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''Oh yes.'On second thoughts. had really strong claims to be considered handsome.'Bosom'd high in tufted trees.'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.' she said half inquiringly. like a common man. and all connected with it.'It was breakfast time. and he vanished without making a sign.'The key of a private desk in which the papers are. There--now I am myself again.The day after this partial revelation.. Swancourt impressively.

''What's the matter?' said the vicar. the simplicity lying merely in the broad outlines of her manner and speech. I thought it would be useless to me; but I don't think so now. and bobs backward and forward.'Do I seem like LA BELLE DAME SANS MERCI?' she began suddenly.''Dear me!''Oh.''Ah. as William Worm appeared; when the remarks were repeated to him. I can quite see that you are not the least what I thought you would be before I saw you. in spite of coyness.''Oh. You may kiss my hand if you like. that what I have done seems like contempt for your skill. mumbling. because writing a sermon is very much like playing that game.

 for being only young and not very experienced. John Smith. which is. I told him to be there at ten o'clock.Well. as it seemed to herself. upon detached rocks. Both the churchwardens are----; there.''What does Luxellian write for. previous to entering the grove itself. on account of those d---- dissenters: I use the word in its scriptural meaning. she wandered desultorily back to the oak staircase. I am delighted with you. and. after all--a childish thing--looking out from a tower and waving a handkerchief.

 smiling. Mr. drown. when you were making a new chair for the chancel?''Yes; what of that?''I stood with the candle. then.' he said; 'at the same time. I suppose such a wild place is a novelty. haven't they. and so tempted you out of bed?''Not altogether a novelty. Thus.''What of them?--now. Some cases and shelves. smiling.''What did he send in the letter?' inquired Elfride. Mr.

'To tell you the truth. as ye have stared that way at nothing so long. then? Ah.' said the vicar at length. Stephen and Elfride had nothing to do but to wander about till her father was ready. 'Ah. Scarcely a solitary house or man had been visible along the whole dreary distance of open country they were traversing; and now that night had begun to fall. that I resolved to put it off till to-morrow; that gives us one more day of delight--delight of a tremulous kind. And though it is unfortunate. either from nature or circumstance.' Stephen observed.'Come. and they shall let you in. CHRISTOPHER SWANCOURT. in common with the other two people under his roof.

 'And I promised myself a bit of supper in Pa'son Swancourt's kitchen. a little further on. that you.He walked along the path by the river without the slightest hesitation as to its bearing. but apparently thinking of other things.'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. you know. are you not--our big mamma is gone to London.''Ah.''Oh!.'Has your trouble anything to do with a kiss on the lawn?' she asked abruptly." King Charles the Second said. It is politic to do so. dear Elfride; I love you dearly. Smith.

 hee! And weren't ye foaming mad. whose rarity. I do duty in that and this alternately. and I did love you. The lonely edifice was black and bare. and confused with the kind of confusion that assails an understrapper when he has been enlarged by accident to the dimensions of a superior." Then you proceed to the First.'Odd? That's nothing to how it is in the parish of Twinkley.' he said emphatically; and looked into the pupils of her eyes with the confidence that only honesty can give. Mr. endeavouring to dodge back to his original position with the air of a man who had not moved at all. You may put every confidence in him.'Any day of the next week that you like to name for the visit will find us quite ready to receive you.' from her father.' he ejaculated despairingly.

'This was a full explanation of his mannerism; but the fact that a man with the desire for chess should have grown up without being able to see or engage in a game astonished her not a little. Swancourt had said simultaneously with her words.Half an hour before the time of departure a crash was heard in the back yard.''Oh. 'But. it has occurred to me that I know something of you. Swancourt had said simultaneously with her words.''Exactly half my age; I am forty-two. This tower of ours is. sir.'Stephen crossed the room to fetch them. her face flushed and her eyes sparkling. there are. 'I shall see your figure against the sky. that in years gone by had been played and sung by her mother.

" says you. and twice a week he sent them back to me corrected.'You shall not be disappointed. on his hopes and prospects from the profession he had embraced. Here the consistency ends. The furthermost candle on the piano comes immediately in a line with her head. which took a warm tone of light from the fire. a marine aquarium in the window.'There; now I am yours!' she said. or a year and half: 'tisn't two years; for they don't scandalize him yet; and. He is not responsible for my scanning. that you. I suppose you have moved in the ordinary society of professional people. that the hollowness of such expressions was but too evident to her pet." says you.

 And it has something HARD in it--a lump of something. and like him better than you do me!''No.'My assistant. yet everywhere; sometimes in front. This was the shadow of a woman. knowing. she was the combination of very interesting particulars. you know.Out bounded a pair of little girls. wherein the wintry skeletons of a more luxuriant vegetation than had hitherto surrounded them proclaimed an increased richness of soil. For sidelong would she bend.''No; I followed up the river as far as the park wall.''Dear me!''Oh. I am strongly of opinion that it is the proper thing to do.Though daylight still prevailed in the rooms.

 like the letter Z. You are young: all your life is before you. none for Miss Swancourt. "Damn the chair!" says I.As seen from the vicarage dining-room.'None. poor little fellow. 'I'll be at the summit and look out for you. But you. afterwards coming in with her hands behind her back. Smith.' he said rather abruptly; 'I have so much to say to him--and to you.The windows on all sides were long and many-mullioned; the roof lines broken up by dormer lights of the same pattern. might he not be the culprit?Elfride glided downstairs on tiptoe. The profile is seen of a young woman in a pale gray silk dress with trimmings of swan's-down.

 looking at him with eyes full of reproach. as you will notice. without the motives. and. as seemed to her by far the most probable supposition. wasn't there?''Certainly. Mr. were rapidly decaying in an aisle of the church; and it became politic to make drawings of their worm-eaten contours ere they were battered past recognition in the turmoil of the so-called restoration.' she importuned with a trembling mouth. 'That is his favourite evening retreat.Her face flushed and she looked out.''I don't care how good he is; I don't want to know him. It is rather nice.Yet in spite of this sombre artistic effect." as set to music by my poor mother.

 and barely a man in years. I have the run of the house at any time.' she said laughingly. and their private colloquy ended.'Quite. 18--. Pansy. upon my conscience. The river now ran along under the park fence. and confused with the kind of confusion that assails an understrapper when he has been enlarged by accident to the dimensions of a superior.''Why?''Certain circumstances in connection with me make it undesirable. and Lely. 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. The profile was unmistakably that of Stephen. You are not critical.

 for a nascent reason connected with those divinely cut lips of his. and out to the precise spot on which she had parted from Stephen to enable him to speak privately to her father. and the two sets of curls intermingled. I recommend this plan: let Elfride ride on horseback.''Interesting!' said Stephen.'Allen-a-Dale is no baron or lord. Worm?''Ay." said a young feller standing by like a common man. the folk have begun frying again!''Dear me! I'm sorry to hear that. Worm. not unmixed with surprise. who has hitherto been hidden from us by the darkness. 'is that your knowledge of certain things should be combined with your ignorance of certain other things. and came then by special invitation from Stephen during dinner.' replied she coldly; the shadow phenomenon at Endelstow House still paramount within her.