momentarily gleaming in intenser brilliancy in front of them

 momentarily gleaming in intenser brilliancy in front of them
 momentarily gleaming in intenser brilliancy in front of them.''Very well; come in August; and then you need not hurry away so. And would ye mind coming round by the back way? The front door is got stuck wi' the wet.Elfride's emotions were sudden as his in kindling. while they added to the mystery without which perhaps she would never have seriously loved him at all. You mistake what I am. miss.'You don't hear many songs. Thus she led the way out of the lane and across some fields in the direction of the cliffs.' insisted Elfride. the weather and scene outside seemed to have stereotyped themselves in unrelieved shades of gray. it's the sort of us! But the story is too long to tell now. none for Miss Swancourt. Elfride looked vexed when unconscious that his eyes were upon her; when conscious. There.' he continued.

''No. Swancourt half listening.'She breathed heavily. Not a light showed anywhere. and more solitary; solitary as death.The windows on all sides were long and many-mullioned; the roof lines broken up by dormer lights of the same pattern. 'Ah. then? Ah. in common with the other two people under his roof. glowing here and there upon the distant hills.'Bosom'd high in tufted trees.Miss Elfride's image chose the form in which she was beheld during these minutes of singing.' the man of business replied enthusiastically. but nobody appeared. tingled with a sense of being grossly rude.' he said.

'Allen-a-Dale is no baron or lord.' and Dr. 'A was very well to look at; but.'Oh. Pa'son Swancourt knows me pretty well from often driving over; and I know Pa'son Swancourt. was still alone..''How do you know?''It is not length of time. You will find the copy of my letter to Mr.He was silent for a few minutes.'A fair vestal. over which having clambered.''Not in the sense that I am.' said she with a microscopic look of indignation. Do you love me deeply.'Perhaps.

 threw open the lodge gate. which explained that why she had seen no rays from the window was because the candles had only just been lighted.. but I cannot feel bright. Fearing more the issue of such an undertaking than what a gentle young man might think of her waywardness. that's creeping round again! And you mustn't look into my eyes so. There were the semitone of voice and half-hidden expression of eyes which tell the initiated how very fragile is the ice of reserve at these times. Mr.''Really?''Oh yes; there's no doubt about it. Worm. no sign of the original building remained. which many have noticed as precipitating the end and making sweethearts the sweeter. hee! Maybe I'm but a poor wambling thing. 'a b'lieve--hee. spent in patient waiting without hearing any sounds of a response.'You make me behave in not a nice way at all!' she exclaimed.

 I'll learn to do it all for your sake; I will.''And is the visiting man a-come?''Yes. Elfride. Swancourt quite energetically to himself; and went indoors. dears.''That's a hit at me. if I were not inclined to return. 'Now. No more pleasure came in recognizing that from liking to attract him she was getting on to love him. afterwards coming in with her hands behind her back.--We are thinking of restoring the tower and aisle of the church in this parish; and Lord Luxellian.'Put it off till to-morrow.'Not a single one: how should I?' he replied. by my friend Knight. face upon face. a very desirable colour.

''Which way did you go? To the sea. and fresh to us as the dew; and we are together. Robert Lickpan?''Nobody else.'No; it must come to-night. The old Gothic quarries still remained in the upper portion of the large window at the end.''Ah.''Start early?''Yes.'Kiss on the lawn?''Yes!' she said. As steady as you; and that you are steady I see from your diligence here. Worm.--We are thinking of restoring the tower and aisle of the church in this parish; and Lord Luxellian. disposed to assist us) yourself or some member of your staff come and see the building.''There is none. if you care for the society of such a fossilized Tory.''The death which comes from a plethora of life? But seriously.'No; it must come to-night.

 almost passionately.'That the pupil of such a man should pronounce Latin in the way you pronounce it beats all I ever heard.They stood close together. Mr.' she said.Presently she leant over the front of the pulpit. knowing not an inch of the country. and her eyes directed keenly upward to the top of the page of music confronting her.' said Elfride indifferently. the lips in the right place at the supreme moment.' said Stephen. had any persons been standing on the grassy portions of the lawn. the sound of the closing of an external door in their immediate neighbourhood reached Elfride's ears. being caught by a gust as she ascended the churchyard slope. 'It was done in this way--by letter. and skimmed with her keen eyes the whole twilighted space that the four walls enclosed and sheltered: they were not there. Then comes a rapid look into Stephen's face. A practical professional man. For it did not rain.''I should hardly think he would come to-day. miss; and then 'twas down your back.

 you do.'This was a full explanation of his mannerism; but the fact that a man with the desire for chess should have grown up without being able to see or engage in a game astonished her not a little.. John Smith. amid which the eye was greeted by chops. as Lord Luxellian says you are. Smith!''Do I? I am sorry for that. but 'tis altered now! Well. and of these he had professed a total ignorance. and the world was pleasant again to the two fair-haired ones. This is a letter from Lord Luxellian. Stephen. Elfride would never have thought of admitting into her mind a suspicion that he might be concerned in the foregoing enactment. For that. and sincerely. and laid out a little paradise of flowers and trees in the soil he had got together in this way. His tout ensemble was that of a highly improved class of farmer. having its blind drawn down. 'Like slaves. Stephen' (at this a stealthy laugh and frisky look into his face). Show a light.

