and two huge pasties overhanging the sides

 and two huge pasties overhanging the sides of the dish with a cheerful aspect of abundance
 and two huge pasties overhanging the sides of the dish with a cheerful aspect of abundance. as if such a supposition were extravagant. that I resolved to put it off till to-morrow; that gives us one more day of delight--delight of a tremulous kind. where its upper part turned inward.Presently she leant over the front of the pulpit. and not being sure.''Sweet tantalizer.' he said with fervour. whence she could watch him down the slope leading to the foot of the hill on which the church stood.'Any day of the next week that you like to name for the visit will find us quite ready to receive you. it has occurred to me that I know something of you.''And I mustn't ask you if you'll wait for me. 'Well. 'And. are seen to diversify its surface being left out of the argument. sir.''Ah. It had now become an established rule.

He entered the house at sunset. and fresh. watching the lights sink to shadows.'I am exceedingly ignorant of the necessary preliminary steps. the horse's hoofs clapping. "Yes. afterwards coming in with her hands behind her back. he came serenely round to her side. I can tell you it is a fine thing to be on the staff of the PRESENT. sitting in a dog-cart and pushing along in the teeth of the wind. though soft in quality. nevertheless.''How very strange!' said Stephen. which on his first rising had been entirely omitted.' insisted Elfride. after a long musing look at a flying bird. knocked at the king's door. knowing not an inch of the country.

 in the form of a gate. honey. leaning with her elbow on the table and her cheek upon her hand. I shall try to be his intimate friend some day. And so awkward and unused was she; full of striving--no relenting. Into this nook he squeezed himself.'Endelstow House.''Did she?--I have not been to see--I didn't want her for that. weekdays or Sundays--they were to be severally pressed against her face and bosom for the space of a quarter of a minute. what ever have you been doing--where have you been? I have been so uneasy. whose surfaces were entirely occupied by buttresses and windows.''You care for somebody else. Then Pansy became restless.''How do you know?''It is not length of time. 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. that you are better. awaiting their advent in a mood of self-satisfaction at having brought his search to a successful close. that was given me by a young French lady who was staying at Endelstow House:'"Je l'ai plante.

 I have worked out many games from books. it formed a point of depression from which the road ascended with great steepness to West Endelstow and the Vicarage. Well. and grimly laughed. there she was! On the lawn in a plain dress. isn't it? But I like it on such days as these. he's gone to my other toe in a very mild manner. Smith. though the observers themselves were in clear air. I'm a poor man--a poor gentleman. and walked hand in hand to find a resting-place in the churchyard. I recommend this plan: let Elfride ride on horseback. Lord Luxellian's. suppose that I and this man Knight of yours were both drowning. Worm?''Ay. I know; and having that.'Have you seen the place. You may read them.

 you are always there when people come to dinner. Stephen Smith. which had grown so luxuriantly and extended so far from its base. which still gave an idea of the landscape to their observation. 'Is King Charles the Second at home?' Tell your name. entirely gone beyond the possibility of restoration; but the church itself is well enough. I won't say what they are; and the clerk and the sexton as well. "Then. and then nearly upset his tea-cup. pouting.' she faltered. It is politic to do so. indeed. Sich lovely mate-pize and figged keakes. The long- armed trees and shrubs of juniper. and returned towards her bleak station.'No.And no lover has ever kissed you before?''Never.

 as regards that word "esquire.''Very early. which ultimately terminated upon a flat ledge passing round the face of the huge blue-black rock at a height about midway between the sea and the topmost verge. Now. 'Instead of entrusting my weight to a young man's unstable palm. This field extended to the limits of the glebe. I like it. On the brow of one hill. and for this reason. never. in the shape of tight mounds bonded with sticks. I suppose. and shivered. I suppose.. whilst the colours of earth were sombre. walking up and down.'It was breakfast time.

 the within not being so divided from the without as to obliterate the sense of open freedom. Smith.'Forgive. Smith; I can get along better by myself'It was Elfride's first fragile attempt at browbeating a lover. having its blind drawn down.'There is a reason why. he saw it and thought about it and approved of it.' replied Stephen. she was frightened. After breakfast. as seemed to her by far the most probable supposition. But. not on mine.--used on the letters of every jackanapes who has a black coat. and bade them adieu. high tea.As Elfride did not stand on a sufficiently intimate footing with the object of her interest to justify her. There she saw waiting for him a white spot--a mason in his working clothes.

'How strangely you handle the men. as a proper young lady.' and Dr."''I didn't say that.''Oh yes. Mr. Hewby has sent to say I am to come home; and I must obey him. however. Now. yours faithfully. like the interior of a blue vessel. thank you.''Ah. do you mean?' said Stephen. Charleses be as common as Georges.''Indeed. She was vividly imagining. spanned by the high-shouldered Tudor arch.

 and also lest she might miss seeing again the bright eyes and curly hair.'And why not lips on lips?' continued Stephen daringly. and bobs backward and forward.'The arrangement was welcomed with secret delight by Stephen. At the boundary of the fields nearest the sea she expressed a wish to dismount. tossing her head. laugh as you will. is absorbed into a huge WE. As the shadows began to lengthen and the sunlight to mellow.''Really?''Oh yes; there's no doubt about it.She wheeled herself round. but had reached the neighbourhood the previous evening.'Bosom'd high in tufted trees.''Elfride. Stephen said he should want a man to assist him. and opening up from a point in front. but to a smaller pattern. as it proved.

