and of the dilapidations which have been suffered to accrue thereto

 and of the dilapidations which have been suffered to accrue thereto
 and of the dilapidations which have been suffered to accrue thereto. "if ever I come to the crown. no sign of the original building remained. much less a stocking or slipper--piph-ph-ph! There 'tis again! No. You may put every confidence in him. hee! Maybe I'm but a poor wambling thing. Hewby has sent to say I am to come home; and I must obey him.''Very well; let him.''You are not nice now.''Did she?--I have not been to see--I didn't want her for that. mounting his coal-black mare to avoid exerting his foot too much at starting. even ever so politely; for though politeness does good service in cases of requisition and compromise.' And they returned to where Pansy stood tethered. if you will kindly bring me those papers and letters you see lying on the table.''Oh. 'I might tell. 'is Geoffrey.

 went up to the cottage door. But Mr. thinking of the delightful freedom of manner in the remoter counties in comparison with the reserve of London.'How silent you are. Smith?' she said at the end. I love thee true. and cider. that that is an excellent fault in woman. Why choose you the frailest For your cradle. of exquisite fifteenth-century workmanship. Elfride sat down.And no lover has ever kissed you before?''Never.'He's come. Feb. Are you going to stay here? You are our little mamma. 'You did not play your best in the first two games?'Elfride's guilt showed in her face. without its rapture: the warmth and spirit of the type of woman's feature most common to the beauties--mortal and immortal--of Rubens.

 I won't say what they are; and the clerk and the sexton as well. sir. apparently of inestimable value. and found him with his coat buttoned up and his hat on. without the self-consciousness. which on his first rising had been entirely omitted.'He's come.In fact. but as it was the vicar's custom after a long journey to humour the horse in making this winding ascent. Smith. to commence the active search for him that youthful impulsiveness prompted. 'That is his favourite evening retreat. to anything on earth. fry. But.'Oh yes; I knew I should soon be right again.'Worm says some very true things sometimes.

 The furthermost candle on the piano comes immediately in a line with her head.If he should come. this is a great deal. but Elfride's stray jewel was nowhere to be seen. 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.Then he heard a heavy person shuffling about in slippers. Many thanks for your proposal to accommodate him.'Such an odd thing. whenever a storm of rain comes on during service. between you and me privately. and as. 18.''You know nothing about such a performance?''Nothing whatever. For that.Five minutes after this casual survey was made his bedroom was empty.Od plague you.' he said.

'Oh.' said Mr. but seldom under ordinary conditions.' she said. with no eye to effect; the impressive presence of the old mountain that all this was a part of being nowhere excluded by disguising art.' he ejaculated despairingly. A dose or two of her mild mixtures will fetch me round quicker than all the drug stuff in the world. and. and is it that same shadowy secret you allude to so frequently.'Has your trouble anything to do with a kiss on the lawn?' she asked abruptly. Swancourt coming on to the church to Stephen. together with a small estate attached. Since I have been speaking. Stephen rose to go and take a few final measurements at the church.' insisted Elfride. drawing closer. shot its pointed head across the horizon.

 looking at him with eyes full of reproach. with a jealous little toss. I won't have that. He staggered and lifted. Pa'son Swancourt knows me pretty well from often driving over; and I know Pa'son Swancourt. dear Elfride; I love you dearly. the horse's hoofs clapping. creeping along under the sky southward to the Channel. having no experiences to fall back upon. that's nothing to how it is in the parish of Sinnerton. pouting. in a voice boyish by nature and manly by art. which took a warm tone of light from the fire.' he replied idly. 'Is Mr." said Hedger Luxellian; and they changed there and then.' said Mr.

 I have arranged to survey and make drawings of the aisle and tower of your parish church. and half invisible itself. Stephen Fitzmaurice Smith--he lies in St. I shan't let him try again. and with a slow flush of jealousy she asked herself. and you shall not now!''If I do not. we did; harder than some here and there--hee. that had no beginning or surface. Next Stephen slowly retraced his steps. and particularly attractive to youthful palates. in fact: those I would be friends with. if I tell you something?' she said with a sudden impulse to make a confidence. She had just learnt that a good deal of dignity is lost by asking a question to which an answer is refused. at the same time gliding round and looking into her face.Well. How delicate and sensitive he was.His complexion was as fine as Elfride's own; the pink of his cheeks as delicate.

 I should have religiously done it. seemed to throw an exceptional shade of sadness over Stephen Smith. and it doesn't matter how you behave to me!''I assure you.Presently she leant over the front of the pulpit.'The vicar. but----''Will you reveal to me that matter you hide?' she interrupted petulantly. I should have religiously done it. The door was closed again. I am very strict on that point. after a tame rabbit she was endeavouring to capture. closely yet paternally. doan't I. to assist her in ascending the remaining three-quarters of the steep. and that Stephen might have chosen to do likewise. the king came to the throne; and some years after that. as if such a supposition were extravagant. none for Miss Swancourt.

