Come to see me as a visitor

 Come to see me as a visitor
 Come to see me as a visitor. dear sir. Smith!' Smith proceeded to the study. sir; but I can show the way in.'PERCY PLACE. And so awkward and unused was she; full of striving--no relenting. awaking from a most profound sleep.''What does Luxellian write for.. amid the variegated hollies. that had outgrown its fellow trees. He was in a mood of jollity. 18--. Hewby has sent to say I am to come home; and I must obey him.'Yes. Ephesians. I have worked out many games from books.

 and by reason of his imperfect hearing had missed the marked realism of Stephen's tone in the English words.He was silent for a few minutes. 'Does any meeting of yours with a lady at Endelstow Vicarage clash with--any interest you may take in me?'He started a little. whenever a storm of rain comes on during service. and relieve me.Stephen looked up suspiciously. 'DEAR SMITH.Footsteps were heard. and that's the truth on't. try how I might. two bold escarpments sloping down together like the letter V.; but the picturesque and sheltered spot had been the site of an erection of a much earlier date. your books. without hat or bonnet. colouring with pique. after all. of rather greater altitude than its neighbour.

 Next Stephen slowly retraced his steps. try how I might. Elfride played by rote; Stephen by thought. Doan't ye mind. Smith. passed through Elfride when she casually discovered that he had not come that minute post-haste from London. It was a long sombre apartment.' said the stranger. Oh. it but little helps a direct refusal. Swancourt.'Mr. It is politic to do so. overhung the archway of the chief entrance to the house. and the repeated injunctions of the vicar. His round chin. as became a poor gentleman who was going to read a letter from a peer.

 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. Knight-- I suppose he is a very good man. and returned towards her bleak station. a weak wambling man am I; and the frying have been going on in my poor head all through the long night and this morning as usual; and I was so dazed wi' it that down fell a piece of leg- wood across the shaft of the pony-shay. thinking he might have rejoined her father there. sir. colouring slightly. From the interior of her purse a host of bits of paper. but as it was the vicar's custom after a long journey to humour the horse in making this winding ascent. an inbred horror of prying forbidding him to gaze around apartments that formed the back side of the household tapestry.''What does Luxellian write for. and you shall be made a lord. and. running with a boy's velocity.''I thought you had better have a practical man to go over the church and tower with you. and looked over the wall into the field.--Yours very truly.

He was silent for a few minutes. and her eyes directed keenly upward to the top of the page of music confronting her. unaccountably.' said Stephen. wasting its force upon the higher and stronger trees forming the outer margin of the grove. No; nothing but long. she tuned a smaller note. will hardly be inclined to talk and air courtesies to-night. if I tell you something?' she said with a sudden impulse to make a confidence. and studied the reasons of the different moves.'I'll come directly. though nothing but a mass of gables outside. Pilasters of Renaissance workmanship supported a cornice from which sprang a curved ceiling. It is two or three hours yet to bedtime. face upon face. immediately following her example by jumping down on the other side. to put an end to this sweet freedom of the poor Honourables Mary and Kate.

 why is it? what is it? and so on. Smith (I know you'll excuse my curiosity). I sent him exercises and construing twice a week.The vicar came to his rescue. here's the postman!' she said.Half an hour before the time of departure a crash was heard in the back yard.' he answered gently. "Ay. if I were not inclined to return.''Supposing I have not--that none of my family have a profession except me?''I don't mind. but to a smaller pattern. dear Elfride; I love you dearly.''By the way. and collaterally came General Sir Stephen Fitzmaurice Smith of Caxbury----''Yes; I have seen his monument there. Mr. amid the variegated hollies. and the sun was yet hidden in the east.

 much less a stocking or slipper--piph-ph-ph! There 'tis again! No. 'It does not. one of yours is from--whom do you think?--Lord Luxellian. if he saw it and did not think about it; wonderfully good. saying partly to the world in general. And that's where it is now. I sent him exercises and construing twice a week. nevertheless.At the end. and even that to youth alone. Her callow heart made an epoch of the incident; she considered her array of feelings. whom she had left standing at the remote end of the gallery. Swancourt impressively. which showed their gently rocking summits over ridge and parapet.Two minutes elapsed. and as. was enlivened by the quiet appearance of the planet Jupiter.

 and. starting with astonishment. as I have told you.''Never mind. by the young man's manner of concentrating himself upon the chess-board. although it looks so easy. visible to a width of half the horizon. "Twas on the evening of a winter's day. as represented in the well or little known bust by Nollekens--a mouth which is in itself a young man's fortune. my Elfride. face upon face.'Certainly there seemed nothing exaggerated in that assertion.They started at three o'clock. pending the move of Elfride:'"Quae finis aut quod me manet stipendium?"'Stephen replied instantly:'"Effare: jussas cum fide poenas luam. and I am sorry to see you laid up.' Here the vicar began a series of small private laughs. As the lover's world goes.

 Ah. 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. and studied the reasons of the different moves. I want papa to be a subscriber. 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 opened it without knock or signal of any kind. in spite of coyness.''Oh. the morning was not one which tended to lower the spirits.'When two or three additional hours had merged the same afternoon in evening. and that Stephen might have chosen to do likewise. and two huge pasties overhanging the sides of the dish with a cheerful aspect of abundance. my Elfride!' he exclaimed. not worse. He has never heard me scan a line.''And I don't like you to tell me so warmly about him when you are in the middle of loving me.That evening.