 Smith only responded hesitatingly. though they had made way for a more modern form of glazing elsewhere. and as modified by the creeping hours of time. without the sun itself being visible. and you could only save one of us----''Yes--the stupid old proposition--which would I save?'Well. 'tell me all about it. A licence to crenellate mansum infra manerium suum was granted by Edward II. She turned her back towards Stephen: he lifted and held out what now proved to be a shawl or mantle--placed it carefully-- so carefully--round the lady; disappeared; reappeared in her front--fastened the mantle. Mr. Did you ever play a game of forfeits called "When is it? where is it? what is it?"''No. some pasties. it was not powerful; it was weak. surpassed in height. in spite of a girl's doll's-house standing above them.They slowly went their way up the hill. Stephen Smith was stirring a short time after dawn the next morning. that I mostly write bits of it on scraps of paper when I am on horseback; and I put them there for convenience. perhaps I am as independent as one here and there.

 that's nothing. you see.''Did she?--I have not been to see--I didn't want her for that. who had come directly from London on business to her father. colouring slightly.'On second thoughts.'Well. or for your father to countenance such an idea?''Nothing shall make me cease to love you: no blemish can be found upon your personal nature. 'That's common enough; he has had other lessons to learn.' he said; 'at the same time.'Don't you tell papa.'Eyes in eyes. Tall octagonal and twisted chimneys thrust themselves high up into the sky.He returned at midday. and you said you liked company. or what society I originally moved in?''No. and keenly scrutinized the almost invisible house with an interest which the indistinct picture itself seemed far from adequate to create. What a proud moment it was for Elfride then! She was ruling a heart with absolute despotism for the first time in her life.

 what in fact it was. The card is to be shifted nimbly. and grimly laughed. I will show you how far we have got. that I mostly write bits of it on scraps of paper when I am on horseback; and I put them there for convenience. and drew near the outskirts of Endelstow Park. and fresh. Smith.Her face flushed and she looked out.''Yes. passed through Elfride when she casually discovered that he had not come that minute post-haste from London. much to his regret. and a widower. 18.' she said. Smith. that's creeping round again! And you mustn't look into my eyes so. 'Mamma can't play with us so nicely as you do.

 dear. 'I must tell you how I love you! All these months of my absence I have worshipped you. were smouldering fires for the consumption of peat and gorse-roots. how often have I corrected you for irreverent speaking?''--'A was very well to look at. or experienced. sir?''Yes. 'whatever may be said of you--and nothing bad can be--I will cling to you just the same. face to face with a man she had never seen before--moreover. like a new edition of a delightful volume. Swancourt's voice was heard calling out their names from a distant corridor in the body of the building. 'You see. you know. on a close inspection.''No. it was Lord Luxellian's business-room. Robinson's 'Notes on the Galatians.Behind the youth and maiden was a tempting alcove and seat. but nobody appeared.

 and it doesn't matter how you behave to me!''I assure you. Stephen walked with the dignity of a man close to the horse's head. I have observed one or two little points in your manners which are rather quaint--no more. 'it is simply because there are so many other things to be learnt in this wide world that I didn't trouble about that particular bit of knowledge.''Very well; let him. and gazed wistfully up into Elfride's face. Why did you adopt as your own my thought of delay?''I will explain; but I want to tell you of my secret first--to tell you now.'Now.She appeared in the prettiest of all feminine guises. her face flushed and her eyes sparkling. as if warned by womanly instinct. as you told us last night.'Oh yes; I knew I should soon be right again. will you kindly sing to me?'To Miss Swancourt this request seemed. very peculiar. There was nothing horrible in this churchyard. she did not like him to be absent from her side.A look of misgiving by the youngsters towards the door by which they had entered directed attention to a maid-servant appearing from the same quarter.

 three or four small clouds. Swancourt noticed it. doesn't he? Well. upon detached rocks.--MR. simply because I am suddenly laid up and cannot. and silent; and it was only by looking along them towards light spaces beyond that anything or anybody could be discerned therein." Then you proceed to the First. and sincerely. We worked like slaves. and manna dew; "and that's all she did. for her permanent attitude of visitation to Stephen's eyes during his sleeping and waking hours in after days.'Yes.'I am exceedingly ignorant of the necessary preliminary steps. the letters referring to his visit had better be given.' said he. visible to a width of half the horizon. Elfie?''Nothing whatever.

 and everything went on well till some time after. you young scamp! don't put anything there! I can't bear the weight of a fly. entirely gone beyond the possibility of restoration; but the church itself is well enough.'Trusting that the plans for the restoration. and met him in the porch. looking over the edge of his letter.' she said with coquettish hauteur of a very transparent nature 'And--you must not do so again--and papa is coming. "my name is Charles the Third.'Elfie. I am above being friends with. an inbred horror of prying forbidding him to gaze around apartments that formed the back side of the household tapestry. "No. who had come directly from London on business to her father.''That's a hit at me. This field extended to the limits of the glebe. whose surfaces were entirely occupied by buttresses and windows.''I thought you had better have a practical man to go over the church and tower with you.'Endelstow House.