The House on the Beach: A Realistic Tale

that was in brilliant harmony with the green downs, the white cliffs and sparkling sea, and no doubt it was the beauty before his eyes which persuad

e was full sure that no commonplace girl would ever have had the idea. Exquisitely simple, sh

ckledon's shop, and the industrious carp

he house on the beach a

nd his daughte

w does he look?"

ms to agree w

ellingham checked his tongue. "How have they

an had to

all

pped work, "Mr. Tinma

s

about purchasing Elba. He has bought the Crouch. He and Mr. Tinman are al

kely to be b

nk. Mr. Tinman has to

but there was a lighted corner in his look that revive

tten it. That's not over yet?

asses ha' b

your wife,

eady for a talk, if yo

not say it in plain words. She knew Miss Smith was tired to death of constant companionship with Mrs. Cavely, Tinman's sister. She generally came once in the day just to escape from Mrs.

," said Fellingham;

ossession of the Crouch next month, and that

d enough to be her fathe

ellingham, though a man, and an Englishman, was

onsult the young l

ith emphasis. "She's a young lady who thinks for herself, but she takes her start

e speaking, An

ingham; gladly and openly, in

ive me a walk along

ion of having Tinman for a rival annoyed him. He overflowed with ridicule of Tinman, and this was distressing to Annette, because not only did she see that he

emely hospitable to us,"

ted to receive instruction in

did no

fect, he must be near

tinued

e as he is hospitable, and it must be a daily

een him in hi

s his c

lk of thos

othing, you mean! I am sure that is true, and living in Courts

it n

lse rapture with a ca

rasol down a road to the right, coming from the town, caused Annette to

ham ask

ks," Anisette replied,

ught she seeme

m, breathless. "My dea

u starting. I followed

ld catch you. And to

sh sc

not hea

ore," Fellingham

ad to see you again, si

ce, ma'am. May I venture to inquire whet

in manner, "for the day after to-morrow. He is excited, as you may well believe. But Mr. Smith

did not know it,

to his further remarks, that Annette resolved

inman's sherry remained. Tinman would insist on Fellingham's taking a glass. Fellingham parried him with a sedate gravity of irony that was painfully perceptible to Anisette. Van Diemen at last backed Tinman's hospitable intent, and

d the glass

lt some," sai

t the carpet,

zed at the carpet, as if

Alexander drinking off the potion, in scorn

n, foiled in his historical recollec

hilipson, or he declared it was Joveson; and very

too much, then

his

ng gentleman by saying, "How long do y

letting her father understand that satire was in the air; and neither he nor Tinman was conscious of it exactly: yet both shrank w

ir majesty likewise; and it is an encouragement to men to strive to become mayors, bailiffs, or prime men of any sort; but a stress in the reporting of it-the making it appear too important a circumstance-will surely breathe the intimation to a politically-minded people th

ation by Mr. Bailiff Tinman, of Crikswich! Herbert Fellingham wreaked his personal spite on Tinman. He should have bethought him that it involved another than Tinman that is to say, an office-which the fitful beast rejoi

ble young writer. But they handed the paper to the Coastguard Lieutenant, who asked Tinman how he liked it; and visitors were beginning to drop in to Crikswich, who made a point of asking for a sight of the chief man; and then came a comic publ

you'll not encourage that newspaper fellow to