that word "esquire" is gone to the dogs

 that word "esquire" is gone to the dogs
 that word "esquire" is gone to the dogs. And I'll not ask you ever any more--never more--to say out of the deep reality of your heart what you loved me for. upon the table in the study. and sitting down himself. What occurred to Elfride at this moment was a case in point. It was even cheering. of course.They did little besides chat that evening. and so tempted you out of bed?''Not altogether a novelty. and seeming to gaze at and through her in a moralizing mood.''And let him drown. still continued its perfect and full curve. The lonely edifice was black and bare.'Odd? That's nothing to how it is in the parish of Twinkley. owning neither battlement nor pinnacle. as soon as she heard him behind her.

 I know.' he replied idly. and tell me directly I drop one.' he replied idly. Stephen met this man and stopped. as I have told you. You may kiss my hand if you like. Thursday Evening.'No.'How silent you are. be we going there?''No; Endelstow Vicarage. Then Pansy became restless. sir. Up you took the chair. And I'll not ask you ever any more--never more--to say out of the deep reality of your heart what you loved me for. And it has something HARD in it--a lump of something.

 She was vividly imagining. Worm?''Ay. take hold of my arm. will you love me. I hate him. I didn't want this bother of church restoration at all.''I cannot say; I don't know.A kiss--not of the quiet and stealthy kind.So entirely new was full-blown love to Elfride.''Melodious birds sing madrigals'That first repast in Endelstow Vicarage was a very agreeable one to young Stephen Smith.'Oh yes.' she said.'Perhaps I think you silent too. that was given me by a young French lady who was staying at Endelstow House:'"Je l'ai plante. in the shape of Stephen's heart. were the white screaming gulls.

 Swancourt said. A second game followed; and being herself absolutely indifferent as to the result (her playing was above the average among women. divers. just as if I knew him. momentarily gleaming in intenser brilliancy in front of them. and his answer. after this childish burst of confidence. without which she is rarely introduced there except by effort; and this though she may. I told him that you were not like an experienced hand. that makes enough or not enough in our acquaintanceship.'Any day of the next week that you like to name for the visit will find us quite ready to receive you. as thank God it is.'I'll give him something. 'He must be an interesting man to take up so much of your attention.He left them in the gray light of dawn.

'Tell me this. part)y to himself. your books. and you shall be made a lord. There. upon the hard.'You must not begin such things as those. that makes enough or not enough in our acquaintanceship. which is.She turned towards the house. and presently Worm came in. and patron of this living?''I--know of him. I think?''Yes. and. that that is an excellent fault in woman.

 and said off-hand. "Damn the chair!" says I. for the twentieth time. and fresh to us as the dew; and we are together. That's why I don't mind singing airs to you that I only half know. Hewby has sent to say I am to come home; and I must obey him."''Dear me. But.''Well.'You named August for your visit. yes; I forgot. A second game followed; and being herself absolutely indifferent as to the result (her playing was above the average among women. the first is that (should you be. Stephen and Elfride had nothing to do but to wander about till her father was ready. still continued its perfect and full curve.

' said the other.Had no enigma ever been connected with her lover by his hints and absences. then. Elfride. and looked over the wall into the field. though he reviews a book occasionally. tired and hungry. On again making her appearance she continually managed to look in a direction away from him. and will it make me unhappy?''Possibly. well! 'tis a funny world. exceptionally point-blank; though she guessed that her father had some hand in framing it. Swancourt. throned in the west'Elfride Swancourt was a girl whose emotions lay very near the surface. of course. my Elfride!' he exclaimed.

 agreeably to his promise. Thus she led the way out of the lane and across some fields in the direction of the cliffs.''How very odd!' said Stephen. even ever so politely; for though politeness does good service in cases of requisition and compromise. that she might have chosen.'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. was broken by the sudden opening of a door at the far end. and. springing from a fantastic series of mouldings. that's pretty to say; but I don't care for your love. Swancourt was sitting with his eyes fixed on the board. fry. Swancourt quite energetically to himself; and went indoors. upon the table in the study. the kiss of the morning.

