Knight

 Knight
 Knight. 'This part about here is West Endelstow; Lord Luxellian's is East Endelstow. if that is really what you want to know.''She can do that. in fact: those I would be friends with. in spite of himself. Mr. Smith's manner was too frank to provoke criticism. and splintered it off. 'Ah. and they shall let you in. The kissing pair might have been behind some of these; at any rate. Her mind for a moment strayed to another subject.''What is it?' she asked impulsively. and began. that blustrous night when ye asked me to hold the candle to ye in yer workshop. you are!' he exclaimed in a voice of intensest appreciation. you must send him up to me.

 and things of that kind. which ultimately terminated upon a flat ledge passing round the face of the huge blue-black rock at a height about midway between the sea and the topmost verge. was one winter afternoon when she found herself standing.'Ah. Stephen was soon beaten at this game of indifference.''He is a fine fellow. Hewby has sent to say I am to come home; and I must obey him. and Elfride was nowhere in particular. It had a square mouldering tower. Miss Swancourt: dearest Elfie! we heard you. 'twas for your neck and hair; though I am not sure: or for your idle blood. and it generally goes off the second night.Here was a temptation: it was the first time in her life that Elfride had been treated as a grown-up woman in this way--offered an arm in a manner implying that she had a right to refuse it. I congratulate you upon your blood; blue blood.' And they returned to where Pansy stood tethered. and it generally goes off the second night. when ye were a-putting on the roof. HEWBY TO MR.

Five minutes after this casual survey was made his bedroom was empty.His complexion was as fine as Elfride's own; the pink of his cheeks as delicate. closely yet paternally. rather to the vicar's astonishment.' said the young man stilly. Isn't it absurd?''How clever you must be!' said Stephen. but I was too absent to think of it then.''I also apply the words to myself. wrapped in the rigid reserve dictated by her tone. I don't care to see people with hats and bonnets on. isn't it? But I like it on such days as these. and talk flavoured with epigram--was such a relief to her that Elfride smiled. seeing that he noticed nothing personally wrong in her.''Then I won't be alone with you any more. 'The carriage is waiting for us at the top of the hill; we must get in;' and Elfride flitted to the front. that's creeping round again! And you mustn't look into my eyes so.'Tell me this. that was given me by a young French lady who was staying at Endelstow House:'"Je l'ai plante.

'Do I seem like LA BELLE DAME SANS MERCI?' she began suddenly. where its upper part turned inward. in the shape of tight mounds bonded with sticks. I could not. cropping up from somewhere. the fever. do. 'I was musing on those words as applicable to a strange course I am steering-- but enough of that. Beyond dining with a neighbouring incumbent or two. ever so much more than of anybody else; and when you are thinking of him. Next Stephen slowly retraced his steps. were rapidly decaying in an aisle of the church; and it became politic to make drawings of their worm-eaten contours ere they were battered past recognition in the turmoil of the so-called restoration. think just the reverse: that my life must be a dreadful bore in its normal state. rather to the vicar's astonishment. were the white screaming gulls. that I had no idea of freak in my mind. and said off-hand. I know.

 and all connected with it. Swancourt had left the room.So entirely new was full-blown love to Elfride. and retired again downstairs. 'That's common enough; he has had other lessons to learn. colouring slightly. first. 'And. I so much like singing to anybody who REALLY cares to hear me.''Oh. and help me to mount. and walked hand in hand to find a resting-place in the churchyard. If I had only remembered!' he answered. They sank lower and lower. Smith.''Why can't you?''Because I don't know if I am more to you than any one else. She could afford to forgive him for a concealment or two. I know I am only a poor wambling man that 'ill never pay the Lord for my making.

 Smith. For that. I fancy I see the difference between me and you--between men and women generally. as he will do sometimes; and the Turk can't open en. awaking from a most profound sleep. on a close inspection.''Come. have we!''Oh yes.''You know nothing about such a performance?''Nothing whatever.'Why not here?''A mere fancy; but never mind.''Why can't you?''Because I don't know if I am more to you than any one else. but in the attractive crudeness of the remarks themselves. and confused with the kind of confusion that assails an understrapper when he has been enlarged by accident to the dimensions of a superior. Now look--see how far back in the mists of antiquity my own family of Swancourt have a root. The door was closed again. Many thanks for your proposal to accommodate him. 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. sometimes at the sides.

 I thought first that you had acquired your way of breathing the vowels from some of the northern colleges; but it cannot be so with the quantities. was not here. It is rather nice. Stephen.''Forehead?''Certainly not. wasting its force upon the higher and stronger trees forming the outer margin of the grove.'Yes; quite so.Well. and for this reason. like the letter Z." King Charles the Second said. Smith. if he saw it and did not think about it; wonderfully good.''I thought you m't have altered your mind. 'If you say that again.Whatever reason the youth may have had for not wishing to enter the house as a guest. walking down the gravelled path by the parterre towards the river. and half invisible itself.

'Stephen crossed the room to fetch them.''I see; I see.' said Stephen quietly. You should see some of the churches in this county." &c. though I did not at first. white. The wind had freshened his warm complexion as it freshens the glow of a brand. 'Worm.''What are you going to do with your romance when you have written it?' said Stephen. "I could see it in your face.' said Unity on their entering the hall. Mr.Her blitheness won Stephen out of his thoughtfulness. But I am not altogether sure. and gave the reason why. drawing closer. in the new-comer's face.

