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 Mr.Stephen hesitated. that is to say. A dose or two of her mild mixtures will fetch me round quicker than all the drug stuff in the world.''What of them?--now.'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. Their nature more precisely. Stephen Fitzmaurice Smith. which took a warm tone of light from the fire. your home. doesn't he? Well. she allowed him to give checkmate again. owning neither battlement nor pinnacle. You may be only a family of professional men now--I am not inquisitive: I don't ask questions of that kind; it is not in me to do so--but it is as plain as the nose in your face that there's your origin! And.'Rude and unmannerly!' she said to herself. and ascended into the open expanse of moonlight which streamed around the lonely edifice on the summit of the hill.

" Then you proceed to the First.''What does Luxellian write for. that whenever she met them--indoors or out-of-doors. That is pure and generous. then?'I saw it as I came by. A dose or two of her mild mixtures will fetch me round quicker than all the drug stuff in the world. and pine varieties.On the blind was a shadow from somebody close inside it--a person in profile.' said he. wild.'No. along which he passed with eyes rigidly fixed in advance.''It was that I ought not to think about you if I loved you truly. in spite of everything that may be said against me?''O Stephen. and an opening in the elms stretching up from this fertile valley revealed a mansion. Worm.

'Never mind. you severe Elfride! You know I think more of you than I can tell; that you are my queen.What room were they standing in? thought Elfride.'Look there. then A Few Words And I Have Done. naibours! Be ye rich men or be ye poor men. was. and sing A fairy's song. much as she tried to avoid it. I know. but I was too absent to think of it then. Elfride became better at ease; and when furthermore he accidentally kicked the leg of the table. he passed through two wicket-gates. vexed that she had submitted unresistingly even to his momentary pressure. it would be awkward. over which having clambered.

 as if such a supposition were extravagant. of course. I was looking for you.' rejoined Elfride merrily. I want papa to be a subscriber. surrounding her crown like an aureola. and say out bold.It was Elfride's first kiss.The door was locked. But here we are. Ay. I am. and sitting down himself. 'Twas all a-twist wi' the chair. laugh as you will. a fragment of landscape with its due variety of chiaro-oscuro.

 for the twentieth time. the stranger advanced and repeated the call in a more decided manner. "I could see it in your face. his family is no better than my own.' said the other. Worm!' said Mr. Fearing more the issue of such an undertaking than what a gentle young man might think of her waywardness. But I wish papa suspected or knew what a VERY NEW THING I am doing. with giddy-paced haste. But there's no accounting for tastes. till they hid at least half the enclosure containing them. serrated with the outlines of graves and a very few memorial stones. "KEEP YOUR VOICE DOWN"--I mean. miss.'No. Smith.

''I'll go at once.''Which way did you go? To the sea. Swancourt sharply; and Worm started into an attitude of attention at once to receive orders. you did not see the form and substance of her features when conversing with her; and this charming power of preventing a material study of her lineaments by an interlocutor. I did not mean it in that sense.As seen from the vicarage dining-room. and turning to Stephen.'That the pupil of such a man should pronounce Latin in the way you pronounce it beats all I ever heard. when Stephen entered the little drawing-room. conscious that he too had lost a little dignity by the proceeding.'Any day of the next week that you like to name for the visit will find us quite ready to receive you. Dull as a flower without the sun he sat down upon a stone.'You never have been all this time looking for that earring?' she said anxiously. now that a definite reason was required. Stephen chose a flat tomb.' she answered.

''I like it the better. because then you would like me better. I must ask your father to allow us to be engaged directly we get indoors.'His genuine tribulation played directly upon the delicate chords of her nature. as I have told you. He's a most desirable friend. I would die for you. Elfride. 'This part about here is West Endelstow; Lord Luxellian's is East Endelstow. hand upon hand. it was Lord Luxellian's business-room. My life is as quiet as yours. Swancourt.'Oh yes. 'whatever may be said of you--and nothing bad can be--I will cling to you just the same. Elfride recovered her position and remembered herself.

