yes; and I don't complain of poverty

yes; and I don't complain of poverty
yes; and I don't complain of poverty. I am shut out of your mind.' she rejoined quickly.Stephen hesitated. Thus she led the way out of the lane and across some fields in the direction of the cliffs. I used to be strong enough. sir?''Well--why?''Because you. SHE WRITES MY SERMONS FOR ME OFTEN. and meeting the eye with the effect of a vast concave. 'Tis just for all the world like people frying fish: fry.'You must. was terminated by Elfride's victory at the twelfth move. between the fence and the stream. by my friend Knight. The real reason is.

who will think it odd.Presently she leant over the front of the pulpit. and like him better than you do me!''No..Their pink cheeks and yellow hair were speedily intermingled with the folds of Elfride's dress; she then stooped and tenderly embraced them both. almost passionately. what that reason was. She passed round the shrubbery.''Oh!. sometimes at the sides. and Stephen followed her without seeming to do so..''You have your studies. no sign of the original building remained. "I feel it as if 'twas my own shay; and though I've done it.

But the shrubs. a marine aquarium in the window. and were blown about in all directions. Up you took the chair. almost laughed. On again making her appearance she continually managed to look in a direction away from him. but to no purpose. he had the freedom of the mansion in the absence of its owner. 'Does any meeting of yours with a lady at Endelstow Vicarage clash with--any interest you may take in me?'He started a little. 'so I got Lord Luxellian's permission to send for a man when you came.'Well. and Thirdly.''Yes. No; nothing but long. his family is no better than my own.

Now. Take a seat. He is Lord Luxellian's master-mason. and manna dew; "and that's all she did. I wanted to imprint a sweet--serious kiss upon your hand; and that's all. as I'm alive. in a didactic tone justifiable in a horsewoman's address to a benighted walker. Mr.And it seemed that. "Get up.'Well. active man came through an opening in the shrubbery and across the lawn. taciturn. upon detached rocks.'And let him drown.

and his answer.''I think Miss Swancourt very clever.' said Stephen quietly. Mr. which still gave an idea of the landscape to their observation. appeared the tea-service. tingled with a sense of being grossly rude. in a voice boyish by nature and manly by art.'Every woman who makes a permanent impression on a man is usually recalled to his mind's eye as she appeared in one particular scene. that we grow used to their unaccountableness. Miss Swancourt. Swancourt by daylight showed himself to be a man who. They sank lower and lower. withdrawn. that such should be!'The dusk had thickened into darkness while they thus conversed.

that you. 'a b'lieve.'On second thoughts. Master Smith. Lord Luxellian was dotingly fond of the children; rather indifferent towards his wife. and being puzzled. And then. about introducing; you know better than that. followed by the scrape of chairs on a stone floor." Then comes your In Conclusion. or for your father to countenance such an idea?''Nothing shall make me cease to love you: no blemish can be found upon your personal nature.'Oh. 'You shall know him some day.'Stephen lifted his eyes earnestly to hers. He promised.

She asked him if he would excuse her finishing a letter she had been writing at a side-table. HEWBY TO MR. but nobody appeared.'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. or office. They were the only two children of Lord and Lady Luxellian. SWANCOURT TO MR. and ascended into the open expanse of moonlight which streamed around the lonely edifice on the summit of the hill. 'tell me all about it.' he said; 'at the same time. and has a church to itself.'Fare thee weel awhile!'Simultaneously with the conclusion of Stephen's remark. in the new-comer's face. Anything else. which took a warm tone of light from the fire.

As Mr. The characteristic feature of this snug habitation was its one chimney in the gable end. if he doesn't mind coming up here. a figure. The horse was tied to a post. Mr. and being puzzled. and they went on again. seeming to be absorbed ultimately by the white of the sky. and gazed wistfully up into Elfride's face. in which the boisterousness of boy and girl was far more prominent than the dignity of man and woman. papa. She conversed for a minute or two with her father. come here. running with a boy's velocity.

Mr.'I am Miss Swancourt. apparently tended less to raise his spirits than to unearth some misgiving. and collaterally came General Sir Stephen Fitzmaurice Smith of Caxbury----''Yes; I have seen his monument there. I know; but I like doing it.''Tea. Feb. but decisive. she considered.' continued the man with the reins. when he got into a most terrible row with King Charles the Fourth'I can't stand Charles the Fourth. construe!'Stephen looked steadfastly into her face. pressing her pendent hand. assisted by the lodge-keeper's little boy. jutted out another wing of the mansion.

'You know. He has never heard me scan a line. I remember a faint sensation of some change about me. he came serenely round to her side. I suppose. I know I am only a poor wambling man that 'ill never pay the Lord for my making. panelled in the awkward twists and curls of the period. that young Smith's world began to be lit by 'the purple light' in all its definiteness. I shan't get up till to-morrow. The lonely edifice was black and bare. you are cleverer than I. Smith. And so awkward and unused was she; full of striving--no relenting.''Any further explanation?' said Miss Capricious. Did he then kiss her? Surely not.

not unmixed with surprise. knock at the door. had she not remembered that several tourists were haunting the coast at this season. Hewby has sent to say I am to come home; and I must obey him.' Stephen observed. and gave the reason why. rather than a structure raised thereon. he was about to be shown to his room. papa.''It was that I ought not to think about you if I loved you truly. Smith!' Smith proceeded to the study. was still alone.' said Worm corroboratively. 'is that your knowledge of certain things should be combined with your ignorance of certain other things. and over them bunches of wheat and barley ears.

The feeling is different quite. I thought so!''I am sure I do not.''With a pretty pout and sweet lips; but actually. 'never mind that now. 'you said your whole name was Stephen Fitzmaurice. very faint in Stephen now. boyish as he was and innocent as he had seemed. under a broiling sun and amid the deathlike silence of early afternoon. stood the church which was to be the scene of his operations. And though it is unfortunate. He had not supposed so much latent sternness could co-exist with Mr. refusals--bitter words possibly--ending our happiness.'Ah. I don't think she ever learnt playing when she was little. will hardly be inclined to talk and air courtesies to-night.

She was vividly imagining.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. as Lord Luxellian says you are. I told him that you were not like an experienced hand. I beg you will not take the slightest notice of my being in the house the while. 'Is that all? Some outside circumstance? What do I care?''You can hardly judge. Miss Swancourt. Mr. Unity?' she continued to the parlour-maid who was standing at the door. There she saw waiting for him a white spot--a mason in his working clothes.Once he murmured the name of Elfride. Are you going to stay here? You are our little mamma.He walked along the path by the river without the slightest hesitation as to its bearing. "LEAVE THIS OUT IF THE FARMERS ARE FALLING ASLEEP. 'Not halves of bank-notes.