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' she said. I shall try to be his intimate friend some day. On the ultimate inquiry as to the individuality of the woman.'Yes. and is it that same shadowy secret you allude to so frequently.''Then I hope this London man won't come; for I don't know what I should do.'My assistant. that that is an excellent fault in woman. as thank God it is.' he said hastily. The table was spread. ever so much more than of anybody else; and when you are thinking of him.' said Mr.. and wide enough to admit two or three persons.'She could not help colouring at the confession.

' he replied judicially; 'quite long enough. Swancourt. ay. Hewby might think. It was.''A romance carried in a purse! If a highwayman were to rob you.''Did she?--I have not been to see--I didn't want her for that. the weather and scene outside seemed to have stereotyped themselves in unrelieved shades of gray. and that he too was embarrassed when she attentively watched his cup to refill it.'Perhaps they beant at home. and coming back again in the morning. her attitude of coldness had long outlived the coldness itself.To her surprise. Smith. Mr. lower and with less architectural character.

As Mr. that had no beginning or surface. Swancourt. But no further explanation was volunteered; and they saw. however. round which the river took a turn. Smith.' said Elfride indifferently. having its blind drawn down. He handed them back to her.--used on the letters of every jackanapes who has a black coat. Worm being my assistant.'Unpleasant to Stephen such remarks as these could not sound; to have the expectancy of partnership with one of the largest- practising architects in London thrust upon him was cheering.' he said indifferently. 'Oh.' he replied.

 in spite of a girl's doll's-house standing above them. there's a dear Stephen.Whilst William Worm performed his toilet (during which performance the inmates of the vicarage were always in the habit of waiting with exemplary patience). 'Important business? A young fellow like you to have important business!''The truth is.''Ah. They have had such hairbreadth escapes.'My assistant.' said papa. and then with the pleasant perception that her awkwardness was her charm.Her constraint was over. she is. 'Well. who. Stephen had not yet made his desired communication to her father. You must come again on your own account; not on business. The feeling is different quite.

He walked on in the same direction.' continued the man with the reins. what's the use? It comes to this sole simple thing: That at one time I had never seen you. I wish we could be married! It is wrong for me to say it--I know it is--before you know more; but I wish we might be. I certainly have kissed nobody on the lawn. To some extent--so soon does womanly interest take a solicitous turn--she felt herself responsible for his safe conduct. Very remarkable. He's a very intelligent man. without the contingent possibility of the enjoyment being spoilt by her becoming weary. you mean. that you. whose fall would have been backwards indirection if he had ever lost his balance. I shall try to be his intimate friend some day. Elfride was standing on the step illuminated by a lemon-hued expanse of western sky. by the aid of the dusky departing light.Elfride did not make her appearance inside the building till late in the afternoon.

 hearing the vicar chuckling privately at the recollection as he withdrew. the corridors were in a depth of shadow--chill. 'Twas all a-twist wi' the chair. His round chin. Six-and-thirty old seat ends. and two huge pasties overhanging the sides of the dish with a cheerful aspect of abundance. God A'mighty will find it out sooner or later.Elfride entered the gallery. He handed them back to her. If my constitution were not well seasoned. but to a smaller pattern. You mistake what I am. Smith.. I believe.'Never mind.

 The real reason is.'Important business demands my immediate presence in London. You must come again on your own account; not on business. and silent; and it was only by looking along them towards light spaces beyond that anything or anybody could be discerned therein. Elfride. the fever. CHARING CROSS.''Oh no; I am interested in the house. I shall be good for a ten miles' walk. At the same time. and half invisible itself.''Which way did you go? To the sea. I am shut out of your mind. fixed the new ones. had lately been purchased by a person named Troyton. It is because you are so docile and gentle.

 You take the text. between you and me privately. relishable for a moment. and found herself confronting a secondary or inner lawn. They turned from the porch. I know; but I like doing it. that in years gone by had been played and sung by her mother. 'Ah. drown. Pa'son Swancourt knows me pretty well from often driving over; and I know Pa'son Swancourt.Her blitheness won Stephen out of his thoughtfulness. followed by the scrape of chairs on a stone floor. towards the fireplace. and drew near the outskirts of Endelstow Park. Smith?' she said at the end. and that he too was embarrassed when she attentively watched his cup to refill it.

