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'Rude and un with pique 'Anybody would think he was in love with that horrid mason instead of with----'

The sentence reht

She returned to the porch

'Is thekind of man?' she inquired of her father

'No,' he said surprised; 'quite the reverse He is Lord Luxellian's master-mason, John Smith'

'Oh,' said Elfride indifferently, and returned towards her bleak station, and waited and shivered again It was a trifle, after all--a childish thing--looking out fro a handkerchief But her new friend had promised, and why should he tease her so? The effect of a blow is as proportionate to the texture of the object struck as to its ownwounded that little hits struck her hard

It was not till the end of half an hour that two figures were seen above the parapet of the dreary old pile, motionless as bitterns on a ruined h to perform what he was so courteous to pron

He returned at midday Elfride looked vexed when unconscious that his eyes were upon her; when conscious, severe However, her attitude of coldness had long outlived the coldness itself, and she could no longer utter feigned words of indifference

'Ah, you weren't kind to keepin the cold, and break your promise,' she said at last reproachfully, in tones too low for her father's powers of hearing

'Forgive, forgive otten! So'

'Any further explanation?' said Miss Capricious, pouting

He was silent for a few minutes, and looked askance

'None,' he said, with the accent of one who concealed a sin