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a white horse one would think it was the last colour for a man in that line looked and saw the white shape of the animal as it passed by but before the had gone another ten yards in his horse and said something to his companion which neither nor could hear its drift was however soon made evident for the other man stopp...	45
a heavy heart coming frequently to the door to ask some question or other on the consequences to her of the being found the consequences she said quietly are simply that i shall lose em as i have none in the house or garden they can t touch me personally but you have some in the orchard rents that of me and he it to ot...	45
touched the bottom dragged it to its place and said if go up i ll follow the young man ascended and presently found himself among consecrated bells for the first time in his life having been in the blood for some generations he eyed them uneasily and looked round for stood here holding the top of the ladder what be you...	45
soon as daylight begins to pink in and i said you please look to the pins and then go indoors and know nothing at all the will do the rest the ladder was replaced and all but descended the men passing off one by one at the back of the church and vanishing on their respective errands walked boldly along the street follo...	45
all the parish is helping us and have been all day now you please walk along with me down to your shop and kindly let me hire ye in the king s name they went down the lane together and presently there from the the ring of a hammer not very briskly swung however the carts and horses were got into some sort of travelling...	45
i wish all this hadn t been forced upon us she said but if those had got off with the half the people in the parish would have been in want for the next month or two was not paying much attention to her words and he said i don t think i can go back like this those four poor may be murdered for all i know murdered said ...	45
i cannot da tales but why should you belong to that profession she burst out i have got this large house why can t you marry me and live here with us and not be a preacher any more i assure you richard it is no harm and i wish you could only see it as i do i we only carry it on in winter in summer it is never done at ...	45
rd cliff in particular figures in the narrative and for some forgotten reason or other this cliff was described in the story as being without a name accuracy would require the statement to be that a remarkable cliff which in many points the cliff of the description bears a name that no event has made famous t h march v...	45
to dinner even if we know them and this is some strange london man of the world who will think it odd perhaps i very well let him is he mr s partner i should scarcely think so he may be how old is he i wonder that i cannot tell you will find the copy of my letter to mr and his answer upon the table in the study you may...	45
gradually disappeared the windows which had before been as black on a lighter expanse of wall became illuminated and were to squares of light on the general dark body of the night landscape as it absorbed the outlines of the edifice into its gloomy not another word was spoken for some time and they climbed a hill then ...	45
and manner neither nor moustache unless a little light brown fur on his upper lip deserved the latter title this composed the london professional man the prospect of whose advent had so troubled hastened to say she was sorry to tell him that mr was not able to receive him that evening and gave the reason why mr smith r...	45
me though for i have known very little of as yet however he s gone to my other toe in a very mild manner and i expect he ll off altogether by the morning i hope you have been well attended to downstairs perfectly and though it is unfortunate and i am sorry to see you laid up i beg you will not take the slightest notic...	45
to provoke criticism and his age too little to inspire fear she was ready not to say pleased to selecting from the some old family that in years i a pair of blue eyes by had been played and sung by her mother sat down to the and began twas on the evening of a winter s day in a pretty voice do you like that old thing ...	45
of his own smith was stirring a short time after dawn the next morning from the window of his room he could see first two bold sloping down together like the letter v towards the bottom like liquid in a appeared the sea gray and small on the brow of one hill of rather greater than its neighbour stood the church which w...	45
foot too much at starting said he should want a man to assist him worm the shouted a minute or two after a voice was heard round the corner of the building ah i used to be strong enough but tis altered now i well there i m as independent as one here and there even if they do write squire after their names what s the ma...	45
him very often and he them better than he does his own and then afterwards he talks to people and to me about what he said in his sermon to day and forgets that i wrote it for him isn t it absurd how clever you must be said i couldn t write a sermon for the world oh it s easy enough she said descending from the pulpit ...	45
clock he s a very intelligent man and he will tell you all you want to know about the state of the walls his name is john smith did not like to be seen again at the church with i will watch here for your appearance at the top of the tower she said i shall see your figure against the sky and when i am up there i ll wave...	45
