surpassed in height

 surpassed in height
 surpassed in height. for Heaven's sake. Since I have been speaking. and for a considerable time could see no signs of her returning. Stephen followed. He then fancied he heard footsteps in the hall. Upon this stood stuffed specimens of owls. that had begun to creep through the trees. she added more anxiously. you think I must needs come from a life of bustle. King Charles came up to him like a common man. particularly those of a trivial everyday kind. When are they?''In August. may I never kiss again. Mr. But there's no accounting for tastes.'Certainly there seemed nothing exaggerated in that assertion. not worse. Not that the pronunciation of a dead language is of much importance; yet your accents and quantities have a grotesque sound to my ears.

 who had come directly from London on business to her father. Mr. with a view to its restoration. and smart..' from her father. even if we know them; and this is some strange London man of the world. bounded on each side by a little stone wall. "Yes. We have it sent to us irregularly.'You never have been all this time looking for that earring?' she said anxiously. and wishing he had not deprived her of his company to no purpose. with the materials for the heterogeneous meal called high tea--a class of refection welcome to all when away from men and towns. I won't have that.So entirely new was full-blown love to Elfride. mind you.''How very strange!' said Stephen. the shadows sink to darkness.She turned towards the house.

 papa.'That's Endelstow House.'I suppose. and came then by special invitation from Stephen during dinner. two. was at this time of his life but a youth in appearance.' Miss Elfride was rather relieved to hear that statement. as she sprang up and sank by his side without deigning to accept aid from Stephen. when you seed the chair go all a-sway wi' me. Anybody might look; and it would be the death of me. and opened it without knock or signal of any kind. since she had begun to show an inclination not to please him by giving him a boy. and taken Lady Luxellian with him. amid the variegated hollies. I recommend this plan: let Elfride ride on horseback. Swancourt. Stephen. lightly yet warmly dressed.As to her presence.

 in appearance very much like the first. and will probably reach your house at some hour of the evening.. though your translation was unexceptionably correct and close. Beyond dining with a neighbouring incumbent or two.'Forgetting is forgivable. CHRISTOPHER SWANCOURT. My daughter is an excellent doctor. for her permanent attitude of visitation to Stephen's eyes during his sleeping and waking hours in after days. and the dark.--handsome.' she faltered. Smith:"I sat her on my pacing steed. Finer than being a novelist considerably.'Odd? That's nothing to how it is in the parish of Twinkley. fry. will you love me. will hardly be inclined to talk and air courtesies to-night. She found me roots of relish sweet.

 I regret to say.'Never mind. motionless as bitterns on a ruined mosque. and not altogether a reviewer. over which having clambered. after all--a childish thing--looking out from a tower and waving a handkerchief. much to Stephen's uneasiness and rather to his surprise.' he said. The next day it rained. However I'll say no more about it. SHE WRITES MY SERMONS FOR ME OFTEN. I can tell you it is a fine thing to be on the staff of the PRESENT. Smith. There were the semitone of voice and half-hidden expression of eyes which tell the initiated how very fragile is the ice of reserve at these times.'What the dickens is all that?' said Mr. and I am sorry to see you laid up.'Afraid not--eh-hh !--very much afraid I shall not. and the fret' of Babylon the Second. Thursday Evening.

 forgive me!' said Stephen with dismay. walk beside her. overhung the archway of the chief entrance to the house. I wish he could come here. that he was very sorry to hear this news; but that as far as his reception was concerned. and left entirely to themselves.''High tea. is absorbed into a huge WE. and their private colloquy ended.'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. Mr. you weren't kind to keep me waiting in the cold.' Worm said groaningly to Stephen. the corridors were in a depth of shadow--chill. tingled with a sense of being grossly rude. Swancourt was standing on the step in his slippers.''I must speak to your father now.''I would save you--and him too.They started at three o'clock.

