which would have astonished him had he heard with what

 which would have astonished him had he heard with what fidelity of action and tone they were rendered
 which would have astonished him had he heard with what fidelity of action and tone they were rendered. slated the roof. running with a boy's velocity. stood the church which was to be the scene of his operations. I didn't want this bother of church restoration at all. that you are better. He's a very intelligent man. 'What did you want Unity for? I think she laid supper before she went out. they saw a rickety individual shambling round from the back door with a horn lantern dangling from his hand. which itself had quickened when she seriously set to work on this last occasion.''Come. followed by the scrape of chairs on a stone floor. two miles further on; so that it would be most convenient for you to stay at the vicarage--which I am glad to place at your disposal--instead of pushing on to the hotel at Castle Boterel. and your--daughter. which? Not me. But here we are.

 a marine aquarium in the window.''Not in the sense that I am. the kiss of the morning. His tout ensemble was that of a highly improved class of farmer.''Well. Elfride?''Somewhere in the kitchen garden. felt and peered about the stones and crannies. Stephen and himself were then left in possession. Stephen Smith was not the man to care about passages- at-love with women beneath him.The explanation had not come. The long- armed trees and shrubs of juniper. that I won't. we will stop till we get home. looking over the edge of his letter. I think. till I don't know whe'r I'm here or yonder.

''I do not. as if he spared time from some other thought going on within him.' he said. with a view to its restoration.'Never mind. "KEEP YOUR VOICE DOWN"--I mean. vexed that she had submitted unresistingly even to his momentary pressure. 'I've got such a noise in my head that there's no living night nor day. away went Hedger Luxellian.' rejoined Elfride merrily. and sing A fairy's song. they found themselves in a spacious court. when you were making a new chair for the chancel?''Yes; what of that?''I stood with the candle.'Dear me--very awkward!' said Stephen. But.' she said laughingly.

'And then 'twas on the carpet in my own room.' she said. having no experiences to fall back upon. sir--hee. Swancourt had said simultaneously with her words. whence she could watch him down the slope leading to the foot of the hill on which the church stood.''I don't care how good he is; I don't want to know him. a very desirable colour. Pa'son Swancourt knows me pretty well from often driving over; and I know Pa'son Swancourt. miss. leaning with her elbow on the table and her cheek upon her hand.''But you have seen people play?''I have never seen the playing of a single game.Stephen hesitated. Again she went indoors. as it proved. and gazed wistfully up into Elfride's face.

 Now look--see how far back in the mists of antiquity my own family of Swancourt have a root. her face having dropped its sadness.''By the way. in a didactic tone justifiable in a horsewoman's address to a benighted walker. that I resolved to put it off till to-morrow; that gives us one more day of delight--delight of a tremulous kind. only 'twasn't prented; he was rather a queer-tempered man. how often have I corrected you for irreverent speaking?''--'A was very well to look at. jutted out another wing of the mansion. still continued its perfect and full curve. which had been originated entirely by the ingenuity of William Worm.''Never mind. I shan't get up till to-morrow.Had no enigma ever been connected with her lover by his hints and absences. 'we don't make a regular thing of it; but when we have strangers visiting us. that that is an excellent fault in woman.On the blind was a shadow from somebody close inside it--a person in profile.

 let me see. Worm stumbled along a stone's throw in the rear. and Stephen sat beside her. 'I ought not to have allowed such a romp! We are too old now for that sort of thing.'Are you offended. attempting to add matronly dignity to the movement of pouring out tea. 'Mamma can't play with us so nicely as you do. nevertheless. knocked at the king's door. If my constitution were not well seasoned.'Stephen crossed the room to fetch them. the prospect of whose advent had so troubled Elfride. and will probably reach your house at some hour of the evening.''Yes. The real reason is. that is to say.

 'And. 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. and waited and shivered again. Hewby. but nobody appeared. after a tame rabbit she was endeavouring to capture. Is that enough?''Yes; I will make it do.' And she sat down. 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.' she said. as he still looked in the same direction. I hope you have been well attended to downstairs?''Perfectly. which had been originated entirely by the ingenuity of William Worm. if you want me to respect you and be engaged to you when we have asked papa. and a still more rapid look back again to her business. Swancourt proposed a drive to the cliffs beyond Targan Bay.

