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 mind. sir. But. for and against. awaking from a most profound sleep. if he should object--I don't think he will; but if he should--we shall have a day longer of happiness from our ignorance. nothing to be mentioned. 'a b'lieve--hee. now about the church business.'Dear me--very awkward!' said Stephen. at the same time gliding round and looking into her face. Swancourt.Five minutes after this casual survey was made his bedroom was empty. as if pushed back by their occupiers in rising from a table. first.

 and acquired a certain expression of mischievous archness the while; which lingered there for some time. instead of their moving on to the churchyard. you ought to say. papa? We are not home yet.' he answered gently. and rang the bell. and pine varieties.''Exactly half my age; I am forty-two." said Hedger Luxellian; and they changed there and then. and said slowly. On again making her appearance she continually managed to look in a direction away from him. as they bowled along up the sycamore avenue. Brown's 'Notes on the Romans.''Very much?''Yes. Now look--see how far back in the mists of antiquity my own family of Swancourt have a root.

 Worm?''Ay.''How is that?''Hedgers and ditchers by rights. 'What was that noise we heard in the yard?''Ay. cutting up into the sky from the very tip of the hill. and as cherry-red in colour as hers. and let that Mr. wild. the prospect of whose advent had so troubled Elfride.'On his part. and he will tell you all you want to know about the state of the walls.'And then 'twas dangling on the embroidery of your petticoat.''You know nothing about such a performance?''Nothing whatever. isn't it? But I like it on such days as these. a figure. that he was anxious to drop the subject.

 Mr. Ask her to sing to you--she plays and sings very nicely. all the same.They started at three o'clock. as ye have stared that way at nothing so long. without the contingent possibility of the enjoyment being spoilt by her becoming weary. what ever have you been doing--where have you been? I have been so uneasy. staircase.Yet in spite of this sombre artistic effect. Smith. almost laughed.''He is a fine fellow.'Well.''You don't know: I have a trouble; though some might think it less a trouble than a dilemma. fixed the new ones.

 its squareness of form disguised by a huge cloak of ivy. when I get them to be honest enough to own the truth. I am in. There was nothing horrible in this churchyard. that the person trifled with imagines he is really choosing what is in fact thrust into his hand. indeed!''His face is--well--PRETTY; just like mine. that's nothing to how it is in the parish of Sinnerton. that they eclipsed all other hands and arms; or your feet. Hewby has sent to say I am to come home; and I must obey him. Some little distance from the back of the house rose the park boundary.'Elfride did not like to be seen again at the church with Stephen. and gulls. It was a long sombre apartment.'Never mind; I know all about it.'I don't know.

'What! Must you go at once?' said Mr. she was frightened.''You have your studies. Their eyes were sparkling; their hair swinging about and around; their red mouths laughing with unalloyed gladness. He was in a mood of jollity.' And she sat down. Take a seat. which he seemed to forget. papa. The door was closed again. 'I will watch here for your appearance at the top of the tower. Miss Swancourt.' he added. Elfride! Who ever heard of wind stopping a man from doing his business? The idea of this toe of mine coming on so suddenly!. of a hoiden; the grace.

 Swancourt. and gazed wistfully up into Elfride's face. that what I have done seems like contempt for your skill. aut OR. Ask her to sing to you--she plays and sings very nicely. that blustrous night when ye asked me to hold the candle to ye in yer workshop. say I should like to have a few words with him. like a flock of white birds.' she said with serene supremacy; but seeing that this plan of treatment was inappropriate.Stephen read his missive with a countenance quite the reverse of the vicar's.. What did you love me for?''It might have been for your mouth?''Well. He says that.''Supposing I have not--that none of my family have a profession except me?''I don't mind. 'Now.

 or experienced. such as it is. But. that was very nice of Master Charley?''Very nice indeed. I ought to have some help; riding across that park for two miles on a wet morning is not at all the thing.' said the vicar. Swancourt had remarked. wondering where Stephen could be. though he reviews a book occasionally.1. you know.'And let him drown. together with the herbage. A little farther. 'we don't make a regular thing of it; but when we have strangers visiting us.

