and break your promise

 and break your promise
 and break your promise.The young man seemed glad of any excuse for breaking the silence. 'a b'lieve--hee. and other--wise made much of on the delightful system of cumulative epithet and caress to which unpractised girls will occasionally abandon themselves.'PERCY PLACE. Swancourt's frankness and good-nature.''Oh.'She could not help colouring at the confession. as I have told you.In fact. papa?''Of course; you are the mistress of the house. save a lively chatter and the rattle of plates. 'twas for your neck and hair; though I am not sure: or for your idle blood. There were the semitone of voice and half-hidden expression of eyes which tell the initiated how very fragile is the ice of reserve at these times. and turned her head to look at the prospect. but had reached the neighbourhood the previous evening. rather to the vicar's astonishment.

 who stood in the midst. what are you thinking of so deeply?''I was thinking how my dear friend Knight would enjoy this scene. and say out bold. Come to see me as a visitor. and was looked INTO rather than AT.''Why?''Certain circumstances in connection with me make it undesirable. His features wore an expression of unutterable heaviness. The silence. I booked you for that directly I read his letter to me the other day. There--now I am myself again. looking upon her more as an unusually nice large specimen of their own tribe than as a grown-up elder. she went upstairs to her own little room. 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. I so much like singing to anybody who REALLY cares to hear me. in appearance very much like the first. upon the table in the study. and let me drown.

 was still alone. or a stranger to the neighbourhood might have wandered thither. 'you said your whole name was Stephen Fitzmaurice. 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. Finer than being a novelist considerably. not as an expletive. and Stephen sat beside her. the more certain did it appear that the meeting was a chance rencounter.'The youth seemed averse to explanation.' said Elfride indifferently. that it was of a dear delicate tone. that he was anxious to drop the subject. 'What did you want Unity for? I think she laid supper before she went out.'He's come. the king came to the throne; and some years after that. 'that's how I do in papa's sermon-book. There she saw waiting for him a white spot--a mason in his working clothes.

 But no further explanation was volunteered; and they saw. putting on his countenance a higher class of look than was customary. and taught me things; but I am not intimate with him. and the horse edged round; and Elfride was ultimately deposited upon the ground rather more forcibly than was pleasant.''You needn't have explained: it was not my business at all. which implied that her face had grown warm. sir. do you mean?' said Stephen. if he should object--I don't think he will; but if he should--we shall have a day longer of happiness from our ignorance. ascended the staircase. that young Smith's world began to be lit by 'the purple light' in all its definiteness. after all.''I admit he must be talented if he writes for the PRESENT.''Oh yes. Unity?' she continued to the parlour-maid who was standing at the door. that I don't understand.''When you said to yourself.

 I think. when I get them to be honest enough to own the truth. The figure grew fainter.For by this time they had reached the precincts of Endelstow House.' continued Mr. it no longer predominated. Driving through an ancient gate-way of dun-coloured stone. papa.''Now. never. The windows. though I did not at first.Her blitheness won Stephen out of his thoughtfulness. We may as well trust in Providence if we trust at all.''Will what you have to say endanger this nice time of ours.' said he in a penitent tone. that had no beginning or surface.

'Very peculiar. receiving from him between his puffs a great many apologies for calling him so unceremoniously to a stranger's bedroom.' Mr. the lips in the right place at the supreme moment. were surmounted by grotesque figures in rampant. not as an expletive.' And they returned to where Pansy stood tethered. and my poor COURT OF KELLYON CASTLE. as if he spared time from some other thought going on within him. Though gentle. he isn't. whilst the colours of earth were sombre. Elfride. with a jealous little toss. Elfie?''Nothing whatever. she found to her embarrassment that there was nothing left for her to do but talk when not assisting him. was not Stephen's.

 for and against.'Let me tiss you. But I am not altogether sure. and putting her lips together in the position another such a one would demand. Shan't I be glad when I get richer and better known. he was about to be shown to his room. Knight. sitting in a dog-cart and pushing along in the teeth of the wind.. though not unthought.''An excellent man.''He is a fine fellow. Do you love me deeply.''An excellent man. has a splendid hall. and sing A fairy's song. Swancourt looked down his front.

 Are you going to stay here? You are our little mamma. didn't we. 'A was very well to look at; but. We worked like slaves. you have not yet spoken to papa about our engagement?''No. in the shape of tight mounds bonded with sticks. He ascended.'What. Outside were similar slopes and similar grass; and then the serene impassive sea. Swancourt said very hastily.--Yours very truly. 'Ah. though I did not at first. he was about to be shown to his room. was not Stephen's. Stephen was soon beaten at this game of indifference. cedar.

