A PAIR OF BLUE EYES.
78
You
'
look
pale,
Elfride/
Swancourt the next morning ^
Mrs.
at breakfast.
Harry T
Isn't she, cousin
A young
said
lady
who
is
scarcely
ill
at all
can hardly help becoming so when regarded as such
by
eyes turning
all
obedience to
the table in
Everybody looked tainly
was
some remark. She
Elfride.
cer-
she said with a faint smile.
?'
- I did not sleep
much.
rid of armies of bishops
how
at
pale.
Am I pale
^
at
upon her
I could
not get
and knights, try
I would.'
Chess
'
time;
is
a bad thing just before bed-
especially for excitable people like
yourself,
Don't
dear.
ever
play
late
again.'
ni
'
play early instead.
Cousin Knight,*
she said in imitation of Mrs. Swancourt^ ^
will
you
oblige
me
'
Even
to half
Well,
it is
^When?'
in something?'
my
kingdom.'
to play one
game
more.'
