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Stephen looked at the black form of the adjacent house, where it cut a dark polygonal notch out of the sky, and felt that he hated the spot. He did not know many facts of the case, but could not help instinctively associating Elfride's fickleness with the marriage of her father, and their introduction to London society.
Their summits are not safe places for scientific experiment on the principles of air-currents, as Knight had now found, to his dismay. He still clutched the face of the escarpment not with the frenzied hold of despair, but with a dogged determination to make the most of his every jot of endurance, and so give the longest possible scope to Elfride's intentions, whatever they might be.
'So that you would not have been driven into hopeless melancholy, but have made the best of him? Elfride's erratic mind had from her youth upwards been constantly in the habit of perplexing her father by hypothetical questions, based on absurd conditions.
'But whom do you idealize by that type of woman you always adopt for the Virgin? 'Nobody. And then a thought raced along Stephen's mind and he looked up at his friend. The truth is, Stephen's introduction of Elfride's lineaments had been so unconscious that he had not at first understood his companion's drift.
I believe am almost sure, in fact that if statistics could be obtained on the subject, you would find the persons with thin hair were those who had a superabundance originally, and that those who start with a moderate quantity retain it without much loss. Elfride's troubles sat upon her face as well as in her heart.
Knight was sitting under a great passion-flower observing the scene. Sometimes he looked out at the rain from the sky, and then at Elfride's inner rain of larger drops, which fell from trees and shrubs, after having previously hung from the twigs like small silver fruit. 'I must give you something to make you think of me during this autumn at your chambers, she was saying. 'What shall it be?
Meantime Elfride's countenance wore a look indicating utter despair of being able to explain matters so that they would seem no more than they really were, a despair which not only relinquishes the hope of direct explanation, but wearily gives up all collateral chances of extenuation.
Only for a few minutes during the day did the sun light the alcove to its innermost rifts and slits, but these were the minutes now, and its level rays did Elfride the good or evil turn of revealing the lost ornament. Elfride's thoughts instantly reverted to the words she had unintentionally uttered upon what had been going on when the earring was lost.
Which class of women do you like best, those who seem younger, or those who seem older than they are? 'Off-hand I should be inclined to say those who seem older. So it was not Elfride's class.
A miserable incongruity was apparent in the circumstance of a strong mind practising its unerring archery upon a heart which the owner of that mind loved better than his own. Elfride's docile devotion to Knight was now its own enemy. Clinging to him so dependently, she taught him in time to presume upon that devotion a lesson men are not slow to learn.
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