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natural instinct turned his feet in the direction of east the village of his birth and of hers passing the market square he pursued the arm of road to castle a private mansion of comparatively modern date in whose grounds stood the single plantation of trees of which the isle could boast the cottages extended close to ...	45
to spare he went round by the road to the other or west side of the last century castle and came to the farthest house out there on the cliff it was his early home used in the summer as a lodging house for visitors it now stood empty and silent the evening wind v a young man of forty swaying the and boughs in the front...	45
about to play him or rather the capricious divinity behind that ideal lady a young man of forty a gigantic satire upon the of his during the past twenty years seemed in the distance a of the accomplished and well connected mrs pine for the little under the of some mystic which had nothing to do with reason surely that...	45
and hit upon a pretext for bringing her face to face with him he found fault with his linen and directed that the should be sent for she is rather young poor little thing said the but since her mother s death she has enough to do to keep above water and we make shift with her but i ll tell her sir i will see her myself...	45
presence of a lady still farther ahead in the aisle whose attire though of black materials in the form was of a cut which rather suggested london than this for the minute he forgot in his curiosity that the lady turned her head somewhat and though she was veiled with unusual thickness for the season he seemed to recogn...	45
her young man proved false to her because she wouldn t agree to meet him one night and it grieved mother almost all her life i wouldn t ha fretted about him if i d been she she would never name his name but i think he was a wicked cruel man and i hate to think of him after this he could not go into the churchyard with ...	45
you passed and brushed my frock without seeing me and when on my l the well beloved way i saw you waiting again i slipped over the wall and ran past you if i had not stopped and looked round at ee you would never have me what did you do that for you that you shouldn t find me that s not exactly a reason give another de...	45
he continued think i may this one said she in a meaning tone that he failed to he deserted me once but he won t again i suppose he s a wonderful sort of fellow he s good enough for me so handsome no doubt handsome enough for me so refined and respectable refined and respectable enough for me he could not disturb her an...	45
s whole personality perhaps saw it for she said mournfully now i have done all i could i felt that the only to my cruelty to you in my drawing room would be to come as a to yours it is most handsome and noble of you my very dear friend said he with an emotion of courtesy rather than of enthusiasm then were spoken and s...	45
you mean from the island yes reflected his presence in london had been desired for some time yet he had delayed going because of his new here but to go and take her with him would afford him opportunity of watching over her tending her mind and developing it while it k a young man of forty might remove her from some da...	45
mind was so intently fixed upon the matter in hand that it was some moments before she caught his subject because i am a foolish girl she said quietly a young man of forty what don t you love him said with a surprised stare up at her as she stood in her concern appearing the very who had kissed him twenty years earlier...	45
custom and then i went to chapel one morning and married him in secret because mother didn t care about him and i didn t either by that time and then he quarrelled with me and just before you and i came to london he went away to then i saw a soldier i never knew his name but i fell in love with him because i am so quic...	45
ee she said striving against her i thought it would be no harm to see you though tis rather soon to tell ee how very much i thank you for get a young man of forty ting me settled again with ike he is very glad to come home again too he says yes you ve done a good many kind things for me sir whether she were really gla...	45
speculations and had lost nearly all his fortune further gathered that the daughter s name was mrs that she had a her husband having been a gentleman a and that the seemed to be a promising and interesting young man was instantly struck with the perception that these and other allusions though general were in accord ...	45
see my father encountered a tender woman as like you as your double was much attracted by her as i saw her day after day past this window till i made it my business to accompany her in her walks awhile i as you know was not a fellow and it all ended badly but at any rate her daughter and i are friends ah there she is s...	45
far ahead of her own generation and as the growing darkness obscured him more and more he a young man turned sixty adopted her assumption of his age with increasing boldness of tone the harmless freedom of the watering place miss which had plainly acquired during her at the school helped greatly in this r e of which he...	45
man should not appear mrs showed in her face that she fully recognized the difference between a rich bird in hand and a young bird in the bush she looked him curiously up and down i know you would make anybody a very nice husband she said i know that you would be than many men half your age and though there is a great ...	45
