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The suddenness of Elfride's renunciation of himself was food for more torture. To an unimpassioned outsider, it admitted of at least two interpretations it might either have proceeded from an endeavour to be faithful to her first choice, till the lover seen absolutely overpowered the lover remembered, or from a wish not to lose his love till sure of the love of another.
There is nothing like a thorough drenching for reducing the protuberances of clothes, but Elfride's seemed to cling to her like a glove. Without heeding the attack of the clouds further than by raising her hand and wiping away the spirts of rain when they went more particularly into her eyes, she sat down and hurriedly began rending the linen into strips.
Knight argued from Elfride's unwontedness of manner, which was matter of fact, to an unwontedness in love, which was matter of inference only. Incredules les plus credules. 'Elfride, he said, 'had hardly looked upon a man till she saw me.
Shan't I be glad when I get richer and better known, and hob and nob with him! Stephen's eyes sparkled. A pout began to shape itself upon Elfride's soft lips. 'You think always of him, and like him better than you do me! 'No, indeed, Elfride. The feeling is different quite. But I do like him, and he deserves even more affection from me than I give.
Knight pondered on the meaning of Elfride's hasty disappearance, but could not avoid an instinctive conclusion that there existed but a doubtful hope for him. As far as he could judge, his sole chance of deliverance lay in the possibility of a rope or pole being brought; and this possibility was remote indeed.
'I didn't mean to stop you quite, she faltered with some alarm; and seeing that he still remained silent, she added more anxiously, 'If you say that again, perhaps, I will not be quite quite so obstinate if if you don't like me to be. 'Oh, my Elfride! he exclaimed, and kissed her. It was Elfride's first kiss. And so awkward and unused was she; full of striving no relenting.
However, her comparative immunity from further risk and trouble had considerably composed her. Elfride's capacity for being wounded was only surpassed by her capacity for healing, which rightly or wrongly is by some considered an index of transientness of feeling in general. 'Elfride, what did they say at the Falcon? 'Nothing. Nobody seemed curious about me.
Then came the devastating thought that Elfride's childlike, unreasoning, and indiscreet act in flying to him only proved that the proprieties must be a dead letter with her; that the unreserve, which was really artlessness without ballast, meant indifference to decorum; and what so likely as that such a woman had been deceived in the past?
Stephen sat down beside the arm-chair and began to tumble the books about. 'Are you going to review this? inquired Stephen with apparent unconcern, and holding up Elfride's effusion. 'Which? Oh, that! I may though I don't do much light reviewing now. But it is reviewable. 'How do you mean? Knight never liked to be asked what he meant. 'Mean!
It brightened the near part first, and against the background which the cloud-shadow had not yet uncovered stood, brightest of all, a white tomb the tomb of young Jethway. Knight, still alive on the subject of Elfride's secret, thought of her words concerning the kiss that it once had occurred on a tomb in this churchyard.
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