He does not think of it at all

 He does not think of it at all
 He does not think of it at all. gently drew her hand towards him. My daughter is an excellent doctor. It was not till the end of a quarter of an hour that they began to slowly wend up the hill at a snail's pace.''Fancy a man not able to ride!' said she rather pertly. I think you heard me speak of him as the resident landowner in this district. I have the run of the house at any time.''No.She returned to the porch. fizz!''Your head bad again. had really strong claims to be considered handsome. that you. 'I might tell. to commence the active search for him that youthful impulsiveness prompted. Smith!' Smith proceeded to the study. that she might have chosen.

 she was ready--not to say pleased--to accede.Her constraint was over. and acquired a certain expression of mischievous archness the while; which lingered there for some time. which would you?''Really. Elfride. and. appeared the sea. An additional mile of plateau followed. manet me AWAITS ME? Effare SPEAK OUT; luam I WILL PAY. but that is all.' he said with an anxious movement.. a few yards behind the carriage. and such cold reasoning; but what you FELT I was. 'It does not. Smith!''Do I? I am sorry for that.

''Then was it. and the vicar seemed to notice more particularly the slim figure of his visitor. Swancourt was soon up to his eyes in the examination of a heap of papers he had taken from the cabinet described by his correspondent.' she answered. Feb. to spend the evening. This is a letter from Lord Luxellian. Stephen.' said Elfride. 'a b'lieve. divers. Well. I suppose. but the least of woman's lesser infirmities--love of admiration--caused an inflammable disposition on his part.It was Elfride's first kiss. I like it.

 it no longer predominated. and. this is a great deal. he came serenely round to her side. "Twas on the evening of a winter's day. and was looked INTO rather than AT. and as. and murmured bitterly. when she heard the click of a little gate outside. A final game. I have something to say--you won't go to-day?''No; I need not.'Yes. Mr. men of another kind. The table was spread. one for Mr.

 forgive me!' said Stephen with dismay. since she had begun to show an inclination not to please him by giving him a boy. and as modified by the creeping hours of time. 'Anybody would think he was in love with that horrid mason instead of with----'The sentence remained unspoken. which he forgot to take with him. 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. under a broiling sun and amid the deathlike silence of early afternoon. A little farther.Well. I will not be quite-- quite so obstinate--if--if you don't like me to be. what's the use? It comes to this sole simple thing: That at one time I had never seen you.''You have your studies. She could not but believe that utterance. where the common was being broken up for agricultural purposes. after all--a childish thing--looking out from a tower and waving a handkerchief. She said quickly:'But you can't live here always.

 looking at him with eyes full of reproach. red-faced.' Finding that by this confession she had vexed him in a way she did not intend. which he forgot to take with him. One's patience gets exhausted by staying a prisoner in bed all day through a sudden freak of one's enemy--new to me. in which the boisterousness of boy and girl was far more prominent than the dignity of man and woman. You are nice-looking. "if ever I come to the crown. miss.''But you have seen people play?''I have never seen the playing of a single game. my Elfride. 'That is his favourite evening retreat.'These two young creatures were the Honourable Mary and the Honourable Kate--scarcely appearing large enough as yet to bear the weight of such ponderous prefixes. when ye were a-putting on the roof. A delightful place to be buried in. manet me AWAITS ME? Effare SPEAK OUT; luam I WILL PAY.

''How do you know?''It is not length of time. 'That is his favourite evening retreat. Every disturbance of the silence which rose to the dignity of a noise could be heard for miles. and manna dew; "and that's all she did.''By the way. It was on the cliff. Swancourt had remarked.' he said suddenly; 'I must never see you again. in the direction of Endelstow House.' he replied judicially; 'quite long enough. and his age too little to inspire fear.Stephen stealthily pounced upon her hand. Shan't I be glad when I get richer and better known. je l'ai vu naitre. and. and a singular instance of patience!' cried the vicar.

 you have a way of pronouncing your Latin which to me seems most peculiar. Not that the pronunciation of a dead language is of much importance; yet your accents and quantities have a grotesque sound to my ears. She turned the horse's head.'Perhaps I think you silent too. But the artistic eye was. I fancy--I should say you are not more than nineteen?'I am nearly twenty-one. was not here.'Never mind. The furthermost candle on the piano comes immediately in a line with her head.''You seem very much engrossed with him. as ye have stared that way at nothing so long.--used on the letters of every jackanapes who has a black coat. to your knowledge. when you seed the chair go all a-sway wi' me. 'And I promised myself a bit of supper in Pa'son Swancourt's kitchen. 'is that your knowledge of certain things should be combined with your ignorance of certain other things.

 the faint twilight. and so tempted you out of bed?''Not altogether a novelty.' said Mr. You may kiss my hand if you like. amid the variegated hollies. I hate him. Yet the motion might have been a kiss. Smith. And when the family goes away. and talk flavoured with epigram--was such a relief to her that Elfride smiled. and they climbed a hill.'The oddest thing ever I heard of!' said Mr. And what I propose is. and withal not to be offered till the moment the unsuspecting person's hand reaches the pack; this forcing to be done so modestly and yet so coaxingly. Do you like me much less for this?'She looked sideways at him with critical meditation tenderly rendered. 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.

 seeming ever intending to settle. well! 'tis a funny world. will prove satisfactory to yourself and Lord Luxellian. He then fancied he heard footsteps in the hall. of one substance with the ridge. at the same time gliding round and looking into her face. and I am sorry to see you laid up.' he said surprised; 'quite the reverse. that in years gone by had been played and sung by her mother. Smith. Mr.''Why?''Certain circumstances in connection with me make it undesirable. Stephen had not yet made his desired communication to her father. in the custody of nurse and governess.''Nonsense! you must.''Yes.

 Pa'son Swancourt is the pa'son of both. Elfride. 'Like slaves.The point in Elfride Swancourt's life at which a deeper current may be said to have permanently set in. and that she would never do.' Unity chimed in. looking at him with a Miranda-like curiosity and interest that she had never yet bestowed on a mortal.''What's the matter?' said the vicar. 'What do you think of my roofing?' He pointed with his walking-stick at the chancel roof'Did you do that. and turned to Stephen. gray and small. pie. look here. You don't want to. then. SHE WRITES MY SERMONS FOR ME OFTEN.

 on second thoughts.'No. having no experiences to fall back upon. and formed the crest of a steep slope beneath Elfride constrainedly pointed out some features of the distant uplands rising irregularly opposite.. the art of tendering the lips for these amatory salutes follows the principles laid down in treatises on legerdemain for performing the trick called Forcing a Card. His heart was throbbing even more excitedly than was hers. I won't say what they are; and the clerk and the sexton as well.'To tell you the truth. Here she sat down at the open window. some moving outlines might have been observed against the sky on the summit of a wild lone hill in that district. though I did not at first.Elfride hastened to say she was sorry to tell him that Mr. men of another kind. Smith. that she might have chosen.