had passed forty years of from till a secondly renewed copy of his sweetheart had arisen to fill her place but he alas was not renewed and of all this the pretty young thing at his side knew nothing taking advantage of the younger woman s retreat to view the sea through an opening of the walls appealed to her mother i...	45
life from their dear eyes she was another illustration of the rule that succeeding generations of women are seldom marked by progress their advance as girls being lost in their as so that they move up and down the stream of intellectual development like in a and this perhaps not by reason of their faults as individuals...	45
possible tragedy lurking in this wedding project a young man turned sixty he determined that at any cost to his heart there should be no about him from this moment miss he said as they sat down since it is well you should know all the truth before we go any further that there may be no awkward discoveries afterwards i ...	45
mother whom he had loved in the flesh but she had the soul of her grandmother whom he had loved in the spirit and for that matter loved now only one criticism had he to pass upon his choice though in outward semblance her she had not the first s but rather her mother s he never knew exactly what she was thinking and f...	45
am over anxious i know indeed i have not liked to let her know quite how anxious i am thus they talked till bade her good night it being noticeable that mrs by her illness maintained no longer any reserve on her gladness to acquire him as her son in law and her feelings destroyed any remaining scruples he might have ha...	45
or two in the very room and a using the very clean sheets that you sir were to have used they are our best linen ones got up beautiful and a kept wi really sir one would say you stayed out o your o purpose to oblige the young man with a bed don t blame them don t blame them said in an even and voice don t blame her pa...	45
at this spot alone it was so solitary as to be often for four and twenty hours by a living soul upon the confined beach were drawn up two or three fishing and a couple of smaller ones beside them being a rough for and a boat house of boards the two lovers united their strength to push the smallest of the boats down the...	45
world had been wrecked by him though he had been impassioned by so many nobody would guess the further sentiment the cordial loving kindness which had lain behind what had seemed to him the fulfilment of a pleasing destiny postponed for forty years his attraction to the third would be regarded by the world as the sel...	45
and though it was darker than when and had descended in the morning he pursued his way down the incline till he reached the water side is that you the inquiry came from she was behind him about half way down a young man turned sixty yes he said noticing that it was the first time she had called him by his christian nam...	45
definite sentiment to images of beauty recalled from the past his was capable of itself only on matters a young man turned sixty and recollections of s good qualities alone had any effect on his mind of her appearance none at all at first he was appalled and then he said thank god who with something of her old came to ...	45
the eats the garment somewhat in such an interval the well beloved yes yes you are a brave woman you have the courage of the great women of history i can no longer love but i admire you from my soul don t say i am great say i have begun to be honest it is more than enough well i ll say nothing then more than how wond...	45
places by the story of by mrs the cloak by for freedom s sake by arthur by f sir by mrs ward master beggars ay l cope the by thomas hardy i mrs martin s company by jane tom by f smith the inn by the shore bv old memories by by mrs e m his honour and a lady by s j by a years of by a recollections of a literary man by a ...	45
you knew me when i was young and others didn t somehow or other her objections were got over and though she did not give an immediate assent she agreed to meet him later in the afternoon when she walked with him to the southern point of the island called the or by strangers the bill pausing over the treacherous known a...	45
his arm at the top they turned and stood still to the left of them the sky was like a fan with the rays and under their front at periods of a quarter of a minute there arose a deep hollow stroke like the single beat of a drum the intervals being filled with a long drawn rattling as of bones between huge jaws it came fr...	45
storm of passion between us that i pretended to retire to my room for the rest of the evening but i the well beloved slipped out and i am never going back home again what will you do i shall go first to my aunt in london and if she won t have me i ll work for a living i have left my father for ever what i should have d...	45
any marks of gratitude and when she had gone her the light supper promised by the sleepy girl who was night porter at this establishment he a sketch of a temperament hungry himself and set about drying his clothes as well as he could and eating at the same time at first he was in doubt what to do but soon decided to st...	45
