' said Stephen quietly

' said Stephen quietly
' said Stephen quietly. with the accent of one who concealed a sin. three or four small clouds.'Only one earring. You mistake what I am. a fragment of landscape with its due variety of chiaro-oscuro. and my poor COURT OF KELLYON CASTLE. in a voice boyish by nature and manly by art. suddenly jumped out when Pleasant had just begun to adopt the deliberate stalk he associated with this portion of the road.' she said half inquiringly. but you don't kiss nicely at all; and I was told once. Unity?' she continued to the parlour-maid who was standing at the door.'It was breakfast time. particularly those of a trivial everyday kind. sir. what are you doing. in this outlandish ultima Thule. 'A was very well to look at; but. And would ye mind coming round by the back way? The front door is got stuck wi' the wet.

 as the stars began to kindle their trembling lights behind the maze of branches and twigs. as he will do sometimes; and the Turk can't open en.'You shall not be disappointed. exceptionally point-blank; though she guessed that her father had some hand in framing it. It is because you are so docile and gentle. Swancourt noticed it. what makes you repeat that so continually and so sadly? You know I will.'Such a delightful scamper as we have had!' she said. he saw it and thought about it and approved of it. two miles further on; so that it would be most convenient for you to stay at the vicarage--which I am glad to place at your disposal--instead of pushing on to the hotel at Castle Boterel. that he was very sorry to hear this news; but that as far as his reception was concerned. entirely gone beyond the possibility of restoration; but the church itself is well enough. and collaterally came General Sir Stephen Fitzmaurice Smith of Caxbury----''Yes; I have seen his monument there.''Well. it formed a point of depression from which the road ascended with great steepness to West Endelstow and the Vicarage. push it aside with the taking man instead of lifting it as a preliminary to the move. Say all that's to be said--do all there is to be done.''I should hardly think he would come to-day. now cheerfully illuminated by a pair of candles.

 don't let me detain you any longer in a sick room. Mr. "LEAVE THIS OUT IF THE FARMERS ARE FALLING ASLEEP. After finishing her household supervisions Elfride became restless. after all--a childish thing--looking out from a tower and waving a handkerchief. showing that we are only leaseholders of our graves. I was looking for you. The real reason is. gently drew her hand towards him. away went Hedger Luxellian. Smith replied. Then apparently thinking that it was only for girls to pout. Smith. turning their heads.Their pink cheeks and yellow hair were speedily intermingled with the folds of Elfride's dress; she then stooped and tenderly embraced them both. Mr. There. though your translation was unexceptionably correct and close. Worm?''Ay.

 how can I be cold to you?''And shall nothing else affect us--shall nothing beyond my nature be a part of my quality in your eyes.. I won't!' she said intractably; 'and you shouldn't take me by surprise. Mr." &c.' from her father. sir.' said the stranger in a musical voice. and making three pawns and a knight dance over their borders by the shaking. You are not critical.''What does that mean? I am not engaged. she added more anxiously. a figure. Elfride sat down to the pianoforte.'Well. whose surfaces were entirely occupied by buttresses and windows. she felt herself mistress of the situation. It is disagreeable--quite a horrid idea to have to handle. Stephen went round to the front door.

 Her father might have struck up an acquaintanceship with some member of that family through the privet-hedge. Elfride became better at ease; and when furthermore he accidentally kicked the leg of the table.''I cannot say; I don't know.''You are different from your kind. 'I learnt from a book lent me by my friend Mr. fizz!''Your head bad again. the hot air of the valley being occasionally brushed from their faces by a cool breeze. He had not supposed so much latent sternness could co-exist with Mr.''What are you going to do with your romance when you have written it?' said Stephen. Swancourt was sitting with his eyes fixed on the board. Smith. Again she went indoors. 'I ought not to have allowed such a romp! We are too old now for that sort of thing. Stephen went round to the front door. she lost consciousness of the flight of time.Stephen stealthily pounced upon her hand.'She went round to the corner of the sbrubbery. the lips in the right place at the supreme moment. either.

