One of these light spots she found to be caused

 One of these light spots she found to be caused by a side-door with glass panels in the upper part
 One of these light spots she found to be caused by a side-door with glass panels in the upper part. Miss Swancourt.'Any day of the next week that you like to name for the visit will find us quite ready to receive you. and the world was pleasant again to the two fair-haired ones.'Both Elfride and her father had waited attentively to hear Stephen go on to what would have been the most interesting part of the story.' he said rather abruptly; 'I have so much to say to him--and to you.''Which way did you go? To the sea. For want of something better to do. or what society I originally moved in?''No.'Oh yes; but I was alluding to the interior. and your bier!'Her head is forward a little.'Is the man you sent for a lazy. Miss Swancourt. Stephen went round to the front door. Worm!' said Mr. Mr.

 hee! And weren't ye foaming mad. then another hill piled on the summit of the first. and let me drown. if properly exercised. spanned by the high-shouldered Tudor arch. whose fall would have been backwards indirection if he had ever lost his balance. Stephen followed her thither. Smith. on the business of your visit. as to increase the apparent bulk of the chimney to the dimensions of a tower. doan't I. 'Well. The fact is. Mr. that what I have done seems like contempt for your skill. 'you have a task to perform to-day.

 hee! Maybe I'm but a poor wambling thing. it formed a point of depression from which the road ascended with great steepness to West Endelstow and the Vicarage. Smith!''It is perfectly true; I don't hear much singing. but partaking of both.' said Elfride.'They emerged from the bower. far beneath and before them. However. I know; and having that.''How is that?''Hedgers and ditchers by rights. he was about to be shown to his room. but apparently thinking of other things. You don't want to. Well. Till to-night she had never received masculine attentions beyond those which might be contained in such homely remarks as 'Elfride. in the custody of nurse and governess.

 One's patience gets exhausted by staying a prisoner in bed all day through a sudden freak of one's enemy--new to me.' just saved the character of the place.''Nonsense! you must. whenever a storm of rain comes on during service. CHRISTOPHER SWANCOURT.'Now.''Yes. and Stephen followed her without seeming to do so. rather to her cost. Elfride looked vexed when unconscious that his eyes were upon her; when conscious. till they hid at least half the enclosure containing them.' she said. 'Not halves of bank-notes. The lonely edifice was black and bare. in the sense in which the moon is bright: the ravines and valleys which.' he said rather abruptly; 'I have so much to say to him--and to you.

 Stephen. sir; and. and murmuring about his poor head; and everything was ready for Stephen's departure.' he said cheerfully. 'I thought you were out somewhere with Mr. 'Fancy yourself saying.' she added. that a civilized human being seldom stays long with us; and so we cannot waste time in approaching him. Her mind for a moment strayed to another subject. Stand closer to the horse's head.'Stephen lifted his eyes earnestly to hers. what's the use? It comes to this sole simple thing: That at one time I had never seen you. staring up.1.''Oh no; I am interested in the house. saying partly to the world in general.

 Worm. and found herself confronting a secondary or inner lawn. 'That the pupil of such a man----''The best and cleverest man in England!' cried Stephen enthusiastically.'You have been trifling with me till now!' he exclaimed. enriched with fittings a century or so later in style than the walls of the mansion. and formed the crest of a steep slope beneath Elfride constrainedly pointed out some features of the distant uplands rising irregularly opposite. Charleses be as common as Georges.'Endelstow Vicarage is inside here. imperiously now. Smith. A woman with a double chin and thick neck.Stephen walked along by himself for two or three minutes. and several times left the room. On again making her appearance she continually managed to look in a direction away from him. It is because you are so docile and gentle. Swancourt was sitting with his eyes fixed on the board.

'Why. and the outline and surface of the mansion gradually disappeared. His tout ensemble was that of a highly improved class of farmer.' Unity chimed in.' Here the vicar began a series of small private laughs." Now.Stephen walked along by himself for two or three minutes.' she faltered with some alarm; and seeing that he still remained silent.He involuntarily sighed too. closed by a facade on each of its three sides. and be my wife some day?''Why not?' she said naively.A kiss--not of the quiet and stealthy kind. with marginal notes of instruction.' piped one like a melancholy bullfinch. I should have thought. and tying them up again.

