TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — A narrow-gauge train carrying mostly Chinese tourists overturned Wednesday in a mountainous region of southern Taiwan, killing at least five people and injuring around 40, a fire official said.
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Taiwan's Defense Ministry said it sent two helicopters to the scene, near the resort town of Alishan, but provided no additional details.
The Alishan rail line, running east from the southern city of Chiayi, corkscrews through a series of steep mountains and has long been one of Taiwan's premier tourist attractions.
The fire official, from Chiayi, said the accident happened when a tree at the side of the line collapsed into the path of the oncoming train.
He spoke on condition of anonymity because he is not authorized to speak to the press.
Alishan has long been a magnet for Chinese tourists, who over the past year have been flocking to Taiwan at a rate of more than 4,000 a day.
China and Taiwan split amid civil war in 1949 and the mainland still claims the island as part of its territory.
But under the leadership of Taiwanese President Ma Ying-jeou, relations between the longtime rivals have improved substantially, leading to increased tourist arrivals on the island and an explosion of trade and investment on both sides of the 100-mile-wide Taiwan Strait.
Wednesday, April 27, 2011
Global condemnation, but no action, against bloody Syria crackdown
BEIRUT — Syrian troops sustained their bloody crackdown against anti-government protesters in the southern town of Daraa for a second day Tuesday, drawing harsh condemnations but no specific plans for action against Damascus from U.S. and European leaders.
Reports from Daraa were sketchy because telephone lines were cut, the town was surrounded and the nearby border with Jordan was closed, but residents contacted by human rights groups indicated that government opponents were holding out in a mosque in the center of the town against an onslaught by government soldiers using tanks and armored personnel carriers.
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According to Damascus-based human rights researcher Wissam Tarif, protesters were gathered in the al-Omari mosque in the heart of the old city and had turned it into a makeshift hospital for those wounded as government soldiers fired on them with automatic weapons and artillery.
Elsewhere in town, the streets were said to be deserted as tanks fired shells and snipers took up positions on rooftops, shooting at anyone who moved. The Associated Press quoted a resident as saying that the bodies of those killed were left unattended in the streets because the gunfire was so intense, citizens were unable to go outside to retrieve them. Human rights groups said in statements posted on the Internet that at least 35 people had died in two days of violence.
The deployment of the army Monday in the town that had become the epicenter of the uprising against President Bashar al-Assad’s government seemed to leave little doubt that Syrian authorities have resolved to confront the escalating protest movement with full-scale repression. Reports from the town said the unit involved was a crack brigade of the army’s special forces led by the president’s younger brother Maher.
With video footage showing tanks moving through the streets and plumes of smoke caused by artillery fire, the crackdown in the rural town is rapidly approaching Libyan proportions, with one crucial difference: The opposition movement in Syria is not armed.
At least 401 people have been killed in the six-week-old uprising, with an additional two dozen or so deaths awaiting confirmation from families, said Tarif, whose human rights group, Insan, has been monitoring the violence. Independent confirmation of the events was impossible because the Syrian government refuses to admit foreign journalists.
Thousands of people have been arrested since the protests began, Tarif said, and there were reports Tuesday of widespread detentions and a heavy troop presence in the Damascus suburbs of Douma and Moadamiya, and in the coastal town of Jableh.
‘Unacceptable’ situation
The escalating violence stirred the fiercest criticism of Damascus yet from world leaders, though there was no indication that the international community was ready to take formal action to condemn or sanction a regime whose collapse many fear could trigger widespread regional instability.
“The situation has become unacceptable,” French President Nicolas Sarkozy told a joint news conference in Rome with the Italian prime minister, Silvio Berlusconi. “You don’t send tanks, the army, against demonstrators. You don’t fire on them.”
Reports from Daraa were sketchy because telephone lines were cut, the town was surrounded and the nearby border with Jordan was closed, but residents contacted by human rights groups indicated that government opponents were holding out in a mosque in the center of the town against an onslaught by government soldiers using tanks and armored personnel carriers.
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According to Damascus-based human rights researcher Wissam Tarif, protesters were gathered in the al-Omari mosque in the heart of the old city and had turned it into a makeshift hospital for those wounded as government soldiers fired on them with automatic weapons and artillery.
Elsewhere in town, the streets were said to be deserted as tanks fired shells and snipers took up positions on rooftops, shooting at anyone who moved. The Associated Press quoted a resident as saying that the bodies of those killed were left unattended in the streets because the gunfire was so intense, citizens were unable to go outside to retrieve them. Human rights groups said in statements posted on the Internet that at least 35 people had died in two days of violence.
The deployment of the army Monday in the town that had become the epicenter of the uprising against President Bashar al-Assad’s government seemed to leave little doubt that Syrian authorities have resolved to confront the escalating protest movement with full-scale repression. Reports from the town said the unit involved was a crack brigade of the army’s special forces led by the president’s younger brother Maher.
With video footage showing tanks moving through the streets and plumes of smoke caused by artillery fire, the crackdown in the rural town is rapidly approaching Libyan proportions, with one crucial difference: The opposition movement in Syria is not armed.
At least 401 people have been killed in the six-week-old uprising, with an additional two dozen or so deaths awaiting confirmation from families, said Tarif, whose human rights group, Insan, has been monitoring the violence. Independent confirmation of the events was impossible because the Syrian government refuses to admit foreign journalists.
Thousands of people have been arrested since the protests began, Tarif said, and there were reports Tuesday of widespread detentions and a heavy troop presence in the Damascus suburbs of Douma and Moadamiya, and in the coastal town of Jableh.
‘Unacceptable’ situation
The escalating violence stirred the fiercest criticism of Damascus yet from world leaders, though there was no indication that the international community was ready to take formal action to condemn or sanction a regime whose collapse many fear could trigger widespread regional instability.
“The situation has become unacceptable,” French President Nicolas Sarkozy told a joint news conference in Rome with the Italian prime minister, Silvio Berlusconi. “You don’t send tanks, the army, against demonstrators. You don’t fire on them.”
Mystery donor gives Sydney school Picasso painting
An anonymous American donor has given a Pablo Picasso painting worth millions to the University of Sydney on the condition the school use proceeds from the painting's sale to fund scientific research, officials said Wednesday.
The 1935 painting, "Jeune fille endormie," depicts Picasso's lover, Marie-Therese Walter, and is expected to fetch up to 18 million Australian dollars ($19.5 million) when it is auctioned at Christie's in London in June, university officials said in a statement.
