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However, what I so vividly dreamt was this, since you would like to hear. It was the brightest of bright mornings at East Endelstow Church, and you and I stood by the font. Far away in the chancel Lord Luxellian was standing alone, cold and impassive, and utterly unlike his usual self: but I knew it was he. Inside the altar rail stood a strange clergyman with his book open.
On a day about three weeks later, the Swancourt trio were sitting quietly in the drawing-room of The Crags, Mrs. Swancourt's house at Endelstow, chatting, and taking easeful survey of their previous month or two of town a tangible weariness even to people whose acquaintances there might be counted on the fingers.
Her first thought the next morning was the thrilling one that Knight was as close at hand as when they were at home at Endelstow, and her first sight, on looking out of the cabin window, was the perpendicular face of Beachy Head, gleaming white in a brilliant six-o'clock-in-the-morning sun. This fair daybreak, however, soon changed its aspect.
Stephen retraced his steps towards the cottage he had visited only two or three hours previously. He drew near and under the rich foliage growing about the outskirts of Endelstow Park, the spotty lights and shades from the shining moon maintaining a race over his head and down his back in an endless gambol.
Swancourt were engaged in conversation in the dressing-room of the latter. Such a treatment of such a case was in course of adoption here. Elfride had just before received an affectionate letter from Stephen Smith in Bombay, which had been forwarded to her from Endelstow.
'You shall have a little one by De Leyre, that was given me by a young French lady who was staying at Endelstow House: "Je l'ai plante, je l'ai vu naitre, Ce beau rosier ou les oiseaux," &c.; and then I shall want to give you my own favourite for the very last, Shelley's "When the lamp is shattered," as set to music by my poor mother.
Stephen returned the pressure threefold, then hastily went off to his father's cottage by the wall of Endelstow Park. 'Elfride, what have you to say to this? inquired her father, coming up immediately Stephen had retired. With feminine quickness she grasped at any straw that would enable her to plead his cause. 'He had told me of it, she faltered; 'so that it is not a discovery in spite of him.
A little farther, and an opening in the elms stretching up from this fertile valley revealed a mansion. 'That's Endelstow House, Lord Luxellian's, said the driver. 'Endelstow House, Lord Luxellian's, repeated the other mechanically.
So at the end of the week's absence, which had brought him as far as Dublin, he resolved to curtail his tour, return to Endelstow, and commit himself by making a reality of the hypothetical offer of that Sunday evening.
'He heard her musical pants. The old tower of West Endelstow Church had reached the last weeks of its existence. It was to be replaced by a new one from the designs of Mr. Hewby, the architect who had sent down Stephen.
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