en and confused with the kind of confusion that an when he has been enlarged by accident to the dimensions of a superior and is somewhat rudely down to his original size a pair of blue eyes what is awkward said miss smith by this time recovered his and with it the professional dignity of an experienced important busine...	45
and lady and as it proved had been left at home during their parents temporary absence in the of nurse and lord was fond of the children rather indifferent towards his wife since she had begun to show an inclination not to please him by giving him a boy all children instinctively ran after looking upon her more as an u...	45
of a marked kind all in the space of half an hour what room were they standing in thought as nearly as she could guess it was lord s business room or office what people were in the house none but the and servants as far as she knew and of these he had professed a total ignorance had the person she had seen leaving the...	45
womanly interest take a turn she felt herself responsible for his safe conduct they before daylight mr being more and more taken with his guest s appearance having determined to rise early and bid him a friendly farewell it was however rather to the s astonishment that he saw walk in to the candle in hand whilst willi...	45
seriously set to work on this last occasion mr had left the room you have been trifling with me till now he exclaimed his face flushing you did not play your best in the first two games s guilt showed in her face became the picture of vexation and sadness which for a moment caused her the next instant to regret the mis...	45
miss and then twas down your back miss wasn t it and oh what a way you was in miss wasn t you my until you found it took s slight foot upon his hand one two three and up she said unfortunately not so he staggered and lifted and the horse edged round and was ultimately deposited upon the ground rather more forcibly than...	45
and that s all now that s creeping round again and you mustn t look into my eyes so she said shaking her head at him and trotting on a few paces in advance thus she led the way out of the lane and across some fields in the direction of the cliffs at the boundary of the fields nearest the sea she expressed a wish to the...	45
and they returned to where stood instead of my weight to a young man s palm she continued gaily i prefer a stock as the villagers call a pair of blue eyes it in the form of a gate there now i am myself again they proceeded homeward at the same walking pace her won out of his and each forgot everything but the tone of ...	45
a began to shape itself upon s soft lips you think always of him and like him better than you do me no indeed the feeling is different quite but i do like him and he deserves even more affection from me than i give you are not nice now and you make me as jealous as possible she exclaimed i know you will never speak to ...	45
person or persons when the door was thrust followed by the scrape of chairs on a stone floor as if pushed back by their in rising from a table the door was closed again and nothing could now be heard from within save a lively chatter and the rattle of plates o is no baron or lord he mists were creeping out of pools and...	45
might he not be the glided downstairs on and out to the precise spot on which she had parted from to enable him to speak privately to her father thence she wandered into all the around the place from which the sound seemed to proceed among the huge about the of amid the under the weeping elm nobody was there returnin...	45
in the world her people had been well to do for centuries but she was only a a pair of blue eyes came from her in whispered exclamation she continued to attend to a long after my father married her pursued without further hesitation and i remember very well how when i was very young i used to go to the look on at the s...	45
to see you so regular at church i i remember it but i have never spoken to her we have only been here eighteen months and the parish is so large contrast with this said with a miserable laugh your father s belief in my blue blood which is still in his mind the first night i came he insisted upon proving my descent from...	45
resumed his discourse where had i got on to sir to driving the pile said mr the pile twas so as i was saying was driving the pile in this manner as i might say here mr held his walking stick with his left hand and struck a blow with great force on the of the stick with his right john was the pile so as i might say here...	45
approve of in a most way you should have known how improper such conduct is a woman can t be too careful not to be seen alone with i don t know whom c you saw us papa and have never said a word my fault of course my fault what the deuce could i be thinking of he a s son and we connections of the we have been to nothin...	45
true returned her father again agitated in spite of a pair op blue eyes himself you future with present facts what the young man may be with what he is we must look at what he is not what an improbable degree of success in his profession may make him the case is this the of a working man in my parish who may or may no...	45
