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His ood: his speech well-finished and unconstrained

The pause in their discourse, which had been caused by the peal of thunder was unbroken by either for awhich the ears of both see the low roar of the waterfall as it beca rush of rain upon the trees and herbage of the grove After her short looks at him, Cytherea had turned her head towards the avenue for a while, and now, glancing back again for an instant, she discovered that his eyes were engaged in a steady, though delicate, regard of her face and form

At this moment, by reason of the narrowness of the porch, their dresses touched, and re exterior to every man; but to a woman her dress is part of her body Its ence if not to her eyes; no htest hyperbole it may be said that her dress has sensation Crease but the very Ultie or flounce, and it hurts her asher Delicate antennae, or feelers, bristle on every outlying frill Go to the uppermost: she is there; tread on the lowest: the fair creature is there almost before you

Thus the touch of clothes, which was nothing to Manston, sent a thrill through Cytherea, seeing, er She looked out again at the storm, but still felt hih by so doing it was necessary to advance a little into the rain

'Look, the rain is co into the porch upon you,' he said 'Step inside the door' Cytherea hesitated

'Perfectly safe, I assure you,' he added, laughing, and holding the door open 'You shall see what a state of disorganization I am in --boxes on boxes, furniture, straw, crockery, in every form of transposition An old wos to rightsYou know the inside of the house, I dare say?' 'I have never been in' 'O well, coh, here, they have put a partition dividing the old hall into two, one part is nowthe old chestnut-carved roof because it was too high and would have been chilly for ht up to the top, and here the lord of the ht from the monstrous fire which shone out fro for h you can see the old outline still I alinal state' 'With more romance and less comfort' 'Yes, exactly Well, perhaps the wish is not deep-seated You will see how the things are tu-cases and all