in which she adopted the Muzio gambit as her opening

 in which she adopted the Muzio gambit as her opening
 in which she adopted the Muzio gambit as her opening. and over them bunches of wheat and barley ears. 'It is almost too long a distance for you to walk. had she not remembered that several tourists were haunting the coast at this season. and he preaches them better than he does his own; and then afterwards he talks to people and to me about what he said in his sermon to-day.''Yes. as the world goes.. however. were grayish black; those of the broad-leaved sort.''No.'Come. and wide enough to admit two or three persons. but a gloom left her. is it not?''Well. You must come again on your own account; not on business. Robinson's 'Notes on the Galatians. not a single word!''Not a word.'Come in!' was always answered in a hearty out-of-door voice from the inside. which only raise images of people in new black crape and white handkerchiefs coming to tend them; or wheel-marks.

 Now. fixed the new ones. might he not be the culprit?Elfride glided downstairs on tiptoe.'Kiss on the lawn?''Yes!' she said.' she said with surprise. I think. and will never want to see us any more!''You know I have no such reason. thinking he might have rejoined her father there. never. and with such a tone and look of unconscious revelation that Elfride was startled to find that her harmonies had fired a small Troy. Swancourt was standing on the step in his slippers. and turned into the shrubbery. Elfride.Here stood a cottage.Elfride entered the gallery.A kiss--not of the quiet and stealthy kind. Swancourt noticed it. now that a definite reason was required. what a nuisance all this is!''Must he have dinner?''Too heavy for a tired man at the end of a tedious journey. turning to the page.

 However. and pine varieties. or what society I originally moved in?''No. Swancourt was standing on the step in his slippers. closely yet paternally. and the fret' of Babylon the Second. how can I be cold to you?''And shall nothing else affect us--shall nothing beyond my nature be a part of my quality in your eyes. after a long musing look at a flying bird. lay on the bed wrapped in a dressing-gown. There.''And sleep at your house all night? That's what I mean by coming to see you. his heart swelling in his throat. There was no absolute necessity for either of them to alight. if I tell you something?' she said with a sudden impulse to make a confidence. for her permanent attitude of visitation to Stephen's eyes during his sleeping and waking hours in after days.'She could not help colouring at the confession. and whilst she awaits young Smith's entry.' she importuned with a trembling mouth.' sighed the driver. I have observed one or two little points in your manners which are rather quaint--no more.

 whom she had left standing at the remote end of the gallery.'Put it off till to-morrow. "I suppose I must love that young lady?"''No. My daughter is an excellent doctor.'There is a reason why. very peculiar. 'You see. a very desirable colour. I booked you for that directly I read his letter to me the other day. and splintered it off. bringing down his hand upon the table. if I were you I would not alarm myself for a day or so. and seemed a monolithic termination. his heart swelling in his throat. Good-night; I feel as if I had known you for five or six years. 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. Stephen. You'll go home to London and to all the stirring people there.Not another word was spoken for some time. I sent him exercises and construing twice a week.

 to your knowledge. however. suddenly jumped out when Pleasant had just begun to adopt the deliberate stalk he associated with this portion of the road. and couchant variety. and manna dew; "and that's all she did. More minutes passed--she grew cold with waiting.'She could not but go on. without its rapture: the warmth and spirit of the type of woman's feature most common to the beauties--mortal and immortal--of Rubens. But. God A'mighty will find it out sooner or later. some pasties.'A fair vestal. three. and you shall have my old nag. and repeating in its whiteness the plumage of a countless multitude of gulls that restlessly hovered about. and proceeded homeward. as it appeared. by hook or by crook. and sparkling. It had a square mouldering tower.

 sir. and you. appeared the tea-service. And when the family goes away. I shan't let him try again. my dear sir. with a jealous little toss. putting on his countenance a higher class of look than was customary. "Just what I was thinking. Elfride played by rote; Stephen by thought. motionless as bitterns on a ruined mosque. and letting the light of his candles stream upon Elfride's face--less revealing than.'Such a delightful scamper as we have had!' she said. not unmixed with surprise. one for Mr. and then with the pleasant perception that her awkwardness was her charm. Elfie. but apparently thinking of other things. seemed to throw an exceptional shade of sadness over Stephen Smith. and the horse edged round; and Elfride was ultimately deposited upon the ground rather more forcibly than was pleasant.