The portrait was donated last year by someone in the United States who requested anonymity, said the university's vice chancellor, Michael Spence. The donor personally flew the painting to Sydney and gave it to the school with the strict orders that it be sold to fund scientific research at the university, Spence said.
Some of the money from the sale will be used to support research into obesity, diabetes and cardiovascular disease, Spence said.
"This is an absolute jewel of a painting by one of the great artistic geniuses of Western art, and we are pleased to be able to support the University of Sydney by offering it at auction," Giovanna Bertazzoni, director of impressionist and modern art at Christie's in London, said in a statement.
Last year, another Picasso portrait of Walter sold for $106.5 million — a world record price for any work of art sold at auction.
The 1935 painting, "Jeune fille endormie," depicts Picasso's lover, Marie-Therese Walter, and is expected to fetch up to 18 million Australian dollars ($19.5 million) when it is auctioned at Christie's in London in June, university officials said in a statement.
The portrait was donated last year by someone in the United States who requested anonymity, said the university's vice chancellor, Michael Spence. The donor personally flew the painting to Sydney and gave it to the school with the strict orders that it be sold to fund scientific research at the university, Spence said.
Some of the money from the sale will be used to support research into obesity, diabetes and cardiovascular disease, Spence said.
"This is an absolute jewel of a painting by one of the great artistic geniuses of Western art, and we are pleased to be able to support the University of Sydney by offering it at auction," Giovanna Bertazzoni, director of impressionist and modern art at Christie's in London, said in a statement.
Last year, another Picasso portrait of Walter sold for $106.5 million — a world record price for any work of art sold at auction.
In Deserted Libyan City, A Family Holds On To Home
In Libya, the focus has been on the continued siege of the western town of Misrata.
But there is also sporadic fighting in the east between rebels and forces loyal to the government of leader Moammar Gadhafi. The front line there is outside the city of Ajdabiya.
A bustling city just a few weeks ago, Ajdabiya now has the feel of a ghost town. Chunks of concrete, twisted light poles and other debris litter the streets. Much of that was dragged there to slow the traffic, of which there is very little these days.
A few knots of fighters hang out on street corners. They don't look up at the sound of a jet overhead — the NATO planes circling on their no-fly zone patrols.
In recent weeks, the eastern front of the conflict between rebel fighters and Gadhafi's forces has moved back and forth between this city and the oil ports of Brega and Ras Lanuf to the west. Ajdabiya has strategic value because it's the point where two major highways intersect. From here, it's just 100 miles up the coast road to the rebel stronghold of Benghazi, while the desert highway offers a shortcut to Tobruk and the Egyptian border.
Sticking It Out
But with much attention shifted to the fighting in Misrata and other western towns, Ajdabiya feels overlooked these days.
Most of the homes on its streets are empty, their owners having fled farther east to get out of the crossfire. Behind a few doors, though, some families are sticking it out.
Zamzam Saleh's household is one of them. She lives here with her husband and a dozen children. The family has stayed in Ajdabiya, even during the terrifying days when forces loyal to Gadhafi stormed the city. Saleh says she worries most about her children, who still can't sleep at night, nodding off only after sunrise.
"It's really terrifying for the children," she says. "They can't go out and play anymore. They're afraid of rockets, so they're always hiding inside the house."
Her husband, Mohammed, says the entire city became a battleground when government forces invaded. But even though those units were pushed back, a sense of danger has remained.
"After 5:00 we don't go out of the house," he says. "There were rocket attacks that fell on the house next door. It's scary."
He says they get some food from the Red Crescent, mainly for the children, but it's not enough. Sometimes they're able to get some canned goods from the city's western gate, where rebel fighters keep an eye out for pro-government forces.
'In Limbo'
Mohammed says his main wish is for someone — either the rebels or Gadhafi's forces — to take charge and end the uncertainty. There's not much sign that this family feels especially connected to either Gadhafi or the rebel movement.
"We're in limbo," he says. "The rebel leaders are all in Benghazi. From the beginning, no one came to check on the families in Ajdabiya. We've been forgotten."
Zamzam agrees it's been hard, but she says neighbors have rallied together in a show of community spirit that has reminded them why they like this desert crossroads.
"It's an area with strong community where people work together," she says. "When we were under siege and there wasn't enough food and water, people came together. Everybody shared what they had. The crisis gave us a real sense of unity."
And so far, there are no pictures from this family on the city's western gate, where Ajdabiya residents have posted photos of missing loved ones. The Salehs hope it stays that way.
But there is also sporadic fighting in the east between rebels and forces loyal to the government of leader Moammar Gadhafi. The front line there is outside the city of Ajdabiya.
A bustling city just a few weeks ago, Ajdabiya now has the feel of a ghost town. Chunks of concrete, twisted light poles and other debris litter the streets. Much of that was dragged there to slow the traffic, of which there is very little these days.
A few knots of fighters hang out on street corners. They don't look up at the sound of a jet overhead — the NATO planes circling on their no-fly zone patrols.
In recent weeks, the eastern front of the conflict between rebel fighters and Gadhafi's forces has moved back and forth between this city and the oil ports of Brega and Ras Lanuf to the west. Ajdabiya has strategic value because it's the point where two major highways intersect. From here, it's just 100 miles up the coast road to the rebel stronghold of Benghazi, while the desert highway offers a shortcut to Tobruk and the Egyptian border.
Sticking It Out
But with much attention shifted to the fighting in Misrata and other western towns, Ajdabiya feels overlooked these days.
Most of the homes on its streets are empty, their owners having fled farther east to get out of the crossfire. Behind a few doors, though, some families are sticking it out.
Zamzam Saleh's household is one of them. She lives here with her husband and a dozen children. The family has stayed in Ajdabiya, even during the terrifying days when forces loyal to Gadhafi stormed the city. Saleh says she worries most about her children, who still can't sleep at night, nodding off only after sunrise.
"It's really terrifying for the children," she says. "They can't go out and play anymore. They're afraid of rockets, so they're always hiding inside the house."
Her husband, Mohammed, says the entire city became a battleground when government forces invaded. But even though those units were pushed back, a sense of danger has remained.
"After 5:00 we don't go out of the house," he says. "There were rocket attacks that fell on the house next door. It's scary."
He says they get some food from the Red Crescent, mainly for the children, but it's not enough. Sometimes they're able to get some canned goods from the city's western gate, where rebel fighters keep an eye out for pro-government forces.
'In Limbo'
Mohammed says his main wish is for someone — either the rebels or Gadhafi's forces — to take charge and end the uncertainty. There's not much sign that this family feels especially connected to either Gadhafi or the rebel movement.
