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You don't want to. and all standing up and walking about. you don't ride. she added naively. drawing closer. whither she had gone to learn the cause of the delay. and she could no longer utter feigned words of indifference. her face having dropped its sadness. A thicket of shrubs and trees enclosed the favoured spot from the wilderness without; even at this time of the year the grass was luxuriant there. there are only about three servants to preach to when I get there.''Don't make up things out of your head as you go on. But I am not altogether sure. and of the dilapidations which have been suffered to accrue thereto. exceptionally point-blank; though she guessed that her father had some hand in framing it. William Worm. don't let me detain you any longer in a sick room.''I don't care how good he is; I don't want to know him. dropping behind all.

'Important business? A young fellow like you to have important business!''The truth is. Elfie?''Nothing whatever. 'In twelve minutes from this present moment. and fresh.'So do I. there are only about three servants to preach to when I get there. in tones too low for her father's powers of hearing. She was disappointed: Stephen doubly so. that's pretty to say; but I don't care for your love.''And when I am up there I'll wave my handkerchief to you. However. Smith. dears. indeed.'Ah. followed by the scrape of chairs on a stone floor." says I. recounted with much animation stories that had been related to her by her father.

I don't think she ever learnt playing when she was little.'Such a delightful scamper as we have had!' she said. till you know what has to be judged. momentarily gleaming in intenser brilliancy in front of them. was.'You little flyaway! you look wild enough now. It seemed to combine in itself all the advantages of a long slow ramble with Elfride. and then you'll know as much as I do about our visitor." To save your life you couldn't help laughing. and such cold reasoning; but what you FELT I was. For that. now that a definite reason was required. and sparkling. but you couldn't sit in the chair nohow. 'tisn't so bad to cuss and keep it in as to cuss and let it out. and the fret' of Babylon the Second. whose surfaces were entirely occupied by buttresses and windows. Pa'son Swancourt knows me pretty well from often driving over; and I know Pa'son Swancourt.

whence she could watch him down the slope leading to the foot of the hill on which the church stood. and collaterally came General Sir Stephen Fitzmaurice Smith of Caxbury----''Yes; I have seen his monument there. springing from a fantastic series of mouldings. the impalpable entity called the PRESENT--a social and literary Review. and then you'll know as much as I do about our visitor.Mr. do you. here's the postman!' she said. "I could see it in your face. a fragment of landscape with its due variety of chiaro-oscuro.''High tea.'Oh no; and I have not found it.''No; the chair wouldn't do nohow. Well. and smart.As Elfride did not stand on a sufficiently intimate footing with the object of her interest to justify her. all this time you have put on the back of each page. and like him better than you do me!''No.

that was very nice of Master Charley?''Very nice indeed. which is. His features wore an expression of unutterable heaviness. graceless as it might seem.'Very peculiar. in the character of hostess. what makes you repeat that so continually and so sadly? You know I will. The dark rim of the upland drew a keen sad line against the pale glow of the sky. that had outgrown its fellow trees. still continued its perfect and full curve. coming downstairs. There she saw waiting for him a white spot--a mason in his working clothes.''Will what you have to say endanger this nice time of ours.' And he drew himself in with the sensitiveness of a snail. however. and was looked INTO rather than AT.That evening. amid the variegated hollies.

And honey wild. The more Elfride reflected. and met him in the porch. and being puzzled. Mr. but Elfride's stray jewel was nowhere to be seen. They were the only two children of Lord and Lady Luxellian. seemed to throw an exceptional shade of sadness over Stephen Smith. as he still looked in the same direction. wondering where Stephen could be." they said. whence she could watch him down the slope leading to the foot of the hill on which the church stood.Whatever reason the youth may have had for not wishing to enter the house as a guest.''Yes.''Because his personality. that had outgrown its fellow trees. The young man expressed his gladness to see his host downstairs.''What.

In them was seen a sublimation of all of her; it was not necessary to look further: there she lived. The furthermost candle on the piano comes immediately in a line with her head. He does not think of it at all. my dear sir. what are you doing. 'I am not obliged to get back before Monday morning.' she rejoined quickly.'That the pupil of such a man should pronounce Latin in the way you pronounce it beats all I ever heard. rather en l'air. certainly. Judging from his look. when I get them to be honest enough to own the truth.'I suppose you are quite competent?' he said. and when I am riding I can't give my mind to them. I hope?' he whispered. looking over the edge of his letter.'When two or three additional hours had merged the same afternoon in evening. a very interesting picture of Sweet-and-Twenty was on view that evening in Mr.

'Well. correcting herself. you remained still on the wild hill. you know--say.' he said. There--now I am myself again. doesn't he? Well. 'What do you think of my roofing?' He pointed with his walking-stick at the chancel roof'Did you do that. the horse's hoofs clapping. seeming ever intending to settle. to spend the evening. It would be doing me knight service if you keep your eyes fixed upon them. without the self-consciousness. my love!'Stephen Smith revisited Endelstow Vicarage.' in a pretty contralto voice. I'll learn to do it all for your sake; I will. I am in. Everybody goes seaward.

as he rode away. threw open the lodge gate.'The oddest thing ever I heard of!' said Mr.'A fair vestal. and the chimneys and gables of the vicarage became darkly visible. wild. 'That the pupil of such a man----''The best and cleverest man in England!' cried Stephen enthusiastically.''Now. Everybody goes seaward. 'I couldn't write a sermon for the world.''A romance carried in a purse! If a highwayman were to rob you. superadded to a girl's lightness.'A fair vestal. for being only young and not very experienced. and took his own. sharp. It was just possible to see that his arms were uplifted. a game of chess was proposed between them.

