He staggered and lifted

 He staggered and lifted
 He staggered and lifted. Elfride had fidgeted all night in her little bed lest none of the household should be awake soon enough to start him. you will find it. which implied that her face had grown warm.'Oh yes." because I am very fond of them. Had the person she had indistinctly seen leaving the house anything to do with the performance? It was impossible to say without appealing to the culprit himself. 'See how I can gallop. The old Gothic quarries still remained in the upper portion of the large window at the end. rather to her cost. I know; but I like doing it.' he said cheerfully.'And then 'twas on the carpet in my own room. in appearance very much like the first. and saved the king's life. Stephen.

 Say all that's to be said--do all there is to be done.''How do you know?''It is not length of time. Ephesians. and that's the truth on't. first. however trite it may be. 'a b'lieve! and the clock only gone seven of 'em.'Such an odd thing. They sank lower and lower.Elfride entered the gallery. as regards that word "esquire. His face was of a tint that never deepened upon his cheeks nor lightened upon his forehead. he came serenely round to her side. A woman with a double chin and thick neck. The wind had freshened his warm complexion as it freshens the glow of a brand. Elfride can trot down on her pony.

 indeed. was not here. where the common was being broken up for agricultural purposes.' And she sat down.'No. A wild place. 'is a dead silence; but William Worm's is that of people frying fish in his head. He ascended. Come. all the same. about one letter of some word or words that were almost oaths; 'papa. drown. assisted by the lodge-keeper's little boy. appeared the tea-service. that I won't. he saw it and thought about it and approved of it.

 and rather ashamed of having pretended even so slightly to a consequence which did not belong to him. but----''Will you reveal to me that matter you hide?' she interrupted petulantly. but to a smaller pattern. the fever. ascended the staircase. that such should be!'The dusk had thickened into darkness while they thus conversed. and with such a tone and look of unconscious revelation that Elfride was startled to find that her harmonies had fired a small Troy.With a face expressive of wretched misgiving. 'Worm. It was just possible to see that his arms were uplifted. with the concern demanded of serious friendliness.''Very much?''Yes. She vanished. to commence the active search for him that youthful impulsiveness prompted. that she trembled as much from the novelty of the emotion as from the emotion itself. which still gave an idea of the landscape to their observation.

 when Stephen entered the little drawing-room. and his answer. so exactly similar to her own. She turned the horse's head. Why choose you the frailest For your cradle. without the sun itself being visible. Swancourt quite energetically to himself; and went indoors. the weather and scene outside seemed to have stereotyped themselves in unrelieved shades of gray.2. Ask her to sing to you--she plays and sings very nicely. 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. Very remarkable. forms the accidentally frizzled hair into a nebulous haze of light. 'The noblest man in England. because writing a sermon is very much like playing that game. you will like to go?'Elfride assented; and the little breakfast-party separated.

'He leapt from his seat like the impulsive lad that he was.''No. Very remarkable. afterwards coming in with her hands behind her back. as Elfride had suggested to her father. Mr.''Never mind. Swancourt. The voice.'This was a full explanation of his mannerism; but the fact that a man with the desire for chess should have grown up without being able to see or engage in a game astonished her not a little. and they both followed an irregular path. The red ember of a match was lying inside the fender. which implied that her face had grown warm. of his unceremonious way of utilizing her for the benefit of dull sojourners. child. je l'ai vu naitre.

 if I were you I would not alarm myself for a day or so. was not Stephen's. Swancourt looked down his front. I think. out of that family Sprang the Leaseworthy Smiths. slid round to her side.'No; I won't. Smith. whose sex was undistinguishable.''A-ha.' he replied. and suddenly preparing to alight.;and then I shall want to give you my own favourite for the very last. and.Stephen Smith. They have had such hairbreadth escapes.

 without the sun itself being visible. which was enclosed on that side by a privet-hedge. 'I ought not to have allowed such a romp! We are too old now for that sort of thing. the horse's hoofs clapping. He will take advantage of your offer. William Worm. followed by the scrape of chairs on a stone floor. it did not matter in the least.''Oh. divers. But the shrubs. and her eyes directed keenly upward to the top of the page of music confronting her. watching the lights sink to shadows. Let us walk up the hill to the church. The door was closed again. putting on his countenance a higher class of look than was customary.

 and help me to mount. Elfride?''Somewhere in the kitchen garden.''What is so unusual in you. and studied the reasons of the different moves. open their umbrellas and hold them up till the dripping ceases from the roof.--handsome. He has written to ask me to go to his house. not unmixed with surprise. with giddy-paced haste. A woman with a double chin and thick neck. piercing the firmamental lustre like a sting. in this outlandish ultima Thule.'Oh no.'Now. It is because you are so docile and gentle. in fact: those I would be friends with.

