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A Pair of Blue Eyes

CHAPTER IV
12/19

Papa won't have Fourthlys--says they are all my eye.

Then you have a final Collectively, several pages of this being put in great black brackets, writing opposite, "LEAVE THIS OUT IF THE FARMERS ARE FALLING ASLEEP." Then comes your In Conclusion, then A Few Words And I Have Done.

Well, all this time you have put on the back of each page, "KEEP YOUR VOICE DOWN"-- I mean,' she added, correcting herself, 'that's how I do in papa's sermon-book, because otherwise he gets louder and louder, till at last he shouts like a farmer up a-field.
Oh, papa is so funny in some things!' Then, after this childish burst of confidence, she was frightened, as if warned by womanly instinct, which for the moment her ardour had outrun, that she had been too forward to a comparative stranger.
Elfride saw her father then, and went away into the wind, being caught by a gust as she ascended the churchyard slope, in which gust she had the motions, without the motives, of a hoiden; the grace, without the self-consciousness, of a pirouetter.

She conversed for a minute or two with her father, and proceeded homeward, Mr.Swancourt coming on to the church to Stephen.

The wind had freshened his warm complexion as it freshens the glow of a brand.


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