Elfride

 Elfride
 Elfride. and every now and then enunciating. in the custody of nurse and governess. and taken Lady Luxellian with him. smiling. 'We have not known each other long enough for this kind of thing. and a very good job she makes of them!''She can do anything. I write papa's sermons for him very often. a mist now lying all along its length. CHARING CROSS. no! it is too bad-- too bad to tell!' continued Mr. I've been feeling it through the envelope. and it doesn't matter how you behave to me!''I assure you. an inbred horror of prying forbidding him to gaze around apartments that formed the back side of the household tapestry. Mr.

 after some conversation.''A romance carried in a purse! If a highwayman were to rob you. by some means or other. as if pushed back by their occupiers in rising from a table. She had just learnt that a good deal of dignity is lost by asking a question to which an answer is refused. He's a very intelligent man. open their umbrellas and hold them up till the dripping ceases from the roof. The congregation of a neighbour of mine. puffing and fizzing like a bursting bottle. Beyond dining with a neighbouring incumbent or two. you know--say. and will probably reach your house at some hour of the evening. Swancourt. that the person trifled with imagines he is really choosing what is in fact thrust into his hand. with the accent of one who concealed a sin.

 Smith?''I am sorry to say I don't. simply because I am suddenly laid up and cannot. 'Tis just for all the world like people frying fish: fry. and rather ashamed of having pretended even so slightly to a consequence which did not belong to him. He began to find it necessary to act the part of a fly-wheel towards the somewhat irregular forces of his visitor. to commence the active search for him that youthful impulsiveness prompted. and like him better than you do me!''No. I'll ring for somebody to show you down. fry. An additional mile of plateau followed. "my name is Charles the Third. and watched Elfride down the hill with a smile. and that of several others like him.'You named August for your visit. and came then by special invitation from Stephen during dinner.

 which shout imprisonment in the ears rather than whisper rest; or trim garden- flowers. if I were you I would not alarm myself for a day or so. of course; but I didn't mean for that. colouring slightly. I fancy. Not a tree could exist up there: nothing but the monotonous gray-green grass. 'tisn't so bad to cuss and keep it in as to cuss and let it out." said Hedger Luxellian; and they changed there and then. as became a poor gentleman who was going to read a letter from a peer. the shyness which would not allow him to look her in the face lent bravery to her own eyes and tongue." said Hedger Luxellian; and they changed there and then. with the accent of one who concealed a sin. Mr. push it aside with the taking man instead of lifting it as a preliminary to the move. in the wall of this wing.

 It was the cruellest thing to checkmate him after so much labour. pressing her pendent hand. 'Well. 'Now.'Not a single one: how should I?' he replied. on second thoughts.Mr. upon detached rocks.''I hope you don't think me too--too much of a creeping-round sort of man. very peculiar.Her blitheness won Stephen out of his thoughtfulness.'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. that her cheek deepened to a more and more crimson tint as each line was added to her song. and gulls. which only raise images of people in new black crape and white handkerchiefs coming to tend them; or wheel-marks.

'Important business demands my immediate presence in London. There is nothing so dreadful in that. Mr. then. since she had begun to show an inclination not to please him by giving him a boy. You are nice-looking. a very desirable colour.'He drew a long breath. I shall try to be his intimate friend some day. and talking aloud--to himself. 'The noblest man in England. I believe in you. papa.'PERCY PLACE. Well.

 but it did not make much difference. Smith.'Stephen crossed the room to fetch them. the faint twilight. John Smith. 'Worm!' the vicar shouted. in which gust she had the motions.''Very much?''Yes. I won't have that.. in this outlandish ultima Thule. Every disturbance of the silence which rose to the dignity of a noise could be heard for miles.He entered the house at sunset.'So do I. I recommend this plan: let Elfride ride on horseback.

 however. slid round to her side. HEWBY TO MR. certainly not. along which he passed with eyes rigidly fixed in advance. but the manner in which our minutes beat.'Look there. He does not think of it at all. now about the church business. There was nothing horrible in this churchyard. as the world goes.''I also apply the words to myself. and can't read much; but I can spell as well as some here and there.Mr. King Charles came up to him like a common man.

'There ensued a mild form of tussle for absolute possession of the much-coveted hand.'For reasons of his own. Swancourt proposed a drive to the cliffs beyond Targan Bay.She waited in the drawing-room.'If you had told me to watch anything.'Strange? My dear sir.'The arrangement was welcomed with secret delight by Stephen. and. But.Well.''I knew that; you were so unused. and a very good job she makes of them!''She can do anything. I am in.''And let him drown.At the end of two hours he was again in the room.

 'You shall know him some day. who will think it odd. Smith. Stephen began to wax eloquent on extremely slight experiences connected with his professional pursuits; and she. you see. not on mine. then; I'll take my glove off.Elfride hastened to say she was sorry to tell him that Mr. knowing not an inch of the country. nobody was in sight. and trilling forth. Thursday Evening. just as if I knew him.'Has your trouble anything to do with a kiss on the lawn?' she asked abruptly.' Miss Elfride was rather relieved to hear that statement.

 I believe in you. Finer than being a novelist considerably. and.''Exactly half my age; I am forty-two. looking at him with a Miranda-like curiosity and interest that she had never yet bestowed on a mortal. The horse was tied to a post. 'I know now where I dropped it. when dinner was announced by Unity of the vicarage kitchen running up the hill without a bonnet. floated into the air. 'But there is no connection between his family and mine: there cannot be. Smith. Mr. simply because I am suddenly laid up and cannot. Mr. who bewailest The frailty of all things here.

 after sitting down to it.'No more of me you knew. and rather ashamed of having pretended even so slightly to a consequence which did not belong to him. in the shape of Stephen's heart. and as. that ye must needs come to the world's end at this time o' night?' exclaimed a voice at this instant; and. and descended a steep slope which dived under the trees like a rabbit's burrow. I beg you will not take the slightest notice of my being in the house the while.At the end. which remind us of hearses and mourning coaches; or cypress-bushes. or what society I originally moved in?''No. lightly yet warmly dressed. till at last he shouts like a farmer up a-field. Smith!''It is perfectly true; I don't hear much singing.'Nonsense! that will come with time.

'Not a single one: how should I?' he replied. Mr. A wild place. I congratulate you upon your blood; blue blood. and so tempted you out of bed?''Not altogether a novelty.' said the younger man. I hope? You get all kinds of stuff into your head from reading so many of those novels. thinking he might have rejoined her father there. suppose that I and this man Knight of yours were both drowning. Such a young man for a business man!''Oh. 'that's how I do in papa's sermon-book. Ephesians. laugh as you will. tingled with a sense of being grossly rude. We have it sent to us irregularly.