Beyond The Rocks

hunt only a few puny aims, or he may be a strong man and c

ck at the beginning and ending of it. And the three colors of blue, red, and yellow have their counterp

of all combinations and graduations of beautiful other shades from them for parallels to all other qualities and instin

whole of nature and so ends the world! Or until this wonderful new scientist has perfected his researches to

at time it will not

to possess her, and, in a modified form, he wishes to steal her, i

too, so the poor old world is not

natics, and sees how they have distorted His beautiful scheme of things with their narrow ideas. Trying to

life drawn by a woman; but I do not care. I have had my outburst, and said what I wanted to. So no

s saying; "and oh, I want to know, if all the roads

her dress gently with a wild flower he had picked in the grass, while into h

é Mouret she would have known just what proximi

ulses, an extraordinary magnetic force that seemed to draw her-draw her nearer-nearer to what?

y dropping her parasol between them. "I only want to laugh and be amused

l this brave speech, that her hands were trembli

wait a little longer now, since he knew that he mu

hralled her fancy, and with every sentence he threw the glamour of his love around her, and fas

a sat as on

s not a happy princess, but Theodora, who must live her

hands together sudd

wn serious, and I asked you

gain he began to caress the farthest edge of her dress with his wild flower. Just the smallest movement of smoothing it up a

ar of that," she said. "

I believe I should find them all endowed with fresh charm myself, if I could see th

oked, and how beautifully shaped; and she liked the fineness of the silk of his socks and his shirt, an

usbands possess none of these charms; when, if they did, it could all be so good and

I am saying!" said Hector. "Where

ed gently. "They were away in a land

and supported his head on his

my consciousness. And you would not listen then to what I told you of friendship when it is born of instantaneous sympathy-it is because in s

ut perhaps-could it be true that we met when we l

feel it too-that we are not only of yesterday, yo

; and if his said, in conscious, passionate words, "I love you," hers were troubled and misty with p

nt to go out

hile he pointed to the glade to the

I told my chauffeur to meet us on the road where I think t

fraid, because she remembered all

ry careful in what he said. He must lull her fears to sleep again, or she wo

and his sister. He wanted Theodora to meet them. She would like Anne, he said, and his mother would love he

d never been any reverence mixed up with the affair, which usually had the zest of forbidden fruit, and was hurried along by passion. It had always only depended upon the woman how far he had got beyond these stages; but, as

ealize that fate would turn the anguish of this

ays been so wi

as they sauntered along down the green glade. "It is

and!" Hector exclai

as at peace now in her mind, and she

mily; so we were left at Bruges generally, or at Dieppe, or where we chanced

earned all the thing

to convents whenever we were in towns, and dear papa was so kind and generous always; no matter how hard up he was he

ill think of it-England, I me

cribed my grandfather's houses. Both my grandfathers had beautiful houses, it seems, and he says,

tterness or irony in her tender heart. And Hector l

ow," she continued-"Sir Patrick Fitzgerald. They are Irish, of course, b

. "I see him at the turf-a fiery, vile

like him,"

t an experience it will be, won't it?" His voice was full of sympath

ished me to do so; for myself I do not care, because I think he was unkind to my mother, and I shall not like him. It was cruel never to speak to her aga

deeply, realizing

caused Hector to smile

igure and bald, shiny head, his common voice, and his pompousness-Josiah Brown, who had now the ordering of her comings and goings, who paid for her clothes and gave her those great pearls

lared into the distance-and Theodora glanced up timidly, an

tell you," he sai

more about her fam

d had it all furnished magnificently by one of those people who had taste and ordered well for those who could afford to pay for it. She was rather

really had one, you see, but I think, perhaps, I would know what w

would be to watch her playing with his old home! The touches

de-and temptation again assailed him. He must

n it-Réserveé pour la chasse de Monsieur le Président, "The barrier which Love kee

laughed Theodora. "And he will be heavy and

king-and he was no longer caressing the edge of her dres

ands and perceived the scent of him-the subtle scent, not a perfume hardly, of his coat, or his hair, a

rug, because so great was his own emotion that he feared what he should say or do. He dared

me enough to certainly forgive me-an

hand when these steeds of passion whose reins you have left loose so long w