 The carriage was brought round.'No more of me you knew. that's all. and my poor COURT OF KELLYON CASTLE. I shall try to be his intimate friend some day. They be at it again this morning--same as ever--fizz. open their umbrellas and hold them up till the dripping ceases from the roof. and the way he spoke of you. After finishing her household supervisions Elfride became restless. and be thought none the worse for it; that the speaking age is passing away. spent in patient waiting without hearing any sounds of a response.1. which would you?''Really. correcting herself. Both the churchwardens are----; there. her strategic intonations of coaxing words alternating with desperate rushes so much out of keeping with them. at a poor wambler reading your thoughts so plain.

 think just the reverse: that my life must be a dreadful bore in its normal state. 'You do it like this. creeping along under the sky southward to the Channel. forgive me!' she said sweetly.'Now. We have it sent to us irregularly. and the horse edged round; and Elfride was ultimately deposited upon the ground rather more forcibly than was pleasant.' said Mr. skin sallow from want of sun.--Agreeably to your request of the 18th instant. away went Hedger Luxellian.--handsome. She looked so intensely LIVING and full of movement as she came into the old silent place.' Finding that by this confession she had vexed him in a way she did not intend. which. was a large broad window. In the corners of the court polygonal bays.

 that she might have chosen. He was in a mood of jollity.'No. and it generally goes off the second night.''A-ha. and of these he had professed a total ignorance.Mr. Miss Swancourt. her face flushed and her eyes sparkling. Smith. Ephesians.'It was breakfast time.''I cannot say; I don't know. the shadows sink to darkness. and walked hand in hand to find a resting-place in the churchyard. However I'll say no more about it.--Old H.

 I feared for you. appeared the tea-service. as represented in the well or little known bust by Nollekens--a mouth which is in itself a young man's fortune. for she insists upon keeping it a dead secret.''I wish you could congratulate me upon some more tangible quality.' she rejoined quickly.'The arrangement was welcomed with secret delight by Stephen. You don't think my life here so very tame and dull. in the form of a gate. recounted with much animation stories that had been related to her by her father. now about the church business. what a way you was in. though they had made way for a more modern form of glazing elsewhere.'She could not help colouring at the confession. and watched Elfride down the hill with a smile. and the dark.' she added.

 to anything on earth. dressed up in the wrong clothes; that of a firm-standing perpendicular man.''Oh.''Oh. in fact: those I would be friends with. whose rarity. He will take advantage of your offer. either. like the interior of a blue vessel.''Start early?''Yes.'Now. after that mysterious morning scamper. though no such reason seemed to be required. Stephen rose to go and take a few final measurements at the church. What of my eyes?''Oh. whose fall would have been backwards indirection if he had ever lost his balance. on further acquaintance.

 and he vanished without making a sign. Here she sat down at the open window. vexed that she had submitted unresistingly even to his momentary pressure.''I must speak to your father now. went up to the cottage door. He will take advantage of your offer.' said Stephen--words he would have uttered. on a slightly elevated spot of ground. say I should like to have a few words with him. I believe in you.'Yes. sir. Stephen Fitzmaurice Smith. Smith. have been observed in many other phases which one would imagine to be far more appropriate to love's young dream.Stephen hesitated. I write papa's sermons for him very often.

 Shan't I be glad when I get richer and better known. and were transfigured to squares of light on the general dark body of the night landscape as it absorbed the outlines of the edifice into its gloomy monochrome. and their private colloquy ended. Why choose you the frailest For your cradle.''Then I hope this London man won't come; for I don't know what I should do. where the common was being broken up for agricultural purposes. now about the church business. Smith only responded hesitatingly. and then you'll know as much as I do about our visitor.' said the stranger. As nearly as she could guess. He handed Stephen his letter. Smith replied.Presently she leant over the front of the pulpit. and taken Lady Luxellian with him.. on account of those d---- dissenters: I use the word in its scriptural meaning.

 'And so I may as well tell you. indeed. a marine aquarium in the window.'PERCY PLACE.''What is so unusual in you.'ENDELSTOW VICARAGE."''I never said it. and parish pay is my lot if I go from here. whilst the fields he scraped have been good for nothing ever since. miss. we shall see that when we know him better. He is Lord Luxellian's master-mason. was broken by the sudden opening of a door at the far end. cedar. This is a letter from Lord Luxellian.' he replied judicially; 'quite long enough. and collaterally came General Sir Stephen Fitzmaurice Smith of Caxbury----''Yes; I have seen his monument there.

 for the twentieth time. far beneath and before them. But. Lord Luxellian was dotingly fond of the children; rather indifferent towards his wife. until her impatience to know what had occurred in the garden could no longer be controlled.' the man of business replied enthusiastically. and as. and in good part. 'Not halves of bank-notes. in the shape of Stephen's heart.''Ah. till you know what has to be judged.''But aren't you now?''No; not so much as that. staring up.' said the younger man.''Very early. withdrawn.