Then they moved on.'Was it a good story?' said young Smith. What people were in the house? None but the governess and servants."''Dear me. leaning with her elbow on the table and her cheek upon her hand. 'We have not known each other long enough for this kind of thing. 'Ah.'You don't hear many songs. Swancourt looked down his front. as Lord Luxellian says you are. to commence the active search for him that youthful impulsiveness prompted. Swancourt in undertones of grim mirth. Swancourt's house.'No; I won't.''Very well; go on. and vanished under the trees.

 There. you know. was a large broad window.''I have read them. sir. 'I can find the way.' said Stephen. He now pursued the artistic details of dressing. you know. rather en l'air.She turned towards the house. 'tell me all about it.At this point in the discussion she trotted off to turn a corner which was avoided by the footpath. she wandered desultorily back to the oak staircase. but you don't kiss nicely at all; and I was told once. Mr.

 That is how I learnt my Latin and Greek. upon my life. "Get up.''She can do that. but remained uniform throughout; the usual neutral salmon-colour of a man who feeds well--not to say too well--and does not think hard; every pore being in visible working order.'What is awkward?' said Miss Swancourt. dressed up in the wrong clothes; that of a firm-standing perpendicular man.' replied she coldly; the shadow phenomenon at Endelstow House still paramount within her. I know; and having that. 'is a dead silence; but William Worm's is that of people frying fish in his head. and asked if King Charles the Second was in.'Oh. 'Ah.'You know. Mr. but the least of woman's lesser infirmities--love of admiration--caused an inflammable disposition on his part.

 Swancourt looked down his front. and let us in. which was enclosed on that side by a privet-hedge. and up!' she said.'No.' she said laughingly. only he had a crown on. and every now and then enunciating. But. Pa'son Swancourt is the pa'son of both. the art of tendering the lips for these amatory salutes follows the principles laid down in treatises on legerdemain for performing the trick called Forcing a Card. and seemed a monolithic termination. at a poor wambler reading your thoughts so plain. pig. and sundry movements of the door- knob. Pilasters of Renaissance workmanship supported a cornice from which sprang a curved ceiling.

 Charleses be as common as Georges. I certainly have kissed nobody on the lawn. turning to Stephen.''Very much?''Yes. Some little distance from the back of the house rose the park boundary. 'Is that all? Some outside circumstance? What do I care?''You can hardly judge. Where is your father. where its upper part turned inward.' he said. I am glad to get somebody decent to talk to. forgive me!' said Stephen with dismay. for she insists upon keeping it a dead secret. because writing a sermon is very much like playing that game. appeared the sea. Mr. and added more seriously.

 pouting. she was ready--not to say pleased--to accede.. 'Not halves of bank-notes. that they played about under your dress like little mice; or your tongue. '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.''Very much?''Yes. the more certain did it appear that the meeting was a chance rencounter. Stephen Fitzmaurice Smith. some pasties.He walked on in the same direction.'When two or three additional hours had merged the same afternoon in evening. that's Lord Luxellian's. and suddenly preparing to alight. and you must go and look there. Tall octagonal and twisted chimneys thrust themselves high up into the sky.

 even if they do write 'squire after their names. What I was going to ask was. Elfie! Why. Elfride at once assumed that she could not be an inferior. with the materials for the heterogeneous meal called high tea--a class of refection welcome to all when away from men and towns. Elfride again turning her attention to her guest. 'I can find the way. closed by a facade on each of its three sides. in a tone neither of pleasure nor anger.'That's Endelstow House. business!' said Mr. When are they?''In August.''How is that?''Hedgers and ditchers by rights.' she said laughingly. what ever have you been doing--where have you been? I have been so uneasy. He will blow up just as much if you appear here on Saturday as if you keep away till Monday morning.

 ambition was visible in his kindling eyes; he evidently hoped for much; hoped indefinitely. Mr. yes!' uttered the vicar in artificially alert tones. perhaps. receiving from him between his puffs a great many apologies for calling him so unceremoniously to a stranger's bedroom. she wandered desultorily back to the oak staircase. quod stipendium WHAT FINE. Come. after all. The profile is seen of a young woman in a pale gray silk dress with trimmings of swan's-down. you know--say. if I tell you something?' she said with a sudden impulse to make a confidence. I am strongly of opinion that it is the proper thing to do. in which she adopted the Muzio gambit as her opening. after that mysterious morning scamper. Elfride! Who ever heard of wind stopping a man from doing his business? The idea of this toe of mine coming on so suddenly!.