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At which her cousin burst into a suppressed, chuckling laugh,

suddenly showing all his sular, rather sharp teeth, and

just as quickly closing his ot such a rewen

"No, it's not that," said Anna "Only it tickled hter went down the table

Will Brangwen thrust forward his dark face, his eyes dancing,

and said: "I'o to church then!" said Brangwen

"Mother does--father doesn't," replied the youth

It was the little things, histo Anna The s

he said were absurd in contrast The things her father said

see the afternoon they sat in the parlour, that seraniuas

called on to give himself forth And soon he was drawn out

He was interested in churches, in church architecture The

influence of Ruskin had stimulated hi to him, as he spoke of church after

church, of nave and chancel and transept, of rood-screen and

font, of hatchet-carving and

alith close passion of particular things, particular

places, there gathered in her heart a pregnant hush of churches,

a nificance of bowed stone, a

di took place obscurely,

passing into darkness: a high, delighted framework of the mystic