A PAIR OF BLUE
GO
The ends of her hanging
shadow.
into
EYES.
hair softly dragged themselves backwards
and forwards upon her shoulder
as each
faint breeze thrust against or relinquished it.
moved
Fringes and ribbons of her dress,
by the same
breeze,
licked
like
upon the parts around them, and
tongues flutter-
ing forward from shady folds caught likewise
their
share
of the lustrous orange
glow.
Mr. Swancourt shouted out a welcome to
Knight from a distance of about thirty
yards,
and
after a
few preliminary words
proceeded to a conversation of deep earnestness on Knight's fine old family name, theories
as to lineage
connected therewith. teau having in the
and
and intermarriage Knight's portman-
mean time
arrived, they
soon retired to prepare for dinner, which
had been postponed two hours
later
than
the usual time of that meal.
An Elfride,
arrival
now
was an event
in the
life
of
that they were again in the
