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I have only once heard from him since he went to India. I daresay you have heard him speak of me Mr. Knight, who became acquainted with him some years ago in Exonbury. 'Ay, that I have. Stephen is very well, thank you, sir, and he's in England; in fact, he's at home. In short, sir, he's down in the vault there, a-looking at the departed coffins. Elfride's heart fluttered like a butterfly.
'Christopher, I quite forgot to tell you, when I mentioned that I had seen my distant relative, Harry Knight, that I invited him here for whatever length of time he could spare. And now he says he can come any day in August. 'Write, and say the first of the month, replied the indiscriminate vicar. She read on, 'Goodness me and that isn't all. He is actually the reviewer of Elfride's book.
They ascended to the daylight, Knight taking no further notice of Elfride's manner, which, as usual, he attributed to the natural shyness of a young woman at being discovered walking with him on terms which left not much doubt of their meaning. Elfride stepped a little in advance, and passed through the churchyard.
The woman, without looking around her, turned to the quarter allotted to the second-cabin passengers. All the carnation Mrs. Swancourt had complimented her step-daughter upon possessing left Elfride's cheeks, and she trembled visibly. She ran to the other side of the boat, where Mrs. Swancourt was standing. 'Let us go home by railway with papa, after all, she pleaded earnestly.
Returning indoors she called 'Unity! 'She is gone to her aunt's, to spend the evening, said Mr. Swancourt, thrusting his head out of his study door, and letting the light of his candles stream upon Elfride's face less revealing than, as it seemed to herself, creating the blush of uneasy perplexity that was burning upon her cheek. 'I didn't know you were indoors, papa, she said with surprise.
'Checkmate, said her opponent without the least emotion. Oh, the difference between Elfride's condition of mind now, and when she purposely made blunders that Stephen Smith might win! It was bedtime. Her mind as distracted as if it would throb itself out of her head, she went off to her chamber, full of mortification at being beaten time after time when she herself was the aggressor.
The excitement of her latter words had restored colour to Elfride's cheeks; and hastily wiping her eyes, she walked farther on, so that by the time her lover had overtaken her the traces of emotion had nearly disappeared from her face. Knight put the hat upon her head, took her hand, and drew it within his arm. It was the last day but one previous to their departure for St.
Now, though it may seem unlikely, considering how far the two had gone in converse, Knight had never yet ventured to kiss Elfride. Far slower was he than Stephen Smith in matters like that. The utmost advance he had made in such demonstrations had been to the degree witnessed by Stephen in the summer-house. So Elfride's cheek being still forbidden fruit to him, he said impulsively.
Parson Swancourt wasted a good deal of his wife's money, and she left him Miss Elfride. That trick of running away seems to be handed down in families, like craziness or gout. And they two women be alike as peas. 'Which two? 'Lady Elfride and young Miss that's alive now. The same hair and eyes: but Miss Elfride's mother was darker a good deal.
For a reason of his own he made this spot his refuge from the storm, and turning his face to the left, conned the landscape as a book. He was overlooking the valley containing Elfride's residence.
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