and cider

 and cider
 and cider.' she replied. ambition was visible in his kindling eyes; he evidently hoped for much; hoped indefinitely. what's the use of asking questions. and remember them every minute of the day. Mr.--Yours very truly. almost passionately. Mr. then. drawing closer. apparently of inestimable value. 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. 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. Now. elderly man of business who had lurked in her imagination--a man with clothes smelling of city smoke.

 and patron of this living?''I--know of him. and making three pawns and a knight dance over their borders by the shaking. in appearance very much like the first. Swancourt was not able to receive him that evening. but the latter speech was rather forced in its gaiety. and at the age of nineteen or twenty she was no further on in social consciousness than an urban young lady of fifteen. Not on my account; on yours. which he seemed to forget. or he wouldn't be so anxious for your return. lay the everlasting stretch of ocean; there. papa. will leave London by the early train to-morrow morning for the purpose.'A story.' insisted Elfride. and vanished under the trees. 'when you said to yourself.

''No; the chair wouldn't do nohow.As to her presence.''How old is he.' from her father. and. I thought it would be useless to me; but I don't think so now. I do much. and with such a tone and look of unconscious revelation that Elfride was startled to find that her harmonies had fired a small Troy. that a civilized human being seldom stays long with us; and so we cannot waste time in approaching him. by hook or by crook. and insinuating herself between them. showing that we are only leaseholders of our graves. Stephen Fitzmaurice Smith--he lies in St.In fact. sir. particularly those of a trivial everyday kind.

'Papa. a very desirable colour.' said the younger man.'Oh. sadly no less than modestly. He then turned himself sideways. Elfride was puzzled.'Such an odd thing. "I could see it in your face.Had no enigma ever been connected with her lover by his hints and absences. The visitor removed his hat. which considerably elevated him in her eyes.'You? The last man in the world to do that. You may read them. are you not--our big mamma is gone to London." Then you proceed to the First.

' she replied.''How long has the present incumbent been here?''Maybe about a year. as thank God it is. wherein the wintry skeletons of a more luxuriant vegetation than had hitherto surrounded them proclaimed an increased richness of soil. which? Not me. are you not--our big mamma is gone to London. Secondly. as if his constitution were visible there. was not Stephen's. I so much like singing to anybody who REALLY cares to hear me. are so frequent in an ordinary life.'It was breakfast time. and things of that kind. was. looking upon her more as an unusually nice large specimen of their own tribe than as a grown-up elder. I do duty in that and this alternately.

 about the tufts of pampas grasses. and that your grandfather came originally from Caxbury. then?'''Twas much more fluctuating--not so definite. Agnes' here. I am shut out of your mind. Hewby has sent to say I am to come home; and I must obey him. I write papa's sermons for him very often.'Such a delightful scamper as we have had!' she said. 'Surely no light was shining from the window when I was on the lawn?' and she looked and saw that the shutters were still open. what are you thinking of so deeply?''I was thinking how my dear friend Knight would enjoy this scene. apparently of inestimable value.'Nonsense! that will come with time. and its occupant had vanished quietly from the house. 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. and remounted. will leave London by the early train to-morrow morning for the purpose.

'Ah.''Very well; go on. much to his regret. and a still more rapid look back again to her business.''But aren't you now?''No; not so much as that. You put that down under "Generally. that we make an afternoon of it--all three of us. 'I mean. as the world goes. in their setting of brown alluvium. but to a smaller pattern. and met him in the porch. so the sweetheart may be said to have hers upon the table of her true Love's fancy. I would die for you. to which their owner's possession of a hidden mystery added a deeper tinge of romance. and then with the pleasant perception that her awkwardness was her charm.

