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The mutual avowal which it had been the means of precipitating occupied a far longer length of her meditations. Elfride's disquiet now was on account of that miserable promise to meet Stephen, which returned like a spectre again and again. The perception of his littleness beside Knight grew upon her alarmingly.
Knight's eyes met hers, and with supreme eloquence the glance of each told a long-concealed tale of emotion in that short half-moment. Moved by an impulse neither could resist, they ran together and into each other's arms. At the moment of embracing, Elfride's eyes involuntarily flashed towards the Puffin steamboat. It had doubled the point, and was no longer to be seen.
At that moment, by reason of a slight perturbation his words had caused in her, Elfride's foot caught itself in a little tuft of grass growing in a joint of the stone-work, and she almost lost her balance. Knight sprang forward with a face of horror.
The pony came upon it, and stood cross-wise, looking up and down. Elfride's heart throbbed erratically, and she thought, 'Horses, if left to themselves, make for where they are best fed. Pansy will go home. Pansy turned and walked on towards St. Launce's Pansy at home, during summer, had little but grass to live on. After a run to St.
A slight superficial wetting of the soil hereabout made it far more slippery to stand on than the same soil thoroughly drenched. The inner substance was still hard, and was lubricated by the moistened film. 'I find a difficulty in getting back, said Knight. Elfride's heart fell like lead. 'But you can get back? she wildly inquired.
Elfride had turned back to meditate on what friends these could be, when she heard footsteps, and her father exclaiming behind her: 'O Elfride, here you are! I hope you got on well? Elfride's heart smote her, and she did not speak. 'Come back to the summer-house a minute, continued Mr. Swancourt; 'I have to tell you of that I promised to.
John Smith's rough hands and clothes, his wife's dialect, the necessary narrowness of their ways, being constantly under Elfride's notice, were not without their deflecting influence. On reaching home after the perilous adventure by the sea-shore, Knight had felt unwell, and retired almost immediately.
'And then 'twas on the carpet in my own room, rejoined Elfride merrily. 'And then 'twas dangling on the embroidery of your petticoat, miss; and then 'twas down your back, miss, wasn't it? And oh, what a way you was in, miss, wasn't you? my! until you found it! Stephen took Elfride's slight foot upon his hand: 'One, two, three, and up! she said. Unfortunately not so.
The girl resumed her normal attitude with an added disquiet. Elfride's emotion was cumulative, and after a while would assert itself on a sudden. A slight touch was enough to set it free a poem, a sunset, a cunningly contrived chord of music, a vague imagining, being the usual accidents of its exhibition.
His heart was throbbing even more excitedly than was hers, which itself had quickened when she seriously set to work on this last occasion. Mr. Swancourt had left the room. 'You have been trifling with me till now! he exclaimed, his face flushing. 'You did not play your best in the first two games? Elfride's guilt showed in her face.
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