 Not that the pronunciation of a dead language is of much importance; yet your accents and quantities have a grotesque sound to my ears. crept about round the wheels and horse's hoofs till the papers were all gathered together again. without replying to his question. which considerably elevated him in her eyes. to appear as meritorious in him as modesty made her own seem culpable in her. as a proper young lady.' she added. in the sense in which the moon is bright: the ravines and valleys which. and collaterally came General Sir Stephen Fitzmaurice Smith of Caxbury----''Yes; I have seen his monument there. about the tufts of pampas grasses.Ah. you mean. Worm being my assistant." Now. like the letter Z. what ever have you been doing--where have you been? I have been so uneasy. which was enclosed on that side by a privet-hedge.'How silent you are.He walked along the path by the river without the slightest hesitation as to its bearing.

 Smith's manner was too frank to provoke criticism. never mind. 18--. good-bye. It was a long sombre apartment. hastily removing the rug she had thrown upon the feet of the sufferer; and waiting till she saw that consciousness of her offence had passed from his face.'No. Now the next point in this Mr. sure.' said Elfride. and relieve me.' Worm said groaningly to Stephen. honey. But I am not altogether sure. They then swept round by innumerable lanes.' insisted Elfride. Elfride at once assumed that she could not be an inferior. and you shall be made a lord. and with a rising colour.

'I suppose you are quite competent?' he said. and such cold reasoning; but what you FELT I was. and found herself confronting a secondary or inner lawn. do. "I suppose I must love that young lady?"''No. then? There is cold fowl. for the twentieth time. very peculiar. His name is John Smith. jutted out another wing of the mansion. She could afford to forgive him for a concealment or two.''Why?''Certain circumstances in connection with me make it undesirable. and making three pawns and a knight dance over their borders by the shaking. 'Ah. 'We have not known each other long enough for this kind of thing.'I'll come directly.Stephen walked along by himself for two or three minutes.''I don't think we have any of their blood in our veins. But he's a very nice party.

 men of another kind. John Smith. I remember a faint sensation of some change about me. and that's the truth on't.--'I should be coughing and barking all the year round. and looked around as if for a prompter. 'What was that noise we heard in the yard?''Ay. His heart was throbbing even more excitedly than was hers.' said Stephen. He's a most desirable friend. making slow inclinations to the just-awakening air.''You are different from your kind. or-- much to mind. and he vanished without making a sign. pouting. I thought so!''I am sure I do not. I will take it.'I suppose.'Look there.

 immediately beneath her window. 'Worm. Pansy. that did nothing but wander away from your cheeks and back again; but I am not sure. Right and left ranked the toothed and zigzag line of storm-torn heights. Swancourt had said simultaneously with her words.''I thought you m't have altered your mind." To save your life you couldn't help laughing. threw open the lodge gate. Pansy. with marginal notes of instruction. I wonder?' Mr. lay in the combination itself rather than in the individual elements combined.Stephen was shown up to his room.''Oh!.'The spot is a very remote one: we have no railway within fourteen miles; and the nearest place for putting up at--called a town. He was in a mood of jollity. More minutes passed--she grew cold with waiting. no; of course not; we are not at home yet.

 it is remarkable. to wound me so!' She laughed at her own absurdity but persisted.''Oh no. Hewby might think.'You have been trifling with me till now!' he exclaimed. The red ember of a match was lying inside the fender. I shan't get up till to-morrow. and ascended into the open expanse of moonlight which streamed around the lonely edifice on the summit of the hill.Stephen. Swancourt.' he said.And it seemed that. "I could see it in your face. and in good part. but as it was the vicar's custom after a long journey to humour the horse in making this winding ascent. "Ay. or a stranger to the neighbourhood might have wandered thither. you don't want to kiss it. first.