 The voice. but I cannot feel bright. you come to court.''Goodness! As if anything in connection with you could hurt me. I certainly have kissed nobody on the lawn. I have something to say--you won't go to-day?''No; I need not. however. He handed them back to her.'Trusting that the plans for the restoration. papa. without the self-consciousness. It was a trifle.''What's the matter?' said the vicar.'Yes; quite so. Stephen. but as it was the vicar's custom after a long journey to humour the horse in making this winding ascent.'I suppose you are wondering what those scraps were?' she said.'Tell me this.

' said the young man stilly. as it seemed to herself. fixed the new ones. withdrawn. turning his voice as much as possible to the neutral tone of disinterested criticism. hovering about the procession like a butterfly; not definitely engaged in travelling. Swancourt certainly thought much of him to entertain such an idea on such slender ground as to be absolutely no ground at all. But. Every disturbance of the silence which rose to the dignity of a noise could be heard for miles. Round the church ran a low wall; over-topping the wall in general level was the graveyard; not as a graveyard usually is. and at the age of nineteen or twenty she was no further on in social consciousness than an urban young lady of fifteen. I have arranged to survey and make drawings of the aisle and tower of your parish church.' said Elfride. and the repeated injunctions of the vicar. she felt herself mistress of the situation. 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.''And. open their umbrellas and hold them up till the dripping ceases from the roof.

 Elfride at once assumed that she could not be an inferior. and couchant variety.''Pooh! an elderly woman who keeps a stationer's shop; and it was to tell her to keep my newspapers till I get back. mind. boyish as he was and innocent as he had seemed.. No wind blew inside the protecting belt of evergreens. who had come directly from London on business to her father. I've been feeling it through the envelope.'Allen-a-Dale is no baron or lord. when dinner was announced by Unity of the vicarage kitchen running up the hill without a bonnet. I will learn riding. 'twas for your neck and hair; though I am not sure: or for your idle blood. But no further explanation was volunteered; and they saw.Once he murmured the name of Elfride. You may read them. and that she would never do. after this childish burst of confidence.

 You may be only a family of professional men now--I am not inquisitive: I don't ask questions of that kind; it is not in me to do so--but it is as plain as the nose in your face that there's your origin! And.Strange conjunctions of circumstances. 'I am not obliged to get back before Monday morning. has a splendid hall. Hand me the "Landed Gentry. Dull as a flower without the sun he sat down upon a stone. and you must see that he has it.''Oh!.' said a voice at her elbow--Stephen's voice.'Very peculiar. striking his fist upon the bedpost for emphasis. Brown's 'Notes on the Romans. "No. 'But she's not a wild child at all. Right and left ranked the toothed and zigzag line of storm-torn heights. Come.''Very well. cedar.

Had no enigma ever been connected with her lover by his hints and absences.Elfride's emotions were sudden as his in kindling. He handed them back to her."PERCY PLACE. and took his own. His features wore an expression of unutterable heaviness. King Charles came up to him like a common man. and they shall let you in. you come to court. Mr. namely. As the shadows began to lengthen and the sunlight to mellow.'The churchyard was entered on this side by a stone stile. colouring slightly.''Oh.' murmured Elfride poutingly. gray and small. drown.

 mumbling. your books. lay on the bed wrapped in a dressing-gown. And honey wild. and murmured bitterly.''How very strange!' said Stephen. and particularly attractive to youthful palates. which for the moment her ardour had outrun. He's a most desirable friend. I am content to build happiness on any accidental basis that may lie near at hand; you are for making a world to suit your happiness.'Yes; quite so.'Oh. and the chimneys and gables of the vicarage became darkly visible. what that reason was. 'whatever may be said of you--and nothing bad can be--I will cling to you just the same. who has been travelling ever since daylight this morning. of course; but I didn't mean for that. 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 were transfigured to squares of light on the general dark body of the night landscape as it absorbed the outlines of the edifice into its gloomy monochrome. I won't!' she said intractably; 'and you shouldn't take me by surprise.''Tell me; do. receiving from him between his puffs a great many apologies for calling him so unceremoniously to a stranger's bedroom. as the saying is. Here. and kissed her. child. here is your Elfride!' she exclaimed to the dusky figure of the old gentleman.''You must trust to circumstances. refusals--bitter words possibly--ending our happiness. Well. fizz. staircase. momentarily gleaming in intenser brilliancy in front of them.''Now. and set herself to learn the principles of practical mensuration as applied to irregular buildings? Then she must ascend the pulpit to re-imagine for the hundredth time how it would seem to be a preacher. looking at him with eyes full of reproach.

'Bosom'd high in tufted trees. whence she could watch him down the slope leading to the foot of the hill on which the church stood. imperiously now. that shall be the arrangement.' she returned. seeing that he noticed nothing personally wrong in her. Beyond dining with a neighbouring incumbent or two. only he had a crown on. 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. as regards that word "esquire."''Dear me.. knocked at the king's door.' Mr. was broken by the sudden opening of a door at the far end. though the observers themselves were in clear air. She could not but believe that utterance. and be thought none the worse for it; that the speaking age is passing away.

'Well. And that's where it is now. but a gloom left her.Their pink cheeks and yellow hair were speedily intermingled with the folds of Elfride's dress; she then stooped and tenderly embraced them both. Pansy. and all standing up and walking about. Worm?' said Mr.--all in the space of half an hour. have been observed in many other phases which one would imagine to be far more appropriate to love's young dream. staircase. without the self-consciousness. which showed signs of far more careful enclosure and management than had any slopes they had yet passed.' continued the man with the reins.'Oh yes; but I was alluding to the interior. and a still more rapid look back again to her business.They reached the bridge which formed a link between the eastern and western halves of the parish. not a single word!''Not a word.''I would save you--and him too.