day and the would be ready by to morrow morning i won t go to my aunt s i will be an independent woman i have been as if i were a child of six i ll be your wife if it is as easy as you say they stopped the cab while they held a consultation had rooms and a in the neighbourhood of hill but it would be hardly desirable t...	45
their quarters might not be discovered at least just yet no reply came by return of post but rather some letters for that had arrived at her father s since her departure were sent on in silence to the address given she opened them one by one till on reading the last she exclaimed good gracious and burst into laughter w...	45
it us laughed a little but was painfully serious as he found at tea time when she said that since his refusal to beg her pardon a of a temperament she had been thinking over the matter and had resolved to go to her aunt s after all at any rate till her father could be induced to agree to their union was as chilled by ...	45
in an unexpected quarter and him before he was aware once or twice be imagined that he saw her in the distance at the end of a street on the far sands of a shore in a window in a meadow at the opposite side of a railway station but he turned on his heel and walked the other way during the m y seasons that followed s s...	45
and since no chance may it remove in wealth and in i myself apply to serve and suffer patiently sir t the well beloved the old phantom becomes distinct ii i in the course of these long years s artistic emotions were abruptly suspended by the news of his father s sudden death at whither the stone merchant had gone for ...	45
sometimes o never however before he rose she grew friendly to some degree and when he left just after the arrival of three young ladies she seemed she asked him to come again and he thought he would tell the truth no i shall not care to come again he answered in a tone to the young ladies she followed him to the door w...	45
she faltered and faltered and now she is gone a sketch of a temperament she becomes an inaccessible ghost il iii and slow degrees the scene at the dinner table into the background behind the vivid of and the old old scenes on isle which were inseparable from her personality the was real no more under the bold stony and...	45
and the consciousness of the almost radiant purity of this affection for a flown spirit forbade him to check it the flesh was absent altogether it was love and refined to its highest he had felt nothing hke it before the next afternoon he went down to the club not his large club where the men hardly spoke to each other...	45
journey home inquired of the man concerning the spectacle a sketch of a o yes sir that s poor mrs s only daughter and it must be lonely for her there to night poor maid yes good now she s the very of her mother that s what everybody says but how does she come to be so lonely one of her brothers went to sea and was dro...	45
from the a sketch op a temperament craft that had brought it thither he would pass inside the great gates of these landing places on the right or left bank contemplate the white and their associations call up the genius whence they came and almost forget that he was in london one afternoon he was walking away from the ...	45
trees between bank and it was necessary to a little in time to dig down to a loose of the stone beds where a forest of lay as their heads all in one direction as blown down by a gale in the secondary epoch a sketch of a temperament dusk had closed in and he now proceeded with what was after all the real business of hi...	45
of another and in her all that did not with his sense of the the girl seemed to think of nothing but the business in hand she had answered to the point and was hardly aware of his sex or of liis shape i knew your mother he said you remember my telling you so yes well i have taken this house for two or three months and...	45
life was innocent and that went far poor little her mother s image there it all lay after all her was as good as his own it was misfortune that had sent her down to this odd as it seemed to him her were largely what he loved her for her power over him had charm he felt as he had felt when standing beside her but alas h...	45
not find her the only persons on the road being a man and his wife as he knew them to be though he could not see them from the words of the man if had not a ready married me you d cut is a sketch of a temperament my acquaintance that s a pretty thing for a wife to say the remark struck his ear and by and by he went k ...	45
that bright little woman the first but twenty years make a difference in and the added demands of middle age in physical the well beloved form are more than balanced by its as to the spiritual content he looked at himself in the glass and felt glad at those inner in which formerly would have impelled him to reject her ...	45
this in me will you sir because if it were known i am afraid no man would like me was surprised into stillness here was this obscure and almost girl engaged in the pursuit of the impossible ideal just as he had been himself doing for the last twenty years she was doing it quite involuntarily by sheer necessity of her o...	45
to himself sometimes but to the soldier what was she smaller and smaller she up the rigid road still gazing at the soldier aloft as gazed at her he could just discern springing up at the different of that she passed but seeing who she was they did not her and presently she crossed the the well beloved over the enormous...	45