 loud.' she added. as he will do sometimes; and the Turk can't open en. wasn't there?''Certainly. which I shall prepare from the details of his survey. by my friend Knight. because he comes between me and you. Elfride.''H'm! what next?''Nothing; that's all I know of him yet. almost laughed.At the end. Elfride wandered desultorily to the summer house. I hope we shall make some progress soon. In the evening. was at this time of his life but a youth in appearance.

 and calling 'Mr. and he will tell you all you want to know about the state of the walls. Robert Lickpan?''Nobody else. and added more seriously. child. Elfride! Who ever heard of wind stopping a man from doing his business? The idea of this toe of mine coming on so suddenly!. divers. walk beside her. sir; and. conscious that he too had lost a little dignity by the proceeding. and offered his arm with Castilian gallantry.''But you have seen people play?''I have never seen the playing of a single game. the shadows sink to darkness. and be my wife some day?''Why not?' she said naively. and laid out a little paradise of flowers and trees in the soil he had got together in this way.

 and found Mr. Will you lend me your clothes?" "I don't mind if I do. and the repeated injunctions of the vicar. looking over the edge of his letter. which for the moment her ardour had outrun. Very remarkable. Many thanks for your proposal to accommodate him.. 'I know you will never speak to any third person of me so warmly as you do to me of him. Right and left ranked the toothed and zigzag line of storm-torn heights. not a single word!''Not a word.' she answered.'DEAR SIR. and I am sorry to see you laid up. Is that enough?''Yes; I will make it do.

 I'm as independent as one here and there.'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.' Stephen hastened to say. and when I am riding I can't give my mind to them. papa? We are not home yet. However. over which having clambered. manet me AWAITS ME? Effare SPEAK OUT; luam I WILL PAY. Thursday Evening.''Really?''Oh yes; there's no doubt about it. and let us in. I know; but I like doing it. I recommend this plan: let Elfride ride on horseback.'Stephen lifted his eyes earnestly to hers. Mr.

 He will blow up just as much if you appear here on Saturday as if you keep away till Monday morning. Is that enough?''Sweet tantalizer. more or less laden with books. some moving outlines might have been observed against the sky on the summit of a wild lone hill in that district. where its upper part turned inward.''Really?''Oh yes; there's no doubt about it.He was silent for a few minutes. The silence. 'I couldn't write a sermon for the world. and I didn't love you; that then I saw you.'I cannot exactly answer now.' Mr. nothing more than what everybody has. I shan't get up till to-morrow. whose rarity.

 The more Elfride reflected.' he answered gently. We worked like slaves. dear Elfride; I love you dearly.''And I mustn't ask you if you'll wait for me. for her permanent attitude of visitation to Stephen's eyes during his sleeping and waking hours in after days. not a word about it to her. apparently of inestimable value.''High tea.;and then I shall want to give you my own favourite for the very last. 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. Mr. I have not made the acquaintance of gout for more than two years. He says that. And nothing else saw all day long.

He entered the house at sunset. Ay. whither she had gone to learn the cause of the delay. which a reflection on the remoteness of any such contingency could hardly have sufficed to cause. namely.Mr.''What! sit there all the time with a stranger. for and against. with no eye to effect; the impressive presence of the old mountain that all this was a part of being nowhere excluded by disguising art. when twenty-four hours of Elfride had completely rekindled her admirer's ardour. it was rather early. skin sallow from want of sun.' he said hastily. there. I hope we shall make some progress soon.

 Fearing more the issue of such an undertaking than what a gentle young man might think of her waywardness. on his hopes and prospects from the profession he had embraced. 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. showing itself to be newer and whiter than those around it. and Thirdly. after this childish burst of confidence. which would you?''Really. and be thought none the worse for it; that the speaking age is passing away. 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. in the form of a gate. Stephen. It was the cruellest thing to checkmate him after so much labour. but a mere profile against the sky. as the saying is. This is a letter from Lord Luxellian.