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'Fare thee weel awhile!'

Simultaneously with the conclusion of Stephen's re of an external door in their ihbourhood reached Elfride's ears It ca the illuminated rooht, a figure, whose sex was undistinguishable, walking down the gravelled path by the parterre towards the river The figure grew fainter, and vanished under the trees

Mr Swancourt's voice was heard calling out their na They retraced their steps, and found hi their advent in a ht his search to a successful close The carriage was brought round, and without further delay the trio drove away fro by the leafless sycahts behind the s

No words were spoken either by youth or maiden Her unpractisedits recent acquisition The young , who had co been brought by chance to Endelstow House had, by so so her by petits soins of a marked kind,--all in the space of half an hour

What rooht Elfride As nearly as she could guess, it was Lord Luxellian's business-roooverness and servants, as far as she knew, and of these he had professed a total ignorance Had the person she had indistinctly seen leaving the house anything to do with the perfor to the culprit himself, and that she would never do The more Elfride reflected, thewas a chance rencounter, and not an appointment On the ultimate inquiry as to the individuality of the woman, Elfride at once assumed that she could not be an inferior Stephen Ses-at-love oentle, a eyes; he evidently hoped for much; hoped indefinitely, but extensively Elfride was puzzled, and being puzzled, was, by a natural sequence of girlish sensations, vexed with hi to attract hi on to love him, boyish as he was and innocent as he had seemed