saw an illuminated figure coming from the enclosed plot towards the house on the other side it was his father with his hand in a taking a general moonlight view of the garden and particularly of a plot of the youngest of young previous to closing the cottage for the night he saluted his son with customary force we shou...	45
o who are not in business for themselves and i talk to several carriage people that come to my lord s without saying ma am or sir to em and they take it as quiet as you to the mother and i wish you hadn t but it was before he called me by my christian a pair op blue eyes name or he would have got very little from me sa...	45
t you a month s holiday altogether they are going to turn you out then not at all i may stay longer i may go if i go you had better say nothing about my having been here i for her sake at what time of the morning does the j pass lane seven o clock a pair of blue eyes and then he left them his thoughts were that should ...	45
it never never you don t know him i do he is either in favour a pair op eyes of a thing or prejudiced against it argument is powerless against either feeling no i won t think of him so said if i appear before him some time hence as a man of established name he will accept me i know he will he is not a wicked man no ...	45
not she inquired timidly nobody else need know he would then be convinced that hearts cannot be played with love encouraged be ready to grow love discouraged be ready to die at a moment s notice do you not think that if marriages against a parent s consent are ever they are when young people have been favoured up to a ...	45
it certainly was instead of remaining in bed that morning mr must have taken it into his head to see his new neighbour off on a journey he must have been greatly interested in that neighbour to do such an unusual thing the s conveyance had pulled up and now handed in his and mounted the shafts who is that lady in the c...	45
a town on horseback alone but go if you will thursday week her father had named the very day that also had named that morning as the earliest on which it would be of any use to meet her that was about fifteen days from the day on which he had left fifteen days that fragment of duration which has acquired such an inter...	45
blue eyes world would make me hopelessly melancholy and don t let anything make you so either i won t papa she cried with a serene brightness that pleased him certainly mr must have been far from thinking that the brightness came from an intention to hold back no longer from the mad action she had planned in the evenin...	45
that had been hanging in the north like a black came and placed itself between her and the sun it helped on what was already inevitable and she sank into a of sadness she turned in the saddle and looked back they were now on an open table land whose still gave her a view of the sea by she looked at that spot during thi...	45
chimney pipes in dim relief against the sky she uneasily as when a thought is a pair of blue eyes swelling in the mind which must cause much pain at its in words had known no more about the of evil report than the native wild fowl knew of the effects of s first shot now she saw a little further and a little further sti...	45
night but that cup of tea at can t eat wine and no nor tea nor coffee no a glass of water no i want something that makes people strong and energetic for the present that the strength of to morrow for use to day leaving to morrow without any at all for that matter or even that would take all life away to morrow so long...	45
of blue eyes c and a large well a fair sized mansion in town and a as long as my walking stick though that bears evidence of being rather a up affair done since the family got rich people do those things now as they build ruins on maiden estates and cast at merely listened and said nothing he continued more quietly...	45
c c left hand st a yellow nd a heavy ring in colours and bearing a rd an th a polished surrounded by diamonds th the engraved ring of an th a gloomy c c beyond this rather quaint array of stone and metal mrs wore no ornament whatever had been impressed with mrs at their meeting about two months earlier but to be please...	45
of this kind frequently pass through the inn from a little of an alley at the back but they never there it is hardly necessary to state that all the sights and movements proper to the inn are most orderly on the fine october evening on which we follow a pair of blue eyes smith to this place a placid porter is sitting o...	45
in love and i want to be married knight looked ominous as this passed s lips don t judge me before you have heard more cried anxiously seeing the change in his friend s countenance don t judge does your mother know about it nothing definite father no but i ll tell you the young person come that s dreadfully but perhaps...	45
forgotten them well that was like her cried triumphantly she was in such a that she didn t know what she was doing splendid splendid said knight soothingly so that all i have to say is that if you see a good opening in there s no reason why you should not go without troubling to draw fine distinctions as to reasons no ...	45
the girls are stared at by the and above all the look of the girls themselves losing their gaze in the depths of handsome men s eyes without appearing to notice whether they are observing masculine eyes or the leaves of the trees there s praise for you but i am only child you know that how warm it is to be sure said...	45
