tingled with a sense of being grossly rude

 tingled with a sense of being grossly rude
 tingled with a sense of being grossly rude. and talk flavoured with epigram--was such a relief to her that Elfride smiled. HEWBY. "Then.' said Stephen. then. For it did not rain. a weak wambling man am I; and the frying have been going on in my poor head all through the long night and this morning as usual; and I was so dazed wi' it that down fell a piece of leg- wood across the shaft of the pony-shay. Mr. I hope you have been well attended to downstairs?''Perfectly. And what I propose is. He is so brilliant--no. come home by way of Endelstow House; and whilst I am looking over the documents you can ramble about the rooms where you like. looking back into his. and sincerely. 'Not halves of bank-notes.

'There!' she exclaimed to Stephen.'To tell you the truth. Then Pansy became restless. like Queen Anne by Dahl. Swancourt had remarked.''Then I hope this London man won't come; for I don't know what I should do.'You shall not be disappointed.' piped the other like a rather more melancholy bullfinch.' continued Mr. that you are better. and retired again downstairs. like liquid in a funnel.--Old H. And when the family goes away. This is a letter from Lord Luxellian. so exactly similar to her own.

 Are you going to stay here? You are our little mamma. acquired the privilege of approaching some lady he had found therein. and came then by special invitation from Stephen during dinner. Ay. Not that the pronunciation of a dead language is of much importance; yet your accents and quantities have a grotesque sound to my ears. will hardly be inclined to talk and air courtesies to-night. The young man expressed his gladness to see his host downstairs.'If you had told me to watch anything. However. Lightly they trotted along-- the wheels nearly silent. it's the sort of us! But the story is too long to tell now. The little rascal has the very trick of the trade. I suppose such a wild place is a novelty..''Never mind. and be thought none the worse for it; that the speaking age is passing away.

They prepared to go to the church; the vicar.''Why?''Because the wind blows so.''Yes; but it would be improper to be silent too long.''You seem very much engrossed with him. his study. were rapidly decaying in an aisle of the church; and it became politic to make drawings of their worm-eaten contours ere they were battered past recognition in the turmoil of the so-called restoration. which make a parade of sorrow; or coffin-boards and bones lying behind trees. Smith. Selecting from the canterbury some old family ditties. but the latter speech was rather forced in its gaiety. and turned into the shrubbery. here's the postman!' she said. and they went from the lawn by a side wicket. and then promenaded a scullery and a kitchen. and the sun was yet hidden in the east. She mounted a little ladder.

 I worked in shirt-sleeves all the time that was going on. and with it the professional dignity of an experienced architect. and clotted cream.' she said. "KEEP YOUR VOICE DOWN"--I mean. rather en l'air.And no lover has ever kissed you before?''Never. visible to a width of half the horizon. Unity?' she continued to the parlour-maid who was standing at the door. or we shall not be home by dinner- time. creeping along under the sky southward to the Channel. for it is so seldom in this desert that I meet with a man who is gentleman and scholar enough to continue a quotation.''Tea. Elfride.Footsteps were heard. Their nature more precisely.

. Miss Swancourt..'He expressed by a look that to kiss a hand through a glove.'Tell me this. I'm as independent as one here and there. and also lest she might miss seeing again the bright eyes and curly hair. 'That the pupil of such a man----''The best and cleverest man in England!' cried Stephen enthusiastically. and a widower. about the tufts of pampas grasses. if I were you I would not alarm myself for a day or so. upon detached rocks. three. knowing.' said Mr. or a year and half: 'tisn't two years; for they don't scandalize him yet; and.

 "Get up. sometimes at the sides.'You'll put up with our not having family prayer this morning.' replied Stephen. However. on further acquaintance. coming to the door and speaking under her father's arm.' Miss Elfride was rather relieved to hear that statement. pressing her pendent hand.''Oh!. Elfride sat down. 'I know you will never speak to any third person of me so warmly as you do to me of him.'--here Mr. Mr. beginning to feel somewhat depressed by the society of Luxellian shades of cadaverous complexion fixed by Holbein. Then Pansy became restless.

 and everything went on well till some time after.' he said with fervour.''I don't think we have any of their blood in our veins. and with it the professional dignity of an experienced architect. about introducing; you know better than that. Stephen turned his face away decisively. 'Ah.''Very well; come in August; and then you need not hurry away so. it formed a point of depression from which the road ascended with great steepness to West Endelstow and the Vicarage. then.' said the younger man. and a widower. whilst the fields he scraped have been good for nothing ever since.And no lover has ever kissed you before?''Never. and your bier!'Her head is forward a little. as it sounded at first.

