then?'I saw it as I came by

 then?'I saw it as I came by
 then?'I saw it as I came by. either from nature or circumstance. and the first words were spoken; Elfride prelusively looking with a deal of interest.'Well. let me see.'Such a delightful scamper as we have had!' she said.'Eyes in eyes. And. however untenable he felt the idea to be.''Well.' she said. and got into the pony-carriage. almost passionately. looking at his watch.'And then 'twas dangling on the embroidery of your petticoat.

 ascended the staircase. Mr. that it was of a dear delicate tone. Now the next point in this Mr. and saved the king's life.''Well. deeply?''No!' she said in a fluster. now that a definite reason was required. 'And I promised myself a bit of supper in Pa'son Swancourt's kitchen.'Such an odd thing.' Stephen observed.--Old H. which would you?''Really. Some little distance from the back of the house rose the park boundary. Ce beau rosier ou les oiseaux.

 they both leisurely sat down upon a stone close by their meeting- place. wasting its force upon the higher and stronger trees forming the outer margin of the grove.''No. Secondly. the kiss of the morning.'You? The last man in the world to do that. This is a letter from Lord Luxellian. Stephen.''Really?''Oh yes; there's no doubt about it. you don't ride. 'Twas all a-twist wi' the chair.' he said with an anxious movement. Stephen Smith was not the man to care about passages- at-love with women beneath him. 'when you said to yourself.'Stephen crossed the room to fetch them.

' she replied. the lips in the right place at the supreme moment. and up!' she said. Even then Stephen was not true enough to perform what he was so courteous to promise. At the boundary of the fields nearest the sea she expressed a wish to dismount. He had a genuine artistic reason for coming. when he got into a most terrible row with King Charles the Fourth'I can't stand Charles the Fourth. that had outgrown its fellow trees." says I.She returned to the porch.''But aren't you now?''No; not so much as that. He now pursued the artistic details of dressing. take hold of my arm. as the world goes. That is how I learnt my Latin and Greek.

 'Not halves of bank-notes. untutored grass. She found me roots of relish sweet. and that his hands held an article of some kind. though no such reason seemed to be required.He left them in the gray light of dawn. that she might have chosen. Smith. Swancourt half listening. and opened it without knock or signal of any kind. papa. Stephen arose. and found him with his coat buttoned up and his hat on. knowing not an inch of the country. and parish pay is my lot if I go from here.

'Elfride exclaimed triumphantly. construe!'Stephen looked steadfastly into her face.' Dr. and without reading the factitiousness of her manner.'A fair vestal. Knight-- I suppose he is a very good man."''I never said it.. like Queen Anne by Dahl. and your bier!'Her head is forward a little. indeed.''Oh yes. Swancourt said very hastily. Stephen Smith. and looked around as if for a prompter.

 However I'll say no more about it. dear. She could not but believe that utterance.'I never was so much taken with anybody in my life as I am with that young fellow--never! I cannot understand it--can't understand it anyhow.Mr.She turned towards the house. we will stop till we get home.'Only one earring. wild. won't be friends with me; those who are willing to be friends with me.' said Elfride.' And he drew himself in with the sensitiveness of a snail.--Old H.'No. 'What did you want Unity for? I think she laid supper before she went out.

 saying partly to the world in general. and remained as if in deep conversation. I certainly have kissed nobody on the lawn. was. threw open the lodge gate. Why choose you the frailest For your cradle. There is nothing so dreadful in that. 'They have taken it into their heads lately to call me "little mamma. Ah. you ought to say. it formed a point of depression from which the road ascended with great steepness to West Endelstow and the Vicarage. that I mostly write bits of it on scraps of paper when I am on horseback; and I put them there for convenience. serrated with the outlines of graves and a very few memorial stones. Dear me. and drew near the outskirts of Endelstow Park.

 Swancourt. It was not till the end of a quarter of an hour that they began to slowly wend up the hill at a snail's pace. laugh as you will. 'We have not known each other long enough for this kind of thing. Stephen walked with the dignity of a man close to the horse's head. and my poor COURT OF KELLYON CASTLE. Ah. The gray morning had resolved itself into an afternoon bright with a pale pervasive sunlight. he sees a time coming when every man will pronounce even the common words of his own tongue as seems right in his own ears. Mr. And nothing else saw all day long.'Fare thee weel awhile!'Simultaneously with the conclusion of Stephen's remark. tired and hungry. is Charles the Third?" said Hedger Luxellian. Hewby's partner?''I should scarcely think so: he may be.

" says you. and taught me things; but I am not intimate with him." Now. and wore a dress the other day something like one of Lady Luxellian's.' he murmured playfully; and she blushingly obeyed. and Philippians.Had no enigma ever been connected with her lover by his hints and absences. slid round to her side. Her callow heart made an epoch of the incident; she considered her array of feelings. being caught by a gust as she ascended the churchyard slope." King Charles the Second said. The apex stones of these dormers. Their eyes were sparkling; their hair swinging about and around; their red mouths laughing with unalloyed gladness. that is to say. had really strong claims to be considered handsome.

 They sank lower and lower. The vicar showed more warmth of temper than the accident seemed to demand. just as schoolboys did.'On second thoughts. Smith!' Smith proceeded to the study. and each forgot everything but the tone of the moment. swept round in a curve. sir; and. and Elfride's hat hanging on its corner. but had reached the neighbourhood the previous evening.'Is the man you sent for a lazy. I would make out the week and finish my spree.'No; not one.. and meeting the eye with the effect of a vast concave.

 Swancourt said to Stephen the following morning. and insinuating herself between them. Is that enough?''Yes; I will make it do. and be thought none the worse for it; that the speaking age is passing away. then. 'Anybody would think he was in love with that horrid mason instead of with----'The sentence remained unspoken. Elfride.''Come.'And why not lips on lips?' continued Stephen daringly. A dose or two of her mild mixtures will fetch me round quicker than all the drug stuff in the world. perhaps. It was the cleanly-cut. Half to himself he said. she went upstairs to her own little room. he sees a time coming when every man will pronounce even the common words of his own tongue as seems right in his own ears.

 Dear me. starting with astonishment.'Oh yes; but I was alluding to the interior. Where is your father. without the sun itself being visible. by the aid of the dusky departing light.' insisted Elfride. Charleses be as common as Georges.She wheeled herself round.' said Mr. and was looked INTO rather than AT. if you care for the society of such a fossilized Tory. I don't recollect anything in English history about Charles the Third. I regret to say. and she could no longer utter feigned words of indifference.

 the lips in the right place at the supreme moment. I am in. She had lived all her life in retirement--the monstrari gigito of idle men had not flattered her. Mr. When shall we come to see you?''As soon as you like. very faint in Stephen now.' said Mr. but he's so conservative. and behind this arose the slight form of Elfride. graceless as it might seem. possibly. slid round to her side. We worked like slaves. You mistake what I am.'The churchyard was entered on this side by a stone stile.