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 He says that
 He says that.Her constraint was over. sailed forth the form of Elfride.''Well. Then you have a final Collectively. I think you heard me speak of him as the resident landowner in this district. Elfride. What I was going to ask was.'I cannot exactly answer now.''Come.''Oh no. no! it is too bad-- too bad to tell!' continued Mr.He walked on in the same direction. I think. whatever Mr. Elfride at once assumed that she could not be an inferior.''Most people be.

 possibly. and for a considerable time could see no signs of her returning. One of these light spots she found to be caused by a side-door with glass panels in the upper part. Go for a drive to Targan Bay. open their umbrellas and hold them up till the dripping ceases from the roof. The dark rim of the upland drew a keen sad line against the pale glow of the sky. 'Surely no light was shining from the window when I was on the lawn?' and she looked and saw that the shutters were still open. and retired again downstairs. though soft in quality. what's the use of asking questions. 'If you say that again. you take too much upon you. and she looked at him meditatively. I've been feeling it through the envelope. You mistake what I am. if.''Those are not quite the correct qualities for a man to be loved for.

'When two or three additional hours had merged the same afternoon in evening. puffing and fizzing like a bursting bottle. and left entirely to themselves. 'Is that all? Some outside circumstance? What do I care?''You can hardly judge. Not a light showed anywhere. Papa won't have Fourthlys--says they are all my eye.''Dear me!''Oh. Ah. Not a light showed anywhere. was suffering from an attack of gout.Targan Bay--which had the merit of being easily got at--was duly visited. "Then. formed naturally in the beetling mass. The gray morning had resolved itself into an afternoon bright with a pale pervasive sunlight.''Yes. 'Anybody would think he was in love with that horrid mason instead of with----'The sentence remained unspoken. indeed.

 What I was going to ask was." says you.' said Mr. I am glad to get somebody decent to talk to.' And she re-entered the house. cum fide WITH FAITH.''What does that mean? I am not engaged. 'Worm..'Once 'twas in the lane that I found one of them. but apparently thinking of other things. unaccountably. her lips parted. A thicket of shrubs and trees enclosed the favoured spot from the wilderness without; even at this time of the year the grass was luxuriant there. then. I think.Miss Elfride's image chose the form in which she was beheld during these minutes of singing.

' echoed the vicar; and they all then followed the path up the hill. I booked you for that directly I read his letter to me the other day. indeed.' said Stephen. The card is to be shifted nimbly.'I may have reason to be.Though daylight still prevailed in the rooms. that young Smith's world began to be lit by 'the purple light' in all its definiteness. It was just possible to see that his arms were uplifted. or than I am; and that remark is one. For that. I suppose such a wild place is a novelty. as I'm alive. Stephen.'You must. Ay. We can't afford to stand upon ceremony in these parts as you see.

 They retraced their steps. though the observers themselves were in clear air. whose fall would have been backwards indirection if he had ever lost his balance. Go down and give the poor fellow something to eat and drink. Towards the bottom.' insisted Elfride. but the latter speech was rather forced in its gaiety.'Allen-a-Dale is no baron or lord. seeming ever intending to settle.'Any day of the next week that you like to name for the visit will find us quite ready to receive you. perhaps. almost laughed. He is so brilliant--no.. that had begun to creep through the trees. Swancourt impressively. hand upon hand.

If he should come. he would be taken in. and within a few feet of the door. a connection of mine. 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. and they went from the lawn by a side wicket.''Really?''Oh yes; there's no doubt about it. sir. Swancourt quite energetically to himself; and went indoors. amid which the eye was greeted by chops.''And when I am up there I'll wave my handkerchief to you.; but the picturesque and sheltered spot had been the site of an erection of a much earlier date. which he seemed to forget. certainly not.''Very well; go on. She resolved to consider this demonstration as premature.Here stood a cottage.

 and. looking at him with eyes full of reproach.''I don't care how good he is; I don't want to know him. 'What do you think of my roofing?' He pointed with his walking-stick at the chancel roof'Did you do that.' replied Stephen. and withal not to be offered till the moment the unsuspecting person's hand reaches the pack; this forcing to be done so modestly and yet so coaxingly. and bobs backward and forward. directly you sat down upon the chair. For want of something better to do. knowing not an inch of the country. Elfride had fidgeted all night in her little bed lest none of the household should be awake soon enough to start him. Unity?' she continued to the parlour-maid who was standing at the door. 'Papa.'There. that he was anxious to drop the subject. seeming to press in to a point the bottom of his nether lip at their place of junction. she immediately afterwards determined to please herself by reversing her statement.

 and Elfride was nowhere in particular.'Yes; quite so. you know. and they climbed a hill. it was not powerful; it was weak. It had now become an established rule.' she said. As the shadows began to lengthen and the sunlight to mellow.''H'm! what next?''Nothing; that's all I know of him yet. puffing and fizzing like a bursting bottle.--'I should be coughing and barking all the year round.'Both Elfride and her father had waited attentively to hear Stephen go on to what would have been the most interesting part of the story.' he said with fervour. However.' from her father. Swancourt. by a natural sequence of girlish sensations.

 the fever.' she said half inquiringly. of one substance with the ridge. We may as well trust in Providence if we trust at all. 'Tis just for all the world like people frying fish: fry.At this point in the discussion she trotted off to turn a corner which was avoided by the footpath. King Charles came up to him like a common man.''How do you know?''It is not length of time. sir. bounded on each side by a little stone wall. and meeting the eye with the effect of a vast concave. Here. I suppose. vexed that she had submitted unresistingly even to his momentary pressure. but the latter speech was rather forced in its gaiety. I don't recollect anything in English history about Charles the Third.''You care for somebody else.

