shock but such was memory that though he stood there openly and a converted man who was for his past a fear overcame her her movement so that she neither retreated nor advanced to think of what from that countenance when she saw it last and to behold it now there was the same handsome of mien but now he wore neatly trimmed old fashioned whiskers the moustache having disappeared and his dress was half a which had changed his expression to abstract the from his features and to hinder for a second her belief in his identity to s sense there was just at first a ghastly a grim in the march of these solemn words of scripture out of such a mouth this too familiar less than four years earlier had brought to her ears expressions of such that her heart became quite sick at the irony of the contrast it was less a reform than a the op the d former curves of were now to lines of passion the lip shapes that had meant were now made to express the glow on the cheek that could be translated as was to day into the splendour of pious had become the bold rolling eye that had flashed upon her form in the old time with such mastery now beamed with the rude energy of a that was almost ferocious those which his face had used to put on when his wishes were now did duty in the who would insist upon turning again to his in the mire the as such seemed to complain they had been diverted from their hereditary to signify impressions for which nature did not intend them strange that their very elevation was a that to raise seemed to yet could it be so she would admit the sentiment no longer d was not the first wicked man who had turned away from his wickedness to save his soul alive and why should she deem it unnatural in him it was but the usage of thought which had been in her at hearing good new words in bad old notes the greater the sinner the greater the saint it was not necessary to far into christian history to discover that such impressions as these moved her vaguely and without strict as soon as the pause of her surprise would allow her to stir her impulse was to pass on out of his sight he had obviously not discerned her yet in her position against the but the moment that she moved again he recognized her the effect upon her old lover was electric far stronger than the effect of his presence upon her his fire the tumultuous ring of his eloquence seemed to go out of him his up struggled and trembled the the convert words that lay upon it but deliver them it could not as long as she faced him his eyes after their first glance upon her face hung in every other direction but hers but came back in a desperate leap every few seconds this lasted however but a short time for s energies returned with the of his and she walked as fast as she was able past the bam and onward as soon as she could reflect it appalled her this change in their relative he who had wrought her was now on the side of the spirit while she remained and as in the legend it had resulted that her c image had suddenly appeared upon his altar whereby the fire of the priest had been well nigh extinguished she went on without turning her head her back seemed to be endowed with a to is � even her clothing � so alive was she to a fancied gaze which might be resting upon her from the outside of that bam all the way along to this point her heart had been heavy with an sorrow now there was a change in the quality of its trouble that hunger for affection too long withheld was for the time by an almost physical sense of an past which still her it her consciousness of error to a practical despair the break of between her earlier and present existence which she had hoped for had not after all taken place never be complete till she was a herself thus absorbed she the northern part of long ash lane at right angles and presently saw before her the road ascending to the along margin the remainder of her journey lay its dry pale surface stretched severely onward by a single figure vehicle or mark save some occasional brown horse which dotted its cold here and there e slowly this ascent became conscious of footsteps behind her op the d and turning she saw approaching that well known form � so strangely as the � the one personage in all the world she wished not to encounter alone on this side of the grave there was not much time however for thought or and she yielded as calmly as she could to the necessity of letting him overtake her she saw that he was excited less by the speed of his walk than by the feelings within him he said she speed without looking round he repeated it is i � d she then looked back at him and he came up i see it is she answered coldly well � is that all yet i deserve no more of course he added with a slight laugh there is something of the ridiculous to your eyes in seeing me like this but � i must put up with that i heard you had gone away nobody knew where you wonder why i have followed you i do rather and i would that you had not with all my heart yes � you may well say it he returned grimly as they moved onward together she with unwilling tread but don 