that was in brilliant harmony with the green downs, the white cliffs and sparkling sea, and no doubt it was the beauty before his eyes which persuad
e was full sure that no commonplace girl would ever have had the idea. Exquisitely simple, sh
ckledon's shop, and the industrious carp
he house on the beach a
nd his daughte
w does he look?"
ms to agree w
ellingham checked his tongue. "How have they
an had to
all
pped work, "Mr. Tinma
s
about purchasing Elba. He has bought the Crouch. He and Mr. Tinman are al
kely to be b
nk. Mr. Tinman has to
but there was a lighted corner in his look that revive
tten it. That's not over yet?
asses ha' b
your wife,
eady for a talk, if yo
not say it in plain words. She knew Miss Smith was tired to death of constant companionship with Mrs. Cavely, Tinman's sister. She generally came once in the day just to escape from Mrs.
," said Fellingham;
ossession of the Crouch next month, and that
d enough to be her fathe
ellingham, though a man, and an Englishman, was
onsult the young l
ith emphasis. "She's a young lady who thinks for herself, but she takes her start
e speaking, An
ingham; gladly and openly, in
ive me a walk along
ion of having Tinman for a rival annoyed him. He overflowed with ridicule of Tinman, and this was distressing to Annette, because not only did she see that he
emely hospitable to us,"
ted to receive instruction in
did no
fect, he must be near
tinued
e as he is hospitable, and it must be a daily
een him in hi
s his c
lk of thos
othing, you mean! I am sure that is true, and living in Courts
it n
lse rapture with a ca
rasol down a road to the right, coming from the town, caused Annette to
ham ask
ks," Anisette replied,
ught she seeme
m, breathless. "My dea
u starting. I followed
ld catch you. And to
sh sc
not hea
ore," Fellingham
ad to see you again, si
ce, ma'am. May I venture to inquire whet
in manner, "for the day after to-morrow. He is excited, as you may well believe. But Mr. Smith
did not know it,
to his further remarks, that Annette resolved
inman's sherry remained. Tinman would insist on Fellingham's taking a glass. Fellingham parried him with a sedate gravity of irony that was painfully perceptible to Anisette. Van Diemen at last backed Tinman's hospitable intent, and
d the glass
lt some," sai
t the carpet,
zed at the carpet, as if
Alexander drinking off the potion, in scorn
n, foiled in his historical recollec
hilipson, or he declared it was Joveson; and very
too much, then
his
ng gentleman by saying, "How long do y
letting her father understand that satire was in the air; and neither he nor Tinman was conscious of it exactly: yet both shrank w
ir majesty likewise; and it is an encouragement to men to strive to become mayors, bailiffs, or prime men of any sort; but a stress in the reporting of it-the making it appear too important a circumstance-will surely breathe the intimation to a politically-minded people th
ation by Mr. Bailiff Tinman, of Crikswich! Herbert Fellingham wreaked his personal spite on Tinman. He should have bethought him that it involved another than Tinman that is to say, an office-which the fitful beast rejoi
ble young writer. But they handed the paper to the Coastguard Lieutenant, who asked Tinman how he liked it; and visitors were beginning to drop in to Crikswich, who made a point of asking for a sight of the chief man; and then came a comic publ
you'll not encourage that newspaper fellow to