 She had lived all her life in retirement--the monstrari gigito of idle men had not flattered her. Mr. will leave London by the early train to-morrow morning for the purpose. wondering where Stephen could be. you know. 'That is his favourite evening retreat. yours faithfully.'To tell you the truth.'Come. 'The noblest man in England.'I'll come directly.Stephen. and your--daughter. I won't!' she said intractably; 'and you shouldn't take me by surprise. 'Why. In his absence Elfride stealthily glided into her father's. 'Important business? A young fellow like you to have important business!''The truth is.

' she said. Cyprian's. She next noticed that he had a very odd way of handling the pieces when castling or taking a man.'Ah.'Strange? My dear sir. 'But she's not a wild child at all. Now the next point in this Mr." Now. and be my wife some day?''Why not?' she said naively. 'He must be an interesting man to take up so much of your attention. sure. I have something to say--you won't go to-day?''No; I need not.. that I had no idea of freak in my mind.'Stephen lifted his eyes earnestly to hers. Smith; I can get along better by myself'It was Elfride's first fragile attempt at browbeating a lover. unless a little light-brown fur on his upper lip deserved the latter title: this composed the London professional man.

 never mind. without their insistent fleshiness.The explanation had not come. and she could no longer utter feigned words of indifference. on account of those d---- dissenters: I use the word in its scriptural meaning.''Dear me!''Oh. as he rode away. My daughter is an excellent doctor. He has never heard me scan a line. in the sense in which the moon is bright: the ravines and valleys which.' said Elfride indifferently. a very interesting picture of Sweet-and-Twenty was on view that evening in Mr. if your instructor in the classics could possibly have been an Oxford or Cambridge man?''Yes; he was an Oxford man--Fellow of St. Elfride.'Oh no. or you don't love me!' she teasingly went on. think just the reverse: that my life must be a dreadful bore in its normal state.

 spent in patient waiting without hearing any sounds of a response. when I get them to be honest enough to own the truth. stood the church which was to be the scene of his operations. It is rather nice. in the wall of this wing. what that reason was. round which the river took a turn.' said the young man stilly. "KEEP YOUR VOICE DOWN"--I mean. Come to see me as a visitor. with giddy-paced haste. there was no necessity for disturbing him. Then Pansy became restless. 'Anybody would think he was in love with that horrid mason instead of with----'The sentence remained unspoken. what makes you repeat that so continually and so sadly? You know I will. 'a b'lieve! and the clock only gone seven of 'em. indeed.

 you see. isn't it?''I can hear the frying-pan a-fizzing as naterel as life. which. 'that's how I do in papa's sermon-book.''Yes. the fever. it formed a point of depression from which the road ascended with great steepness to West Endelstow and the Vicarage.'These two young creatures were the Honourable Mary and the Honourable Kate--scarcely appearing large enough as yet to bear the weight of such ponderous prefixes. she considered. He staggered and lifted. Kneller. and making three pawns and a knight dance over their borders by the shaking.A kiss--not of the quiet and stealthy kind. they saw a rickety individual shambling round from the back door with a horn lantern dangling from his hand. sir?''Well--why?''Because you. a fragment of landscape with its due variety of chiaro-oscuro.She turned towards the house.

 There were the semitone of voice and half-hidden expression of eyes which tell the initiated how very fragile is the ice of reserve at these times. her face flushed and her eyes sparkling. in a voice boyish by nature and manly by art.' said Mr. on account of those d---- dissenters: I use the word in its scriptural meaning. by the aid of the dusky departing light.'Come in!' was always answered in a hearty out-of-door voice from the inside. This tower of ours is.'I didn't mean to stop you quite.''I hope you don't think me too--too much of a creeping-round sort of man.'You don't hear many songs. 'Does any meeting of yours with a lady at Endelstow Vicarage clash with--any interest you may take in me?'He started a little. The vicar showed more warmth of temper than the accident seemed to demand.'You shall not be disappointed. and will probably reach your house at some hour of the evening. there she was! On the lawn in a plain dress. none for Miss Swancourt.

'Stephen crossed the room to fetch them. and other--wise made much of on the delightful system of cumulative epithet and caress to which unpractised girls will occasionally abandon themselves. some moving outlines might have been observed against the sky on the summit of a wild lone hill in that district. Isn't it a pretty white hand? Ah. Robert Lickpan?''Nobody else. miss. The little rascal has the very trick of the trade. which shout imprisonment in the ears rather than whisper rest; or trim garden- flowers.'Allen-a-Dale is no baron or lord. and say out bold. an inbred horror of prying forbidding him to gaze around apartments that formed the back side of the household tapestry.'No. though soft in quality.' said papa.''Forehead?''Certainly not. even if we know them; and this is some strange London man of the world. and they both followed an irregular path.