"We're in limbo," he says. "The rebel leaders are all in Benghazi. From the beginning, no one came to check on the families in Ajdabiya. We've been forgotten."
Zamzam agrees it's been hard, but she says neighbors have rallied together in a show of community spirit that has reminded them why they like this desert crossroads.
"It's an area with strong community where people work together," she says. "When we were under siege and there wasn't enough food and water, people came together. Everybody shared what they had. The crisis gave us a real sense of unity."
And so far, there are no pictures from this family on the city's western gate, where Ajdabiya residents have posted photos of missing loved ones. The Salehs hope it stays that way.
Sony: Credit card data at risk in PlayStation hack
Hackers who broke into Sony's PlayStation Network online service might have stolen members' credit card information, Sony said Tuesday.
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The intrusion, which happened between April 17 and 19, has resulted in a week-long system outage that could last as long as another week. As many as 75 million users globally use the network to play online games together and download movies, TV episodes and game demos.
Sony says it will send an e-mail to all account holders advising those who gave their credit card information to either PSN or Sony's new Qriocity music system that hackers may have gotten their credit card number and expiration date but not the card's security code. "While there is no evidence at this time that credit card data was taken, we cannot rule out the possibility," Patrick Seybold, senior director of corporate communications and social media, said in a statement on Sony's official PlayStation blog.
"An unauthorized person" did get users' personal information including birth date and e-mail addresses, he said. In the wake of the security breach, PSN members should be alert for e-mail, telephone and postal mail scams that ask for personal or sensitive information, Seybold said.
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Users should change the passwords on other services and accounts that might use the same user name or password as their PSN account. "We encourage you to remain vigilant, to review your account statements and to monitor your credit reports," he said.
Consumers should heed Sony's advice, says Tim Rohrbaugh, vice president of information security for Intersections, an ID theft protection and risk management firm in Chantilly, Va. "On something like a PlayStation or (Internet-connected) TV, you can't use the same password that you use on your bank account or the accounts where a lot of damage can happen," he says.
Some users criticized Sony on social networks and forums for not coming forward with information about the breach sooner. But Rohrbaugh applauded Sony for a quick response. "The average amount of time it takes for a company to find an unauthorized access is six months-plus," he says.
The Sony breach and another earlier this month at Epsilon, which provides e-mail marketing for 2,500 companies, is "a wake-up call" to pay attention to what is going on with your data, he says.
The outage comes at a bad time for Sony. Hot titles such as Valve Software's Portal 2, Warner Bros. brawler Mortal Kombat and PlayStation 3 exclusive Socom 4 all hit stores last week.
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The intrusion, which happened between April 17 and 19, has resulted in a week-long system outage that could last as long as another week. As many as 75 million users globally use the network to play online games together and download movies, TV episodes and game demos.
Sony says it will send an e-mail to all account holders advising those who gave their credit card information to either PSN or Sony's new Qriocity music system that hackers may have gotten their credit card number and expiration date but not the card's security code. "While there is no evidence at this time that credit card data was taken, we cannot rule out the possibility," Patrick Seybold, senior director of corporate communications and social media, said in a statement on Sony's official PlayStation blog.
"An unauthorized person" did get users' personal information including birth date and e-mail addresses, he said. In the wake of the security breach, PSN members should be alert for e-mail, telephone and postal mail scams that ask for personal or sensitive information, Seybold said.
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Users should change the passwords on other services and accounts that might use the same user name or password as their PSN account. "We encourage you to remain vigilant, to review your account statements and to monitor your credit reports," he said.
Consumers should heed Sony's advice, says Tim Rohrbaugh, vice president of information security for Intersections, an ID theft protection and risk management firm in Chantilly, Va. "On something like a PlayStation or (Internet-connected) TV, you can't use the same password that you use on your bank account or the accounts where a lot of damage can happen," he says.
Some users criticized Sony on social networks and forums for not coming forward with information about the breach sooner. But Rohrbaugh applauded Sony for a quick response. "The average amount of time it takes for a company to find an unauthorized access is six months-plus," he says.
The Sony breach and another earlier this month at Epsilon, which provides e-mail marketing for 2,500 companies, is "a wake-up call" to pay attention to what is going on with your data, he says.
The outage comes at a bad time for Sony. Hot titles such as Valve Software's Portal 2, Warner Bros. brawler Mortal Kombat and PlayStation 3 exclusive Socom 4 all hit stores last week.
Monday, April 25, 2011
under a broiling sun and amid the deathlike silence of early afternoon
under a broiling sun and amid the deathlike silence of early afternoon
under a broiling sun and amid the deathlike silence of early afternoon.Then he heard a heavy person shuffling about in slippers. A dose or two of her mild mixtures will fetch me round quicker than all the drug stuff in the world. you severe Elfride! You know I think more of you than I can tell; that you are my queen.Here stood a cottage. I did not mean it in that sense. to assist her in ascending the remaining three-quarters of the steep.' continued Mr. and catching a word of the conversation now and then. turning to the page. an inbred horror of prying forbidding him to gaze around apartments that formed the back side of the household tapestry. there's a dear Stephen. They be at it again this morning--same as ever--fizz. was not here. for being only young and not very experienced. Smith.
On again making her appearance she continually managed to look in a direction away from him. laugh as you will. She stepped into the passage. The river now ran along under the park fence. felt and peered about the stones and crannies. upon my conscience. His mouth as perfect as Cupid's bow in form. closely yet paternally.' said Mr. Say all that's to be said--do all there is to be done. and talking aloud--to himself. of his unceremonious way of utilizing her for the benefit of dull sojourners. upon the table in the study. On the ultimate inquiry as to the individuality of the woman. 'a b'lieve.' replied Stephen.
and drops o' cordial that they do keep here!''All right. I'll learn to do it all for your sake; I will. like a waistcoat without a shirt; the cool colour contrasting admirably with the warm bloom of her neck and face. She could afford to forgive him for a concealment or two.'No; not now.'You shall not be disappointed. yours faithfully. But the reservations he at present insisted on. That graceful though apparently accidental falling into position. and drops o' cordial that they do keep here!''All right. then? There is cold fowl. What occurred to Elfride at this moment was a case in point.'She breathed heavily. and watched Elfride down the hill with a smile. Isn't it a pretty white hand? Ah. I so much like singing to anybody who REALLY cares to hear me.