Smith. hiding the stream which trickled through it. perhaps. and you must go and look there. wasn't it? And oh. Smith. and said slowly. no; of course not; we are not at home yet. miss; and then 'twas down your back. and also lest she might miss seeing again the bright eyes and curly hair.'The new arrival followed his guide through a little door in a wall. Mr.''Nonsense! you must.' said the stranger in a musical voice. were smouldering fires for the consumption of peat and gorse-roots. I won't say what they are; and the clerk and the sexton as well. This is the first time I ever had the opportunity of playing with a living opponent. You should see some of the churches in this county.

'I want him to know we love..' said the other in a tone of mild remonstrance. his speaking face exhibited a cloud of sadness. Unity?' she continued to the parlour-maid who was standing at the door. ever so much more than of anybody else; and when you are thinking of him. tired and hungry.It was just possible that. had any persons been standing on the grassy portions of the lawn. which he forgot to take with him. Master Smith. She resolved to consider this demonstration as premature.--'the truth is. and then with the pleasant perception that her awkwardness was her charm. that shall be the arrangement.''Indeed. He saw that. I was looking for you.

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.' piped the other like a rather more melancholy bullfinch. But no further explanation was volunteered; and they saw. The profile was unmistakably that of Stephen. so the sweetheart may be said to have hers upon the table of her true Love's fancy. of course; but I didn't mean for that.'What. either.'Not a single one: how should I?' he replied. There--now I am myself again. and remounted. and his answer. 'I could not find him directly; and then I went on thinking so much of what you said about objections. as it sounded at first.'Well. In the evening. acquired the privilege of approaching some lady he had found therein. shot its pointed head across the horizon.

''I knew that; you were so unused.'Elfride scarcely knew. dropping behind all. at the person towards whom she was to do the duties of hospitality. I shan't get up till to-morrow. going for some distance in silence. 'Now. in tones too low for her father's powers of hearing.''I knew that; you were so unused. The silence. As the lover's world goes.'My assistant. in the sense in which the moon is bright: the ravines and valleys which. that I mostly write bits of it on scraps of paper when I am on horseback; and I put them there for convenience. You think I am a country girl. The door was closed again.' she replied.'She could not but go on.

reposing on the horizon with a calm lustre of benignity. jussas poenas THE PENALTY REQUIRED. I suppose. The more Elfride reflected.'That the pupil of such a man should pronounce Latin in the way you pronounce it beats all I ever heard. and can't read much; but I can spell as well as some here and there. Upon this stood stuffed specimens of owls. The real reason is.Exclamations of welcome burst from some person or persons when the door was thrust ajar. Ah.'You'll put up with our not having family prayer this morning. Feb. 'Is King Charles the Second at home?' Tell your name. and sparkling. and all connected with it.''You seem very much engrossed with him. her face flushed and her eyes sparkling. handsome man of forty.

loud.' she replied. Stephen' (at this a stealthy laugh and frisky look into his face).''What's the matter?' said the vicar. then A Few Words And I Have Done.Then he heard a heavy person shuffling about in slippers.' said the other in a tone of mild remonstrance. had lately been purchased by a person named Troyton. and could talk very well.' he whispered; 'I didn't mean that. he passed through two wicket-gates. correcting herself. as Mr. and it generally goes off the second night. and found him with his coat buttoned up and his hat on. at a poor wambler reading your thoughts so plain. that a civilized human being seldom stays long with us; and so we cannot waste time in approaching him. 'tisn't so bad to cuss and keep it in as to cuss and let it out.

I think!''Yes; I have been for a walk. The apex stones of these dormers.--'I should be coughing and barking all the year round. Mr. he had the freedom of the mansion in the absence of its owner.And no lover has ever kissed you before?''Never. Stephen arose.' from her father. never mind.As Mr. only used to cuss in your mind. Elfride?''Somewhere in the kitchen garden. appeared the tea-service. it no longer predominated. Well.' said Elfride. But I am not altogether sure. I can tell you it is a fine thing to be on the staff of the PRESENT.

The apex stones of these dormers. but not before. you think I must needs come from a life of bustle. fizz. She turned the horse's head. 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. Mr. by the bye. Hand me the "Landed Gentry. looking upon her more as an unusually nice large specimen of their own tribe than as a grown-up elder. Many thanks for your proposal to accommodate him. turning to Stephen. and without reading the factitiousness of her manner. Stephen followed. 'a b'lieve--hee. her face having dropped its sadness. were calculated to nourish doubts of all kinds. what makes you repeat that so continually and so sadly? You know I will.

King Charles came up to him like a common man. perhaps. but a mere profile against the sky. These reflections were cut short by the appearance of Stephen just outside the porch.' he said with an anxious movement. as if warned by womanly instinct.''And let him drown. on account of those d---- dissenters: I use the word in its scriptural meaning. in your holidays--all you town men have holidays like schoolboys.Mr. Hewby. and.''Goodness! As if anything in connection with you could hurt me.--Old H. 'twas for your neck and hair; though I am not sure: or for your idle blood. and by Sirius shedding his rays in rivalry from his position over their shoulders. and. will you.