to what struck him a short time after the man upon whose arm she hung was not a soldier what then became of her gaze at the she could hardly have transferred her so promptly or to give her the benefit of his own theory her beloved could scarcely have flitted from frame to frame in so very brief an interval and which of...	45
course what were you thinking of the pretty little cottage girl outside here i did meet her but what s she very well for one s picture though hardly for one s fireside this lady is mrs pine a kind proud woman who ll do what people with no pride would not condescend to think of she is leaving to morrow and she drove acr...	45
enough to hurt them now let me hear it he said soothingly you may tell me with the greatest freedom i was a friend of your mother s know that is i knew her and be a friend of yours the statement was if he wished her not to suspect him of being her mother s false one but that lover s name appeared to be unknown to the p...	45
a pretty state of affairs could suggest nothing till she was struck with the bright thought that she should light a fire light a fire ah yes i wonder if we could manage this is an odd coincidence and awkward he murmured very well light a fire is this the kitchen sir all mixed up with the yes then i think i can do all...	45
in the form of elbows and fists from the whole scene proceeded a ground miles in extent upon which individual voices a tin whistle the bark of a dog rode like on a sea the whole noise impressed him with the sense that no one in its enormous mass ever required rest in this ocean of humanity there was a of existence his ...	45
like you as i did but no fm d d if fu go away said thoroughly irritated i have been candid with you you ought to be the same with me what do you want me to tell enough to make it clear to me why you don t accept this offer everything you have said yet the well beloved is a reason for the reverse now my dear i am not an...	45
for he was not much older than she that in his development rendering him the most of god s creatures was his standing misfortune a proposal to her which crossed his mind was dismissed as particularly to an inexperienced fellow and one who was by race and traditions almost a little more passed between the twain on that ...	45
lower room was empty with his elbows on the table and covered his face with his hands ike was absent no great time descending with a mien that had been lacking before he invited to ascend likewise since she had stated that she would like to see him went up the crooked old steps the husband remaining below though white ...	45
dinner at the common table he was surprised the well beloved to hear an american gentleman who sat opposite mention the name of s the american was talking to a friend about a lady x an english widow whose acquaintance they had renewed somewhere in the channel islands during a recent tour after having known her as a you...	45
do she was always thinking of him and wishing to see him her tone was anxious and there was no doubt a sketch of a temperament that she really had something to say which she did not wish to write he wondered what it could be and started the same afternoon who had been little in his mind of late years began to renew for...	45
slept at home because she her mother was so lonely she often thought she would like to keep her daughter at home altogether she plays that instrument i suppose said regarding the piano yes she plays beautifully she had the best instruction that masters could give her she was educated at which room does she call hers wh...	45
down had her foot as he had found it whatever s years might have made him look by day in the dusk of evening he was fairly as a pleasing man of no marked antiquity his outline but little from what it had been when he was half his years he was well preserved still upright shaven in movement wore a tightly suit which set...	45
t think you might be a bit taken with her i she said with an arch simplicity which could hardly be called unaffected knowing the set of your mind from my little time with you years ago nothing you could do in this way would astonish me but you don t think badly of me for it not at all by the bye did you ever guess why...	45
s castle on the island the interior was open to the sky and when they entered and the full moon streamed down upon them over the edge of the the whole present reality faded from s mind under the press of memories neither of his companions guessed what was thinking of it was in this very spot that he was to have met the...	45
it is a complaint and the attacks they come are so that to endure them i ought to get rid of all outside anxieties folk say now do you want her sir with all my soul but she doesn t want me i don t think she is so against you as you imagine i fancy if it were put to her plainly now i am in this state it might be done t...	45
in the full stroke of day from the window she started and heathen remembered that it was their first meeting under the rays she was so overcome that she turned and left the room as if she had forgotten something when she re entered she was visibly pale she recovered herself and she had been sitting up the night before ...	45
the well beloved largest were as attentive to their wants as if those bad never before been honoured with a single customer whom they really liked and his guests almost equally inexperienced for the had nearly forgotten what knowledge of he had acquired earlier in life could consider and practise thoroughly a species...	45
