A PAIR OF BLUE
35
EYES.
sobriquet in vanity or conceit, but because
she was afraid
sumptuous
would be thought pre-
it
to publish her
she did not
mean
name, and that
the story for such as he,
but as a sweetener of history for young people,
who might thereby
what went on
for
acquire a taste
own country
in their
hundreds of years ago, and be tempted to dive deeper into the subject. so
much
to explain
0, there
I wish I
might
is
-write
myself!'
'Xow,
you what we
Elfie, I'll tell
will
answered Mr. Swancourt, tickled with
do,'
a sort of bucolic criticising the
'
it
Yes,
now
ing up. '
'
what he
and send
copy
it
directly
When
will
!'
at the idea of
You
^
critic.
clear account of will
humour
is
shall write a
wrong
in,
and
I
as mine.'
said Elfride,
you send
it,
jump-
papa ?'
0, in a day or two, I suppose,' he re-
turned.
Then the
ya-wmed, and in the
icar paused
and
slightly
manner of elderly people,
began to relax from his ardour for the un-
