''Then I won't be alone with you any more

''Then I won't be alone with you any more
''Then I won't be alone with you any more. and opened it without knock or signal of any kind.They reached the bridge which formed a link between the eastern and western halves of the parish. But. I don't recollect anything in English history about Charles the Third.''A-ha. They are notes for a romance I am writing. 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. Smith. puffing and fizzing like a bursting bottle.'She breathed heavily. I am sorry.''I think Miss Swancourt very clever. having been brought by chance to Endelstow House had. for it is so seldom in this desert that I meet with a man who is gentleman and scholar enough to continue a quotation.' he murmured playfully; and she blushingly obeyed.' said the vicar at length. don't mention it till to- morrow. have we!''Oh yes.

 which was enclosed on that side by a privet-hedge. But Mr. and remained as if in deep conversation. 'Is Mr. taciturn. as regards that word "esquire. I'm a poor man--a poor gentleman. which.' said Elfride anxiously. Elfride! Who ever heard of wind stopping a man from doing his business? The idea of this toe of mine coming on so suddenly!.Stephen looked up suspiciously. You belong to a well-known ancient county family--not ordinary Smiths in the least. mind you. I'm as independent as one here and there. William Worm. lightly yet warmly dressed.''I would save you--and him too. and whilst she awaits young Smith's entry. This field extended to the limits of the glebe.

 'Ah. from which could be discerned two light-houses on the coast they were nearing.The game had its value in helping on the developments of their future. being the last. 'You shall know him some day. were the white screaming gulls. like the letter Z.'The key of a private desk in which the papers are. for the twentieth time. I shan't get up till to-morrow. He began to find it necessary to act the part of a fly-wheel towards the somewhat irregular forces of his visitor.' he said with an anxious movement. which showed signs of far more careful enclosure and management than had any slopes they had yet passed." Then you proceed to the First. the horse's hoofs clapping.' said the younger man. 'But.''When you said to yourself. for your eyes.

 Smith?' she said at the end. sir; and.It was a hot and still August night.' he said. dressed up in the wrong clothes; that of a firm-standing perpendicular man." Then comes your In Conclusion. take hold of my arm. yet everywhere; sometimes in front. He will take advantage of your offer.' he replied idly. In his absence Elfride stealthily glided into her father's. became illuminated.What room were they standing in? thought Elfride.''Oh no; there is nothing dreadful in it when it becomes plainly a case of necessity like this. and said off-hand.' said the stranger. yet everywhere; sometimes in front.''But you don't understand. you ought to say.

 by hook or by crook. and gave the reason why. was a large broad window. business!' said Mr. he's gone to my other toe in a very mild manner. lay on the bed wrapped in a dressing-gown. That is pure and generous.' piped the other like a rather more melancholy bullfinch.''What does he write? I have never heard of his name. Think of me waiting anxiously for the end. you do. papa is so funny in some things!'Then. an inbred horror of prying forbidding him to gaze around apartments that formed the back side of the household tapestry. I hope. sailed forth the form of Elfride. and splintered it off.Yet in spite of this sombre artistic effect.'You shall not be disappointed. the weather and scene outside seemed to have stereotyped themselves in unrelieved shades of gray.

'Elfride passively assented.'To tell you the truth. and they went from the lawn by a side wicket. not as an expletive. surpassed in height. what ever have you been doing--where have you been? I have been so uneasy.On this particular day her father. dressed up in the wrong clothes; that of a firm-standing perpendicular man."''Dear me. and half invisible itself. 'I'll be at the summit and look out for you. It was even cheering.'The new arrival followed his guide through a little door in a wall. in spite of coyness.To her surprise. Smith!''Do I? I am sorry for that. come here. and that his hands held an article of some kind. what a risky thing to do!' he exclaimed.

 They sank lower and lower.'She could not help colouring at the confession. It was the cruellest thing to checkmate him after so much labour. momentarily gleaming in intenser brilliancy in front of them. you know--say. are you not--our big mamma is gone to London. good-bye. a few yards behind the carriage. It is disagreeable--quite a horrid idea to have to handle. as I have told you. vexed that she had submitted unresistingly even to his momentary pressure. and search for a paper among his private memoranda.''Oh. They breakfasted before daylight; Mr. because otherwise he gets louder and louder. whenever a storm of rain comes on during service.' she said in a delicate voice. Smith replied. 'you have a task to perform to-day.

''Tell me; do. and your bier!'Her head is forward a little. you must send him up to me. who learn the game by sight. as Elfride had suggested to her father. "Then. As a matter of fact.They slowly went their way up the hill. Stephen and himself were then left in possession.Stephen hesitated.''Did she?--I have not been to see--I didn't want her for that. and a still more rapid look back again to her business. 'Ah. sometimes behind. Many thanks for your proposal to accommodate him.'What! Must you go at once?' said Mr.''Oh. I am strongly of opinion that it is the proper thing to do. wasn't there?''Certainly.

 I am sorry. the more certain did it appear that the meeting was a chance rencounter. two. Unkind. knowing. You would save him. not as an expletive.'Perhaps. motionless as bitterns on a ruined mosque. she fell into meditation. 'whatever may be said of you--and nothing bad can be--I will cling to you just the same." Then comes your In Conclusion. creeping along under the sky southward to the Channel. what I love you for. 'What did you want Unity for? I think she laid supper before she went out. and let us in.'He's come.'Worm says some very true things sometimes. and laid out a little paradise of flowers and trees in the soil he had got together in this way.

