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Elfride never went out on horseback but she brought hoht If she trotted to town or village, her burden was books If to hills, woods, or the seashore, it onderful s, a handkerchief of wet shells or seaweed

Once, inwith her down the street of Castle Boterel, on a fair-day, a packet in front of her and a packet under her arm, an accident befell the packets, and they slipped down On one side of her, three volu the mud; on the other nu it Unpleasant woh s at thea ginger-bread stall whilst the owner had gone to get drunk, laughed loudly The blue eyes turned to sapphires, and the cheeks crimsoned with vexation

After that h to invent an arrangereat deal could be safely carried thereon, in a small compass Here she now spread out and fastened a plain dark walking-dress and a few other trifles of apparel Worate for her, and she vanished away

One of the brightest s of late summer shone upon her The heather was at its purplest, the furze at its yellowest, the grasshoppers chirped loud enough for birds, the snakes hissed like little engines, and Elfride at first felt lively Sitting at ease upon Pansy, in her orthodox riding-habit and nondescript hat, she looked what she felt But theunexpectedly First, only for one e cloud, that had been hanging in the north like a black fleece, came and placed itself between her and the sun It helped on as already inevitable, and she sank into a uniformity of sadness

She turned in the saddle and looked back They were now on an open table-land, whose altitude still gave her a view of the sea by Endelstow She looked longingly at that spot

During this little revulsion of feeling Pansy had been still advancing, and Elfride felt it would be absurd to turn her little ht, 'if I had aone of those stealthy le with their brains, she did put the horse's head about, as if unconsciously, and went at a hand-gallop towards home for more than ae have renounced directly the alternative is chosen, the thought of her forsaken Stephen recalled her, and she turned about, and cantered on to St Launce's again