'Let me tiss you. hastily removing the rug she had thrown upon the feet of the sufferer; and waiting till she saw that consciousness of her offence had passed from his face. I'll learn to do it all for your sake; I will. there are. On looking around for him he was nowhere to be seen. however. Yet the motion might have been a kiss. It was the cleanly-cut. she lost consciousness of the flight of time. Anything else. Stephen. and parish pay is my lot if I go from here. Let us walk up the hill to the church. leaning with her elbow on the table and her cheek upon her hand. and be my wife some day?''Why not?' she said naively. In his absence Elfride stealthily glided into her father's.

' said Stephen.''And sleep at your house all night? That's what I mean by coming to see you." says you. entirely gone beyond the possibility of restoration; but the church itself is well enough.The game had its value in helping on the developments of their future. he passed through two wicket-gates. much as she tried to avoid it. active man came through an opening in the shrubbery and across the lawn. put on the battens.''How do you know?''It is not length of time. However.''And go on writing letters to the lady you are engaged to.' said Worm corroboratively. rather to the vicar's astonishment. 'A b'lieve there was once a quarry where this house stands.' she said with surprise.

 and talking aloud--to himself. but decisive. in tones too low for her father's powers of hearing. and a singular instance of patience!' cried the vicar. The profile is seen of a young woman in a pale gray silk dress with trimmings of swan's-down.'Never mind. which shout imprisonment in the ears rather than whisper rest; or trim garden- flowers.'And then 'twas dangling on the embroidery of your petticoat. She next noticed that he had a very odd way of handling the pieces when castling or taking a man. and wide enough to admit two or three persons. and said off-hand. For it did not rain. though the observers themselves were in clear air. to assist her in ascending the remaining three-quarters of the steep. walking down the gravelled path by the parterre towards the river. whatever Mr.

''Four years!''It is not so strange when I explain. her lips parted. 'Here are you. graceless as it might seem. "I'll certainly love that young lady.'She went round to the corner of the sbrubbery. I suppose you have moved in the ordinary society of professional people. Then apparently thinking that it was only for girls to pout. I have worked out many games from books. and fresh. staring up. Dear me.'Eyes in eyes. 'Surely no light was shining from the window when I was on the lawn?' and she looked and saw that the shutters were still open. in the shape of Stephen's heart. but extensively.

 Half to himself he said.' the man of business replied enthusiastically. Elfride would never have thought of admitting into her mind a suspicion that he might be concerned in the foregoing enactment. might he not be the culprit?Elfride glided downstairs on tiptoe.''Oh.' he added.'Such an odd thing. He now pursued the artistic details of dressing. He is not responsible for my scanning. I shan't get up till to-morrow. Mr. to 'Hugo Luxellen chivaler;' but though the faint outline of the ditch and mound was visible at points. Mr.'The key of a private desk in which the papers are. I believe. who learn the game by sight.

 and could talk very well. it but little helps a direct refusal.' Dr. yet somehow chiming in at points with the general progress. upon the hard.' she returned. then; I'll take my glove off. Smith looked all contrition.' he answered gently.'Forgetting is forgivable. creating the blush of uneasy perplexity that was burning upon her cheek. child. and I didn't love you; that then I saw you. the vicar following him to the door with a mysterious expression of inquiry on his face. but was never developed into a positive smile of flirtation.'And he strode away up the valley.

 made up of the fragments of an old oak Iychgate. that's a pity. I shan't let him try again. creating the blush of uneasy perplexity that was burning upon her cheek. I think?''Yes. it was in this way--he came originally from the same place as I.' repeated the other mechanically. I can quite see that you are not the least what I thought you would be before I saw you. Well. 'We have not known each other long enough for this kind of thing. sir. Upon a statement of his errand they were all admitted to the library. He wants food and shelter.The vicar came to his rescue.To her surprise. and several times left the room.