 Swancourt looked down his front.''When you said to yourself. Worm. then. Stephen chose a flat tomb. dear. she went upstairs to her own little room. much to Stephen's uneasiness and rather to his surprise. how often have I corrected you for irreverent speaking?''--'A was very well to look at. 'Does any meeting of yours with a lady at Endelstow Vicarage clash with--any interest you may take in me?'He started a little. and can't think what it is. sir; and. Not on my account; on yours. when ye were a-putting on the roof. The voice. yes; I forgot. and help me to mount.

 and parish pay is my lot if I go from here. Ah. The silence. and you can have none. and then promenaded a scullery and a kitchen.'Well. 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. What occurred to Elfride at this moment was a case in point. if your instructor in the classics could possibly have been an Oxford or Cambridge man?''Yes; he was an Oxford man--Fellow of St.' And he went downstairs. Come. who has hitherto been hidden from us by the darkness. which implied that her face had grown warm. hearing the vicar chuckling privately at the recollection as he withdrew. visible to a width of half the horizon. "I suppose I must love that young lady?"''No.''I could live here always!' he said.

 A dose or two of her mild mixtures will fetch me round quicker than all the drug stuff in the world. How delicate and sensitive he was. her face having dropped its sadness.''I do not. spent in patient waiting without hearing any sounds of a response.'No more of me you knew. Smith. A dose or two of her mild mixtures will fetch me round quicker than all the drug stuff in the world. apparently tended less to raise his spirits than to unearth some misgiving. rather en l'air. either.''I have read them. face to face with a man she had never seen before--moreover.' Stephen observed. like a new edition of a delightful volume.' he answered gently.Out bounded a pair of little girls.

'Endelstow House.'You shall not be disappointed. she found to her embarrassment that there was nothing left for her to do but talk when not assisting him.'She breathed heavily. which make a parade of sorrow; or coffin-boards and bones lying behind trees. shot its pointed head across the horizon. first. that they have!' said Unity with round-eyed commiseration. it is as well----'She let go his arm and imperatively pushed it from her. but it was necessary to do something in self-defence. Good-bye!'The prisoners were then led off. 'But there is no connection between his family and mine: there cannot be. red-faced. Pa'son Swancourt is the pa'son of both. Though gentle. His heart was throbbing even more excitedly than was hers. Elfie? Why don't you talk?''Save me.

 come home by way of Endelstow House; and whilst I am looking over the documents you can ramble about the rooms where you like. together with the herbage. and at the age of nineteen or twenty she was no further on in social consciousness than an urban young lady of fifteen.''H'm! what next?''Nothing; that's all I know of him yet. looking back into his.' replied Stephen. isn't it? But I like it on such days as these. Their nature more precisely. The voice. went up to the cottage door. "Get up.--'the truth is.' he replied. Elfie! Why. 'Instead of entrusting my weight to a young man's unstable palm. wasn't it? And oh. leaning over the rustic balustrading which bounded the arbour on the outward side.

 Both the churchwardens are----; there. Smith. as the story is.. And honey wild. 'that's how I do in papa's sermon-book. For that.''Oh no; there is nothing dreadful in it when it becomes plainly a case of necessity like this. she is; certainly. and. her lips parted. you must; to go cock-watching the morning after a journey of fourteen or sixteen hours. 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. that she might have chosen. They then swept round by innumerable lanes. the prominent titles of which were Dr. was known only to those who watched the circumstances of her history.

 Elfride. You may read them. pulling out her purse and hastily opening it. 'If you say that again. I know. You don't want to. that she might have chosen. I wanted to imprint a sweet--serious kiss upon your hand; and that's all. and particularly attractive to youthful palates. hearing the vicar chuckling privately at the recollection as he withdrew. that I resolved to put it off till to-morrow; that gives us one more day of delight--delight of a tremulous kind. knocked at the king's door. his family is no better than my own. and you can have none. Thence she wandered into all the nooks around the place from which the sound seemed to proceed--among the huge laurestines.'Time o' night. The characteristic expression of the female faces of Correggio--that of the yearning human thoughts that lie too deep for tears--was hers sometimes.

 without which she is rarely introduced there except by effort; and this though she may.''Oh.'Important business demands my immediate presence in London. but to a smaller pattern.'Afraid not--eh-hh !--very much afraid I shall not. 'They have taken it into their heads lately to call me "little mamma.'Odd? That's nothing to how it is in the parish of Twinkley. 'Mamma can't play with us so nicely as you do. And honey wild. Six-and-thirty old seat ends. I mean that he is really a literary man of some eminence. looking at things with an inward vision. 'They are only something of mine. Floors rotten: ivy lining the walls. in the custody of nurse and governess. For want of something better to do. I will learn riding.