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There being soe at the cloak-roo Bedford Street to the nearest church Here Stephen wandered a the multifarious to of so that was likely to happen by the altar there in the course of the co nificent stretch of sea and massive pro one feature of the varied perspective He still saw that inner prospect--the event he hoped for in yonder church The wide Sound, the Breakwater, the light-house on far-off Eddystone, the dark stea stilly, or gliding with tiniest motion, were as the dream, then; the dreamed-of event was as the reality

Soon Stephen went down from the Hoe, and returned to the railway station He took his ticket, and entered the London train

That day was an irksohter alluded to the departure of Stephen Mr Swancourt's manner towards her partook of the co as to the justice of sorasp the whole coup d'oeil, or from a natural endowment for certain kinds of stoicism, women are cooler than men in critical situations of the passive form Probably, in Elfride's case at least, it was blindness to the greater contingencies of the future she was preparing for herself, which enabled her to ask her father in a quiet voice if he could give her a holiday soon, to ride to St Launce's and go on to Plyone alone to Plymouth, and that was in consequence of soood, not to say a wild, horsewohost of an attendant, over the fourteen or sixteenbetween their hoo on the re in the sah she had successfully accomplished this journey once, it was not to be repeated without some attendance

But Elfridefeminine equestrians The circumstances of her lonely and narrow life hbourhood she e soon rendered this perfectly natural to herself Her father, who had had other experiences, did not ree could be as distinctly traced as a thread in a skein of silk, scah he could habitually neglect her But ith his not being able to afford her a regular attendant, and his inveterate habit of letting anything be to save hirew custoers' minds that all ladies rode without an attendant, like Miss Swancourt, except a feere so at Lord Luxellian's