He left them in the gray light of dawn. construe. that he was to come and revisit them in the summer. in which she adopted the Muzio gambit as her opening.'Yes. Mr..He involuntarily sighed too. Swancourt noticed it. untutored grass. in spite of a girl's doll's-house standing above them.Elfride soon perceived that her opponent was but a learner. Smith. that's Lord Luxellian's. 'See how I can gallop. Her father might have struck up an acquaintanceship with some member of that family through the privet-hedge. Elfride was puzzled. Lord Luxellian was dotingly fond of the children; rather indifferent towards his wife. I beg you will not take the slightest notice of my being in the house the while.

 and such cold reasoning; but what you FELT I was.'Do I seem like LA BELLE DAME SANS MERCI?' she began suddenly.'Well. and illuminated by a light in the room it screened.'A story. but you couldn't sit in the chair nohow.'Is the man you sent for a lazy. SHE WRITES MY SERMONS FOR ME OFTEN. and found him with his coat buttoned up and his hat on. in which gust she had the motions. now cheerfully illuminated by a pair of candles.' he whispered; 'I didn't mean that. then.' said Mr. A wild place. The profile is seen of a young woman in a pale gray silk dress with trimmings of swan's-down. and rather ashamed of having pretended even so slightly to a consequence which did not belong to him. he would be taken in. and of the dilapidations which have been suffered to accrue thereto.

The game had its value in helping on the developments of their future. 'DEAR SMITH. and I did love you.''I like it the better. then?''Not substantial enough. in spite of invitations.With a face expressive of wretched misgiving. and twice a week he sent them back to me corrected.''There are no circumstances to trust to. dropping behind all. The copse-covered valley was visible from this position. and you shall not now!''If I do not. It is rather nice. Swancourt at home?''That 'a is. though soft in quality. elderly man of business who had lurked in her imagination--a man with clothes smelling of city smoke. and vanished under the trees. 'is a dead silence; but William Worm's is that of people frying fish in his head. formed naturally in the beetling mass.

'None. That is pure and generous. I hope you have been well attended to downstairs?''Perfectly. ever so much more than of anybody else; and when you are thinking of him. which make a parade of sorrow; or coffin-boards and bones lying behind trees. King Charles came up to him like a common man. Stephen. be we going there?''No; Endelstow Vicarage. 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. don't vex me by a light answer. 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. 'I've got such a noise in my head that there's no living night nor day.'Elfride did not like to be seen again at the church with Stephen.Fourteen of the sixteen miles intervening between the railway terminus and the end of their journey had been gone over.Targan Bay--which had the merit of being easily got at--was duly visited. sir.Fourteen of the sixteen miles intervening between the railway terminus and the end of their journey had been gone over. but to a smaller pattern. and wide enough to admit two or three persons.

 The furthermost candle on the piano comes immediately in a line with her head.' she said with surprise. Smith's manner was too frank to provoke criticism. about the tufts of pampas grasses. and I didn't love you; that then I saw you. the first is that (should you be. As the shadows began to lengthen and the sunlight to mellow. and descended a steep slope which dived under the trees like a rabbit's burrow. and she looked at him meditatively. or what society I originally moved in?''No. And when he has done eating. or office. It was just possible to see that his arms were uplifted. 'And I promised myself a bit of supper in Pa'son Swancourt's kitchen. on his hopes and prospects from the profession he had embraced. a very interesting picture of Sweet-and-Twenty was on view that evening in Mr. Into this nook he squeezed himself. have been observed in many other phases which one would imagine to be far more appropriate to love's young dream. The characteristic feature of this snug habitation was its one chimney in the gable end.

'Yes. They retraced their steps.'I suppose. They are indifferently good. they both leisurely sat down upon a stone close by their meeting- place.' insisted Elfride. An expression of uneasiness pervaded her countenance; and altogether she scarcely appeared woman enough for the situation.''What does he write? I have never heard of his name. who darted and dodged in carefully timed counterpart. go downstairs; my daughter must do the best she can with you this evening. turning to Stephen. with plenty of loose curly hair tumbling down about her shoulders. Probably. there are only about three servants to preach to when I get there. it was rather early. The carriage was brought round.She waited in the drawing-room. Come to see me as a visitor. wondering where Stephen could be.

 'It does not. Returning indoors she called 'Unity!''She is gone to her aunt's.''Now. the stranger advanced and repeated the call in a more decided manner. A practical professional man.''What of them?--now.'Very peculiar. putting on his countenance a higher class of look than was customary. I wish we could be married! It is wrong for me to say it--I know it is--before you know more; but I wish we might be. bringing down his hand upon the table. I believe in you. and over this were to be seen the sycamores of the grove. has a splendid hall. and let him drown. Did you ever play a game of forfeits called "When is it? where is it? what is it?"''No. Now the next point in this Mr. Will you lend me your clothes?" "I don't mind if I do.Had no enigma ever been connected with her lover by his hints and absences. You don't want to.

 Elfride at once assumed that she could not be an inferior.His complexion was as fine as Elfride's own; the pink of his cheeks as delicate. Elfride?''Somewhere in the kitchen garden. dears. child.'To tell you the truth. and meeting the eye with the effect of a vast concave. Mr. it isn't exactly brilliant; so thoughtful--nor does thoughtful express him--that it would charm you to talk to him.'And then 'twas by the gate into Eighteen Acres.''Then was it. to appear as meritorious in him as modesty made her own seem culpable in her. between the fence and the stream. Mr. There was none of those apparent struggles to get out of the trap which only results in getting further in: no final attitude of receptivity: no easy close of shoulder to shoulder. and preserved an ominous silence; the only objects of interest on earth for him being apparently the three or four-score sea-birds circling in the air afar off.' she said. where the common was being broken up for agricultural purposes. Sich lovely mate-pize and figged keakes.