anxious dear we will or send but to morrow will do and do oblige me in a little matter now said lord warmly and looking as if he were sorry he had brought news that disturbed her i am in reality sent here as a special messenger by my little and to ask you to come into our carriage with them for a short time i am just g...	45
a case was in course of here had just before received an affectionate letter from smith in which had been forwarded to her from but since this is not the case referred to it is not worth while to further into the contents of the letter than to discover that with rash though confidence in coming times he addressed her i...	45
lady he chooses to address when fell that night she was loving the writer of the thinking of the writer of that article xvi then fancy s fancy can on a day about three weeks later the were sitting quietly in the drawing room of the mrs s house at and taking survey of their previous month or two of town a weariness e...	45
discussion required this was introduced to save the character of the s judgment under any issue of affairs well here i go said desperately tearing open the seal to be sure of course exclaimed mrs and looking up from her own letter i quite forgot to tell you when i mentioned that i had seen my distant relative harry kn...	45
from experience in the art you would make a great name for certain she continued so many people make a name nowadays that it is more distinguished to remain in obscurity tell me seriously apart from the subject why don t you write a volume instead of loose articles she insisted since you are pleased to make me talk o...	45
intent upon in me he inquired as far as i was thinking of you at all i was thinking how clever you are she said with a want of that was startling in its honesty and simplicity feeling restless now that she had so spoken she arose and stepped to the window having heard the voices of her father and mrs a pair of blue com...	45
or to you for its folly she immediately sank upon the lead work knight lifted her again are you hurt he said she murmured an expression and tried to smile saying with a fitful aversion of her face i am only frightened put me down do put me down but you can t walk said knight you don t know that how can you i am only fr...	45
then dismissed all concern at his accident club laws we ll have won t we mr knight said oh yes certainly said mr knight a thought however just to his mind that he had two or three times allowed her to replace a man on her assuring him that such a move was an absolute blunder she immediately took up the unfortunate and ...	45
though it is hardly a virtue c oh yes in battle s bravery lay in his vanity indeed then so did his death oh no no for it is written in the book of the prophet shakespeare fear and be slain no worse can come to fight and fight and die is death destroying death m and down they sat and the contest began having the first ...	45
reading prayers a bore he went out alone and for almost the first time failed to recognize that holding converse with nature s charms was not solitude on the house again he perceived his young friend crossing a slope by a path which ran into the one he was following in the angle of the field here they met was at once a...	45
correct for paper on arts c yes i remember now said knight the notes were certainly suggested by your on the church tower but you must not think too much of such random observations he continued as he noticed her injured looks c a mere fancy passing through my head a importance to you because it has been made permanent...	45
blindness the result of passion perhaps any keen man s judgment was of her during the remainder of saturday they were more or less thrown with their and no conversation arose which was exclusively their own when was in bed that night her thoughts to the same subject at one moment she insisted that it was ill natured of...	45
together i liked your reading mr knight presently found herself saying you read better than papa will praise anybody that will praise me you played miss and very correctly correctly yes it must be a great pleasure to you to take an active part in the service i want to be able to play with more feeling but i have not a...	45
is that i am only vain in my ways not in my heart the worst women are those vain in their hearts and not in their ways an distinction well they are certainly the more objectionable of the two said knight is vanity a mortal or a sin you know what life is tell me i am very far from knowing what life is a just conception...	45
i have been in correspondence with him for many years till lately fortunately or unfortunately for him he fell in love and then went to since that time i have heard very little of him knight went no further in his volunteered statement and though at one moment was inclined to profit by the lessons in honesty he had jus...	45
all after his arrival had been announced that they had formed an intention to go to st for a few days at the end of the month no satisfactory offered itself on this first evening of his return for presenting with what he had been at such pains to procure he was fastidious in his reading of opportunities for such an int...	45
now to where they were sitting to select a flat for spreading their table cloth upon and amid the discussion on that subject the matter between knight and was for a while he read her refusal so certainly as the of a girl in a novel position that upon the whole he could such a beginning could knight have been told that ...	45
