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'What is the matter, Elfride? Knight inquired, standing before her. 'Nothing more than that I am rather depressed. 'I don't much wonder at it; that wharf was depressing. We seemed underneath and inferior to everything around us. But we shall be in the sea breeze again soon, and that will freshen you, dear.
'Yes, Elfride, she is wealthy in comparison with us, though with few connections. However, she will introduce you to the world a little. We are going to exchange her house in Baker Street for one at Kensington, for your sake. Everybody is going there now, she says. At Easters we shall fly to town for the usual three months I shall have a curate of course by that time.
Then the Latin line he gave to my quotation; it was very cut-and-dried, very; or I, who haven't looked into a classical author for the last eighteen years, shouldn't have remembered it. Well, Elfride, you had better go to your room; you'll get over this bit of tomfoolery in time. 'No, no, no, papa, she moaned.
'See, the wind has increased her colour, the sea her appetite and spirits, and somebody her happiness. Yes, it would be a pity, certainly. ''Tis my misfortune to be always spoken to from a pedestal, sighed Elfride. 'Well, we will do as you like, Mrs. Swancourt, said Knight, 'but 'I myself would rather remain on board, interrupted the elder lady. 'And Mr.
'There were two or three reasons for secrecy. One was the recent death of her relative the testator, though that did not apply to you. But remember, Elfride, he continued in a stiffer tone, 'you had mixed yourself up so foolishly with those low people, the Smiths and it was just, too, when Mrs. Troyton and myself were beginning to understand each other that I resolved to say nothing even to you.
I suppose I ought not to have taken you into that vault. What is the matter? 'Nothing, said Elfride faintly. 'I shall be myself in a moment. All was so strange and unexpected down there, that it made me unwell. 'I thought you said very little. Shall I get some water? 'No, no. 'Do you think it is safe for you to mount? 'Quite indeed it is, she said, with a look of appeal.
He was indulging in dreams, and for the nonce the warehouses of Bombay and the plains and forts of Poonah were but a shadow's shadow. His dream was based on this one atom of fact: Elfride and Knight had become separated, and their engagement was as if it had never been.
And with your permission I will complete it. Knight then stood still and wrote. Elfride remained beside him a moment, and afterwards walked on. 'I should like to see all the secrets that are in that book, she gaily flung back to him over her shoulder. 'I don't think you would find much to interest you. 'I know I should. 'Then of course I have no more to say.
Walking and gloomily talking thus they waited till nearly nine o'clock, at which time Elfride thought she might call at the Falcon without creating much surprise. Behind the railway-station was the river, spanned by an old Tudor bridge, whence the road diverged in two directions, one skirting the suburbs of the town, and winding round again into the high-road to Endelstow.
'What did he send in the letter? inquired Elfride. 'The key of a private desk in which the papers are. He doesn't like to trust such a matter to any body else. I have done such things for him before. And what I propose is, that we make an afternoon of it all three of us.
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