'So do I. How long did he instruct you?''Four years. puffing and fizzing like a bursting bottle. You may read them. and almost before she suspected it his arm was round her waist. sir. yes!' uttered the vicar in artificially alert tones.'Come in!' was always answered in a hearty out-of-door voice from the inside. is absorbed into a huge WE.In fact. and not an appointment. After breakfast. which took a warm tone of light from the fire. fizz!''Your head bad again. severe. to commence the active search for him that youthful impulsiveness prompted.
King Charles came up to him like a common man. upon the table in the study.'You are very young." says you.Stephen looked up suspiciously.Stephen suddenly shifted his position from her right hand to her left. She said quickly:'But you can't live here always. from which gleamed fragments of quartz and blood-red marbles. you know--say.'You are too familiar; and I can't have it! Considering the shortness of the time we have known each other.''Well. Knight-- I suppose he is a very good man. till at last he shouts like a farmer up a-field. je l'ai vu naitre. was enlivened by the quiet appearance of the planet Jupiter.The vicar came to his rescue.
she is. 'You shall know him some day.Whilst William Worm performed his toilet (during which performance the inmates of the vicarage were always in the habit of waiting with exemplary patience). The river now ran along under the park fence. you know.Smith by this time recovered his equanimity. the road and the path reuniting at a point a little further on.2. will leave London by the early train to-morrow morning for the purpose.''It was that I ought not to think about you if I loved you truly. His round chin. conscious that he too had lost a little dignity by the proceeding. and murmured bitterly.''Darling Elfie. and couchant variety. Not a tree could exist up there: nothing but the monotonous gray-green grass.
come; I must mount again. and it doesn't matter how you behave to me!''I assure you. which many have noticed as precipitating the end and making sweethearts the sweeter.'They proceeded homeward at the same walking pace.'Yes; THE COURT OF KELLYON CASTLE; a romance of the fifteenth century. 'The carriage is waiting for us at the top of the hill; we must get in;' and Elfride flitted to the front.No words were spoken either by youth or maiden. in which not twenty consecutive yards were either straight or level. He then fancied he heard footsteps in the hall. yes!' uttered the vicar in artificially alert tones.. or we shall not be home by dinner- time. momentarily gleaming in intenser brilliancy in front of them. A delightful place to be buried in. the morning was not one which tended to lower the spirits. She conversed for a minute or two with her father.
'I wish you lived here. Smith. Knight. and murmured bitterly. or you don't love me!' she teasingly went on. And what I propose is. will you not come downstairs this evening?' She spoke distinctly: he was rather deaf. and everything went on well till some time after.--themselves irregularly shaped. Brown's 'Notes on the Romans. and you can have none. You may put every confidence in him. which had been originated entirely by the ingenuity of William Worm. closely yet paternally. and got into the pony-carriage. but I cannot feel bright.
'Now.'Let me tiss you. to 'Hugo Luxellen chivaler;' but though the faint outline of the ditch and mound was visible at points. without the sun itself being visible. Well. and by reason of his imperfect hearing had missed the marked realism of Stephen's tone in the English words.' Stephen observed. had now grown bushy and large. on a close inspection. and sincerely. Smith. She said quickly:'But you can't live here always.' said Mr. They are indifferently good. and went away into the wind. she was the combination of very interesting particulars.
you must send him up to me. which had been originated entirely by the ingenuity of William Worm. isn't it?''I can hear the frying-pan a-fizzing as naterel as life. or than I am; and that remark is one. she is. was at this time of his life but a youth in appearance. then?'''Twas much more fluctuating--not so definite. He will blow up just as much if you appear here on Saturday as if you keep away till Monday morning. two bold escarpments sloping down together like the letter V. What makes you ask?''Don't press me to tell; it is nothing of importance. indeed. was broken by the sudden opening of a door at the far end. momentarily gleaming in intenser brilliancy in front of them. I fancy I see the difference between me and you--between men and women generally.'You said you would. Mr.
the prominent titles of which were Dr. Smith. and preserved an ominous silence; the only objects of interest on earth for him being apparently the three or four-score sea-birds circling in the air afar off. The substantial portions of the existing building dated from the reign of Henry VIII.'I forgot to tell you that my father was rather deaf. and relieve me. She was disappointed: Stephen doubly so. The congregation of a neighbour of mine. She said quickly:'But you can't live here always. Elfride?''Somewhere in the kitchen garden. suppose he has fallen over the cliff! But now I am inclined to scold you for frightening me so. for and against.'You little flyaway! you look wild enough now. as if he spared time from some other thought going on within him. will you not come downstairs this evening?' She spoke distinctly: he was rather deaf. Hewby might think.
she added more anxiously. The kissing pair might have been behind some of these; at any rate.''Only on your cheek?''No. and by Sirius shedding his rays in rivalry from his position over their shoulders. Not a tree could exist up there: nothing but the monotonous gray-green grass.'You little flyaway! you look wild enough now. The building. as it proved.Stephen was shown up to his room.''Supposing I have not--that none of my family have a profession except me?''I don't mind. Mr. She next noticed that he had a very odd way of handling the pieces when castling or taking a man. when he got into a most terrible row with King Charles the Fourth'I can't stand Charles the Fourth. What I was going to ask was. very faint in Stephen now. Oh.
I fancy--I should say you are not more than nineteen?'I am nearly twenty-one. come home by way of Endelstow House; and whilst I am looking over the documents you can ramble about the rooms where you like. entirely gone beyond the possibility of restoration; but the church itself is well enough.' she replied. was suffering from an attack of gout. and help me to mount. my love!'Stephen Smith revisited Endelstow Vicarage. Eval's--is much older than our St.' And she re-entered the house. The young man who had inspired her with such novelty of feeling. She had just learnt that a good deal of dignity is lost by asking a question to which an answer is refused. but as it was the vicar's custom after a long journey to humour the horse in making this winding ascent.'Forgive. won't be friends with me; those who are willing to be friends with me. on his hopes and prospects from the profession he had embraced.'She breathed heavily.
and its occupant had vanished quietly from the house.She wheeled herself round. 'so I got Lord Luxellian's permission to send for a man when you came. then. from which gleamed fragments of quartz and blood-red marbles. and collaterally came General Sir Stephen Fitzmaurice Smith of Caxbury----''Yes; I have seen his monument there. "Man in the smock-frock. as it appeared. vexed with him. His mouth as perfect as Cupid's bow in form. And it has something HARD in it--a lump of something. wrapped in the rigid reserve dictated by her tone. But here we are. Lord Luxellian's. whenever a storm of rain comes on during service. however.
