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Elfride seemed to have an idea that her conduct was rather ill-regulated and startlingly free from conventional restraint. And worse, she fancied upon Knight's face a slightly amused look at her proceedings. 'You think me foolish, I suppose, she said recklessly; 'but I want to do my very best just once, and see whether I can overcome you. 'Certainly: nothing more natural.
Their glance, but a moment chronologically, was a season in their history. To Elfride the intense agony of reproach in Stephen's eye was a nail piercing her heart with a deadliness no words can describe. With a spasmodic effort she withdrew her eyes, urged on the horse, and in the chaos of perturbed memories was oblivious of any presence beside her. The deed of deception was complete.
Stephen Smith," assistant, you see he called him, and naturally I understood him to mean a sort of partner. Why didn't he say "clerk"? 'They never call them clerks in that profession, because they do not write. Stephen Mr. Smith told me so. So that Mr. Hewby simply used the accepted word. 'Let me speak, please, Elfride! My assistant, Mr.
Elfride took a sip or two. 'It goes into my eyes, she said wearily. 'I can't take any more. Yes, I will; I will close my eyes. Ah, it goes to them by an inside route. I don't want it; throw it away. However, she could eat, and did eat. Her chief attention was concentrated upon how to get the horse from the Falcon stables without suspicion. Stephen was not allowed to accompany her into the town.
Swancourt but for the risk she might thereby incur of some teasing remark being returned. Ultimately Elfride would say, 'Oh, what a plague that reviewer is to me! and turn her face to where she imagined India lay, and murmur to herself, 'Ah, my little husband, what are you doing now? Let me see, where are you south, east, where? Behind that hill, ever so far behind!
All these months of my absence I have worshipped you. He leapt from his seat like the impulsive lad that he was, slid round to her side, and almost before she suspected it his arm was round her waist, and the two sets of curls intermingled. So entirely new was full-blown love to Elfride, that she trembled as much from the novelty of the emotion as from the emotion itself.
Elfride assented pleasantly, even gladly; but she saw that, by this marriage, her father and herself had ceased for ever to be the close relations they had been up to a few weeks ago. It was impossible now to tell him the tale of her wild elopement with Stephen Smith. He was still snugly housed in her heart.
Lady Elfride said she didn't think of wishing it; if he'd forgie her 'twas all she asked, and as for a living, she was content to play plays with her husband. This frightened the old lord, and 'a gie'd 'em a house to live in, and a great garden, and a little field or two, and a carriage, and a good few guineas. Anyhow, they were buried the same day father and mother but the baby lived.
'I am Miss Swancourt, said Elfride. Her constraint was over.
At the same moment she heard the outer gate swing together, and wheels sweep round the entrance; some prior noise from the same source having probably been the cause of her awaking. Next her father's voice was heard calling to Worm. Elfride passed along a walk towards the house behind a belt of shrubs.
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