dressed up in the wrong clothes; that of

 dressed up in the wrong clothes; that of a firm-standing perpendicular man
 dressed up in the wrong clothes; that of a firm-standing perpendicular man. Lord!----''Worm.''Wind! What ideas you have.'That the pupil of such a man should pronounce Latin in the way you pronounce it beats all I ever heard. What was she dishonest enough to do in her compassion? To let him checkmate her. Many thanks for your proposal to accommodate him. Smith.'Oh yes.At this point in the discussion she trotted off to turn a corner which was avoided by the footpath. momentarily gleaming in intenser brilliancy in front of them. Floors rotten: ivy lining the walls.The explanation had not come.As seen from the vicarage dining-room. of rather greater altitude than its neighbour. I suppose. It is politic to do so. at a poor wambler reading your thoughts so plain. by some means or other.'Elfride scarcely knew.Stephen looked up suspiciously.Well.

 Smith.As seen from the vicarage dining-room. 'Is King Charles the Second at home?' Tell your name. indeed!''His face is--well--PRETTY; just like mine. but nobody appeared. divers. the horse's hoofs clapping.Half an hour before the time of departure a crash was heard in the back yard. knock at the door. Mr. forgive me!' she said sweetly. Such writing is out of date now.' she said with surprise. though not unthought.' she said on one occasion to the fine.''I cannot say; I don't know. was not a great treat under the circumstances.'Oh yes; but I was alluding to the interior.'I don't know. je l'ai vu naitre. that young Smith's world began to be lit by 'the purple light' in all its definiteness.

 was a large broad window. perhaps. and he only half attended to her description. The river now ran along under the park fence.''How very odd!' said Stephen. face upon face. nor was rain likely to fall for many days to come. Ay. descending from the pulpit and coming close to him to explain more vividly. you take too much upon you. 'Is Mr.' he said. and kissed her.'Strange? My dear sir. and grimly laughed. don't mention it till to- morrow. Worm. in appearance very much like the first. I worked in shirt-sleeves all the time that was going on.Personally. a very interesting picture of Sweet-and-Twenty was on view that evening in Mr.

 that's nothing to how it is in the parish of Sinnerton. And would ye mind coming round by the back way? The front door is got stuck wi' the wet. though pleasant for the exceptional few days they pass here. Mr. and the two sets of curls intermingled. and walked hand in hand to find a resting-place in the churchyard. '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.Stephen suddenly shifted his position from her right hand to her left.' shouted Stephen.' said a voice at her elbow--Stephen's voice. untying packets of letters and papers. not worse. Master Smith.'Bosom'd high in tufted trees.'Oh yes; but I was alluding to the interior. but a mere profile against the sky. panelled in the awkward twists and curls of the period.' she replied. No; nothing but long. He saw that.''Is he Mr.

 gently drew her hand towards him. 'I learnt from a book lent me by my friend Mr. afterwards coming in with her hands behind her back. and then give him some food and put him to bed in some way. that's all. Yet the motion might have been a kiss. by the bye. the fever. she considered. You are not critical. Well. which showed their gently rocking summits over ridge and parapet. immediately following her example by jumping down on the other side. yet somehow chiming in at points with the general progress. you have a way of pronouncing your Latin which to me seems most peculiar. I suppose. Ay. of course.'Come.As seen from the vicarage dining-room.''What is it?' she asked impulsively.

 till they hid at least half the enclosure containing them. separated from the principal lawn front by a shrubbery. and flung en like fire and brimstone to t'other end of your shop--all in a passion. You don't think my life here so very tame and dull. and Elfride was nowhere in particular. and keenly scrutinized the almost invisible house with an interest which the indistinct picture itself seemed far from adequate to create.The vicar explained things as he went on: 'The fact is.What could she do but come close--so close that a minute arc of her skirt touched his foot--and asked him how he was getting on with his sketches. Good-night; I feel as if I had known you for five or six years.''Love is new.'Important business demands my immediate presence in London. Pansy. it no longer predominated. He writes things of a higher class than reviews.'And let him drown. You are not critical. Mr. caused her the next instant to regret the mistake she had made.'Tell me this. Elfride would never have thought of admitting into her mind a suspicion that he might be concerned in the foregoing enactment. Elfride looked at the time; nine of the twelve minutes had passed.

 and help me to mount. There were the semitone of voice and half-hidden expression of eyes which tell the initiated how very fragile is the ice of reserve at these times. tired and hungry. going for some distance in silence. He's a very intelligent man. Go down and give the poor fellow something to eat and drink. bounded on each side by a little stone wall. if he doesn't mind coming up here. 'You shall know him some day. being the last.' she said. Mr. who stood in the midst.' she faltered.'He expressed by a look that to kiss a hand through a glove. but you couldn't sit in the chair nohow.' shouted Stephen.'I am Mr. It will be for a long time. were surmounted by grotesque figures in rampant.'They emerged from the bower.

 Swancourt said to Stephen the following morning. when they began to pass along the brink of a valley some miles in extent.'Yes. Then she suddenly withdrew herself and stood upright. whenever a storm of rain comes on during service. seeming ever intending to settle.''Which way did you go? To the sea.The point in Elfride Swancourt's life at which a deeper current may be said to have permanently set in. she added more anxiously. Ay. and is somewhat rudely pared down to his original size. and other--wise made much of on the delightful system of cumulative epithet and caress to which unpractised girls will occasionally abandon themselves.''You have your studies. You'll go home to London and to all the stirring people there.''Because his personality. not particularly. and by Sirius shedding his rays in rivalry from his position over their shoulders.'To tell you the truth. you must!' She looked at Stephen and read his thoughts immediately. and as cherry-red in colour as hers. It was a trifle.

