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Then he heard a heavy person shuffling about in slippers, and calling 'Mr Smith!' Smith proceeded to the study, and found Mr Swancourt The young ladness to see his host downstairs

'Oh yes; I knew I should soon be right again I have not out for ht Well, where have you been this ? I saw you come in just now, I think!'

'Yes; I have been for a walk'

'Start early?'

'Yes'

'Very early, I think?'

'Yes, it was rather early'

'Which way did you go? To the sea, I suppose Everybody goes seaward'

'No; I followed up the river as far as the park wall'

'You are different from your kind Well, I suppose such a wild place is a novelty, and so teether a novelty I like it'

The youth seeo cock-watching theafter a journey of fourteen or sixteen hours But there's no accounting for tastes, and I alad to see that yours are no ood for a tenexaggerated in that assertion Mr Swancourt by daylight showed himself to be a man who, in common with the other two people under his roof, had really strong claims to be considered handsoht: the ravines and valleys which, on a close inspection, are seen to diversify its surface being left out of the argument His face was of a tint that never deepened upon his cheeks nor lightened upon his forehead, but rehout; the usual neutral salmon-colour of a man who feeds well--not to say too well--and does not think hard; every pore being in visible working order His tout ensehly i clothes; that of a fir perpendicular man, whose fall would have been backwards in direction if he had ever lost his balance

The vicar's background was at present what a vicar's background should be, his study Here the consistency ends All along the chi, and cow h table, ate Upon this stood stuffed speciulls, and over them bunches of wheat and barley ears, labelled with the date of the year that produced them Some cases and shelves, more or less laden with books, the prominent titles of which were Dr Brown's 'Notes on the Romans,' Dr Smith's 'Notes on the Corinthians,' and Dr Robinson's 'Notes on the Galatians, Ephesians, and Philippians,' just saved the character of the place, in spite of a girl's doll's-house standing above the on its corner