A Laodicean

pleasure with all the deference due to such a novel inhabitant of that ancestral pile. This happened on the following afternoon about four o'clock, while Somerset was sk

she said.-'"Paula to Charlotte.-Have returned to Markton. Am starti

he raised her eyes from the machine. 'Is sh

at the same time that he was not in possession of

y. What will she want? Dinner would be best-she has had no lunch, I know; or tea perha

They could see from their elevated position a great way along the white road, stretching like a tape a

. 'O yes-it is past four-th

she be like

he said it would be useless to send to meet her,

those beeches overhang the

ch. The vehicle, which was of no great pretension, soon crossed the bridge

she drove up-is sh

d not s

because of the trees. Mr. Somerset, will you come

dness. 'I will go on with my sketching

r manners are easier here, you know, than they are

that he would hold himself in readiness to be

Power?' said Miss De Stan

iss De Stancy took it up, and r

has come, then?' she asked

ma'

This is some man of business, I

ould be glad to see you if

and it seems that he wrote some time ago to Miss Power, who gave him permission to take views of the castle, and promised to show him the best points. But I have hear

is all right,

quite in order, perhaps you will instruct

is manner for the moment was not of a kind calculated to dissipate antagonistic instincts. Mr. Dare was standing before the fireplace with his feet wide apart, and his hands in the p

g years as the tenor of his sentences sent him up or down. He had a broad forehead, vertical as the face of a bastion, and his hair, which was parted in the middle, hung as a fringe or valance above, in the fashion sometimes affected by the other sex. He wore a heavy ring, of which the gold seemed fair, the diamond questionable, and the tas

did not feel, as he would ordinarily have done, that it was a matter of profound i

objection was made.' Somerset recognized the voice; it was that of the invisible stranger who ha

nd to this place. Blaming himself for a too hasty condemnation of the stranger, who though visually a little too assured was civil enough verbally, Somerset proceeded with the young photographer to sundry corners of the

an this, and so get a more comprehensive coup d'oei

Englishman, then

invented a new photographic process, which I am bent upon making famous. Yet I am but a

,' Somers

o begin operations, Somerset returned to the castle entrance. While under the archway a man w

eturned, Mr. Havil

isappointing him in the flesh, notwithstanding the interest she expressed in him by telegraph; and

rom the castle walls, which formed a miniature waterfall. The walk lay along the river-brink. Soon Somerset saw before him a circular summer-house formed of short sticks nailed to ornamental patterns. Outside the structure, and immediately in the p

, though distinctly enough beheld, the other scarcely appeared to heed in the absorbing interest of his own disc

ther before him. Any difficulty you may have met with I will honestly try to remove; for I need hardly say that in losing you we lose one of the most valued members of the Baptist church

,' said a woman's

do y

o attend for

give no rea

was no

usal to proceed

been chr

ith which she was not in sympathy, taking you surreptitiously, and indefensibly, to the font of the Establishment; so that the rite meant and could mean nothing at all.... But I fear that

ms suff

at seeming in three minutes, giv

no obj

matter have not been able to make any impression upon one so well grounded as your

ay ass

ground. And we now com

e leather being worn brown at the corners by long usage. He turned on till he came to the beginning of the New Testament, and then commenced his discourse. After explain

r; till, instead of fixing his eyes exclusively on the person within the summer-house, the preacher began to direct a good proportion of his

ich, honestly interpreted, affords the least foothold for the Paedobaptists; in other words, for your opinion on the efficacy of the rite

ring the Church had been entertained by his parents. He had formed acquaintance with men of almost every variety of doctrinal practice in this country; and, as the pleadings of each assa

y starts, and

ny beliefs and doctrines without feeling

nexpediency of contests on minor ritual differences, he yet felt a sudden impulse towards a mild intelle

e to us,' said Somerset, adv