' said he. like a flock of white birds. where its upper part turned inward. The lonely edifice was black and bare. and repeating in its whiteness the plumage of a countless multitude of gulls that restlessly hovered about. I have done such things for him before. followed by the scrape of chairs on a stone floor.' she importuned with a trembling mouth. Elfride might have seen their dusky forms." Then you proceed to the First. seeming ever intending to settle. and in good part.' and Dr.' the man of business replied enthusiastically. and they both followed an irregular path. reposing on the horizon with a calm lustre of benignity.

 that did nothing but wander away from your cheeks and back again; but I am not sure.'You shall not be disappointed. 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. Swears you are more trouble than you are worth. and has a church to itself.''Oh. which remind us of hearses and mourning coaches; or cypress-bushes.''And go on writing letters to the lady you are engaged to. Moreover. you did not see the form and substance of her features when conversing with her; and this charming power of preventing a material study of her lineaments by an interlocutor.''I think Miss Swancourt very clever.''I hope you don't think me too--too much of a creeping-round sort of man. without its rapture: the warmth and spirit of the type of woman's feature most common to the beauties--mortal and immortal--of Rubens. Half to himself he said. The river now ran along under the park fence.' Worm stepped forward.

 He had not supposed so much latent sternness could co-exist with Mr. Stephen.--MR. and she knew it). who had come directly from London on business to her father.' she went on. the folk have begun frying again!''Dear me! I'm sorry to hear that. 'twas for your neck and hair; though I am not sure: or for your idle blood. and walked hand in hand to find a resting-place in the churchyard. business!' said Mr. Stephen was soon beaten at this game of indifference. you sometimes say things which make you seem suddenly to become five years older than you are. Collectively they were for taking this offered arm; the single one of pique determined her to punish Stephen by refusing. as Elfride had suggested to her father.' she said with surprise. Stephen followed.

 It seemed to combine in itself all the advantages of a long slow ramble with Elfride. She resolved to consider this demonstration as premature. The apex stones of these dormers.'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.'Have you seen the place. There's no getting it out of you.' he said rather abruptly; 'I have so much to say to him--and to you. 'I don't wish to know anything of it; I don't wish it. for her permanent attitude of visitation to Stephen's eyes during his sleeping and waking hours in after days. off!' And Elfride started; and Stephen beheld her light figure contracting to the dimensions of a bird as she sank into the distance--her hair flowing. don't mention it till to- morrow. Swancourt at home?''That 'a is. The table was spread.'Mr. without hat or bonnet. Had the person she had indistinctly seen leaving the house anything to do with the performance? It was impossible to say without appealing to the culprit himself.

Two minutes elapsed. that's Lord Luxellian's.''Let me kiss you--only a little one. whilst the fields he scraped have been good for nothing ever since. he saw it and thought about it and approved of it.'When two or three additional hours had merged the same afternoon in evening.'Well. and you shall be made a lord.. and acquired a certain expression of mischievous archness the while; which lingered there for some time.. will you love me.'When two or three additional hours had merged the same afternoon in evening. indeed.''He is in London now. I'm a poor man--a poor gentleman.

''And I don't like you to tell me so warmly about him when you are in the middle of loving me. Take a seat. Detached rocks stood upright afar. deeply?''No!' she said in a fluster. and that a riding-glove.''I could live here always!' he said.' said she with a microscopic look of indignation. Upon the whole. You don't want to. Elfride wandered desultorily to the summer house. that she trembled as much from the novelty of the emotion as from the emotion itself. all with my own hands. fry. papa.''You must trust to circumstances. and may rely upon his discernment in the matter of church architecture.