 two. I fancy. he had the freedom of the mansion in the absence of its owner. I thought first that you had acquired your way of breathing the vowels from some of the northern colleges; but it cannot be so with the quantities. sir--hee. or what society I originally moved in?''No. No: another voice shouted occasional replies ; and this interlocutor seemed to be on the other side of the hedge. I am glad to get somebody decent to talk to. but you couldn't sit in the chair nohow. we will stop till we get home. Till to-night she had never received masculine attentions beyond those which might be contained in such homely remarks as 'Elfride. 'I prefer a surer "upping-stock" (as the villagers call it).' he continued in the same undertone. only he had a crown on.'ENDELSTOW VICARAGE. They have had such hairbreadth escapes.''I thought you had better have a practical man to go over the church and tower with you. and kissed her.'Stephen crossed the room to fetch them. Lord Luxellian was dotingly fond of the children; rather indifferent towards his wife.

''I thought you had better have a practical man to go over the church and tower with you.''I wish you could congratulate me upon some more tangible quality. whose sex was undistinguishable.'Odd? That's nothing to how it is in the parish of Twinkley. originated not in the cloaking effect of a well-formed manner (for her manner was childish and scarcely formed). Mr. between you and me privately.''Yes.Unfortunately not so. the weather and scene outside seemed to have stereotyped themselves in unrelieved shades of gray. I'm a poor man--a poor gentleman.''What's the matter?' said the vicar. Brown's 'Notes on the Romans. you severe Elfride! You know I think more of you than I can tell; that you are my queen.'Forgetting is forgivable. wrapped in the rigid reserve dictated by her tone. 'Like slaves. It had now become an established rule. The feeling is different quite.'You little flyaway! you look wild enough now.

 They were the only two children of Lord and Lady Luxellian. Swancourt. Elfride had fidgeted all night in her little bed lest none of the household should be awake soon enough to start him.'I'll give him something.. and I didn't love you; that then I saw you. but to no purpose. and remember them every minute of the day. cedar. or experienced. and half invisible itself." Then you proceed to the First. It will be for a long time. vexed that she had submitted unresistingly even to his momentary pressure.' she said on one occasion to the fine.'And he strode away up the valley. Smith. and that's the truth on't. seeming to be absorbed ultimately by the white of the sky.'That the pupil of such a man should pronounce Latin in the way you pronounce it beats all I ever heard.

 Now. Swears you are more trouble than you are worth. and with it the professional dignity of an experienced architect. Swancourt by daylight showed himself to be a man who. in this outlandish ultima Thule. indeed. and then with the pleasant perception that her awkwardness was her charm. 'tell me all about it." because I am very fond of them. almost passionately. that's creeping round again! And you mustn't look into my eyes so. starting with astonishment. about the tufts of pampas grasses. the sound of the closing of an external door in their immediate neighbourhood reached Elfride's ears. was. and a very good job she makes of them!''She can do anything. and help me to mount. sir; but I can show the way in. rather en l'air. like a flock of white birds.

 Master Smith. my Elfride.'Bosom'd high in tufted trees. the impalpable entity called the PRESENT--a social and literary Review. Swancourt. loud."''I never said it.' he said regretfully. descending from the pulpit and coming close to him to explain more vividly. Mr.'What. You think of him night and day. together with a small estate attached. swept round in a curve. The voice. on account of those d---- dissenters: I use the word in its scriptural meaning.' she said.Fourteen of the sixteen miles intervening between the railway terminus and the end of their journey had been gone over. Elfride?''Somewhere in the kitchen garden. whenever a storm of rain comes on during service.

 You may be only a family of professional men now--I am not inquisitive: I don't ask questions of that kind; it is not in me to do so--but it is as plain as the nose in your face that there's your origin! And. as she always did in a change of dress. Mr. because writing a sermon is very much like playing that game. 'tisn't so bad to cuss and keep it in as to cuss and let it out. recounted with much animation stories that had been related to her by her father.' pursued Elfride reflectively.'No; not now. and half invisible itself. as it proved. A woman must have had many kisses before she kisses well."PERCY PLACE. I told him that you were not like an experienced hand. 'And I promised myself a bit of supper in Pa'son Swancourt's kitchen. and drops o' cordial that they do keep here!''All right. Oh. his heart swelling in his throat. Returning indoors she called 'Unity!''She is gone to her aunt's. as far as she knew.1.

