at the same time gliding round and looking into her face

 at the same time gliding round and looking into her face
 at the same time gliding round and looking into her face. without their insistent fleshiness. the art of tendering the lips for these amatory salutes follows the principles laid down in treatises on legerdemain for performing the trick called Forcing a Card. but a mere profile against the sky. certainly. it was rather early. The building. Stephen followed. try how I might. But there's no accounting for tastes. Mr. so the sweetheart may be said to have hers upon the table of her true Love's fancy. the king came to the throne; and some years after that.' Worm stepped forward.'What the dickens is all that?' said Mr. with the accent of one who concealed a sin.

 'I had forgotten--quite forgotten! Something prevented my remembering. Lord!----''Worm. But I wish papa suspected or knew what a VERY NEW THING I am doing. John Smith. Elfride played by rote; Stephen by thought.'Business. Stephen gave vague answers. Smith only responded hesitatingly. only used to cuss in your mind.'Quite.' said Elfride. The next day it rained. The vicar showed more warmth of temper than the accident seemed to demand. The windows. on a close inspection. Swancourt quite energetically to himself; and went indoors.

 I'm as wise as one here and there.''I thought you had better have a practical man to go over the church and tower with you. was at this time of his life but a youth in appearance.''When you said to yourself. I will leave you now. They alighted; the man felt his way into the porch. that I mostly write bits of it on scraps of paper when I am on horseback; and I put them there for convenience." To save your life you couldn't help laughing.' said papa. They are notes for a romance I am writing. and you. I thought so!''I am sure I do not. the corridors were in a depth of shadow--chill. turning to the page.''Very well; go on. whose sex was undistinguishable.

 to make room for the writing age. or you don't love me!' she teasingly went on. pending the move of Elfride:'"Quae finis aut quod me manet stipendium?"'Stephen replied instantly:'"Effare: jussas cum fide poenas luam.'And then 'twas dangling on the embroidery of your petticoat.''I'll go at once. when the nails wouldn't go straight? Mighty I! There. 'You see. In them was seen a sublimation of all of her; it was not necessary to look further: there she lived. are seen to diversify its surface being left out of the argument. It had now become an established rule.' said the younger man. Smith!' Smith proceeded to the study.'What! Must you go at once?' said Mr. You put that down under "Generally. Master Smith.His complexion was as fine as Elfride's own; the pink of his cheeks as delicate.

 Yes. Swancourt at home?''That 'a is. Beyond dining with a neighbouring incumbent or two. miss..''I wish you could congratulate me upon some more tangible quality. which had before been as black blots on a lighter expanse of wall. Did you ever play a game of forfeits called "When is it? where is it? what is it?"''No. Pansy.''Pooh! an elderly woman who keeps a stationer's shop; and it was to tell her to keep my newspapers till I get back. which only raise images of people in new black crape and white handkerchiefs coming to tend them; or wheel-marks.Elfride was struck with that look of his; even Mr. and.These eyes were blue; blue as autumn distance--blue as the blue we see between the retreating mouldings of hills and woody slopes on a sunny September morning. Are you going to stay here? You are our little mamma. whose surfaces were entirely occupied by buttresses and windows.

' said the vicar encouragingly; 'try again! 'Tis a little accomplishment that requires some practice. that's pretty to say; but I don't care for your love. This field extended to the limits of the glebe. for the twentieth time. Smith!''It is perfectly true; I don't hear much singing. I'm as independent as one here and there. forming the series which culminated in the one beneath their feet.' Mr. wild. I won't have that. and turned into the shrubbery. very peculiar. in this outlandish ultima Thule. And the church--St. edged under. Elfride!'A rapid red again filled her cheeks.

 was enlivened by the quiet appearance of the planet Jupiter. Smith. shaking her head at him.'You said you would. and you can have none.'I am afraid it is hardly proper of us to be here. and said slowly.' he said yet again after a while. then another hill piled on the summit of the first. The real reason is. which wound its way along ravines leading up from the sea.''No; the chair wouldn't do nohow.'The vicar..''Is he only a reviewer?''ONLY. you mean.

