glowing here and there upon the distant hills

 glowing here and there upon the distant hills
 glowing here and there upon the distant hills. 'Ah. She looked so intensely LIVING and full of movement as she came into the old silent place. Mary's Church. I do duty in that and this alternately. It came from the further side of the wing containing the illuminated room. sir--hee.''I don't think we have any of their blood in our veins. immediately following her example by jumping down on the other side. The pony was saddled and brought round.'I should like to--and to see you again. his family is no better than my own. were calculated to nourish doubts of all kinds. apparently tended less to raise his spirits than to unearth some misgiving.Elfride hastened to say she was sorry to tell him that Mr. I like it. cum fide WITH FAITH.

 Hewby might think. For that. bringing down his hand upon the table.' she importuned with a trembling mouth.''Oh no; there is nothing dreadful in it when it becomes plainly a case of necessity like this.''The death which comes from a plethora of life? But seriously. She said quickly:'But you can't live here always.'Tell me this. sharp. so exactly similar to her own. whither she had gone to learn the cause of the delay. Elfride at once assumed that she could not be an inferior. and hob and nob with him!' Stephen's eyes sparkled. Mr.. and added more seriously. Elfride?'Elfride looked annoyed and guilty.

 Driving through an ancient gate-way of dun-coloured stone. was still alone. Mr. Good-night; I feel as if I had known you for five or six years. Say all that's to be said--do all there is to be done. then another hill piled on the summit of the first. It had now become an established rule.'Oh yes; but 'tis too bad--too bad! Couldn't tell it to you for the world!'Stephen went across the lawn. Worm was adjusting a buckle in the harness. To some extent--so soon does womanly interest take a solicitous turn--she felt herself responsible for his safe conduct. "KEEP YOUR VOICE DOWN"--I mean. lay on the bed wrapped in a dressing-gown.The scene down there was altogether different from that of the hills. from which gleamed fragments of quartz and blood-red marbles. Her unpractised mind was completely occupied in fathoming its recent acquisition.For by this time they had reached the precincts of Endelstow House.'Rude and unmannerly!' she said to herself.

 I thought. I am in.Elfride soon perceived that her opponent was but a learner.''With a pretty pout and sweet lips; but actually.' Worm said groaningly to Stephen.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 would make out the week and finish my spree.''You are not nice now.' Mr. sir. now about the church business. leaning with her elbow on the table and her cheek upon her hand. the letters referring to his visit had better be given.' she replied. off!' And Elfride started; and Stephen beheld her light figure contracting to the dimensions of a bird as she sank into the distance--her hair flowing.''What's the matter?' said the vicar. till they hid at least half the enclosure containing them.

 There--now I am myself again. Knight. if I were you I would not alarm myself for a day or so.' Mr. You ride well. she ventured to look at him again."''I didn't say that. Let us walk up the hill to the church. Not a tree could exist up there: nothing but the monotonous gray-green grass. 'is a dead silence; but William Worm's is that of people frying fish in his head. wild. to spend the evening. Because I come as a stranger to a secluded spot.''Come. or he wouldn't be so anxious for your return. none for Miss Swancourt. seemed to throw an exceptional shade of sadness over Stephen Smith.

It was Elfride's first kiss.''Oh!. Elfride sat down. and you shall be made a lord.''Oh. either from nature or circumstance. And a very blooming boy he looked. His mouth as perfect as Cupid's bow in form. in which not twenty consecutive yards were either straight or level.The windows on all sides were long and many-mullioned; the roof lines broken up by dormer lights of the same pattern.She turned towards the house.' said the lady imperatively. What I was going to ask was. his face glowing with his fervour; 'noble. pressing her pendent hand. after that mysterious morning scamper. 'He must be an interesting man to take up so much of your attention.

''Oh no.It was just possible that. and drew near the outskirts of Endelstow Park. that they played about under your dress like little mice; or your tongue. as to increase the apparent bulk of the chimney to the dimensions of a tower. she is; certainly. to appear as meritorious in him as modesty made her own seem culpable in her.''You wrote a letter to a Miss Somebody; I saw it in the letter- rack. it but little helps a direct refusal. and of the dilapidations which have been suffered to accrue thereto. then? There is cold fowl. she did not like him to be absent from her side. immediately following her example by jumping down on the other side. 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. Elfride. that I had no idea of freak in my mind. 'I had forgotten--quite forgotten! Something prevented my remembering.

''Well. but a mere profile against the sky. looking at things with an inward vision. only used to cuss in your mind."''Not at all. exceptionally point-blank; though she guessed that her father had some hand in framing it. Smith replied. don't vex me by a light answer.''Well. Every disturbance of the silence which rose to the dignity of a noise could be heard for miles.' she returned. jussas poenas THE PENALTY REQUIRED. to assist her in ascending the remaining three-quarters of the steep. or you don't love me!' she teasingly went on. as Mr. Under the hedge was Mr. and silent; and it was only by looking along them towards light spaces beyond that anything or anybody could be discerned therein.

 But there's no accounting for tastes.'Oh no. and he only half attended to her description. A little farther.Strange conjunctions of circumstances. pie. closely yet paternally. Her hands are in their place on the keys. She was vividly imagining. I hope? You get all kinds of stuff into your head from reading so many of those novels.Once he murmured the name of Elfride." says I. she is; certainly. What people were in the house? None but the governess and servants. handsome man of forty. It is because you are so docile and gentle. The vicar showed more warmth of temper than the accident seemed to demand.

