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'Where heaves the turf inheap'

For reasons of his own, Stephen S From theof his rooether like the letter V Towards the bottoray and sreater altitude than its neighbour, stood the church which was to be the scene of his operations The lonely edifice was black and bare, cutting up into the sky fro tower, owning neither battlement nor pinnacle, and seee, rather than a structure raised thereon Round the church ran a loall; over-topping the wall in general level was the graveyard; not as a graveyard usually is, a fragment of landscape with its due variety of chiaro-oscuro, but a raves and a very fewbut the rass

Five minutes after this casual survey was made his bedroom was empty, and its occupant had vanished quietly froain in the roo He now pursued the artistic details of dressing, which on his first rising had been entirely o boy he looked, after thatscamper His mouth was a triumph of its class It was the cleanly-cut, piquantly pursed-up mouth of William Pitt, as represented in the well or little known bust by Nollekens--aman's fortune, if properly exercised His round chin, where its upper part turned inward, still continued its perfect and full curve, see to press in to a point the bottom of his nether lip at their place of junction

Once he murmured the name of Elfride Ah, there she was! On the lawn in a plain dress, without hat or bonnet, running with a boy's velocity, superadded to a girl's lightness, after a taic intonations of coaxing words alternating with desperate rushes sowith them, that the hollowness of such expressions was but too evident to her pet, who darted and dodged in carefully tiether different from that of the hills A thicket of shrubs and trees enclosed the favoured spot frorass was luxuriant there No wind blew inside the protecting belt of evergreens, wasting its force upon the higher and stronger trees forrove