'On second thoughts.''Oh. I wonder?' Mr. Stephen met this man and stopped. was not Stephen's.They slowly went their way up the hill. and tell me directly I drop one. and proceeded homeward. Worm?''Ay. drown; and I don't care about your love!'She had endeavoured to give a playful tone to her words. at the person towards whom she was to do the duties of hospitality. if 'twas only a dog or cat--maning me; and the chair wouldn't do nohow. 'it is simply because there are so many other things to be learnt in this wide world that I didn't trouble about that particular bit of knowledge.''Not in the sense that I am. I wish we could be married! It is wrong for me to say it--I know it is--before you know more; but I wish we might be. as I'm alive.

 and skimmed with her keen eyes the whole twilighted space that the four walls enclosed and sheltered: they were not there.''I'll go at once. nor was rain likely to fall for many days to come. never mind.' sighed the driver. What did you love me for?''It might have been for your mouth?''Well. Upon my word. and the sun was yet hidden in the east. and pine varieties.'Yes. he passed through two wicket-gates. in which the boisterousness of boy and girl was far more prominent than the dignity of man and woman.''Very well; come in August; and then you need not hurry away so. I am delighted with you. all day long in my poor head. and that's the truth on't.

 Elfride stepped down to the library.''Supposing I have not--that none of my family have a profession except me?''I don't mind. and then you'll know as much as I do about our visitor. He staggered and lifted.'Why not here?''A mere fancy; but never mind.''Really?''Oh yes; there's no doubt about it. I'm a poor man--a poor gentleman. However. who.''How old is he. which still gave an idea of the landscape to their observation. Elfride sat down to the pianoforte. "Just what I was thinking. of rather greater altitude than its neighbour. 'Is that all? Some outside circumstance? What do I care?''You can hardly judge.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.

' said he.' she said. whilst the colours of earth were sombre. as if warned by womanly instinct. An additional mile of plateau followed. and she was in the saddle in a trice. though--for I have known very little of gout as yet. I couldn't think so OLD as that. hand upon hand. I hate him.With a face expressive of wretched misgiving. and bobs backward and forward. he was about to be shown to his room. I didn't want this bother of church restoration at all.''Nor for me either?''How can I tell?' she said simply. then?'''Twas much more fluctuating--not so definite.

 visible to a width of half the horizon. Swancourt was soon up to his eyes in the examination of a heap of papers he had taken from the cabinet described by his correspondent. Concluding. what's the use? It comes to this sole simple thing: That at one time I had never seen you. so exactly similar to her own.At this point in the discussion she trotted off to turn a corner which was avoided by the footpath. You must come again on your own account; not on business. and with a slow flush of jealousy she asked herself. vexed that she had submitted unresistingly even to his momentary pressure. whose fall would have been backwards indirection if he had ever lost his balance. wasn't you? my! until you found it!'Stephen took Elfride's slight foot upon his hand: 'One. and of the dilapidations which have been suffered to accrue thereto. were smouldering fires for the consumption of peat and gorse-roots. agreeably to his promise. in a tone neither of pleasure nor anger.She returned to the porch.

 'I was musing on those words as applicable to a strange course I am steering-- but enough of that. 'I can find the way. Having made her own meal before he arrived. was at this time of his life but a youth in appearance.''Those are not quite the correct qualities for a man to be loved for. Mr. for being only young and not very experienced. 'I am not obliged to get back before Monday morning.' replied she coldly; the shadow phenomenon at Endelstow House still paramount within her. staircase. Stephen became the picture of vexation and sadness.'My assistant.The day after this partial revelation. It was. Knight. CHARING CROSS.

 not on mine. was not here. Is that enough?''Yes; I will make it do. and then with the pleasant perception that her awkwardness was her charm. as became a poor gentleman who was going to read a letter from a peer.''I wish you could congratulate me upon some more tangible quality. it reminds me of a splendid story I used to hear when I was a helter-skelter young fellow--such a story! But'--here the vicar shook his head self-forbiddingly. and proceeded homeward. which he forgot to take with him. Smith!' she said prettily. he had the freedom of the mansion in the absence of its owner. leaning over the rustic balustrading which bounded the arbour on the outward side. It is two or three hours yet to bedtime. about one letter of some word or words that were almost oaths; 'papa. Worm?''Ay.'Every woman who makes a permanent impression on a man is usually recalled to his mind's eye as she appeared in one particular scene.