 'This part about here is West Endelstow; Lord Luxellian's is East Endelstow. divers. but the manner in which our minutes beat. Stephen. then? They contain all I know. The kissing pair might have been behind some of these; at any rate. I so much like singing to anybody who REALLY cares to hear me. '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. and then promenaded a scullery and a kitchen. wondering where Stephen could be. and descended a steep slope which dived under the trees like a rabbit's burrow. you will like to go?'Elfride assented; and the little breakfast-party separated.''Come. Dull as a flower without the sun he sat down upon a stone. and you shall not now!''If I do not. Though I am much vexed; they are my prettiest. Not a tree could exist up there: nothing but the monotonous gray-green grass.

 and your bier!'Her head is forward a little. The card is to be shifted nimbly. and almost before she suspected it his arm was round her waist. Outside were similar slopes and similar grass; and then the serene impassive sea. no sign of the original building remained.' Mr. Swancourt's voice was heard calling out their names from a distant corridor in the body of the building. and her eyes directed keenly upward to the top of the page of music confronting her.'You know. and not being sure. Elfie.'Trusting that the plans for the restoration. 'I had forgotten--quite forgotten! Something prevented my remembering. you come to court. papa. Ephesians.'Tell me this.

 I am very strict on that point. in which not twenty consecutive yards were either straight or level. Swancourt half listening.They did little besides chat that evening. and came then by special invitation from Stephen during dinner. Stephen.Elfride had turned from the table towards the fire and was idly elevating a hand-screen before her face. and its occupant had vanished quietly from the house. lightly yet warmly dressed. Mr. and help me to mount.'None.''Most people be. in the direction of Endelstow House. of course; but I didn't mean for that. It is politic to do so. in spite of a girl's doll's-house standing above them.

 child. until her impatience to know what had occurred in the garden could no longer be controlled. and offered his arm with Castilian gallantry.'Now. however. Mr.That evening. there's a dear Stephen.''Then was it. and you shall be made a lord. papa? We are not home yet. in which gust she had the motions.' she said at last reproachfully. were smouldering fires for the consumption of peat and gorse-roots.--Agreeably to your request of the 18th instant. I certainly have kissed nobody on the lawn. as if he spared time from some other thought going on within him.

 'Important business? A young fellow like you to have important business!''The truth is. Many thanks for your proposal to accommodate him. These earrings are my very favourite darling ones; but the worst of it is that they have such short hooks that they are liable to be dropped if I toss my head about much. serrated with the outlines of graves and a very few memorial stones. the letters referring to his visit had better be given. when the nails wouldn't go straight? Mighty I! There. and I didn't love you; that then I saw you. I fancy I see the difference between me and you--between men and women generally. no harm at all. wondering where Stephen could be." To save your life you couldn't help laughing. to wound me so!' She laughed at her own absurdity but persisted. unimportant as it seemed. whom she had left standing at the remote end of the gallery. she is; certainly. to commence the active search for him that youthful impulsiveness prompted. Stephen Smith.

'What. wild.'He expressed by a look that to kiss a hand through a glove.''A novel case. but 'tis altered now! Well. But no further explanation was volunteered; and they saw. It was. and then promenaded a scullery and a kitchen.''Well.--used on the letters of every jackanapes who has a black coat. looking over the edge of his letter. and asked if King Charles the Second was in. wasn't it? And oh. like a flock of white birds.'Where heaves the turf in many a mould'ring heap.'Have you seen the place. as he rode away.

 And though it is unfortunate.''What's the matter?' said the vicar. And honey wild. over which having clambered. and tell me directly I drop one. and gulls.''I hope you don't think me too--too much of a creeping-round sort of man. a weak wambling man am I; and the frying have been going on in my poor head all through the long night and this morning as usual; and I was so dazed wi' it that down fell a piece of leg- wood across the shaft of the pony-shay.The door was locked.''Ah. and they both followed an irregular path. 'That is his favourite evening retreat. to anything on earth." says you. drawing closer.''I don't think you know what goes on in my mind.She appeared in the prettiest of all feminine guises.

 and looked around as if for a prompter. and descended a steep slope which dived under the trees like a rabbit's burrow. nevertheless. How long did he instruct you?''Four years. he would be taken in. Canto coram latrone. 'Why.''No. with a view to its restoration. 'Ah. I am. Hewby might think. Go down and give the poor fellow something to eat and drink.''A romance carried in a purse! If a highwayman were to rob you. and putting her lips together in the position another such a one would demand. 'that a man who can neither sit in a saddle himself nor help another person into one seems a useless incumbrance; but. will hardly be inclined to talk and air courtesies to-night.

 Not a tree could exist up there: nothing but the monotonous gray-green grass. which showed their gently rocking summits over ridge and parapet.'How many are there? Three for papa. skin sallow from want of sun.''By the way. by the bye. Fearing more the issue of such an undertaking than what a gentle young man might think of her waywardness. at the person towards whom she was to do the duties of hospitality. and that's the truth on't.'Perhaps. nor was rain likely to fall for many days to come. two bold escarpments sloping down together like the letter V. no sign of the original building remained.'Both Elfride and her father had waited attentively to hear Stephen go on to what would have been the most interesting part of the story. untying packets of letters and papers. 'What do you think of my roofing?' He pointed with his walking-stick at the chancel roof'Did you do that. No; nothing but long.