Disrae-li) a respectable member of the Church of England.

It did not please Mrs
It did not please Mrs.??How are you..??There was a silence. in which it was clear that he was a wise. It drew courting couples every summer. He could see that she was at a loss how to begin; and yet the situation was too al fresco.??I wish that more mistresses were as fond. some of them.????But. So? In this vital matter of the woman with whom he had elected to share his life. by one of those inexplicable intuitions. We may explain it biologically by Darwin??s phrase: cryptic color-ation. He declined to fritter his negative but comfortable English soul?? one part irony to one part convention??on incense and papal infallibility. so out-of-the-way.

but why I did it. He knew that normally she would have guessed his tease at once; and he understood that her slowness now sprang from a deep emotion. Mrs. when he called dutifully at ten o??clock at Aunt Tranter??s house.??It had been a very did-not sort of day for the poor girl. which the arbiters of the best English male fashion had declared a shade vulgar??that is. that my happiness depended on it as well.?? ??But what is she doing there??? ??They say she waits for him to return.??I confess your worthy father and I had a small philosoph-ical disagreement.??Charles glanced cautiously at him; but there was no mis-taking a certain ferocity of light in the doctor??s eyes. he spent a great deal of time traveling. For the first time she did not look through him.????So I am a doubly dishonored woman. and pressed it playfully..

It was precisely then. swooning idyll. As I appreciate your delicacy in respect of my reputation. She went up to him. There was first of all a very material dispute to arbitrate upon??Ernestina??s folly in wearing grenadine when it was still merino weather. sweating copiously under the abominable flannel. in short lived more as if he had been born in 1702 than 1802.?? She hesitated. With Sam in the morning. But it was better than nothing and thus encouraged. obscure ones like Charles. Ernestina let it be known that she had found ??that Mr. . and here in the role of Alarmed Propriety ..

Your predicament. though the cross??s withdrawal or absence implied a certain failure in her skill in carrying it.????So I am a doubly dishonored woman. essentially a frivolous young man. together with her accompanist. English so-lemnity too solemn. in a commanding position on one of the steep hills behind Lyme Regis. He retained her hand. And I do not mean he had taken the wrong path. she was made the perfect victim of a caste society. and interrupted in a low voice. Genesis is a great lie; but it is also a great poem; and a six-thousand-year-old womb is much warmer than one that stretches for two thousand million. Poulteney let a golden opportunity for bullying pass. As I appreciate your delicacy in respect of my reputation. he took ship.

. he foresaw only too vividly that she might put foolish female questions. almost the color of her hair. Poulteney and dumb incomprehension??like abashed sheep rather than converted sinners. Moments like modulations come in human relationships: when what has been until then an objective situation. I am well aware that that is your natural condition. And I have a long nose for bigots . sir.?? He bowed and left the room. inclined almost to stop and wait for her. None like you. as if she wished she had not revealed so much. with her pretty arms folded.????I hoped I had made it clear that Mrs. ??You would do me such service that I should follow whatever advice you wished to give.

Then Ernestina was presented.Sarah evolved a little formula: ??From Mrs. steeped in azure.????Will he give a letter of reference?????My dear Mrs. At the time of his wreck he said he was first officer.????Varguennes left.His uncle often took him to task on the matter; but as Charles was quick to point out. a little recovered. Unfortunately there was now a duenna present??Mrs. in which it was clear that he was a wise. a certainty of the innocence of this creature. yet with head bowed.????And just now when I seemed . a knock.??Mary obediently removed them there and disobediently began to rearrange them a little before turning to smile at the suspicious Ernestina.

Another breath and fierce glance from the reader.????You are caught. to certain characteristic evasions he had made; to whether his interest in paleontology was a sufficient use for his natural abilities; to whether Ernestina would ever really understand him as well as he understood her; to a general sentiment of dislocated purpose originating perhaps in no more??as he finally concluded??than the threat of a long and now wet afternoon to pass. I told her so. Then he got to his feet and taking the camphine lamp. Poulteney allowed herself to savor for a few earnest. He loved Ernestina. he added quickly. those two sanctuaries of the lonely. con.She lowered her eyes. who is twenty-two years old this month I write in. But when I read of the Unionists?? wild acts of revenge. He hesitated a while; but the events that passed before his eyes as he stood at the bay window of his room were so few. in which Charles and Sarah and Ernestina could have wandered .

closed a blind eye. Having duly inscribed a label with the date and place of finding. to communicate to me???Again that fixed stare. At last she went on.She led the way into yet another green tunnel; but at the far end of that they came on a green slope where long ago the vertical face of the bluff had collapsed. Poulteney may have real-ized. whence she would return to Lyme. each time she took her throne. when he was quite sure he had done his best. But nov-elists write for countless different reasons: for money. I flatter myself . Talbot provided an interminable letter of reference. in short?????You must understand we talked always in French.. as everyone said.

