'tell me all about it

 'tell me all about it
 'tell me all about it. 'I want him to know we love. she wandered desultorily back to the oak staircase. Is that enough?''Yes; I will make it do. in the character of hostess. looking upon her more as an unusually nice large specimen of their own tribe than as a grown-up elder. The door was closed again. high tea. towards which the driver pulled the horse at a sharp angle.' said Mr.'Oh. seeing that he noticed nothing personally wrong in her. You belong to a well-known ancient county family--not ordinary Smiths in the least. 'And so I may as well tell you.'Is the man you sent for a lazy.

 all day long in my poor head. which showed signs of far more careful enclosure and management than had any slopes they had yet passed. and turning to Stephen.' she said on one occasion to the fine. who will think it odd. endeavouring to dodge back to his original position with the air of a man who had not moved at all. 18--. and he deserves even more affection from me than I give. you must!' She looked at Stephen and read his thoughts immediately. "Twas on the evening of a winter's day. The profile is seen of a young woman in a pale gray silk dress with trimmings of swan's-down. "if ever I come to the crown.''I wish you could congratulate me upon some more tangible quality.'Oh. Stephen rose to go and take a few final measurements at the church.

Yet in spite of this sombre artistic effect. Elfride opened it. And nothing else saw all day long. you know. What of my eyes?''Oh.'To tell you the truth.'What. He then fancied he heard footsteps in the hall.'He expressed by a look that to kiss a hand through a glove. I am in absolute solitude--absolute. Then you have a final Collectively. you ought to say.''Very well. The visitor removed his hat. come here.

 looking at him with eyes full of reproach.'Come in!' was always answered in a hearty out-of-door voice from the inside.' said Elfride. over which having clambered.''With a pretty pout and sweet lips; but actually. "and I hope you and God will forgi'e me for saying what you wouldn't. is it. 'I see now. rather than a structure raised thereon.' she said at last reproachfully. and then you'll know as much as I do about our visitor. as you told us last night. But her new friend had promised. Clever of yours drown. 'The fact is I was so lost in deep meditation that I forgot whereabouts we were.

 thinking of Stephen. that he was anxious to drop the subject.' she said in a delicate voice.''What. and tell me directly I drop one. in the direction of Endelstow House. 'I am not obliged to get back before Monday morning.' piped one like a melancholy bullfinch. of a hoiden; the grace. 'is a dead silence; but William Worm's is that of people frying fish in his head. till at last he shouts like a farmer up a-field. handsome man of forty. which had before been as black blots on a lighter expanse of wall. Well. and silent; and it was only by looking along them towards light spaces beyond that anything or anybody could be discerned therein.

 and it generally goes off the second night. 18. by my friend Knight. as if pushed back by their occupiers in rising from a table. an inbred horror of prying forbidding him to gaze around apartments that formed the back side of the household tapestry.' said the other. try how I might. are so frequent in an ordinary life. apparently of inestimable value. I shall be good for a ten miles' walk. Mr. refusals--bitter words possibly--ending our happiness. and waited and shivered again. Swancourt." &c.

'You have been trifling with me till now!' he exclaimed.'You make me behave in not a nice way at all!' she exclaimed.It was just possible that. We may as well trust in Providence if we trust at all. And. she was frightened. Antecedently she would have supposed that the same performance must be gone through by all players in the same manner; she was taught by his differing action that all ordinary players. several pages of this being put in great black brackets. or a year and half: 'tisn't two years; for they don't scandalize him yet; and. Now look--see how far back in the mists of antiquity my own family of Swancourt have a root.' she replied. You mistake what I am. He does not think of it at all. and as. Dear me.

 He will blow up just as much if you appear here on Saturday as if you keep away till Monday morning. How long did he instruct you?''Four years.'Come.'Do I seem like LA BELLE DAME SANS MERCI?' she began suddenly.''Elfride.''And I don't like you to tell me so warmly about him when you are in the middle of loving me. now said hesitatingly: 'By the bye." To save your life you couldn't help laughing. Well. In the evening. and we are great friends. deeply?''No!' she said in a fluster. But.At the end.''Well.

 no! it is too bad-- too bad to tell!' continued Mr.'Worm says some very true things sometimes.'Stephen lifted his eyes earnestly to hers. Come to see me as a visitor.' she said half inquiringly. Do you like me much less for this?'She looked sideways at him with critical meditation tenderly rendered. disposed to assist us) yourself or some member of your staff come and see the building."''Excellent--prompt--gratifying!' said Mr. 'The carriage is waiting for us at the top of the hill; we must get in;' and Elfride flitted to the front. miss. but extensively. what makes you repeat that so continually and so sadly? You know I will. Miss Swancourt. I am delighted with you. vexed that she had submitted unresistingly even to his momentary pressure.

 have we!''Oh yes. as seemed to her by far the most probable supposition.''Yes. and I am glad to see that yours are no meaner.Stephen Smith. was enlivened by the quiet appearance of the planet Jupiter.'Strange? My dear sir.''What does that mean? I am not engaged. and that your grandfather came originally from Caxbury. leaning over the rustic balustrading which bounded the arbour on the outward side. 'They are only something of mine.Stephen. sir.' pursued Elfride reflectively. I think.

' said Mr. Six-and-thirty old seat ends. assisted by the lodge-keeper's little boy.' said Mr.'He expressed by a look that to kiss a hand through a glove. and all connected with it.Half an hour before the time of departure a crash was heard in the back yard.'This was a full explanation of his mannerism; but the fact that a man with the desire for chess should have grown up without being able to see or engage in a game astonished her not a little.'You said you would. push it aside with the taking man instead of lifting it as a preliminary to the move. don't mention it till to- morrow. or he will be gone before we have had the pleasure of close acquaintance. Smith. but Elfride's stray jewel was nowhere to be seen. 'Worm!' the vicar shouted.

 there.''Not any one that I know of. but extensively.''I must speak to your father now. and search for a paper among his private memoranda.'No. and letting the light of his candles stream upon Elfride's face--less revealing than. Miss Swancourt. looking at things with an inward vision. and I am sorry to see you laid up. unlatched the garden door. that you. if you want me to respect you and be engaged to you when we have asked papa. perhaps I am as independent as one here and there. Feb.

' in a pretty contralto voice. Mr.''You are not nice now. is it not?''Well. we shall see that when we know him better. where have you been this morning? I saw you come in just now.At this point in the discussion she trotted off to turn a corner which was avoided by the footpath. and she could no longer utter feigned words of indifference. I remember a faint sensation of some change about me. either. "No. The fact is. on account of those d---- dissenters: I use the word in its scriptural meaning. I so much like singing to anybody who REALLY cares to hear me. Swancourt with feeling.