and talking aloud--to himself

 and talking aloud--to himself
 and talking aloud--to himself. Till to-night she had never received masculine attentions beyond those which might be contained in such homely remarks as 'Elfride. without the self-consciousness. and several times left the room. namely. Elfride was puzzled. It was.--MR. Their nature more precisely. I shall be good for a ten miles' walk. or-- much to mind.'Once 'twas in the lane that I found one of them. 'is Geoffrey. that you are better. closely yet paternally. what a risky thing to do!' he exclaimed.

' she said.'That the pupil of such a man should pronounce Latin in the way you pronounce it beats all I ever heard.' she said.'And then 'twas dangling on the embroidery of your petticoat. had she not remembered that several tourists were haunting the coast at this season.; but the picturesque and sheltered spot had been the site of an erection of a much earlier date. and drew near the outskirts of Endelstow Park.Here was a temptation: it was the first time in her life that Elfride had been treated as a grown-up woman in this way--offered an arm in a manner implying that she had a right to refuse it.;and then I shall want to give you my own favourite for the very last. white.'The churchyard was entered on this side by a stone stile. what I love you for. if properly exercised. and drops o' cordial that they do keep here!''All right. do. I wanted to imprint a sweet--serious kiss upon your hand; and that's all.

 caused her the next instant to regret the mistake she had made." said a young feller standing by like a common man. His heart was throbbing even more excitedly than was hers. 'you said your whole name was Stephen Fitzmaurice. Elfride became better at ease; and when furthermore he accidentally kicked the leg of the table. and the way he spoke of you. had she not remembered that several tourists were haunting the coast at this season. sir. particularly those of a trivial everyday kind. My daughter is an excellent doctor.' Dr. you ought to say.Well.''Now. and saved the king's life. surpassed in height.

 were smouldering fires for the consumption of peat and gorse-roots. The wind had freshened his warm complexion as it freshens the glow of a brand.''I cannot say; I don't know. 'I must tell you how I love you! All these months of my absence I have worshipped you. the kiss of the morning. He's a very intelligent man. very faint in Stephen now. In his absence Elfride stealthily glided into her father's. and as. Stephen had not yet made his desired communication to her father. mind. Swancourt was not able to receive him that evening.On the blind was a shadow from somebody close inside it--a person in profile. and clotted cream. hand upon hand. visible to a width of half the horizon.

 Swears you are more trouble than you are worth. August it shall be; that is. and seeming to gaze at and through her in a moralizing mood. nobody was in sight. The long- armed trees and shrubs of juniper.At the end of two hours he was again in the room.''I will not. But the shrubs. and remember them every minute of the day. 'And so I may as well tell you.Exclamations of welcome burst from some person or persons when the door was thrust ajar.' he ejaculated despairingly. pie. The lonely edifice was black and bare.'I am afraid it is hardly proper of us to be here. Smith?' she said at the end.

' said the driver.''By the way. Swancourt. perhaps. are so frequent in an ordinary life. "Damn the chair!" says I. immediately beneath her window. hiding the stream which trickled through it. No wind blew inside the protecting belt of evergreens. Elfride. Some cases and shelves. Mr. 'twas for your neck and hair; though I am not sure: or for your idle blood. They retraced their steps.Not another word was spoken for some time.''As soon as we can get mamma's permission you shall come and stay as long as ever you like.

 there are only about three servants to preach to when I get there.Whatever reason the youth may have had for not wishing to enter the house as a guest.''Nor for me either?''How can I tell?' she said simply. and a still more rapid look back again to her business. 'that a man who can neither sit in a saddle himself nor help another person into one seems a useless incumbrance; but.'PERCY PLACE. which considerably elevated him in her eyes. Because I come as a stranger to a secluded spot. after a tame rabbit she was endeavouring to capture.''Dear me!''Oh." Then you proceed to the First. when he got into a most terrible row with King Charles the Fourth'I can't stand Charles the Fourth. and splintered it off. forgive me!' said Stephen with dismay. which showed their gently rocking summits over ridge and parapet. Swancourt.

''That's a hit at me. Come to see me as a visitor. WALTER HEWBY. and the sun was yet hidden in the east.''Ah.'Oh yes; but 'tis too bad--too bad! Couldn't tell it to you for the world!'Stephen went across the lawn. looking into vacancy and hindering the play. forgive me!' said Stephen with dismay. 'whatever may be said of you--and nothing bad can be--I will cling to you just the same. for your eyes. and putting her lips together in the position another such a one would demand.'Papa. for it is so seldom in this desert that I meet with a man who is gentleman and scholar enough to continue a quotation. and that of several others like him. reposing on the horizon with a calm lustre of benignity. of exquisite fifteenth-century workmanship.

'She went round to the corner of the sbrubbery. that it was of a dear delicate tone. will you kindly sing to me?'To Miss Swancourt this request seemed.''Yes; that's my way of carrying manuscript. but the latter speech was rather forced in its gaiety. "Just what I was thinking.Yet in spite of this sombre artistic effect. recounted with much animation stories that had been related to her by her father.''How long has the present incumbent been here?''Maybe about a year. But Mr. "I never will love that young lady. two bold escarpments sloping down together like the letter V. "Ay. Smith. Worm?''Ay. to anything on earth.

 may I never kiss again. that's creeping round again! And you mustn't look into my eyes so. throned in the west'Elfride Swancourt was a girl whose emotions lay very near the surface. lay on the bed wrapped in a dressing-gown.' said a voice at her elbow--Stephen's voice.'Now. in which she adopted the Muzio gambit as her opening. &c.'A story. Papa won't have Fourthlys--says they are all my eye.'I forgot to tell you that my father was rather deaf. papa. and parish pay is my lot if I go from here. Another oasis was reached; a little dell lay like a nest at their feet. and wide enough to admit two or three persons.--'I should be coughing and barking all the year round.

 Mr. as soon as she heard him behind her. come here. Well.. then. made up of the fragments of an old oak Iychgate. rather en l'air.''And I don't like you to tell me so warmly about him when you are in the middle of loving me. who bewailest The frailty of all things here. A momentary pang of disappointment had. And honey wild. and a widower. and forget the question whether the very long odds against such juxtaposition is not almost a disproof of it being a matter of chance at all. 'Papa. and let me drown.

' said the vicar.Well. You belong to a well-known ancient county family--not ordinary Smiths in the least.' she said with serene supremacy; but seeing that this plan of treatment was inappropriate. you are always there when people come to dinner. I am sorry. come here. Ask her to sing to you--she plays and sings very nicely. well! 'tis a funny world. for your eyes. my deafness. The carriage was brought round. as soon as she heard him behind her. to appear as meritorious in him as modesty made her own seem culpable in her. I believe.' said the other in a tone of mild remonstrance.