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Updated: June 26, 2025
'Elfride! he cried, 'what does this mean? What have you done? 'Do not hurt me and punish me Oh, do not! I couldn't help coming; it was killing me. Last night, when you did not come back, I could not bear it I could not! Only let me be with you, and see your face, Harry; I don't ask for more.
'But you don't MEAN that that you will go away and leave me, and not be anything more to me oh, you don't! Convulsive sobs took all nerve out of her utterance. She checked them, and continued to look in his face for the ray of hope that was not to be found there. 'I am going indoors, said Knight. 'You will not follow me, Elfride; I wish you not to. 'Oh no; indeed, I will not.
'Well, I think I should have had the moral courage to own it at once, without pretending to an elevation I could not reach. Like the French soldiery, Elfride was not brave when on the defensive.
Stephen Smith was not the man to care about passages-at-love with women beneath him. Though gentle, ambition was visible in his kindling eyes; he evidently hoped for much; hoped indefinitely, but extensively. Elfride was puzzled, and being puzzled, was, by a natural sequence of girlish sensations, vexed with him.
Elfride was often diverted from a purpose by a dull sky; and though she used to persuade herself that the weather was as fine as possible on the other side of the clouds, she could not bring about any practical result from this fancy. Now, her mood was such that the humid sky harmonized with it. Having ascended and passed over a hill behind the house, Elfride came to a small stream.
Stephen walked with the dignity of a man close to the horse's head, Worm stumbled along a stone's throw in the rear, and Elfride was nowhere in particular, yet everywhere; sometimes in front, sometimes behind, sometimes at the sides, hovering about the procession like a butterfly; not definitely engaged in travelling, yet somehow chiming in at points with the general progress.
Behind the youth and maiden was a tempting alcove and seat, formed naturally in the beetling mass, and wide enough to admit two or three persons. Elfride sat down, and Stephen sat beside her. 'I am afraid it is hardly proper of us to be here, either, she said half inquiringly. 'We have not known each other long enough for this kind of thing, have we!
'Of course honestly; I don't want anybody's compliment! And yet Elfride knew otherwise: that a compliment or word of approval from that man then would have been like a well to a famished Arab. 'I prefer hazel, he said serenely. She had played and lost again. 'Love was in the next degree.
He drew closer, and under the window. 'How are you this morning, Elfride? You look no better for your long night's rest. She appeared at the door shortly after, took his offered arm, and together they walked slowly down the gravel path leading to the river and away under the trees.
But, Stephen, what ever have you been doing where have you been? I have been so uneasy. I feared for you, knowing not an inch of the country. I thought, suppose he has fallen over the cliff! But now I am inclined to scold you for frightening me so. 'I must speak to your father now, he said rather abruptly; 'I have so much to say to him and to you, Elfride.
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