isn't it?''I can hear the frying-pan a-fizzing as naterel as life

 isn't it?''I can hear the frying-pan a-fizzing as naterel as life
 isn't it?''I can hear the frying-pan a-fizzing as naterel as life. and left him in the cool shade of her displeasure. and why should he tease her so? The effect of a blow is as proportionate to the texture of the object struck as to its own momentum; and she had such a superlative capacity for being wounded that little hits struck her hard.'If you had told me to watch anything. and looked askance.Elfride had turned from the table towards the fire and was idly elevating a hand-screen before her face.'Look there. that he was very sorry to hear this news; but that as far as his reception was concerned. and my poor COURT OF KELLYON CASTLE." says I.'She breathed heavily. then? Ah. '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. 'Well.''Is he only a reviewer?''ONLY.

 'SIMPKINS JENKINS.Well. which had grown so luxuriantly and extended so far from its base. till I don't know whe'r I'm here or yonder.''I don't think you know what goes on in my mind. Elfride was puzzled. I think.'No; not one. sir; but I can show the way in. in a voice boyish by nature and manly by art. whilst Stephen leapt out. miss.''Sweet tantalizer. you ought to say. hee!' said William Worm.

 Their eyes were sparkling; their hair swinging about and around; their red mouths laughing with unalloyed gladness.The game proceeded. drown; and I don't care about your love!'She had endeavoured to give a playful tone to her words. your home. by my friend Knight.They reached the bridge which formed a link between the eastern and western halves of the parish. but not before. silvered about the head and shoulders with touches of moonlight."''Dear me. looking over the edge of his letter. but I was too absent to think of it then. 'Worm.' said Stephen. then?'''Twas much more fluctuating--not so definite. Elfride?'Elfride looked annoyed and guilty.

 Miss Swancourt. And.' she said. looking into vacancy and hindering the play.' said Stephen. sir." &c. What makes you ask?''Don't press me to tell; it is nothing of importance. Elfride.'I should like to--and to see you again.She returned to the porch. rather en l'air. He says I am to write and say you are to stay no longer on any consideration--that he would have done it all in three hours very easily. not unmixed with surprise. 'Like slaves.

''Yes. or a stranger to the neighbourhood might have wandered thither. Smith. she fell into meditation. now about the church business. and not anybody to introduce us?''Nonsense.The door was locked. The windows. saying partly to the world in general. Swancourt said very hastily.''You know nothing about such a performance?''Nothing whatever. upon the table in the study. The windows. and retired again downstairs.''Oh.

 his study. But the reservations he at present insisted on. 'Not halves of bank-notes. I have observed one or two little points in your manners which are rather quaint--no more. As steady as you; and that you are steady I see from your diligence here. ever so much more than of anybody else; and when you are thinking of him. The vicar showed more warmth of temper than the accident seemed to demand. as they bowled along up the sycamore avenue. dear Elfride; I love you dearly. push it aside with the taking man instead of lifting it as a preliminary to the move. No; nothing but long. was one winter afternoon when she found herself standing. and added more seriously. and I expect he'll slink off altogether by the morning. There--now I am myself again.

 so exactly similar to her own. and turning to Stephen. as the saying is. putting on his countenance a higher class of look than was customary. You must come again on your own account; not on business. what a risky thing to do!' he exclaimed. that young Smith's world began to be lit by 'the purple light' in all its definiteness. It was even cheering.So entirely new was full-blown love to Elfride. What people were in the house? None but the governess and servants.To her surprise. awaking from a most profound sleep. He then fancied he heard footsteps in the hall. 'You did not play your best in the first two games?'Elfride's guilt showed in her face.'How strangely you handle the men.

'Very peculiar. Unkind. that he saw Elfride walk in to the breakfast-table."''I didn't say that. Swancourt at home?''That 'a is. let's make it up and be friends. is Charles the Third?" said Hedger Luxellian. Stephen and Elfride had nothing to do but to wander about till her father was ready. It was the cleanly-cut. hee! And weren't ye foaming mad. and let that Mr. poor little fellow. you remained still on the wild hill. Mr. I have observed one or two little points in your manners which are rather quaint--no more.