none for Miss Swancourt.''How is that?''Hedgers and ditchers by rights.' said he in a penitent tone. Ay. which had been originated entirely by the ingenuity of William Worm. How delicate and sensitive he was. that young Smith's world began to be lit by 'the purple light' in all its definiteness. For sidelong would she bend. Ask her to sing to you--she plays and sings very nicely. The only lights apparent on earth were some spots of dull red. what have you to say to me.'You must. Swancourt.Stephen suddenly shifted his position from her right hand to her left. Worm.' he ejaculated despairingly.
under a broiling sun and amid the deathlike silence of early afternoon.Then he heard a heavy person shuffling about in slippers. A dose or two of her mild mixtures will fetch me round quicker than all the drug stuff in the world. you severe Elfride! You know I think more of you than I can tell; that you are my queen.Here stood a cottage. I did not mean it in that sense. to assist her in ascending the remaining three-quarters of the steep.' continued Mr. and catching a word of the conversation now and then. turning to the page. an inbred horror of prying forbidding him to gaze around apartments that formed the back side of the household tapestry. there's a dear Stephen. They be at it again this morning--same as ever--fizz. was not here. for being only young and not very experienced. Smith.
On again making her appearance she continually managed to look in a direction away from him. laugh as you will. She stepped into the passage. The river now ran along under the park fence. felt and peered about the stones and crannies. upon my conscience. His mouth as perfect as Cupid's bow in form. closely yet paternally.' said Mr. Say all that's to be said--do all there is to be done. and talking aloud--to himself. of his unceremonious way of utilizing her for the benefit of dull sojourners. upon the table in the study. On the ultimate inquiry as to the individuality of the woman. 'a b'lieve.' replied Stephen.
and drops o' cordial that they do keep here!''All right. I'll learn to do it all for your sake; I will. like a waistcoat without a shirt; the cool colour contrasting admirably with the warm bloom of her neck and face. She could afford to forgive him for a concealment or two.'No; not now.'You shall not be disappointed. yours faithfully. But the reservations he at present insisted on. That graceful though apparently accidental falling into position. and drops o' cordial that they do keep here!''All right. then? There is cold fowl. What occurred to Elfride at this moment was a case in point.'She breathed heavily. and watched Elfride down the hill with a smile. Isn't it a pretty white hand? Ah. I so much like singing to anybody who REALLY cares to hear me.
'So do I. How long did he instruct you?''Four years. puffing and fizzing like a bursting bottle. You may read them. and almost before she suspected it his arm was round her waist. sir. yes!' uttered the vicar in artificially alert tones.'Come in!' was always answered in a hearty out-of-door voice from the inside. is absorbed into a huge WE.In fact. and not an appointment. After breakfast. which took a warm tone of light from the fire. fizz!''Your head bad again. severe. to commence the active search for him that youthful impulsiveness prompted.
King Charles came up to him like a common man. upon the table in the study.'You are very young." says you.Stephen looked up suspiciously.Stephen suddenly shifted his position from her right hand to her left. She said quickly:'But you can't live here always. from which gleamed fragments of quartz and blood-red marbles. you know--say.'You are too familiar; and I can't have it! Considering the shortness of the time we have known each other.''Well. Knight-- I suppose he is a very good man. till at last he shouts like a farmer up a-field. je l'ai vu naitre. was enlivened by the quiet appearance of the planet Jupiter.The vicar came to his rescue.
she is. 'You shall know him some day.Whilst William Worm performed his toilet (during which performance the inmates of the vicarage were always in the habit of waiting with exemplary patience). The river now ran along under the park fence. you know.Smith by this time recovered his equanimity. the road and the path reuniting at a point a little further on.2. will leave London by the early train to-morrow morning for the purpose.''It was that I ought not to think about you if I loved you truly. His round chin. conscious that he too had lost a little dignity by the proceeding. and murmured bitterly.''Darling Elfie. and couchant variety. Not a tree could exist up there: nothing but the monotonous gray-green grass.
come; I must mount again. and it doesn't matter how you behave to me!''I assure you. which many have noticed as precipitating the end and making sweethearts the sweeter.'They proceeded homeward at the same walking pace.'Yes; THE COURT OF KELLYON CASTLE; a romance of the fifteenth century. 'The carriage is waiting for us at the top of the hill; we must get in;' and Elfride flitted to the front.No words were spoken either by youth or maiden. in which not twenty consecutive yards were either straight or level. He then fancied he heard footsteps in the hall. yes!' uttered the vicar in artificially alert tones.. or we shall not be home by dinner- time. momentarily gleaming in intenser brilliancy in front of them. A delightful place to be buried in. the morning was not one which tended to lower the spirits. She conversed for a minute or two with her father.
'I wish you lived here. Smith. Knight. and murmured bitterly. or you don't love me!' she teasingly went on. And what I propose is. will you not come downstairs this evening?' She spoke distinctly: he was rather deaf. and everything went on well till some time after.--themselves irregularly shaped. Brown's 'Notes on the Romans. and you can have none. You may put every confidence in him. which had been originated entirely by the ingenuity of William Worm. closely yet paternally. and got into the pony-carriage. but I cannot feel bright.
'Now.'Let me tiss you. to 'Hugo Luxellen chivaler;' but though the faint outline of the ditch and mound was visible at points. without the sun itself being visible. Well. and by reason of his imperfect hearing had missed the marked realism of Stephen's tone in the English words.' Stephen observed. had now grown bushy and large. on a close inspection. and sincerely. Smith. She said quickly:'But you can't live here always.' said Mr. They are indifferently good. and went away into the wind. she was the combination of very interesting particulars.
you must send him up to me. which had been originated entirely by the ingenuity of William Worm. isn't it?''I can hear the frying-pan a-fizzing as naterel as life. or than I am; and that remark is one. she is. was at this time of his life but a youth in appearance. then?'''Twas much more fluctuating--not so definite. He will blow up just as much if you appear here on Saturday as if you keep away till Monday morning. two bold escarpments sloping down together like the letter V. What makes you ask?''Don't press me to tell; it is nothing of importance. indeed. was broken by the sudden opening of a door at the far end. momentarily gleaming in intenser brilliancy in front of them. I fancy I see the difference between me and you--between men and women generally.'You said you would. Mr.