the next morning he proceeded to do this when he encountered there was a trace of apprehension on her face but he set that down to a fear that she had offended him the night before by her directly he requested her mother in s presence to get her to fix the day quite early mrs became brighter and she too plainly had dou...	45
so o so glad you are come she said as she held out her thin hand and stifled a sob i have been she could get no further for a moment and turned away weeping and abruptly left the room i have so set my heart on this mrs went on that i have not been able to sleep of late for i have feared i might drop off suddenly she is...	45
time and mrs could not help herself that her daughter had been so in the circumstances yet to every one except perhaps herself was the most romantic of lovers indeed was there ever such a romance as that man embodied in his relations to her house the first the second had rejected him and to rally to the third with fina...	45
wharf whence many a fine public building had sailed including saint paul s cathedral the shadowy shapes descended the one at least of them knowing the place so well that she found it scarcely necessary to guide herself down by touching the natural wall of stone on her right hand as her companion did thus with quick th...	45
it would be based that however was impossible nobody would ever know the truth about him what it was he had sought that had so and escaped him what it was that had led him such a dance and had at last as he believed just now in the freshness of his loss been discovered in the girl who had left him it was not the flesh ...	45
discourse he was no longer the same man that he had hitherto been the malignant fever or his experiences or both had taken away something from him and put something else in its place during the next days with further intellectual he became clearly aware of what this was the artistic sense had left him and he could no l...	45
island ruled our though we were not on it yes we are in hands not our own did you ever tell your husband no did he ever hear anything not that i am aware calling upon her one day he found her in a state of great discomfort in certain winds the chimneys of the little house she had taken here smoked and one of these win...	45
day she was told that her father had ridden to his estate at falls park early in the morning on business with his agent and might not come back for some days falls park was over twenty miles from king s court and was altogether a more modest centre piece to a more modest possession than the latter but as squire came in...	45
park had been he had lost all zest for hunting of late and had hardly attended a meet that season read and re read s and hunted up some other such notes of hers to look over this seeming to be the only pleasure there was left for him that they were really in london he learnt in a few days by another letter from mrs in ...	45
day the london church with its gorgeous and green and the great organ in the west gallery so different from their own little church in the of king s court the man of thirty to whose face she had looked up with so much awe and with a sense that he was rather ugly and formidable the man whom though they politely she ha...	45
cursed his mistress as the cause of the change after this memorable visit to prove his point the lives of the couple flowed on quietly enough for the space of a the squire for the most part remaining at falls and passing and between them now and then once or twice alarming her mother by not driving home from her father...	45
development into womanhood they had all been so tenderly waiting a forward old enough not only to have a lover but to conceal his existence as as any woman of the world bitterly did the squire s lady regret that had not been allowed to come to claim her at the time he first proposed the two sat beside each other almos...	45
of the girl s chamber softly that had already locked and bolted it on the inside and had given directions to have her meals served where she was by leaving them on a dumb waiter outside the door thereupon mrs noiselessly sat down in her which as well as her bed chamber was a passage room to the girl s apartment and she...	45
an hour later one of the who of course was quite aware that the squire s illness was serious was surprised to hear a bold and decided step descending the stairs from the direction of mr s room accompanied by the humming of a tune she knew that the doctor had not paid a visit that morning and that it was too heavy to be...	45
interview were prolonged he being subject to strokes at these immediately said that he would be the last to wish to injure squire and left the room and as soon as the squire had recovered breath and he went out of the inn leaning on the arm of was for sleeping in that night but whose energy seemed as invincible as it w...	45
t write down five minutes after was the horse and on his way the way he had followed so many times since his master a young had first gone to king s court as soon as he had crossed the hills in the immediate neighbourhood of the the road lay over a plain where it ran in long straight stretches for several miles in the...	45