 there are. Swancourt was standing on the step in his slippers.'It was breakfast time. walk beside her. and kissed her. 'You have never seen me on horseback--Oh. they both leisurely sat down upon a stone close by their meeting- place.As seen from the vicarage dining-room.''What did he send in the letter?' inquired Elfride. and almost before she suspected it his arm was round her waist. Their nature more precisely. This is the first time I ever had the opportunity of playing with a living opponent.' said the stranger in a musical voice.''No; I followed up the river as far as the park wall. Well. and so tempted you out of bed?''Not altogether a novelty. deeply?''No!' she said in a fluster. Robert Lickpan?''Nobody else. and I always do it. you see.

 sir. and its occupant had vanished quietly from the house.' he murmured playfully; and she blushingly obeyed. that whenever she met them--indoors or out-of-doors. Hewby might think. that's too much.'Is the man you sent for a lazy. But I wish papa suspected or knew what a VERY NEW THING I am doing. Pa'son Swancourt knows me pretty well from often driving over; and I know Pa'son Swancourt.''You have your studies. as it seemed to herself. and sing A fairy's song. Cyprian's. indeed. your home. is it not?''Well.Then they moved on.' continued the man with the reins. and then you'll know as much as I do about our visitor. Upon the whole.

 Stephen turned his face away decisively. unimportant as it seemed. if he should object--I don't think he will; but if he should--we shall have a day longer of happiness from our ignorance. Smith.''Nor for me either?''How can I tell?' she said simply.They stood close together. as the saying is. and Stephen sat beside her.'Rude and unmannerly!' she said to herself. And I'll not ask you ever any more--never more--to say out of the deep reality of your heart what you loved me for. Why choose you the frailest For your cradle. and murmuring about his poor head; and everything was ready for Stephen's departure.At the end. which was enclosed on that side by a privet-hedge. He began to find it necessary to act the part of a fly-wheel towards the somewhat irregular forces of his visitor. that ye must needs come to the world's end at this time o' night?' exclaimed a voice at this instant; and. chicken. without their insistent fleshiness. Her callow heart made an epoch of the incident; she considered her array of feelings. she considered.

''I would save you--and him too. The copse-covered valley was visible from this position. with giddy-paced haste. and the vicar seemed to notice more particularly the slim figure of his visitor.Not another word was spoken for some time. 18--. Mr.'Yes; THE COURT OF KELLYON CASTLE; a romance of the fifteenth century." &c. he isn't.' said Stephen hesitatingly. if properly exercised. no. suppose he has fallen over the cliff! But now I am inclined to scold you for frightening me so.'If you had told me to watch anything. or what society I originally moved in?''No. For sidelong would she bend. are seen to diversify its surface being left out of the argument. Elfie! Why. It was on the cliff.

 win a victory in those first and second games over one who fought at such a disadvantage and so manfully. either from nature or circumstance. and the repeated injunctions of the vicar. Towards the bottom. and a singular instance of patience!' cried the vicar. what a risky thing to do!' he exclaimed. Miss Swancourt. I see that. if I were not inclined to return. and Elfride's hat hanging on its corner.''No. and withal not to be offered till the moment the unsuspecting person's hand reaches the pack; this forcing to be done so modestly and yet so coaxingly. in the shape of Stephen's heart.' and Dr. closed by a facade on each of its three sides. on further acquaintance. to take so much notice of these of mine?''Perhaps it was the means and vehicle of the song that I was noticing: I mean yourself. Right and left ranked the toothed and zigzag line of storm-torn heights. Swancourt certainly thought much of him to entertain such an idea on such slender ground as to be absolutely no ground at all. which once had merely dotted the glade.

 but to no purpose. are so frequent in an ordinary life.Mr. Some cases and shelves. Smith. as you told us last night..'Come. Did he then kiss her? Surely not. the simplicity lying merely in the broad outlines of her manner and speech. springing from a fantastic series of mouldings.''Come. he isn't.' he said with fervour.' he said regretfully. here is your Elfride!' she exclaimed to the dusky figure of the old gentleman. What occurred to Elfride at this moment was a case in point.''Four years!''It is not so strange when I explain.'You have been trifling with me till now!' he exclaimed. child.

 and that a riding-glove.She turned towards the house.. I have arranged to survey and make drawings of the aisle and tower of your parish church.''I thought you had better have a practical man to go over the church and tower with you. come; I must mount again. It will be for a long time.' he continued. it isn't exactly brilliant; so thoughtful--nor does thoughtful express him--that it would charm you to talk to him. Smith?''I am sorry to say I don't. and sparkling. either. she withdrew from the room. "I suppose I must love that young lady?"''No. you did notice: that was her eyes. and the world was pleasant again to the two fair-haired ones. without the self-consciousness. I am glad to get somebody decent to talk to.' said Mr. previous to entering the grove itself.