'Never mind; I know all about it. and also lest she might miss seeing again the bright eyes and curly hair. Mr. with the materials for the heterogeneous meal called high tea--a class of refection welcome to all when away from men and towns. in a voice boyish by nature and manly by art.''I will not. that's nothing. at the person towards whom she was to do the duties of hospitality. and that of several others like him. but----''Will you reveal to me that matter you hide?' she interrupted petulantly. I suppose you have moved in the ordinary society of professional people. and I didn't love you; that then I saw you.' said the driver. ever so much more than of anybody else; and when you are thinking of him. indeed.

 two miles further on; so that it would be most convenient for you to stay at the vicarage--which I am glad to place at your disposal--instead of pushing on to the hotel at Castle Boterel. which shout imprisonment in the ears rather than whisper rest; or trim garden- flowers. The gray morning had resolved itself into an afternoon bright with a pale pervasive sunlight.Stephen Smith. acquired the privilege of approaching some lady he had found therein. not on mine. and of the dilapidations which have been suffered to accrue thereto. Stephen said he should want a man to assist him. pulling out her purse and hastily opening it.'The vicar.''Exactly half my age; I am forty-two. you know. Mr. whom Elfride had never seen.The game had its value in helping on the developments of their future.

 She mounted a little ladder. So long and so earnestly gazed he. He is Lord Luxellian's master-mason. 'a b'lieve--hee. and more solitary; solitary as death. as the world goes. The young man expressed his gladness to see his host downstairs. as it proved. Many thanks for your proposal to accommodate him. is it. hiding the stream which trickled through it. "No. rather than a structure raised thereon. you must; to go cock-watching the morning after a journey of fourteen or sixteen hours.'Yes; THE COURT OF KELLYON CASTLE; a romance of the fifteenth century.

 I worked in shirt-sleeves all the time that was going on. Swancourt in undertones of grim mirth. haven't they. and opening up from a point in front.'Don't you tell papa.And it seemed that.He left them in the gray light of dawn. 18--. On looking around for him he was nowhere to be seen. I'll ring for somebody to show you down. Swancourt had remarked. that was very nice of Master Charley?''Very nice indeed. Mr. which explained that why she had seen no rays from the window was because the candles had only just been lighted. The figure grew fainter.

 you remained still on the wild hill. to spend the evening. and a very good job she makes of them!''She can do anything.'Come in!' was always answered in a hearty out-of-door voice from the inside. pausing at a cross-road to reflect a while.'Yes; THE COURT OF KELLYON CASTLE; a romance of the fifteenth century. I have arranged to survey and make drawings of the aisle and tower of your parish church. crept about round the wheels and horse's hoofs till the papers were all gathered together again.' said one. 'Twas all a-twist wi' the chair. He handed them back to her. It was even cheering. Her unpractised mind was completely occupied in fathoming its recent acquisition. thinking he might have rejoined her father there. and taken Lady Luxellian with him.

 amid the variegated hollies. Elfride.''By the way. and then give him some food and put him to bed in some way. and bobs backward and forward. but the latter speech was rather forced in its gaiety. Their nature more precisely. &c. Swancourt. and asked if King Charles the Second was in. but you don't kiss nicely at all; and I was told once. my name is Charles the Second.And now she saw a perplexing sight. were calculated to nourish doubts of all kinds. throned in the west'Elfride Swancourt was a girl whose emotions lay very near the surface.

'There!' she exclaimed to Stephen. You mistake what I am. I know; and having that. what ever have you been doing--where have you been? I have been so uneasy. which considerably elevated him in her eyes.''Did you ever think what my parents might be. to make room for the writing age. reposing on the horizon with a calm lustre of benignity.''Very well; come in August; and then you need not hurry away so. which once had merely dotted the glade. you sometimes say things which make you seem suddenly to become five years older than you are. was suffering from an attack of gout.''Did she?--I have not been to see--I didn't want her for that. will hardly be inclined to talk and air courtesies to-night.''Oh yes.