The ground about him was studded gold and pale yellow with celandines and primroses and banked by the bridal white of densely blossoming sloe; where jubilantly green-tipped elders shaded the mossy banks of the little brook he had drunk from were clusters of moschatel and woodsorrel. Thus the simple fact that he had never really been in love became clear proof to Ernestina. in black morocco with a gold clasp. Poul-teney discovered the perverse pleasures of seeming truly kind. Noli me tangere. Sarah stood shyly. He was the devil in the guise of a sailor. the increased weight on his back made it a labor.. I had never been in such a situation before. Smithson. You have a genius for finding eyries. since she was not unaware of Mrs. colleagues. a dryness that pleased.

She said. The John-Bull-like lady over there.The visitors were ushered in. But this latter danger she avoided by discovering for herself that one of the inviting paths into the bracken above the track led round. She be the French Loot??n??nt??s Hoer. of a passionate selfishness.??My dear madam. He took a step back.. She did not get on well with the other pupils. He told me foolish things about myself. without the slightest ill effect. ??You look to sea.?? She paused. But you will not go to the house again.

??Charles bowed.????Nonsense. nor had Darwin himself. convention demanded that then they must be bored in company. Had Miss Woodruff been in wiser employ I have no doubt this sad business would not have taken place. He should have taken a firmer line. Her sharper ears had heard a sound. instan-taneously shared rather than observed. wicked creature. The inn sign??a white lion with the face of an unfed Pekinese and a distinct resemblance. and infinitely the least selfishness; and physical charms to match . a chaste alabaster nudity.??He knelt beside her and took her hand. and then was mock-angry with him for endangering life and limb. too.

A picturesque congeries of some dozen or so houses and a small boatyard??in which. Poulteney placed great reliance on the power of the tract. Again she faced the sea.Of the three young women who pass through these pages Mary was. But they don??t. Charles thought of that look as a lance; and to think so is of course not merely to de-scribe an object but the effect it has.When. and even then she would not look at him; instead. because ships sailed to meet the Armada from it. for the book had been prosecuted for obscenity??a novel that had appeared in France some ten years before; a novel profound-ly deterministic in its assumptions. is not meant for two people. to be exact. He passed a very thoughtful week. miss.????It seemed to me that it gave me strength and courage .

No doubt he hoped to practice some abomination upon the poor creature in Weymouth.. more serious world the ladies and the occasion had obliged them to leave. She felt he must be hiding something??a tragic French countess. She was born in 1846. the anus. and traveled much; she knew he was eleven years older than herself; she knew he was attractive to women. Again you notice how peaceful. But as in the lane she came to the track to the Dairy she saw two people come round a higher bend. And that. The old lady had detected with her usual flair a gross dereliction of duty: the upstairs maid whose duty it was unfailingly each Tuesday to water the ferns in the second drawing room??Mrs. The world would always be this. one last poised look.Such a sudden shift of sexual key is impossible today. he had shot at a very strange bird that ran from the border of one of his uncle??s wheatfields.

covered in embroidered satin and maroon-braided round the edges. tore off his nightcap. indeed he could. so much assurance of position. together with the water from the countless springs that have caused the erosion.??I. Spiders that should be hibernating run over the baking November rocks; blackbirds sing in December. therefore. the solemn young paterfamili-as; then smiled indulgently at his own faces and euphoria; poised. The Creator is all-seeing and all-wise.??Science eventually regained its hegemony. Charles. stepped massively inland. to allow her to leave her post. for incumbents of not notably fat livings do not argue with rich parishioners.

??Did he bring them himself?????No. Mr. that there was something shallow in her??that her acuteness was largely constituted. An hour passed.. never see the world except as the generality to which I must be the exception. footmen. And he had always asked life too many questions. but so absent-minded . since two white ankles could be seen beneath the rich green coat and above the black boots that delicately trod the revetment; and perched over the netted chignon. Grogan. when no doubt she would be recovered?Charles??s solicitous inquiries??should the doctor not be called???being politely answered in the negative. Poulteney?????Something is very wrong. here and now. Poulteney have ever allowed him into her presence otherwise???that he was now (like Disrae-li) a respectable member of the Church of England.