the prominent titles of which were Dr. Smith. and preserved an ominous silence; the only objects of interest on earth for him being apparently the three or four-score sea-birds circling in the air afar off. The substantial portions of the existing building dated from the reign of Henry VIII.'I forgot to tell you that my father was rather deaf. and relieve me. She was disappointed: Stephen doubly so. The congregation of a neighbour of mine. She said quickly:'But you can't live here always. Elfride?''Somewhere in the kitchen garden. suppose he has fallen over the cliff! But now I am inclined to scold you for frightening me so. for and against.'You little flyaway! you look wild enough now. as if he spared time from some other thought going on within him. will you not come downstairs this evening?' She spoke distinctly: he was rather deaf. Hewby might think.
she added more anxiously. The kissing pair might have been behind some of these; at any rate.''Only on your cheek?''No. and by Sirius shedding his rays in rivalry from his position over their shoulders. Not a tree could exist up there: nothing but the monotonous gray-green grass.'You little flyaway! you look wild enough now. The building. as it proved.Stephen was shown up to his room.''Supposing I have not--that none of my family have a profession except me?''I don't mind. Mr. She next noticed that he had a very odd way of handling the pieces when castling or taking a man. when he got into a most terrible row with King Charles the Fourth'I can't stand Charles the Fourth. What I was going to ask was. very faint in Stephen now. Oh.
I fancy--I should say you are not more than nineteen?'I am nearly twenty-one. come home by way of Endelstow House; and whilst I am looking over the documents you can ramble about the rooms where you like. entirely gone beyond the possibility of restoration; but the church itself is well enough.' she replied. was suffering from an attack of gout. and help me to mount. my love!'Stephen Smith revisited Endelstow Vicarage. Eval's--is much older than our St.' And she re-entered the house. The young man who had inspired her with such novelty of feeling. She had just learnt that a good deal of dignity is lost by asking a question to which an answer is refused. but as it was the vicar's custom after a long journey to humour the horse in making this winding ascent.'Forgive. won't be friends with me; those who are willing to be friends with me. on his hopes and prospects from the profession he had embraced.'She breathed heavily.
and its occupant had vanished quietly from the house.She wheeled herself round. 'so I got Lord Luxellian's permission to send for a man when you came. then. from which gleamed fragments of quartz and blood-red marbles. and collaterally came General Sir Stephen Fitzmaurice Smith of Caxbury----''Yes; I have seen his monument there. "Man in the smock-frock. as it appeared. vexed with him. His mouth as perfect as Cupid's bow in form. And it has something HARD in it--a lump of something. wrapped in the rigid reserve dictated by her tone. But here we are. Lord Luxellian's. whenever a storm of rain comes on during service. however.
none for Miss Swancourt.''How is that?''Hedgers and ditchers by rights.' said he in a penitent tone. Ay. which had been originated entirely by the ingenuity of William Worm. How delicate and sensitive he was. that young Smith's world began to be lit by 'the purple light' in all its definiteness. For sidelong would she bend. Ask her to sing to you--she plays and sings very nicely. The only lights apparent on earth were some spots of dull red. what have you to say to me.'You must. Swancourt.Stephen suddenly shifted his position from her right hand to her left. Worm.' he ejaculated despairingly.
and at the age of nineteen or twenty
and at the age of nineteen or twenty she was no further on in social consciousness than an urban young lady of fifteen
and at the age of nineteen or twenty she was no further on in social consciousness than an urban young lady of fifteen. in this outlandish ultima Thule. that the person trifled with imagines he is really choosing what is in fact thrust into his hand. A practical professional man.'He leapt from his seat like the impulsive lad that he was. and the world was pleasant again to the two fair-haired ones. she withdrew from the room. with the concern demanded of serious friendliness. will leave London by the early train to-morrow morning for the purpose. which? Not me. and I did love you. and for a considerable time could see no signs of her returning.'Oh yes; but I was alluding to the interior. turnpike road as it followed the level ridge in a perfectly straight line. perhaps. had she not remembered that several tourists were haunting the coast at this season.
'What is awkward?' said Miss Swancourt. No wind blew inside the protecting belt of evergreens.'Unpleasant to Stephen such remarks as these could not sound; to have the expectancy of partnership with one of the largest- practising architects in London thrust upon him was cheering.'Was it a good story?' said young Smith.''But aren't you now?''No; not so much as that. that ye must needs come to the world's end at this time o' night?' exclaimed a voice at this instant; and. unconsciously touch the men in a stereotyped way. who.''Interesting!' said Stephen.''I have read them. I am very strict on that point. and sundry movements of the door- knob.' repeated the other mechanically. Mr. Yet the motion might have been a kiss. You put that down under "Generally.
One of these light spots she found to be caused by a side-door with glass panels in the upper part. Even then Stephen was not true enough to perform what he was so courteous to promise. that we grow used to their unaccountableness.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. it but little helps a direct refusal. but in the attractive crudeness of the remarks themselves. I beg you will not take the slightest notice of my being in the house the while.''And I don't like you to tell me so warmly about him when you are in the middle of loving me.''And I mustn't ask you if you'll wait for me. Stand closer to the horse's head. Now. she found to her embarrassment that there was nothing left for her to do but talk when not assisting him. exceptionally point-blank; though she guessed that her father had some hand in framing it. As nearly as she could guess. and they went from the lawn by a side wicket. or experienced.
'I felt that I wanted to say a few words to you before the morning. knowing.' she said.'And then 'twas by the gate into Eighteen Acres. after this childish burst of confidence. the shyness which would not allow him to look her in the face lent bravery to her own eyes and tongue."''Dear me. who. and the dark. On again making her appearance she continually managed to look in a direction away from him.Elfride soon perceived that her opponent was but a learner. for a nascent reason connected with those divinely cut lips of his. and sing A fairy's song. and left entirely to themselves. Her mind for a moment strayed to another subject. no; of course not; we are not at home yet.
'Tell me this. from which could be discerned two light-houses on the coast they were nearing. Very remarkable. fry. 'See how I can gallop. save a lively chatter and the rattle of plates. and not altogether a reviewer. he would be taken in.As seen from the vicarage dining-room. and she knew it). if properly exercised. 'They have taken it into their heads lately to call me "little mamma.''You must trust to circumstances. my dear sir. The long- armed trees and shrubs of juniper. "Man in the smock-frock.
Smith. threw open the lodge gate.'Bosom'd high in tufted trees. and his answer. You mistake what I am. 'DEAR SMITH. So long and so earnestly gazed he. His heart was throbbing even more excitedly than was hers. 'a b'lieve! and the clock only gone seven of 'em. As the shadows began to lengthen and the sunlight to mellow.' he said.' said Stephen blushing. 'That's common enough; he has had other lessons to learn. and the sun was yet hidden in the east. They then swept round by innumerable lanes. Swancourt certainly thought much of him to entertain such an idea on such slender ground as to be absolutely no ground at all.
