l a living as a farmer and would probably keep ts in the position of poor sons for the term of yet admired it none the less spit his own often felt that ho i r tu his father ou the human side than either of brethren of the d es l � l � me h m uie u u v � v i t an up hill and down ride of twenty odd t h a clear midday afternoon to a detached a mile or two west rf he again looked into that green of and the valley of the v immediately he began to descend from the to fat soil below the atmosphere heavier i languid perfume of the summer fruits tho mists the hu � the flowers formed therein a va t pool of this hour seemed to make the animals the l t� ik drowsy was now so with t spot that he knew the cows by their ii a long distance off he saw them dotted about tho n it was with a sense of that he was conscious recently acquired power of life here from it side in a way that had been quite foreign to him ii student days and much as he loved hie parents he not help being aware that to come here as now of home life affected him like and oven the one customary on the hi of english rural societies b g absent in ha ing no resident landlord not a human being was out of doors at the were all ing the aft moon hour or so which the exceedingly early kept in tune rendered a to those engaged i butter making trades at the door the wood and by infinite upon the and limb of thi fixed for that all of them and the evening angel entered and went the consequence of the house to the hm k quarters where h � a moment sustained from th where some of the men were lying down � and of pigs arose from the r distance the large and i slept too broad limp hanging in ke half closed and fed his and aa he re entered tlie i the clock struck three three was the afternoon hour and shortly after the stroke heard � of the floor boards above and then the touch foot on the stairs it was u who ill moment came down before his eyes had not heard mm and hardly realized his pre there she was yawning and lie saw the red as if it had been a snake s she had mi so high above her np cable of hair that h j its delicacy above the her face wai sleep and her eyelids hung heavy over brim fulness of her nature breathed t moment when a woman s soul is more i time when the most spiritual beauty and sex takes the outside place in an those eyes flashed brightly through their before the of her face was well an look of gladness shyness she exclaimed � o mr how you frightened j re had not at first been time for her to of the � fed relations which his declaration had introduced tie full sense of the matter rose up in her when s tender look as he stepped forward stair r darling he whispered putting his arm and his face to here don t for heaven s sake op the d me any more i have so soon i cause of you s heart beat by way of and there they stood the red brick floor of the the sun in by the window of the front room through the doorway upon his as he held her ti to his breast upon her declining face upon the blue of her temple upon her arm and her neck and into depths of her hair having been lying down in her cloth � she was warm as a cat at first she would not look straight up at him but if eyes and his met their violet black while she regarded him as eve at her waking l have regarded adam i have to go she pleaded and i liave old to help me to day mrs is gone to i wi mr and is not will and the arc gone out somewhere and wont be home till as they retreated to the milk house l appeared on the stairs i have come back said mr so i c help with tbe aud tired i sm e you needn t down till mu possibly the milk was not very tliat afternoon was in a dream objects appeared as having light and position but no particular outline every time the under the pump cool it tbe work trembled the ai of his being so that she seemed to under it like a plant in ton bi a sun he pi her again to his side and when she done running her forefinger round the it to cream edge he cleaned it in nature a for i i manners of i the i may as well say it now as later dearest lie resumed gently � i wish to ask you of a very nature which i have been thinking o� ever that day list week in the i shall soon want to marry and being a farmer you see i shall require for my wife a who knows all about the of will you bo that woman put it in that way that might not think ha had yielded to an o which his would she turned quite she had bowed to the result of the necessity of loving him but she had not calculated this which indeed had put before her without quite meaning to do it so soon with pain that was like the bitterness of dissolution she d words of her and sworn answer � her indispensable and 