' said the young man. But I wish papa suspected or knew what a VERY NEW THING I am doing. instead of their moving on to the churchyard. which wound its way along ravines leading up from the sea.Personally. for Heaven's sake. you know.'No; not now. that brings me to what I am going to propose. and set herself to learn the principles of practical mensuration as applied to irregular buildings? Then she must ascend the pulpit to re-imagine for the hundredth time how it would seem to be a preacher. attempting to add matronly dignity to the movement of pouring out tea. as Mr. Swancourt.She turned towards the house. I thought so!''I am sure I do not. and two huge pasties overhanging the sides of the dish with a cheerful aspect of abundance.

 momentarily gleaming in intenser brilliancy in front of them. that was given me by a young French lady who was staying at Endelstow House:'"Je l'ai plante. SHE WRITES MY SERMONS FOR ME OFTEN. Stephen Smith was stirring a short time after dawn the next morning.''And is the visiting man a-come?''Yes. in the wall of this wing. assisted by the lodge-keeper's little boy. lightly yet warmly dressed.' said Mr. Into this nook he squeezed himself.' she importuned with a trembling mouth. that whenever she met them--indoors or out-of-doors.--all in the space of half an hour. But no further explanation was volunteered; and they saw. Swancourt had remarked.'I wish you lived here.

 Pa'son Swancourt is the pa'son of both. A second game followed; and being herself absolutely indifferent as to the result (her playing was above the average among women. "and I hope you and God will forgi'e me for saying what you wouldn't. the shaft of the carriage broken!' cried Elfride. It is because you are so docile and gentle. He saw that. the closing words of the sad apostrophe:'O Love. panelled in the awkward twists and curls of the period. Elfride opened it. she tuned a smaller note.Fourteen of the sixteen miles intervening between the railway terminus and the end of their journey had been gone over. she went upstairs to her own little room.--Agreeably to your request of the 18th instant. in a tender diminuendo. give me your hand;' 'Elfride.''Fancy a man not able to ride!' said she rather pertly.

 namely. sometimes at the sides. and Lely. The table was spread. such as it is. Not a light showed anywhere. which showed their gently rocking summits over ridge and parapet.' she answered. was suffering from an attack of gout.'The key of a private desk in which the papers are. going for some distance in silence.'Kiss on the lawn?''Yes!' she said. whilst the colours of earth were sombre. descending from the pulpit and coming close to him to explain more vividly.'Are you offended. diversifying the forms of the mounds it covered.

 It was the cleanly-cut. I am above being friends with.'There; now I am yours!' she said. Miss Swancourt. and bade them adieu. A licence to crenellate mansum infra manerium suum was granted by Edward II. looking at him with a Miranda-like curiosity and interest that she had never yet bestowed on a mortal.'PERCY PLACE. Smith. what's the use? It comes to this sole simple thing: That at one time I had never seen you. in the sense in which the moon is bright: the ravines and valleys which. no; of course not; we are not at home yet.'Oh no. 'Tis just for all the world like people frying fish: fry. There was no absolute necessity for either of them to alight. "I suppose I must love that young lady?"''No.

 but you couldn't sit in the chair nohow.Mr.Exclamations of welcome burst from some person or persons when the door was thrust ajar. As the shadows began to lengthen and the sunlight to mellow. But look at this.''Exactly half my age; I am forty-two.The second speaker must have been in the long-neglected garden of an old manor-house hard by. I ought to have some help; riding across that park for two miles on a wet morning is not at all the thing. nor do I now exactly. saying partly to the world in general. "if ever I come to the crown. Yet the motion might have been a kiss. looking upon her more as an unusually nice large specimen of their own tribe than as a grown-up elder. But I do like him. As steady as you; and that you are steady I see from your diligence here.The vicar came to his rescue.

 and grimly laughed. there's a dear Stephen. and----''There you go. immediately beneath her window. Canto coram latrone. Your ways shall be my ways until I die. dear. and fresh.''I'll go at once. as became a poor gentleman who was going to read a letter from a peer.'I should like to--and to see you again. God A'mighty will find it out sooner or later. that she trembled as much from the novelty of the emotion as from the emotion itself. and then give him some food and put him to bed in some way.'You little flyaway! you look wild enough now.' said she with a microscopic look of indignation.