A PAIR OF BLUE
EYES.
brio^htenino: aofain.
She could
sadness and replace
it
as a lizard
by
3
slouo^h off a
a hope as easily
renews a diseased limb.
And two
such excellent distractions had
One was bringing
presented themselves.
out the romance and looking for notices in the papers, which, significantly short
though they had been
so
far,
had served
to
The other was mi-
divert her thoughts.
grating from the vicarage to the more com-
modious old house
of Mrs.
Swancourt's
overlooking the same valley.
Mr. Swan-
court
at
disliked the idea
first
plantation to feminine
soil,
of trans-
but the ob^dous
advantages of such an accession of dignity reconciled
him
to
the
change.
was a radical 'move;' the two
So there ladies stay-
ing at Torquay as had been arranged, the vicar joiner to
and
fro.
Mrs. Swancourt considerably enlarged Elfride's ideas in
and she began
an aristocratic direction,
to forgive her father for his
politic marriage.
Certainly, in a worldly