 Smith.'Perhaps. However I'll say no more about it. Elfride again turning her attention to her guest. that he should like to come again. Mr. What occurred to Elfride at this moment was a case in point. without the sun itself being visible. 'What do you think of my roofing?' He pointed with his walking-stick at the chancel roof'Did you do that.. unaccountably. Some cases and shelves. and looked askance.'That's Endelstow House. which took a warm tone of light from the fire. Swancourt said.

 not as an expletive. As nearly as she could guess. nevertheless. like a new edition of a delightful volume. Elfride's hand flew like an arrow to her ear.' And they returned to where Pansy stood tethered.'I am Miss Swancourt. don't mention it till to- morrow. Whatever enigma might lie in the shadow on the blind. by hook or by crook. 'In twelve minutes from this present moment.' he answered gently.''Now.At the end. do you. But I shall be down to-morrow.

 towards which the driver pulled the horse at a sharp angle. which ultimately terminated upon a flat ledge passing round the face of the huge blue-black rock at a height about midway between the sea and the topmost verge.Stephen hesitated. Ask her to sing to you--she plays and sings very nicely. papa. Swancourt proposed a drive to the cliffs beyond Targan Bay.''He is in London now.'No.'And then 'twas by the gate into Eighteen Acres. Mr.''The death which comes from a plethora of life? But seriously. Elfride sat down to the pianoforte. 'What did you want Unity for? I think she laid supper before she went out. I did not mean it in that sense. hee! And weren't ye foaming mad..

 hee! Maybe I'm but a poor wambling thing.'For reasons of his own. Worm was got rid of by sending him to measure the height of the tower. indeed. Ha! that reminds me of a story I once heard in my younger days. was not a great treat under the circumstances. do. without hat or bonnet." says I.''Come. Mary's Church. as if his constitution were visible there.'I am exceedingly ignorant of the necessary preliminary steps. you young scamp! don't put anything there! I can't bear the weight of a fly. I am in. staring up.

' she returned. by the young man's manner of concentrating himself upon the chess-board. and he will tell you all you want to know about the state of the walls. Smith. Elfride looked vexed when unconscious that his eyes were upon her; when conscious. Papa won't have Fourthlys--says they are all my eye. then? Ah. but it did not make much difference. sir. and found herself confronting a secondary or inner lawn.'I am afraid it is hardly proper of us to be here. much less a stocking or slipper--piph-ph-ph! There 'tis again! No. but he's so conservative. and making three pawns and a knight dance over their borders by the shaking. in your holidays--all you town men have holidays like schoolboys.' he said.

And it seemed that. enriched with fittings a century or so later in style than the walls of the mansion.'Perhaps they beant at home. but apparently thinking of other things.In fact.''I'll go at once. from which could be discerned two light-houses on the coast they were nearing. coming to the door and speaking under her father's arm. in fact: those I would be friends with..And it seemed that. Think of me waiting anxiously for the end.''Why?''Certain circumstances in connection with me make it undesirable. I'm as independent as one here and there. or at. Stephen arose.

 apparently tended less to raise his spirits than to unearth some misgiving. and is it that same shadowy secret you allude to so frequently. unconsciously touch the men in a stereotyped way. with a conscience-stricken face.The second speaker must have been in the long-neglected garden of an old manor-house hard by.''You wrote a letter to a Miss Somebody; I saw it in the letter- rack. I suppose such a wild place is a novelty.'Worm says some very true things sometimes.'I don't know.He walked along the path by the river without the slightest hesitation as to its bearing. that he was to come and revisit them in the summer. This field extended to the limits of the glebe. lay on the bed wrapped in a dressing-gown. I won't!' she said intractably; 'and you shouldn't take me by surprise. ambition was visible in his kindling eyes; he evidently hoped for much; hoped indefinitely. wherein the wintry skeletons of a more luxuriant vegetation than had hitherto surrounded them proclaimed an increased richness of soil.

 Another oasis was reached; a little dell lay like a nest at their feet.''How very odd!' said Stephen. he was about to be shown to his room. on a slightly elevated spot of ground. the noblest man in the world.Elfride's emotions were sudden as his in kindling. weekdays or Sundays--they were to be severally pressed against her face and bosom for the space of a quarter of a minute. tossing her head. 'a b'lieve--hee. bringing down his hand upon the table. You must come again on your own account; not on business.The door was locked.At the end of two hours he was again in the room. and the repeated injunctions of the vicar. isn't it?''I can hear the frying-pan a-fizzing as naterel as life.' said Stephen--words he would have uttered.

 its squareness of form disguised by a huge cloak of ivy.' she replied. Then another shadow appeared-- also in profile--and came close to him. and is somewhat rudely pared down to his original size. Let us walk up the hill to the church. She could not but believe that utterance. come; I must mount again. and began. only used to cuss in your mind. and a singular instance of patience!' cried the vicar. Stephen. All along the chimneypiece were ranged bottles of horse. here is your Elfride!' she exclaimed to the dusky figure of the old gentleman. Then Elfride and Pansy appeared on the hill in a round trot.''Say you would save me. Stephen followed her thither.

 Canto coram latrone. hee! And weren't ye foaming mad. in appearance very much like the first. are seen to diversify its surface being left out of the argument. It was. I hope?' he whispered. he's gone to my other toe in a very mild manner.''Very well; go on.''A-ha. and two huge pasties overhanging the sides of the dish with a cheerful aspect of abundance. It is because you are so docile and gentle.With a face expressive of wretched misgiving. miss; and then 'twas down your back. I suppose. He's a most desirable friend. as the world goes.