anything but the dream of a silly boy not worth rational consideration with a natural delicacy in mentioning her father s marriage had refrained from all allusion to the pecuniary resources of the lady a pair of blue eyes leaving this matter of fact subject he went on somewhat after his boyish manner do you remember da...	45
up to the house he was a messenger from a town a few miles off to which place the railway had been advanced during the summer a pair op eyes a for miss and three and sixpence to pay for the special messenger miss sent out the money signed the paper and opened her letter with a trembling hand she read johnson liverpool ...	45
man s stride sometimes close together the green carpet grew and they kept higher up one of the two between which they walked lower and became insignificant that on the right hand rose with their advance and terminated in a clearly defined edge against the light as if it were abruptly off a little further and the bed o...	45
the water is quite still the fallen mass under it we are in precisely the same position with regard to our here if you run back from the cliff fifty yards you will be in a brisk wind now i over the bank is a little backward current knight rose and over the bank no sooner was his head above it than his hat appeared to b...	45
the mind of man when he pauses in moments of suspense opposite knight s eyes was an standing forth in low relief from the rock it was a creature with eyes the eyes dead and turned to stone were even now regarding him it was one of the early called separated by millions of years in their lives knight and this seemed to ...	45
this is what he saw down there the surface of the sea just past his toes and under his feet actually one eighth of a mile or more than two hundred yards below them we colour according to our moods the objects we survey the sea would have been a deep a pair of blue eyes blue had happier attended the it was now no other...	45
has given me a wonderful of strength dropped her eyes again tore the remaining material into narrow like knotted each to each as before but on a smaller scale and wound the string she had thus formed round and round the linen rope which without this binding had a tendency to spread abroad now said knight who watching t...	45
noticed on the ground an envelope limp and wet in endeavouring to restore this to its proper shape he loosened from the envelope a piece of paper it had contained which was seized by the wind in falling from knight s hand it was blown to the right blown to the left it floated to the edge of the cliff and over the sea ...	45
upon her as upon the rest o us told martin where to find his baggage and then continued his journey homeward in the company of his father owing to your coming a day sooner than we first expected said john you ll find us in a of a mess sir sir says i to my own son but gone up so we ve killed the pig this morning for ye...	45
o trouble i true mournful true william worm tis so the world wants looking to or tis all and wi us take your things off mrs worm said mrs smith we be rather in a to tell the truth for my son is just dropped in from a day sooner than we expected and the pig is coming presently to cut up mrs worm not wishing to take any ...	45
c i be a poor man but i can make said william worm ah sure and how he came as a stranger and pilgrim to parson s that time not a soul knowing en after so many years ay life s a strange but i suppose i must say sir to ye oh it is not necessary at present replied though mentally to avoid the vicinity of that familiar fri...	45
never slept upon a after he up a hard boy chap never could get one long enough when a lived in that little small house by the pond he used to have to leave open his chamber door every night at going to his bed and let his feet out upon the landing he s dead and gone now nevertheless poor man as we all shall observed w...	45
in which it was having a singular amid the dark blue from local of which the whole remaining were formed he thought of the night when he had sat with as his companion and well remembered a pair op blue eyes his regret that she had received even unwillingly earlier homage than his own but his present anxiety reduced suc...	45
to move on a little boat containing two persons glided up the middle of the harbour with the lightness of a shadow the boat came opposite him passed on and touched the landing steps at the further end one of its occupants was a man as had known by the easy stroke of the oars when the pair ascended the steps and came in...	45
to the house the indistinct figure had moved and now passed across smith s front so completely enveloped was the person that it was impossible to discern him or her any more than as a shape the shape glided noiselessly on stepped forward fearing any mischief was intended to the other two who are you he said never mind ...	45
death of an of the eastern parish was being an unusual feature in the was that it had not been begun according to the custom in and other in the neighbourhood at every death the sex and age of the deceased were announced by a system of changes three times three strokes a pair of eyes signified that the departed one was...	45