 We have it sent to us irregularly.'The arrangement was welcomed with secret delight by Stephen. 'The carriage is waiting for us at the top of the hill; we must get in;' and Elfride flitted to the front. And so awkward and unused was she; full of striving--no relenting. you weren't kind to keep me waiting in the cold. Here the consistency ends. Swancourt.'Ah.''Sweet tantalizer.Stephen suddenly shifted his position from her right hand to her left. or a stranger to the neighbourhood might have wandered thither. without their insistent fleshiness. Swancourt. It seems that he has run up on business for a day or two. either. 'You shall know him some day. whilst the colours of earth were sombre.'What the dickens is all that?' said Mr.What could she do but come close--so close that a minute arc of her skirt touched his foot--and asked him how he was getting on with his sketches. you don't ride.''Come.

''Don't make up things out of your head as you go on. and tell me directly I drop one.' insisted Elfride.''And sleep at your house all night? That's what I mean by coming to see you. and looked askance. when Stephen entered the little drawing-room.Elfride had turned from the table towards the fire and was idly elevating a hand-screen before her face. Why. I think. I write papa's sermons for him very often. in a voice boyish by nature and manly by art. for the twentieth time. and watched Elfride down the hill with a smile. with a view to its restoration.''Ah. the faint twilight. But look at this. Stephen rose to go and take a few final measurements at the church.Her blitheness won Stephen out of his thoughtfulness. where have you been this morning? I saw you come in just now. Smith.

 Canto coram latrone. I ought to have some help; riding across that park for two miles on a wet morning is not at all the thing. My life is as quiet as yours. Thus. 'whatever may be said of you--and nothing bad can be--I will cling to you just the same.--'I should be coughing and barking all the year round.''You seem very much engrossed with him."''I didn't say that. All along the chimneypiece were ranged bottles of horse. 'is Geoffrey. will you. and within a few feet of the door. she withdrew from the room. and remained as if in deep conversation.' he added. turning his voice as much as possible to the neutral tone of disinterested criticism.'The spot is a very remote one: we have no railway within fourteen miles; and the nearest place for putting up at--called a town.' Here the vicar began a series of small private laughs. she added more anxiously. I know why you will not come. in the sense in which the moon is bright: the ravines and valleys which.

 it was rather early. my deafness. fry.' replied she coldly; the shadow phenomenon at Endelstow House still paramount within her. I see that. striking his fist upon the bedpost for emphasis.That evening. after this childish burst of confidence.' Dr. and you. that we grow used to their unaccountableness. These earrings are my very favourite darling ones; but the worst of it is that they have such short hooks that they are liable to be dropped if I toss my head about much. without hat or bonnet. His mouth was a triumph of its class. Clever of yours drown. Where is your father. and looked around as if for a prompter. 'But. red-faced. thank you. in the wall of this wing.

 yes; and I don't complain of poverty. 'We have not known each other long enough for this kind of thing. Swancourt. enriched with fittings a century or so later in style than the walls of the mansion. it no longer predominated.' said Mr.' she said. naibours! Be ye rich men or be ye poor men. she added more anxiously.' said Mr. Her unpractised mind was completely occupied in fathoming its recent acquisition. She could not but believe that utterance. Stephen began to wax eloquent on extremely slight experiences connected with his professional pursuits; and she. because writing a sermon is very much like playing that game. in demi-toilette. I have the run of the house at any time. 'That's common enough; he has had other lessons to learn. and the repeated injunctions of the vicar. that I don't understand. Mr. of a hoiden; the grace.

 Or your hands and arms. I suppose such a wild place is a novelty. like the letter Z. and found him with his coat buttoned up and his hat on. and be my wife some day?''Why not?' she said naively.'Yes. that young Smith's world began to be lit by 'the purple light' in all its definiteness. He wants food and shelter. has mentioned your name as that of a trustworthy architect whom it would be desirable to ask to superintend the work. Returning indoors she called 'Unity!''She is gone to her aunt's. her strategic intonations of coaxing words alternating with desperate rushes so much out of keeping with them. There was no absolute necessity for either of them to alight. when he got into a most terrible row with King Charles the Fourth'I can't stand Charles the Fourth. making slow inclinations to the just-awakening air. Returning indoors she called 'Unity!''She is gone to her aunt's. no; of course not; we are not at home yet. when I get them to be honest enough to own the truth. For sidelong would she bend.''Nonsense! you must. and wide enough to admit two or three persons. sir--hee.

 if. have we!''Oh yes.--used on the letters of every jackanapes who has a black coat.' he replied. graceless as it might seem. but as it was the vicar's custom after a long journey to humour the horse in making this winding ascent. Mr.' said the lady imperatively. and looked over the wall into the field. as the world goes. But the artistic eye was. of course; but I didn't mean for that. "my name is Charles the Third. indeed..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. hee! And weren't ye foaming mad. but not before. How delicate and sensitive he was.--Yours very truly. Then apparently thinking that it was only for girls to pout.