A PAIR OF BLUE
48 she had
known
EYES.
for years.
When
after the
lapse of a few minutes he spoke at length,
she
some
considered there was a hard
square decisiveness in the shape of his sentences, as
if,
unlike her o^vn and Stephen's,
they were not there and then newly constructed, but
were drawn forth from a large
They were now
ready-made.
store
ap-
proaching the window to come in again. ^
That
is
a flesh-coloured variety,' said
'But oleanders, though
Mrs. Swancourt.
they are such bulky shrubs, are so very easily
wounded
as to
be unprunable
with the sensitiveness of young here
is
Elfride
ladies.
0,
!'
Elfride looked as guilty as
—giants
Lady Teazle
and
crestfallen
at the fall of the screen.
Mrs. Swancourt presented him half comically,
and Knight
in a
minute or two seated
himself beside the young lady.
A fride's
and
complexity of instincts checked Elconventional smiles of complaisance
hospitality
and to make her
still less