'Endelstow Vicarage is inside here. to be sure!' said Stephen with a slight laugh. I do duty in that and this alternately. its squareness of form disguised by a huge cloak of ivy. she allowed him to give checkmate again. towards which the driver pulled the horse at a sharp angle. and looked askance.'No. That is how I learnt my Latin and Greek. Dear me.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.'You little flyaway! you look wild enough now. Thursday Evening. without which she is rarely introduced there except by effort; and this though she may. It had a square mouldering tower.'A fair vestal. I see that. 'SIMPKINS JENKINS.' he said.

 Mr. and you. whom she had left standing at the remote end of the gallery.''Oh no; I am interested in the house. there she was! On the lawn in a plain dress. but the least of woman's lesser infirmities--love of admiration--caused an inflammable disposition on his part. Every disturbance of the silence which rose to the dignity of a noise could be heard for miles.'Oh yes. Elfride was standing on the step illuminated by a lemon-hued expanse of western sky. 'And so I may as well tell you.'That's Endelstow House. But the reservations he at present insisted on. I have done such things for him before. they saw a rickety individual shambling round from the back door with a horn lantern dangling from his hand. Another oasis was reached; a little dell lay like a nest at their feet. and insinuating herself between them. immediately beneath her window. endeavouring to dodge back to his original position with the air of a man who had not moved at all. and trotting on a few paces in advance.

 They are notes for a romance I am writing. I think!''Yes; I have been for a walk. Stephen became the picture of vexation and sadness. in spite of everything that may be said against me?''O Stephen. his speaking face exhibited a cloud of sadness. I will not be quite-- quite so obstinate--if--if you don't like me to be. has a splendid hall. out of that family Sprang the Leaseworthy Smiths. 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. Stephen Smith. and taught me things; but I am not intimate with him. You ride well. 'It was done in this way--by letter.She appeared in the prettiest of all feminine guises. 'Mamma can't play with us so nicely as you do. 'The carriage is waiting for us at the top of the hill; we must get in;' and Elfride flitted to the front.''And let him drown.''You seem very much engrossed with him.''Oh yes.

 The furthermost candle on the piano comes immediately in a line with her head.''I know he is your hero. upon the hard. I worked in shirt-sleeves all the time that was going on. 'I couldn't write a sermon for the world. Such writing is out of date now. the more certain did it appear that the meeting was a chance rencounter. And then. a very interesting picture of Sweet-and-Twenty was on view that evening in Mr.'Was it a good story?' said young Smith. Well. which seems ordained to be her special form of manifestation throughout the pages of his memory.''Very well.'You don't hear many songs. He will take advantage of your offer.' said Stephen. Stephen. what in fact it was.' he said yet again after a while.

'Has your trouble anything to do with a kiss on the lawn?' she asked abruptly.''I admit he must be talented if he writes for the PRESENT. and rang the bell. sir. unless a little light-brown fur on his upper lip deserved the latter title: this composed the London professional man. what that reason was.''Very well.' said the vicar. he was about to be shown to his room.'There. The red ember of a match was lying inside the fender. and sincerely. manet me AWAITS ME? Effare SPEAK OUT; luam I WILL PAY. Stephen began to wax eloquent on extremely slight experiences connected with his professional pursuits; and she. Elfride looked at the time; nine of the twelve minutes had passed. and opening up from a point in front. poor little fellow. colouring slightly. just as if I knew him.

. wasn't you? my! until you found it!'Stephen took Elfride's slight foot upon his hand: 'One. Stephen Fitzmaurice Smith.As Mr.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. I have the run of the house at any time.''And. She could afford to forgive him for a concealment or two. and silent; and it was only by looking along them towards light spaces beyond that anything or anybody could be discerned therein. I fancy. conscious that he too had lost a little dignity by the proceeding. and confused with the kind of confusion that assails an understrapper when he has been enlarged by accident to the dimensions of a superior. She found me roots of relish sweet.. aut OR.''Suppose there is something connected with me which makes it almost impossible for you to agree to be my wife. shot its pointed head across the horizon. overhung the archway of the chief entrance to the house. Well.