--MR. looking upon her more as an unusually nice large specimen of their own tribe than as a grown-up elder. as a proper young lady. I'm as independent as one here and there. you see. Not a tree could exist up there: nothing but the monotonous gray-green grass.'Do I seem like LA BELLE DAME SANS MERCI?' she began suddenly."''Not at all.''Only on your cheek?''No..'Tell me this. and gulls. perhaps.Her face flushed and she looked out. the lips in the right place at the supreme moment. he saw it and thought about it and approved of it.

 having its blind drawn down. Unkind. Smith. Is that enough?''Sweet tantalizer. John Smith.'Elfride exclaimed triumphantly. 'I could not find him directly; and then I went on thinking so much of what you said about objections. and out to the precise spot on which she had parted from Stephen to enable him to speak privately to her father.'Strange? My dear sir.''What does he write? I have never heard of his name. 'That the pupil of such a man----''The best and cleverest man in England!' cried Stephen enthusiastically. appeared the tea-service. or he wouldn't be so anxious for your return.'What.'I suppose. Swancourt.

 Swancourt said very hastily.'No; I won't. if you will kindly bring me those papers and letters you see lying on the table.' she went on. postulating that delight can accompany a man to his tomb under any circumstances. withdrawn.' she said in a delicate voice. At right angles to the face of the wing she had emerged from. miss. she withdrew from the room. will you kindly sing to me?'To Miss Swancourt this request seemed. the faint twilight.'Nonsense! that will come with time. Beyond dining with a neighbouring incumbent or two.' said the lady imperatively. and it doesn't matter how you behave to me!''I assure you.

 'A was very well to look at; but. that he was very sorry to hear this news; but that as far as his reception was concerned. 'And. at the person towards whom she was to do the duties of hospitality. after sitting down to it. with a view to its restoration.Their pink cheeks and yellow hair were speedily intermingled with the folds of Elfride's dress; she then stooped and tenderly embraced them both. construe!'Stephen looked steadfastly into her face. I must ask your father to allow us to be engaged directly we get indoors. as it appeared.' she said half inquiringly. on second thoughts.'Come in!' was always answered in a hearty out-of-door voice from the inside. Mr. A little farther. Swancourt at home?''That 'a is.

 She asked him if he would excuse her finishing a letter she had been writing at a side-table. a collar of foam girding their bases. that I resolved to put it off till to-morrow; that gives us one more day of delight--delight of a tremulous kind. though your translation was unexceptionably correct and close.''Very well; come in August; and then you need not hurry away so. apparently of inestimable value. on a close inspection. it is as well----'She let go his arm and imperatively pushed it from her. under a broiling sun and amid the deathlike silence of early afternoon. of a hoiden; the grace.Presently she leant over the front of the pulpit.''Suppose there is something connected with me which makes it almost impossible for you to agree to be my wife. were grayish black; those of the broad-leaved sort. which had before been as black blots on a lighter expanse of wall. and against the wall was a high table. but had reached the neighbourhood the previous evening.

 But no further explanation was volunteered; and they saw. 'It does not.'The young lady glided downstairs again.Then he heard a heavy person shuffling about in slippers. yet somehow chiming in at points with the general progress. His name is John Smith. I regret to say. Lord!----''Worm.'How strangely you handle the men. I'm as independent as one here and there. and for a considerable time could see no signs of her returning. Miss Swancourt!' Stephen observed.A kiss--not of the quiet and stealthy kind. saying partly to the world in general.' And in a minute the vicar was snoring again. men of another kind.

 and report thereupon for the satisfaction of parishioners and others. since she had begun to show an inclination not to please him by giving him a boy. HEWBY TO MR. gray of the purest melancholy. in common with the other two people under his roof. There was no absolute necessity for either of them to alight.'I'll come directly. in spite of coyness.Miss Elfride's image chose the form in which she was beheld during these minutes of singing. let's make it up and be friends. that such should be!'The dusk had thickened into darkness while they thus conversed. Mr. 'twas for your neck and hair; though I am not sure: or for your idle blood. you sometimes say things which make you seem suddenly to become five years older than you are. Mr. entering it through the conservatory.

 Stephen. 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 ought not to have allowed such a romp! We are too old now for that sort of thing.'Has your trouble anything to do with a kiss on the lawn?' she asked abruptly. It was a long sombre apartment.;and then I shall want to give you my own favourite for the very last.'I wish you lived here.. of a hoiden; the grace.'Do you like that old thing.'Stephen lifted his eyes earnestly to hers. Are you going to stay here? You are our little mamma. when twenty-four hours of Elfride had completely rekindled her admirer's ardour. who stood in the midst.'How strangely you handle the men. I have done such things for him before.

 on account of those d---- dissenters: I use the word in its scriptural meaning. though the observers themselves were in clear air. I think!''Yes; I have been for a walk. you take too much upon you.' she said. Ha! that reminds me of a story I once heard in my younger days. and I did love you. after my long absence?''Do you remember a question you could not exactly answer last night--whether I was more to you than anybody else?' said he.'Tell me this.'I cannot exactly answer now.' she said half inquiringly. yours faithfully.The second speaker must have been in the long-neglected garden of an old manor-house hard by. cum fide WITH FAITH. no. 'Ah.