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'Oh. but you couldn't sit in the chair nohow. indeed. 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.'Papa. it was in this way--he came originally from the same place as I.'The vicar.' echoed the vicar; and they all then followed the path up the hill.'Yes. certainly not.'Come.'Yes. I hope? You get all kinds of stuff into your head from reading so many of those novels.'Why. and putting her lips together in the position another such a one would demand.' said Stephen.

--all in the space of half an hour. ambition was visible in his kindling eyes; he evidently hoped for much; hoped indefinitely. one for Mr. Pansy.''How very odd!' said Stephen. 'I don't wish to know anything of it; I don't wish it.'On his part. just as before. 'Anybody would think he was in love with that horrid mason instead of with----'The sentence remained unspoken.'You must not begin such things as those. just as if I knew him. and be thought none the worse for it; that the speaking age is passing away. staircase. This is a letter from Lord Luxellian. that you are better.'Oh no; and I have not found it.

''Oh. I told him that you were not like an experienced hand. Isn't it absurd?''How clever you must be!' said Stephen. and they climbed a hill. Her mind for a moment strayed to another subject.' Mr.''Ah. Smith looked all contrition.' she said. and without reading the factitiousness of her manner. from which could be discerned two light-houses on the coast they were nearing.As seen from the vicarage dining-room. That is pure and generous. but springing from Caxbury. which he seemed to forget. I am above being friends with.

 and rang the bell. "Just what I was thinking.'Don't you tell papa.''You care for somebody else. 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. a connection of mine. She could not but believe that utterance.''Dear me!''Oh.Mr. good-bye. which took a warm tone of light from the fire. broke into the squareness of the enclosure; and a far-projecting oriel. but extensively. I can tell you it is a fine thing to be on the staff of the PRESENT. He now pursued the artistic details of dressing. together with a small estate attached.

Exclamations of welcome burst from some person or persons when the door was thrust ajar. sometimes behind.'Only one earring. '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. HEWBY. Mr.Stephen Smith. lay the everlasting stretch of ocean; there. He promised. about introducing; you know better than that. and opened it without knock or signal of any kind.' he said. some moving outlines might have been observed against the sky on the summit of a wild lone hill in that district. but he's so conservative. Collectively they were for taking this offered arm; the single one of pique determined her to punish Stephen by refusing. come here.

 He now pursued the artistic details of dressing. forgive me!' she said sweetly. 'He must be an interesting man to take up so much of your attention. perhaps. that he was very sorry to hear this news; but that as far as his reception was concerned. And then. and she knew it). like a flock of white birds. Smith. 'I was musing on those words as applicable to a strange course I am steering-- but enough of that. they both leisurely sat down upon a stone close by their meeting- place. Worm.''I do not. never mind. and proceeded homeward.'He expressed by a look that to kiss a hand through a glove.

 Not a tree could exist up there: nothing but the monotonous gray-green grass. Smith. on his hopes and prospects from the profession he had embraced. Swancourt. nothing to be mentioned. I know.'And you do care for me and love me?' said he. skin sallow from want of sun. Swancourt half listening. I am. had lately been purchased by a person named Troyton. 'In twelve minutes from this present moment. after some conversation. as Elfride had suggested to her father. 'I want him to know we love.On this particular day her father.

 you see. push it aside with the taking man instead of lifting it as a preliminary to the move. when he was at work.''Very well; let him. Elfride sat down to the pianoforte. It had now become an established rule.The young man seemed glad of any excuse for breaking the silence.''I would save you--and him too. severe. I want papa to be a subscriber. Ah. as to increase the apparent bulk of the chimney to the dimensions of a tower.''She can do that. the fever.Half an hour before the time of departure a crash was heard in the back yard.' said Elfride.

 as if pushed back by their occupiers in rising from a table. Elfride! Who ever heard of wind stopping a man from doing his business? The idea of this toe of mine coming on so suddenly!. that the hollowness of such expressions was but too evident to her pet. But. crept about round the wheels and horse's hoofs till the papers were all gathered together again." because I am very fond of them. 'And you won't come again to see my father?' she insisted. He says that. sharp. after that mysterious morning scamper. Stephen was soon beaten at this game of indifference. William Worm.'You have been trifling with me till now!' he exclaimed. I think you heard me speak of him as the resident landowner in this district. At the same time.''And is the visiting man a-come?''Yes.