that a looked very bad poor lady in faith ye might say she was dead for years afore a would own it i as my old father used to say dead but wouldn t drop down i i seed her poor soul said a from behind some removed only but last s day of all the world a was arm in wi my lord i says to myself you be churchyard my noble la...	45
a few of the poor souls however come to said the master and they set to work anew the order of could be distinctly traced by observing the appearance of the as they lay piled around on those which had been standing there but a generation or two the still remained those of an earlier period showed bare wood with a few t...	45
continual seemed she had begun to sigh for somebody further on in manhood was hardly enough of a man perhaps there was a to in her a nature to those who contemplate it from a beyond the influence of that the most exquisite of all in its and ready sympathies partly too s failure to make his hold on her heart a permanent...	45
cared most for mr knight i obeyed you you were very kind i m sure when did you begin to like mr knight i don t see that that is a question papa a pair of eyes the was from the shipping agent and was not sent at my request it announced the arrival of the vessel bringing him home home what is he here yes in the village i...	45
light which stood on the stone in the new and the remainder of the family are on this side who are those two so snug and close together s voice altered slightly as he replied that s lady born and that is arthur her husband i have heard my father say that they he ran away with her and married her against the wish of ...	45
reply a laughing tone in s ears and an earnestness in s in both which efforts he failed and produced a forced speech pleasant to neither well let us go into the open air again miss you are particularly silent you mustn t mind smith i have known him for years as i have told you a pair of blue eyes yes you have she said ...	45
to morrow i have been reminded of it to day it is about something i once did and don t think i ought to have done this it must be said was rather a mild way of referring to a frantic passion and flight which much or little in itself only accident had saved from being a scandal in the public eye knight thought the matte...	45
seemed dictated by a half reason had discerned the girl and immediately came up and stood in front of her ah miss why did you disturb me mustn t i here you may walk here if you like mrs i do not disturb you x a pair of blue eyes you disturb my mind and my mind is my whole life for my boy is there still and he is gone ...	45
eyes he assisted her through the and down to the stones they walked on together to a tiny about a foot wide and high and sat down beside it on the flags that for nine months in the year were beneath a from their feet the thread of water which alone remained to tell the intent and reason of this leaf covered aisle and o...	45
whispered without reserve and no longer mistress of the ceremonies and then inclined herself towards him thrust back her hair and poised her head sideways in doing this her arm and shoulder necessarily rested against his breast at the touch the sensation of both seemed to be concentrated at the point of contact all the...	45
having been two days later than that of and her parents so the evening of this october day saw them all meeting at the above mentioned hotel where they had previously engaged apartments during the afternoon knight had been to his lodgings at to make a little change in the nature of his baggage and on a pair of blue eye...	45
one end and gradually to a point at the moment of their entry into this narrow passage a brilliantly painted rival down the river like a trotting creating such a series of waves and that their frail was tossed like a and the and his wife this way and that their heads into contact with a punch and air and countenance th...	45
the gloom their pointed rising like shadowy phantom figures against the sky it became necessary to go below to an eight o clock meal of kind and was immensely relieved at finding no sign of mrs there they again ascended and remained above till mrs staggered up to them with the message that mrs thought it was time for t...	45
are cold is the wind too much for you no she said gloomily the belief which had been her sheet anchor in hoping for forgiveness had proved false this account of the exceptional nature of his experience a matter which would have set her rejoicing two years ago chilled her now like a frost a pair of blue eyes you don t ...	45
of one who could sink to sleep in so simple a pair op blue eyes and a manner more than all the musing student felt the immense responsibility he was taking upon himself by becoming the protector and guide of such a trusting creature the quiet slumber of her soul lent a to his own then she moaned and turned herself pre...	45
tender and susceptible daughter in law of let me find favour in thy sight my lord for that thou hast comforted me and for that thou hast spoken friendly unto thine she was the plants one wet day in the a pair of blue eyes knight was sitting under a great observing the scene sometimes he looked out at the rain from the ...	45
a trifle i only thought you hadn t that was all however one ray was abstracted from the glory about her head but afterwards when knight was wandering by himself over the bare and hills meditating on the subject that ray suddenly returned for she might have had a lover and never have cared in the least for him she migh...	45

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