ot hide from him-the mornings are like halls full of light. Robert had spent his hopes upon a wet da

rybody's eyes when he walked down the aisle, for everyb

Percy again what was the reason for their going to church, and he had n

of yourself, then?" sang in h

his ingenuity to make the best appearance possible

ight and wrong, which had hitherto encouraged and incited him, so that he became more than ever crestfallen at the prospect of meeting the eyes of the church people, and with the trembling sensitiveness of a woman who weighs the merits of a lover when passion is having one of its fatal pauses, he lo

world, as we say, is open to these moods of degrading humility. Robert waited for the sound of the bells with the emotions o

eing seen by Major Waring's side. His best suit and his hat were good enough, as far as they went, only he did not feel that he wore them-he could not divine how it was-with a proper air, an air of signal comfort. In fact, the graceful negligence of an English ge

d in their veins to be always on a level with the occasion which they provoke. He remembered wonderingly that he had used to be easy in gait and

ed him in the lanes. They gave him good day, an

they left him was that

n clapping his hand, and showing him to Mrs. Billing, and showing their two you

ats on one side, and jaunty-fashioned coats-Sunday being their

and called to mind verses about little birds, and kept repeating

hurch, and on Robert's replying that perhaps he was, said "I'm dashe

ho put the same question to him, and getting the s

r on the meeting between Major Waring and Mr. Edward Blancove, until he beheld the former standing alone by the churchyard gate, and then he thought more of the empty churchyard and t

remarked, "

you waiting?"

ey are readin

full

e say

seen him,

I have

t had never seen him before. He requested hastil

of "Good God! they'll think I've come here in a sort of repentance," he found himself walking down the ais

book in her hand, her head swayed over it: her lips made a faint effort at smiling, and she sat quietly down, and was concealed. Algernon and Sir John

as awakened by it. "Or is she ashamed of her falsehood?" he thought again, and forgave her at the sight of her sweet pale face. The singing of the hymns mad

-did you see her jus

id Major

id she ha

ssi

s evident. Robert thought her a miracle of beauty. She was in colour like days he had noted thoughtfully: days with purple storm, and with golden horizon edges. She had on a bonnet of black velvet, with a delicate array of white lace, that was not suffered to disturb the contrast to her warm yellow hair. Her little gloved hands were both holding the book; at times she perused it, or, the oppression becoming unendurable, turned her gaze toward the corner of the chancel, and thence

he was angry with Percy for rising before there was any movement for departure in the Fairly pew. In the doorway of the church Percy took his arm, and asked him to point o

she is!" s

er handsome?" s

creature dying." Robert s

of Percy's ey

she thinks it ju

last glance at Robert, they too went off in gossiping groups. Robert's penance was

nks you mad. He promises, now that you have adopted reasonable measures, to speak to

ll?" crie

t is

a bit farther t

head of another roa

up trusting to my righ

It contained a dignified condemnation of Robert's previous ins

is brought about?" R

from the earth, you plant the potato before you begin digging. You are a soldier by instinct, my good Robert: your first appeal is to force. I

chance word. He talked, in reply, quite cheerfully of the weather and the state of the ground; observed that the soil was a perpetual study, but he knew something of horses and dogs, and Yorkshiremen were like Jews in the trouble they took to over-reach in a bargain. "Walloping men is poor work, if you come to compare it with walloping Nature," he said, and explained that, according to his opinion, "to best a man at buying and selling was as wholesome an occupation as frowzlin' along the

ts, and so long as we fight them, we're in the right academy for learnin' how the game goes. Our vulnerability commences when we think

nformed him that he was going to London on the following day. Jonathan

an old boy: and never a spot of rancour in his soul. Have a claim on him-and there's your seat at his table: take and offend him-t

ounger than I am, and may thi

ked at the door violently, and had to knock a second and a third time. Dahlia was denied to him. He was told that Mrs. Ayrton had lived there, but had left, and her present address was unknown. He asked to be allowed to speak a word to the man who had just entered the house. No one had entered for the last two hours, was the reply. Robert had an impulse to rush by the stolid little female liar, but Percy's recent lesson to him