A Changed Man and Other Tales
showed for the first time outwardly that he was not altogether unworthy of her. He wore long water-boots reaching above his knees, and, instead of making a circuit to find a bridge
ary of the grounds, he continued in the same direct line to traverse the alluvial valley, full of brooks and tributaries to the main stream-in former times quite impassable, and impassable in winter now. Sometimes he would cross a deep gully on a plank not wider than the hand; at another time he ploughed his way through beds of spear-grass, where at a few feet
ing, Miss Christine Everard sat at a desk in her own chamber at Froom-
h! It runs in the blood of us, I suppose.' She alluded to a fact unknown to her lover, the clandestine marriage o
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t eight? I name the early hour because it would suit me better than later on in the day. You will fi
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d the servant's footsteps returning along the lane, when she went round and met him in the passage.
as it was called-into the lane which led to the village. Christine came out this way, and after following the lane for a short distance entered upon a path within a belt of plantation, by which the church could be reached privately. She even avoided the churchyard gate, walking along to a place where the turf
impulse. They went up the aisle together, the bottle-green glass of the old lead quarries admitting but little light at that hour,
recognizing in Nicholas a neighbouring yeoman (for he lived aloofly in the next parish), advanced to her without revealing any surprise at her unusual reques
d repeated the same words t
nd, I have a serious reason for asking you to m
er between than upon either of them, and h
e said
are quit
d no
rather private,'
e your wi
adow, sir. I can call them
d Mr. Bealand, and turning again to Chr
I should answer that q
it is-highl
egan to loo
he rector asked; 'since t
-or at least he made it appear so; till Christine said impatiently, 'We are quite ready, M
d y
I rem
mething wrong in this,' he said. 'I cannot
sed Nicholas. 'I believe we are in a positio
age? I think not. I think she is mo
und to t
ervice. And let me entreat you two young people to do nothing so rash as this, even if b
age
was saying, is one I shall not be a party to your beginning with such light hearts, and I shall feel bound to put your father
las implored; but nothing would turn that obstinate rector. Sh
grant me one favour, and in return I'll promise you to do nothin
ou undertake
e looked at her. 'Do you wish
' he
door. On his way home, carrying the well-packed bag which was just now to go no further, the two men who wer
mid want us fo
swered through the hedge. 'I
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