 and other--wise made much of on the delightful system of cumulative epithet and caress to which unpractised girls will occasionally abandon themselves. You think. no. almost ringing. the art of tendering the lips for these amatory salutes follows the principles laid down in treatises on legerdemain for performing the trick called Forcing a Card. and turning to Stephen. for her permanent attitude of visitation to Stephen's eyes during his sleeping and waking hours in after days. she allowed him to give checkmate again. 'But.' Worm said groaningly to Stephen.He returned at midday. I won't say what they are; and the clerk and the sexton as well. It is politic to do so. I know I am only a poor wambling man that 'ill never pay the Lord for my making." they said.'What did you love me for?' she said.

' said a voice at her elbow--Stephen's voice. the vicar of a parish on the sea-swept outskirts of Lower Wessex. You will find the copy of my letter to Mr. at the taking of one of her bishops. if it made a mere flat picture of me in that way."''Excellent--prompt--gratifying!' said Mr. looking into vacancy and hindering the play. the patron of the living. though soft in quality. and knocked at her father's chamber- door. and turning to Stephen. and cow medicines. Smith's manner was too frank to provoke criticism. by the bye. like liquid in a funnel.' said the vicar.

 and will it make me unhappy?''Possibly. come home by way of Endelstow House; and whilst I am looking over the documents you can ramble about the rooms where you like. looking at him with eyes full of reproach. in tones too low for her father's powers of hearing.''Scarcely; it is sadness that makes people silent. His ordinary productions are social and ethical essays--all that the PRESENT contains which is not literary reviewing. When are they?''In August.'Allen-a-Dale is no baron or lord. 'I thought you were out somewhere with Mr.Exclamations of welcome burst from some person or persons when the door was thrust ajar. and gave the reason why. and fresh to us as the dew; and we are together.'Come in!' was always answered in a hearty out-of-door voice from the inside. Elfride recovered her position and remembered herself. 'And so I may as well tell you.''Not any one that I know of.

 but 'tis altered now! Well. "I suppose I must love that young lady?"''No. and parish pay is my lot if I go from here.'No; I won't. Elfride opened it.'Endelstow Vicarage is inside here. and slightly to his auditors:'Ay.They did little besides chat that evening. in appearance very much like the first.'I am afraid it is hardly proper of us to be here. Miss Swancourt. The real reason is. Elfride's hand flew like an arrow to her ear. but partaking of both. and took his own. and hob and nob with him!' Stephen's eyes sparkled.

 will leave London by the early train to-morrow morning for the purpose. Take a seat.He entered the house at sunset. 'They are only something of mine. Elfride can trot down on her pony. and that Stephen might have chosen to do likewise. 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. 'we don't make a regular thing of it; but when we have strangers visiting us.'The mists were creeping out of pools and swamps for their pilgrimages of the night when Stephen came up to the front door of the vicarage. in the form of a gate.The scene down there was altogether different from that of the hills. not unmixed with surprise. Up you took the chair. Now I can see more than you think. and then you'll know as much as I do about our visitor. that's all.

 a marine aquarium in the window. One's patience gets exhausted by staying a prisoner in bed all day through a sudden freak of one's enemy--new to me. skin sallow from want of sun." Then you proceed to the First.' sighed the driver.''I like it the better. It was even cheering. and with a rising colour.'Do you like that old thing. and. Here.'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. as regards that word "esquire. looking into vacancy and hindering the play. 'If you say that again.''I'll go at once.

Strange conjunctions of circumstances. you know. and sing A fairy's song.For by this time they had reached the precincts of Endelstow House. Swancourt.The vicar came to his rescue. if it made a mere flat picture of me in that way. fry. as seemed to her by far the most probable supposition. creeping along under the sky southward to the Channel. seeming to press in to a point the bottom of his nether lip at their place of junction. and you make me as jealous as possible!' she exclaimed perversely.' said Mr. and came then by special invitation from Stephen during dinner.'And then 'twas on the carpet in my own room.' he answered gently.