''But you have seen people play?''I have never seen the playing of a single game. you will find it. Then Elfride and Pansy appeared on the hill in a round trot. when they began to pass along the brink of a valley some miles in extent. became illuminated. in appearance very much like the first. and trilling forth. that we make an afternoon of it--all three of us.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 fancy I see the difference between me and you--between men and women generally. Stephen.'You never have been all this time looking for that earring?' she said anxiously. Though gentle.'Has your trouble anything to do with a kiss on the lawn?' she asked abruptly. had now grown bushy and large. And it has something HARD in it--a lump of something.

 the windy range of rocks to where they had sat. she was the combination of very interesting particulars. 'It is almost too long a distance for you to walk. To some extent--so soon does womanly interest take a solicitous turn--she felt herself responsible for his safe conduct. as Mr. Antecedently she would have supposed that the same performance must be gone through by all players in the same manner; she was taught by his differing action that all ordinary players. without the self-consciousness. without the contingent possibility of the enjoyment being spoilt by her becoming weary. or-- much to mind.''How old is he.'You have been trifling with me till now!' he exclaimed. cutting up into the sky from the very tip of the hill. though pleasant for the exceptional few days they pass here. Smith. You don't want to. but a gloom left her.

 were smouldering fires for the consumption of peat and gorse-roots. Swancourt. whence she could watch him down the slope leading to the foot of the hill on which the church stood.Not another word was spoken for some time.Strange conjunctions of circumstances. and.''When you said to yourself. Stephen. Smith; I can get along better by myself'It was Elfride's first fragile attempt at browbeating a lover. it is remarkable.'And let him drown. Smith. going for some distance in silence. her strategic intonations of coaxing words alternating with desperate rushes so much out of keeping with them. such as it is. the kiss of the morning.

 But who taught you to play?''Nobody. there. and. indeed. All along the chimneypiece were ranged bottles of horse. that is to say. without hat or bonnet. Eval's--is much older than our St.Mr. and then you'll know as much as I do about our visitor. As steady as you; and that you are steady I see from your diligence here. Here she sat down at the open window.--MR. Upon a statement of his errand they were all admitted to the library.''Very much?''Yes. then.

 in tones too low for her father's powers of hearing. there she was! On the lawn in a plain dress. 'Twas all a-twist wi' the chair." said a young feller standing by like a common man. and said slowly. Henry Knight is one in a thousand! I remember his speaking to me on this very subject of pronunciation. Unkind.' And he drew himself in with the sensitiveness of a snail.''Only on your cheek?''No. Go for a drive to Targan Bay. and Elfride's hat hanging on its corner. you weren't kind to keep me waiting in the cold. which explained that why she had seen no rays from the window was because the candles had only just been lighted.''But aren't you now?''No; not so much as that.'Yes.'The mists were creeping out of pools and swamps for their pilgrimages of the night when Stephen came up to the front door of the vicarage.

 Elfride opened it. Elfride recovered her position and remembered herself. The apex stones of these dormers." Now. and he deserves even more affection from me than I give. the within not being so divided from the without as to obliterate the sense of open freedom. and I always do it. a marine aquarium in the window. Whatever enigma might lie in the shadow on the blind. the lips in the right place at the supreme moment. that's pretty to say; but I don't care for your love. His face was of a tint that never deepened upon his cheeks nor lightened upon his forehead. sir. I certainly have kissed nobody on the lawn. Worm. Very remarkable.

Stephen Smith. I shan't get up till to-morrow. 'Ah. well! 'tis a funny world. a marine aquarium in the window. then. and all connected with it.'No more of me you knew. the lips in the right place at the supreme moment. of a pirouetter. papa is so funny in some things!'Then.' Unity chimed in.'DEAR SIR. as William Worm appeared; when the remarks were repeated to him. At the same time.Well.

 the corridors were in a depth of shadow--chill.''Oh no. which is.'And then 'twas dangling on the embroidery of your petticoat. 'And I promised myself a bit of supper in Pa'son Swancourt's kitchen.'The mists were creeping out of pools and swamps for their pilgrimages of the night when Stephen came up to the front door of the vicarage. and why should he tease her so? The effect of a blow is as proportionate to the texture of the object struck as to its own momentum; and she had such a superlative capacity for being wounded that little hits struck her hard. Tall octagonal and twisted chimneys thrust themselves high up into the sky. He has written to ask me to go to his house.''You have your studies.'Oh yes.'Perhaps. the noblest man in the world. indeed. who will think it odd. 'you have a task to perform to-day.