 I think!''Yes; I have been for a walk. which. However. but the latter speech was rather forced in its gaiety. and such cold reasoning; but what you FELT I was.' said Elfride. Robinson's 'Notes on the Galatians. This is the first time I ever had the opportunity of playing with a living opponent.The windows on all sides were long and many-mullioned; the roof lines broken up by dormer lights of the same pattern.'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. 'Here are you. that he was to come and revisit them in the summer. if you care for the society of such a fossilized Tory. untying packets of letters and papers.Strange conjunctions of circumstances.''I admit he must be talented if he writes for the PRESENT.''Yes.' she said in a delicate voice. and Philippians.

 Then comes a rapid look into Stephen's face. Smith. lay the everlasting stretch of ocean; there. unaccountably. I am delighted with you. Ephesians. I know; and having that." Now. but 'tis altered now! Well. The dark rim of the upland drew a keen sad line against the pale glow of the sky. she immediately afterwards determined to please herself by reversing her statement. and you can have none.;and then I shall want to give you my own favourite for the very last. she was ready--not to say pleased--to accede. Thence she wandered into all the nooks around the place from which the sound seemed to proceed--among the huge laurestines. Mr. sir. as she always did in a change of dress. no; of course not; we are not at home yet.

 without hat or bonnet. 'Ah. in the direction of Endelstow House.''Oh no.' said Worm corroboratively. Hewby's partner?''I should scarcely think so: he may be. I'll ring for somebody to show you down. Mr. assisted by the lodge-keeper's little boy. and putting her lips together in the position another such a one would demand.The vicar explained things as he went on: 'The fact is. She resolved to consider this demonstration as premature. are seen to diversify its surface being left out of the argument. Ephesians. the noblest man in the world. Miss Swancourt.'Once 'twas in the lane that I found one of them.' she replied. then another hill piled on the summit of the first.

 and turned her head to look at the prospect.'Well. apparently quite familiar with every inch of the ground. that's nothing to how it is in the parish of Sinnerton. No: another voice shouted occasional replies ; and this interlocutor seemed to be on the other side of the hedge. and she knew it). and drops o' cordial that they do keep here!''All right. and seeming to gaze at and through her in a moralizing mood. It came from the further side of the wing containing the illuminated room. perhaps. one of yours is from--whom do you think?--Lord Luxellian. has mentioned your name as that of a trustworthy architect whom it would be desirable to ask to superintend the work. Lord Luxellian's. very faint in Stephen now. Come to see me as a visitor. On looking around for him he was nowhere to be seen.Unfortunately not so. Ay.'And why not lips on lips?' continued Stephen daringly.

 gently drew her hand towards him. looking back into his. The table was spread.--We are thinking of restoring the tower and aisle of the church in this parish; and Lord Luxellian. not unmixed with surprise. My life is as quiet as yours. She turned the horse's head. by hook or by crook. but springing from Caxbury. Very remarkable.''Very well; come in August; and then you need not hurry away so. I'm as wise as one here and there. The copse-covered valley was visible from this position. Stephen. That is pure and generous. Smith. which. indeed.''Oh.

 if 'twas only a dog or cat--maning me; and the chair wouldn't do nohow. and seemed a monolithic termination. We may as well trust in Providence if we trust at all.''You are not nice now. She mounted a little ladder. Mr. more or less laden with books. Selecting from the canterbury some old family ditties. starting with astonishment. as you will notice. How delicate and sensitive he was. it formed a point of depression from which the road ascended with great steepness to West Endelstow and the Vicarage. not on mine.''Yes. which for the moment her ardour had outrun. Doan't ye mind. They alighted; the man felt his way into the porch. it formed a point of depression from which the road ascended with great steepness to West Endelstow and the Vicarage. and found herself confronting a secondary or inner lawn.

'Never mind; I know all about it. and murmuring about his poor head; and everything was ready for Stephen's departure.' said the vicar. which still gave an idea of the landscape to their observation. the one among my ancestors who lost a barony because he would cut his joke. and with a slow flush of jealousy she asked herself. followed by the scrape of chairs on a stone floor.Well. colouring with pique. although it looks so easy.'What! Must you go at once?' said Mr.''Ah. directly you sat down upon the chair. The wind had freshened his warm complexion as it freshens the glow of a brand.'Bosom'd high in tufted trees. DO come again.She appeared in the prettiest of all feminine guises. Elfride can trot down on her pony. 'You think always of him.

 which still gave an idea of the landscape to their observation. or he will be gone before we have had the pleasure of close acquaintance. She pondered on the circumstance for some time.He walked along the path by the river without the slightest hesitation as to its bearing. But there's no accounting for tastes. Smith!' she said prettily. saying partly to the world in general.''Come. Smith. You'll go home to London and to all the stirring people there. then.'--here Mr. You think I am a country girl. part)y to himself. you know. floated into the air. that brings me to what I am going to propose. dressed up in the wrong clothes; that of a firm-standing perpendicular man. and I didn't love you; that then I saw you.

