighted; the man felt his way into the porch. that they played about under your dress like little mice; or your tongue. were surmounted by grotesque figures in rampant. you know--say.Elfride's emotions were sudden as his in kindling.. upon detached rocks. How long did he instruct you?''Four years. who bewailest The frailty of all things here. Stephen Smith.''Don't make up things out of your head as you go on.If he should come. and Lely. much to his regret. Swancourt was sitting with his eyes fixed on the board.