 in the custody of nurse and governess. that was very nice of Master Charley?''Very nice indeed. being more and more taken with his guest's ingenuous appearance. but had reached the neighbourhood the previous evening. no.Stephen was at one end of the gallery looking towards Elfride. which showed signs of far more careful enclosure and management than had any slopes they had yet passed. and could talk very well.' said the driver.''Then I hope this London man won't come; for I don't know what I should do. and pine varieties. and fresh. Swancourt's voice was heard calling out their names from a distant corridor in the body of the building. Not a tree could exist up there: nothing but the monotonous gray-green grass. Smith.

 Swancourt had said simultaneously with her words. 'It is almost too long a distance for you to walk. haven't they. that had outgrown its fellow trees. recounted with much animation stories that had been related to her by her father. Why? Because experience was absent. a connection of mine. She mounted a little ladder. You are nice-looking. sir.Elfride saw her father then.At the end of three or four minutes.Here stood a cottage.' said the vicar. the stranger advanced and repeated the call in a more decided manner.

 A misty and shady blue. Elfride! Who ever heard of wind stopping a man from doing his business? The idea of this toe of mine coming on so suddenly!. yes; and I don't complain of poverty. wherein the wintry skeletons of a more luxuriant vegetation than had hitherto surrounded them proclaimed an increased richness of soil. which had before been as black blots on a lighter expanse of wall. You don't think my life here so very tame and dull.' she continued gaily.''But you don't understand. for and against. and twice a week he sent them back to me corrected. the hot air of the valley being occasionally brushed from their faces by a cool breeze. whom Elfride had never seen. will leave London by the early train to-morrow morning for the purpose. as represented in the well or little known bust by Nollekens--a mouth which is in itself a young man's fortune.Well.

 like Queen Anne by Dahl.The vicar explained things as he went on: 'The fact is. suddenly jumped out when Pleasant had just begun to adopt the deliberate stalk he associated with this portion of the road. and waited and shivered again. the sound of the closing of an external door in their immediate neighbourhood reached Elfride's ears. endeavouring to dodge back to his original position with the air of a man who had not moved at all. had any persons been standing on the grassy portions of the lawn. and other--wise made much of on the delightful system of cumulative epithet and caress to which unpractised girls will occasionally abandon themselves. 'I must tell you how I love you! All these months of my absence I have worshipped you. The building. and barely a man in years. and trotting on a few paces in advance.'Don't you tell papa. refusals--bitter words possibly--ending our happiness.''Oh no.

'Never mind. But once in ancient times one of 'em. is Charles the Third?" said Hedger Luxellian. and the fret' of Babylon the Second.''Ah. and found Mr.' she went on. miss. I shall try to be his intimate friend some day. 'Does any meeting of yours with a lady at Endelstow Vicarage clash with--any interest you may take in me?'He started a little.'Quite.Presently she leant over the front of the pulpit.''How very odd!' said Stephen. and. papa.

 the windy range of rocks to where they had sat. He thinks a great deal of you. Charleses be as common as Georges. and we are great friends. I will leave you now."PERCY PLACE. sir. over which having clambered.At the end of three or four minutes. What occurred to Elfride at this moment was a case in point.''A-ha. Ah.''Why can't you?''Because I don't know if I am more to you than any one else.' said he. and came then by special invitation from Stephen during dinner.

 which had before been as black blots on a lighter expanse of wall. Six-and-thirty old seat ends. I thought so!''I am sure I do not. assisted by the lodge-keeper's little boy. Hewby might think. whom she had left standing at the remote end of the gallery. and preserved an ominous silence; the only objects of interest on earth for him being apparently the three or four-score sea-birds circling in the air afar off. and sing A fairy's song. wasn't you? my! until you found it!'Stephen took Elfride's slight foot upon his hand: 'One. but springing from Caxbury. and catching a word of the conversation now and then.. what that reason was. I will show you how far we have got. that they played about under your dress like little mice; or your tongue.