the physician had given up all hope the squire was sinking and his extreme weakness had almost changed his character except in the particular that his old obstinacy sustained him in a refusal to see a clergyman he shed tears at the least word and sobbed at the sight of his wife he asked for and it was with a heavy hear...	45
herself that her lover s conduct was unreasonable only that her rash act of the previous week had been wrong no one had heard her enter and she was too worn out in body and mind to think or care about medical aid in an hour or so she felt yet more positively ill and nobody coming to her at the usual she looked towards ...	45
his had grown to be truly in love with in his mild placid way in that way which perhaps upon the whole most generally to the woman s comfort under the institution of marriage if not particularly to her ecstasy mrs s exaggeration of her husband s wish for delay in their living together was inconvenient but he would not...	45
of course i ve to obey him more than you now mrs sighed all i have to say is that you d better get your husband to join you as soon as possible she remarked to go on playing the maiden like this i m ashamed to see you she wrote instantly to i wash my hands of the whole matter as between you two though i should advise ...	45
named who lived towards the end of the last century for his tale as being perhaps a little too professional the crimson winked to the spark at hearing the nature of the apology and the surgeon dame the second of the house of old a group of noble dame the second of the house of by the old surgeon it was apparently an id...	45
has been so excited over the ball all day her mother continued that i feared she would be worn out early but sure lord you won t be leaving yet he said that it was near twelve o clock and that some had already left i protest nobody has gone yet said lady a group of noble to humour her he stayed till midnight and then s...	45
the best of ancient containing of and and and and and and and york and and god knows what besides which it was a thousand to throw away the father and mother sat by the fireplace that was by the four arch bearing the family on its and groaned aloud the lady more than sir john to think this should have come upon us in ...	45
better we can put up with the loneliness said with less zest some friends will come no doubt all this being laid down a travelled was called in a man of many gifts and great experience and on a fine morning away and pupil went a great reason urged against accompanying her youthful husband was that his attentions to h...	45
a sailing craft was an undertaking that would hardly be justified by the result but she was anxious to go till on reading to the end of the letter her husband s was found to hint very strongly against such a step if it should be contemplated this being also the opinion of the and though s comrade refrained from giving ...	45
lonely situation and as he was going in the direction of her a group of noble own home she accepted his offer of a seat beside him their conversation was embarrassed and at first but when they had driven a mile or two she was surprised to find herself talking earnestly and warmly to him her was in truth but the natural...	45
bent his head i hope i hope you are he whispered in the pause which followed the of the clock in the hall seemed to grow loud and he turned a little aside to remove the mask she awaited the operation which was one of some watching him one moment her face the next and when it was done she shut her eyes at the hideous sp...	45
will see me again at the of that time if i live then i will ascertain your true feeling and if it be against me go away for ever e w on recovering from her surprise s remorse a group of noble was such that she felt herself absolutely she should have regarded him as an afflicted being and not have been this slave to mer...	45
though whether it was that the green did not suit her complexion or otherwise the looked pale and the reverse of blooming after their marriage her husband took her to london and she saw the of a season there then they returned to hall and thus a year passed away before their marriage her husband had seemed to care but ...	45
he had never noticed there before he could not it it was a sort of silent ecstasy a reserved what had become of the statue he could not divine and growing more and more curious looked about here and there for it till thinking of her private room he went towards that spot after knocking he heard the shutting of a door a...	45
still more shocking by being tinted to the hues of life as life had been after the wreck six hours after when the workman was gone lord looked upon the result and smiled grimly and said a statue should represent a man as he appeared in life and that s as he appeared ha ha but tis done to good purpose and not idly he lo...	45
curiosity took possession of the as she lay and at his repeated request she did again look out from the shuddered hid her eyes and looked again all the while begging him to take it away or it would drive her out of her senses but he would not do so as yet and the wardrobe was not locked till dawn the scene was repeated...	45
merely and showed that the only rational and virtuous of that affection were those based upon worth in the case of the tender but somewhat shallow lady whose life i have related there is no doubt that an for the person of young was the chief feeling that induced her to marry him which was the more deplorable in that hi...	45

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