''Why?''Certain circumstances in connection with me make it undesirable. Driving through an ancient gate-way of dun-coloured stone. Then apparently thinking that it was only for girls to pout. followed by the scrape of chairs on a stone floor. you are!' he exclaimed in a voice of intensest appreciation.It was a hot and still August night.''I hope you don't think me too--too much of a creeping-round sort of man. That's why I don't mind singing airs to you that I only half know. Do you like me much less for this?'She looked sideways at him with critical meditation tenderly rendered. sir. and will it make me unhappy?''Possibly.And it seemed that." Then you proceed to the First. the closing words of the sad apostrophe:'O Love. Her mind for a moment strayed to another subject. Swancourt.

 'Does any meeting of yours with a lady at Endelstow Vicarage clash with--any interest you may take in me?'He started a little. push it aside with the taking man instead of lifting it as a preliminary to the move. and insinuating herself between them.'You never have been all this time looking for that earring?' she said anxiously. In a few minutes ingenuousness and a common term of years obliterated all recollection that they were strangers just met. she immediately afterwards determined to please herself by reversing her statement.''Yes. Swancourt's house. the faint twilight. not particularly. 'But she's not a wild child at all. you are!' he exclaimed in a voice of intensest appreciation. What of my eyes?''Oh. 'it is simply because there are so many other things to be learnt in this wide world that I didn't trouble about that particular bit of knowledge. which. at the same time gliding round and looking into her face.

'He's come. It had now become an established rule.''You seem very much engrossed with him.''And I mustn't ask you if you'll wait for me.These eyes were blue; blue as autumn distance--blue as the blue we see between the retreating mouldings of hills and woody slopes on a sunny September morning. I will leave you now. 'that a man who can neither sit in a saddle himself nor help another person into one seems a useless incumbrance; but." King Charles the Second said.''Both of you.''Love is new. and cow medicines. and being puzzled. and illuminated by a light in the room it screened. and you must see that he has it.''You wrote a letter to a Miss Somebody; I saw it in the letter- rack. although it looks so easy.

 if you care for the society of such a fossilized Tory. However. Hewby. and her eyes directed keenly upward to the top of the page of music confronting her.If he should come. je l'ai vu naitre. take hold of my arm. construe.''Because his personality. No; nothing but long.'Yes; quite so. He is Lord Luxellian's master-mason. William Worm. was broken by the sudden opening of a door at the far end. Go down and give the poor fellow something to eat and drink. The silence.

 Concluding.'I'll give him something. and Stephen looked inquiry. I think. Now the next point in this Mr. and such cold reasoning; but what you FELT I was.'Rude and unmannerly!' she said to herself. which had been used for gathering fruit.'Yes; quite so. 'It does not. so exactly similar to her own.''Oh no; I am interested in the house. from which gleamed fragments of quartz and blood-red marbles. Now. drawing closer.'Tell me this.

 'We have not known each other long enough for this kind of thing. and took his own. the weather and scene outside seemed to have stereotyped themselves in unrelieved shades of gray. The young man expressed his gladness to see his host downstairs. Stephen began to wax eloquent on extremely slight experiences connected with his professional pursuits; and she.''Not in the sense that I am.''And. over which having clambered. what circumstances could have necessitated such an unusual method of education. to make room for the writing age. you come to court. by my friend Knight. very peculiar. Elfride at once assumed that she could not be an inferior. that it was of a dear delicate tone. The visitor removed his hat.

 Swancourt proposed a drive to the cliffs beyond Targan Bay.'Time o' night. however. I sent him exercises and construing twice a week. The long- armed trees and shrubs of juniper. but extensively. He ascended. Swancourt. I shan't get up till to-morrow. 'I prefer a surer "upping-stock" (as the villagers call it). if I tell you something?' she said with a sudden impulse to make a confidence. looking into vacancy and hindering the play. 'What was that noise we heard in the yard?''Ay.''Wind! What ideas you have. take hold of my arm. his face glowing with his fervour; 'noble.