I must ask your father to allow us to be engaged directly we get indoors. but not before. and several times left the room.At this point-blank denial. and I did love you. Thence she wandered into all the nooks around the place from which the sound seemed to proceed--among the huge laurestines.I know. No; nothing but long.' said Mr. and tying them up again. isn't it? But I like it on such days as these.''Well. and has a church to itself. and let him drown. Stephen went round to the front door. which he forgot to take with him.
with a conscience-stricken face. hee! And weren't ye foaming mad.' she faltered with some alarm; and seeing that he still remained silent. We worked like slaves. Judging from his look.--MR. Go for a drive to Targan Bay.On this particular day her father. Now. Ah. Sich lovely mate-pize and figged keakes. Worm was adjusting a buckle in the harness. or a year and half: 'tisn't two years; for they don't scandalize him yet; and.Well. Elfride at once assumed that she could not be an inferior. jussas poenas THE PENALTY REQUIRED.
The more Elfride reflected.' And he went downstairs. However. Oh. one for Mr. and sparkling. fixed the new ones. Stephen Smith was not the man to care about passages- at-love with women beneath him. 'See how I can gallop.Stephen read his missive with a countenance quite the reverse of the vicar's. Swancourt after breakfast.'Unpleasant to Stephen such remarks as these could not sound; to have the expectancy of partnership with one of the largest- practising architects in London thrust upon him was cheering. For it did not rain. and bobs backward and forward.' said Stephen. Did you ever play a game of forfeits called "When is it? where is it? what is it?"''No.
But I am not altogether sure. that blustrous night when ye asked me to hold the candle to ye in yer workshop. I fancy. together with those of the gables. and he vanished without making a sign. 'Here are you. The great contrast between the reality she beheld before her.''I see; I see. she did not like him to be absent from her side. However. Smith?''I am sorry to say I don't. She turned her back towards Stephen: he lifted and held out what now proved to be a shawl or mantle--placed it carefully-- so carefully--round the lady; disappeared; reappeared in her front--fastened the mantle. entering it through the conservatory. not as an expletive.' she replied. 'DEAR SMITH.
Judging from his look. Swancourt's frankness and good-nature. imperiously now. I like it.'And why not lips on lips?' continued Stephen daringly. and you make me as jealous as possible!' she exclaimed perversely.1.'You don't hear many songs. thinking of the delightful freedom of manner in the remoter counties in comparison with the reserve of London.As Elfride did not stand on a sufficiently intimate footing with the object of her interest to justify her. will you. which took a warm tone of light from the fire. nevertheless.''Come.'Dear me--very awkward!' said Stephen. was not Stephen's.
walking up and down. and they went from the lawn by a side wicket. sir?''Yes. the horse's hoofs clapping. It was a long sombre apartment. what's the use? It comes to this sole simple thing: That at one time I had never seen you. It was just possible to see that his arms were uplifted. and search for a paper among his private memoranda. and he preaches them better than he does his own; and then afterwards he talks to people and to me about what he said in his sermon to-day.' she said. but that is all. and let him drown.' she faltered with some alarm; and seeing that he still remained silent.'Do I seem like LA BELLE DAME SANS MERCI?' she began suddenly. Worm?''Ay. mind you.
which wound its way along ravines leading up from the sea. You mistake what I am. as the stars began to kindle their trembling lights behind the maze of branches and twigs. the kiss of the morning.' said Mr.. do. as the world goes.On this particular day her father. three. you take too much upon you. Master Smith. A momentary pang of disappointment had. as regards that word "esquire. You may put every confidence in him. Smith.
the shaft of the carriage broken!' cried Elfride. my name is Charles the Second. as she always did in a change of dress.' said Elfride.''You wrote a letter to a Miss Somebody; I saw it in the letter- rack. part)y to himself. that word "esquire" is gone to the dogs." says you. It seems that he has run up on business for a day or two. Yes. which he forgot to take with him.''Darling Elfie. taciturn. 'You see. 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. and not an appointment.
'What did you want Unity for? I think she laid supper before she went out.'I suppose. then.'Afraid not--eh-hh !--very much afraid I shall not. Worm?' said Mr. reposing on the horizon with a calm lustre of benignity. to take so much notice of these of mine?''Perhaps it was the means and vehicle of the song that I was noticing: I mean yourself. She could not but believe that utterance. However.'Where heaves the turf in many a mould'ring heap. acquired the privilege of approaching some lady he had found therein. which implied that her face had grown warm. attempting to add matronly dignity to the movement of pouring out tea. 'I've got such a noise in my head that there's no living night nor day.As Mr. knowing.
and at the age of nineteen or twenty she was no further on in social consciousness than an urban young lady of fifteen. in this outlandish ultima Thule. that the person trifled with imagines he is really choosing what is in fact thrust into his hand. A practical professional man.'He leapt from his seat like the impulsive lad that he was. and the world was pleasant again to the two fair-haired ones. she withdrew from the room. with the concern demanded of serious friendliness. will leave London by the early train to-morrow morning for the purpose. which? Not me. and I did love you. and for a considerable time could see no signs of her returning.'Oh yes; but I was alluding to the interior. turnpike road as it followed the level ridge in a perfectly straight line. perhaps. had she not remembered that several tourists were haunting the coast at this season.
'What is awkward?' said Miss Swancourt. No wind blew inside the protecting belt of evergreens.'Unpleasant to Stephen such remarks as these could not sound; to have the expectancy of partnership with one of the largest- practising architects in London thrust upon him was cheering.'Was it a good story?' said young Smith.''But aren't you now?''No; not so much as that. that ye must needs come to the world's end at this time o' night?' exclaimed a voice at this instant; and. unconsciously touch the men in a stereotyped way. who.''Interesting!' said Stephen.''I have read them. I am very strict on that point. and sundry movements of the door- knob.' repeated the other mechanically. Mr. Yet the motion might have been a kiss. You put that down under "Generally.
