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'You don't know: I have a trouble; though soht think it less a trouble than a dilemma'

'What is it?' she asked iht tell,' he said; 'at the sao his ar her head She had just learnt that a good deal of dignity is lost by asking a question to which an answer is refused, even ever so politely; for though politeness does good service in cases of requisition and compromise, it but little helps a direct refusal 'I don't wish to know anything of it; I don't wish it,' she went on 'The carriage is waiting for us at the top of the hill; we et in;' and Elfride flitted to the front 'Papa, here is your Elfride!' she exclai up and sank by his side without deigning to accept aid from Stephen

'Ah, yes!' uttered the vicar in artificially alert tones, awaking froht

'Why, what are you doing, papa? We are not home yet'

'Oh no, no; of course not; we are not at hoe back to his original position with the air of a man who had not moved at all 'The fact is I was so lost in deep ot whereabouts ere' And in athe last, seemed to throw an exceptional shade of sadness over Stephen Smith, and the repeated injunctions of the vicar, that he was to come and revisit them in the summer, apparently tended less to raise his spirits than to unearth so

He left theht of dahilst the colours of earth were soeted all night in her little bed lest none of the household should be awake soon enough to start hiht eyes and curly hair, to which their owner's possession of a hidden e of romance To some extent--so soon does womanly interest take a solicitous turn--she felt herself responsible for his safe conduct They breakfasted before daylight; Mr Swancourt, being enuous appearance, having determined to rise early and bid him a friendly farewell It was, however, rather to the vicar's astonishment, that he saw Elfride walk in to the breakfast-table, candle in hand