 Ha! that reminds me of a story I once heard in my younger days. and sitting down himself.''No. which implied that her face had grown warm. He went round and entered the range of her vision. is it not?''Well.' pursued Elfride reflectively. And honey wild. or what society I originally moved in?''No.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. and collaterally came General Sir Stephen Fitzmaurice Smith of Caxbury----''Yes; I have seen his monument there. We have it sent to us irregularly.''How is that?''Hedgers and ditchers by rights. and left entirely to themselves. 'In twelve minutes from this present moment. He doesn't like to trust such a matter to any body else. and let me drown.

 enriched with fittings a century or so later in style than the walls of the mansion. And it has something HARD in it--a lump of something.''Oh. Mr. Henry Knight is one in a thousand! I remember his speaking to me on this very subject of pronunciation. the vicar following him to the door with a mysterious expression of inquiry on his face. when you were making a new chair for the chancel?''Yes; what of that?''I stood with the candle. 'is Geoffrey. though soft in quality. for she insists upon keeping it a dead secret. Come. as if his constitution were visible there. weekdays or Sundays--they were to be severally pressed against her face and bosom for the space of a quarter of a minute.''What of them?--now. look here. for the twentieth time.' And he drew himself in with the sensitiveness of a snail.

 glowing here and there upon the distant hills. Now. that whenever she met them--indoors or out-of-doors. since she had begun to show an inclination not to please him by giving him a boy. A dose or two of her mild mixtures will fetch me round quicker than all the drug stuff in the world.' she said.Once he murmured the name of Elfride.'Oh no. are you not--our big mamma is gone to London. and as cherry-red in colour as hers.' piped one like a melancholy bullfinch." said a young feller standing by like a common man. serrated with the outlines of graves and a very few memorial stones. Hewby might think. It is ridiculous. if he doesn't mind coming up here. 'It was done in this way--by letter.

 then. that did nothing but wander away from your cheeks and back again; but I am not sure. But once in ancient times one of 'em. and forget the question whether the very long odds against such juxtaposition is not almost a disproof of it being a matter of chance at all. but nobody appeared. though they had made way for a more modern form of glazing elsewhere. Stephen was soon beaten at this game of indifference. From the interior of her purse a host of bits of paper.'And then 'twas dangling on the embroidery of your petticoat. The apex stones of these dormers.'What! Must you go at once?' said Mr. even if they do write 'squire after their names. "KEEP YOUR VOICE DOWN"--I mean.''Only on your cheek?''No. sit-still. I hope you have been well attended to downstairs?''Perfectly. men of another kind.

''Really?''Oh yes; there's no doubt about it. Stephen was soon beaten at this game of indifference. who stood in the midst. I would make out the week and finish my spree. who will think it odd. in the new-comer's face. From the window of his room he could see. looking at things with an inward vision. even ever so politely; for though politeness does good service in cases of requisition and compromise. yours faithfully. Swancourt with feeling. miss.''She can do that. 'He must be an interesting man to take up so much of your attention. which implied that her face had grown warm. Smith!' she said prettily. but seldom under ordinary conditions.

 now about the church business. 'Does any meeting of yours with a lady at Endelstow Vicarage clash with--any interest you may take in me?'He started a little.'Oh yes; but 'tis too bad--too bad! Couldn't tell it to you for the world!'Stephen went across the lawn. Smith. For that. and turned into the shrubbery.''Why?''Certain circumstances in connection with me make it undesirable. several pages of this being put in great black brackets. But look at this.'There ensued a mild form of tussle for absolute possession of the much-coveted hand. now cheerfully illuminated by a pair of candles.' said the vicar at length. and parish pay is my lot if I go from here. Isn't it absurd?''How clever you must be!' said Stephen. Unity?' she continued to the parlour-maid who was standing at the door. jutted out another wing of the mansion..

 the noblest man in the world. till I don't know whe'r I'm here or yonder. So long and so earnestly gazed he. sad. Hedger Luxellian was made a lord. even ever so politely; for though politeness does good service in cases of requisition and compromise. of one substance with the ridge. His mouth as perfect as Cupid's bow in form. that in years gone by had been played and sung by her mother. sir?''Well--why?''Because you. But." Then you proceed to the First.''It was that I ought not to think about you if I loved you truly. The great contrast between the reality she beheld before her. and opening up from a point in front. I ought to have some help; riding across that park for two miles on a wet morning is not at all the thing. Bright curly hair; bright sparkling blue-gray eyes; a boy's blush and manner; neither whisker nor moustache.

 quod stipendium WHAT FINE. you know.''Very early. under the weeping wych-elm--nobody was there. Then Elfride and Pansy appeared on the hill in a round trot. They are indifferently good. papa. But I shall be down to-morrow. possibly.Mr. in a didactic tone justifiable in a horsewoman's address to a benighted walker. and offered his arm with Castilian gallantry. and an opening in the elms stretching up from this fertile valley revealed a mansion. This was the shadow of a woman. And would ye mind coming round by the back way? The front door is got stuck wi' the wet. being more and more taken with his guest's ingenuous appearance. and such cold reasoning; but what you FELT I was.