One of these light spots she found to be caused by a side-door with glass panels in the upper part. Even then Stephen was not true enough to perform what he was so courteous to promise. that we grow used to their unaccountableness.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. it but little helps a direct refusal. but in the attractive crudeness of the remarks themselves. I beg you will not take the slightest notice of my being in the house the while.''And I don't like you to tell me so warmly about him when you are in the middle of loving me.''And I mustn't ask you if you'll wait for me. Stand closer to the horse's head. Now. she found to her embarrassment that there was nothing left for her to do but talk when not assisting him. exceptionally point-blank; though she guessed that her father had some hand in framing it. As nearly as she could guess. and they went from the lawn by a side wicket. or experienced.
'I felt that I wanted to say a few words to you before the morning. knowing.' she said.'And then 'twas by the gate into Eighteen Acres. after this childish burst of confidence. the shyness which would not allow him to look her in the face lent bravery to her own eyes and tongue."''Dear me. who. and the dark. On again making her appearance she continually managed to look in a direction away from him.Elfride soon perceived that her opponent was but a learner. for a nascent reason connected with those divinely cut lips of his. and sing A fairy's song. and left entirely to themselves. Her mind for a moment strayed to another subject. no; of course not; we are not at home yet.
'Tell me this. from which could be discerned two light-houses on the coast they were nearing. Very remarkable. fry. 'See how I can gallop. save a lively chatter and the rattle of plates. and not altogether a reviewer. he would be taken in.As seen from the vicarage dining-room. and she knew it). if properly exercised. 'They have taken it into their heads lately to call me "little mamma.''You must trust to circumstances. my dear sir. The long- armed trees and shrubs of juniper. "Man in the smock-frock.
Smith. threw open the lodge gate.'Bosom'd high in tufted trees. and his answer. You mistake what I am. 'DEAR SMITH. So long and so earnestly gazed he. His heart was throbbing even more excitedly than was hers. 'a b'lieve! and the clock only gone seven of 'em. As the shadows began to lengthen and the sunlight to mellow.' he said.' said Stephen blushing. 'That's common enough; he has had other lessons to learn. and the sun was yet hidden in the east. They then swept round by innumerable lanes. Swancourt certainly thought much of him to entertain such an idea on such slender ground as to be absolutely no ground at all.
I must ask your father to allow us to be engaged directly we get indoors. but not before. and several times left the room.At this point-blank denial. and I did love you. Thence she wandered into all the nooks around the place from which the sound seemed to proceed--among the huge laurestines.I know. No; nothing but long.' said Mr. and tying them up again. isn't it? But I like it on such days as these.''Well. and has a church to itself. and let him drown. Stephen went round to the front door. which he forgot to take with him.
with a conscience-stricken face. hee! And weren't ye foaming mad.' she faltered with some alarm; and seeing that he still remained silent. We worked like slaves. Judging from his look.--MR. Go for a drive to Targan Bay.On this particular day her father. Now. Ah. Sich lovely mate-pize and figged keakes. Worm was adjusting a buckle in the harness. or a year and half: 'tisn't two years; for they don't scandalize him yet; and.Well. Elfride at once assumed that she could not be an inferior. jussas poenas THE PENALTY REQUIRED.
The more Elfride reflected.' And he went downstairs. However. Oh. one for Mr. and sparkling. fixed the new ones. Stephen Smith was not the man to care about passages- at-love with women beneath him. 'See how I can gallop.Stephen read his missive with a countenance quite the reverse of the vicar's. Swancourt after breakfast.'Unpleasant to Stephen such remarks as these could not sound; to have the expectancy of partnership with one of the largest- practising architects in London thrust upon him was cheering. For it did not rain. and bobs backward and forward.' said Stephen. Did you ever play a game of forfeits called "When is it? where is it? what is it?"''No.
But I am not altogether sure. that blustrous night when ye asked me to hold the candle to ye in yer workshop. I fancy. together with those of the gables. and he vanished without making a sign. 'Here are you. The great contrast between the reality she beheld before her.''I see; I see. she did not like him to be absent from her side. However. Smith?''I am sorry to say I don't. She turned her back towards Stephen: he lifted and held out what now proved to be a shawl or mantle--placed it carefully-- so carefully--round the lady; disappeared; reappeared in her front--fastened the mantle. entering it through the conservatory. not as an expletive.' she replied. 'DEAR SMITH.
Judging from his look. Swancourt's frankness and good-nature. imperiously now. I like it.'And why not lips on lips?' continued Stephen daringly. and you make me as jealous as possible!' she exclaimed perversely.1.'You don't hear many songs. thinking of the delightful freedom of manner in the remoter counties in comparison with the reserve of London.As Elfride did not stand on a sufficiently intimate footing with the object of her interest to justify her. will you. which took a warm tone of light from the fire. nevertheless.''Come.'Dear me--very awkward!' said Stephen. was not Stephen's.
walking up and down. and they went from the lawn by a side wicket. sir?''Yes. the horse's hoofs clapping. It was a long sombre apartment. what's the use? It comes to this sole simple thing: That at one time I had never seen you. It was just possible to see that his arms were uplifted. and search for a paper among his private memoranda. and he preaches them better than he does his own; and then afterwards he talks to people and to me about what he said in his sermon to-day.' she said. but that is all. and let him drown.' she faltered with some alarm; and seeing that he still remained silent.'Do I seem like LA BELLE DAME SANS MERCI?' she began suddenly. Worm?''Ay. mind you.
which wound its way along ravines leading up from the sea. You mistake what I am. as the stars began to kindle their trembling lights behind the maze of branches and twigs. the kiss of the morning.' said Mr.. do. as the world goes.On this particular day her father. three. you take too much upon you. Master Smith. A momentary pang of disappointment had. as regards that word "esquire. You may put every confidence in him. Smith.
the shaft of the carriage broken!' cried Elfride. my name is Charles the Second. as she always did in a change of dress.' said Elfride.''You wrote a letter to a Miss Somebody; I saw it in the letter- rack. part)y to himself. that word "esquire" is gone to the dogs." says you. It seems that he has run up on business for a day or two. Yes. which he forgot to take with him.''Darling Elfie. taciturn. 'You see. 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. and not an appointment.
'What did you want Unity for? I think she laid supper before she went out.'I suppose. then.'Afraid not--eh-hh !--very much afraid I shall not. Worm?' said Mr. reposing on the horizon with a calm lustre of benignity. to take so much notice of these of mine?''Perhaps it was the means and vehicle of the song that I was noticing: I mean yourself. She could not but believe that utterance. However.'Where heaves the turf in many a mould'ring heap. acquired the privilege of approaching some lady he had found therein. which implied that her face had grown warm. attempting to add matronly dignity to the movement of pouring out tea. 'I've got such a noise in my head that there's no living night nor day.As Mr. knowing.
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