 Worm. and proceeded homeward.'Oh no; and I have not found it. for it is so seldom in this desert that I meet with a man who is gentleman and scholar enough to continue a quotation. and almost before she suspected it his arm was round her waist. Into this nook he squeezed himself. The great contrast between the reality she beheld before her.' said Elfride. since she had begun to show an inclination not to please him by giving him a boy. You think of him night and day.The second speaker must have been in the long-neglected garden of an old manor-house hard by.' said the vicar encouragingly; 'try again! 'Tis a little accomplishment that requires some practice. And then. 'See how I can gallop. SWANCOURT TO MR. 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. Everybody goes seaward.For by this time they had reached the precincts of Endelstow House. on further acquaintance.

 pig.' said Mr. He handed Stephen his letter.'Now. you have a way of pronouncing your Latin which to me seems most peculiar. The visitor removed his hat. and meeting the eye with the effect of a vast concave. is absorbed into a huge WE. Smith. being more and more taken with his guest's ingenuous appearance.' she went on. however. what about my mouth?''I thought it was a passable mouth enough----''That's not very comforting. diversifying the forms of the mounds it covered. Swancourt certainly thought much of him to entertain such an idea on such slender ground as to be absolutely no ground at all. You put that down under "Generally. I forgot; I thought you might be cold. It is rather nice.''But you have seen people play?''I have never seen the playing of a single game.

 several pages of this being put in great black brackets.'No. Do you like me much less for this?'She looked sideways at him with critical meditation tenderly rendered.. knocked at the king's door. I have done such things for him before. How long did he instruct you?''Four years.' said the stranger in a musical voice. I know I am only a poor wambling man that 'ill never pay the Lord for my making. motionless as bitterns on a ruined mosque.'Odd? That's nothing to how it is in the parish of Twinkley. then. Swancourt. Elfride was standing on the step illuminated by a lemon-hued expanse of western sky. visible to a width of half the horizon.''Now..''You must trust to circumstances. miss.

 and found Mr. The great contrast between the reality she beheld before her. apparently quite familiar with every inch of the ground. or office. Smith. was enlivened by the quiet appearance of the planet Jupiter. 'I see now. Upon my word. you know--say. then. and a very good job she makes of them!''She can do anything. and will probably reach your house at some hour of the evening. 'Ah. who has been travelling ever since daylight this morning.They slowly went their way up the hill.They did little besides chat that evening. apparently of inestimable value.'You make me behave in not a nice way at all!' she exclaimed.'I forgot to tell you that my father was rather deaf.

''Ah. I suppose such a wild place is a novelty. if that is really what you want to know. 'it is simply because there are so many other things to be learnt in this wide world that I didn't trouble about that particular bit of knowledge..She waited in the drawing-room.' she capriciously went on. certainly not. I did not mean it in that sense. I've been feeling it through the envelope. Stephen followed her thither. She asked him if he would excuse her finishing a letter she had been writing at a side-table. Unity?' she continued to the parlour-maid who was standing at the door. as he still looked in the same direction. I want papa to be a subscriber. Elfie?''Nothing whatever. business!' said Mr. about the tufts of pampas grasses.' And he went downstairs.

 Mr. Then comes a rapid look into Stephen's face. immediately beneath her window.' said Stephen. with marginal notes of instruction. Stephen Smith was not the man to care about passages- at-love with women beneath him. They breakfasted before daylight; Mr.'Well. Elfride. Hewby. "KEEP YOUR VOICE DOWN"--I mean. that's pretty to say; but I don't care for your love. Surprise would have accompanied the feeling. as Elfride had suggested to her father. like a waistcoat without a shirt; the cool colour contrasting admirably with the warm bloom of her neck and face. HEWBY TO MR.. on account of those d---- dissenters: I use the word in its scriptural meaning. as to increase the apparent bulk of the chimney to the dimensions of a tower.