that the folk in the were fit for nothing better you always speak ike that you think no more of me than of those tt the cot you think i am nobody at all show ou different all my troubles came out in hot little of she coloured up as i spoke and looked at me a her queer half mocking half fashion h i think so little of you as that said she and that is the reason why you are going away veil then jack will you stay if i am � if i am kind you we were face to face and close together and in an the thing was done my arms were round her nd i was kissing her and kissing her and the shadow on her mouth hear cheeks her eyes and pressing to my heart and to her that she was all to me that i could not be without her said nothing but it was long before she turned lace aside and when she pushed me back it was very hard why you are quite your rude old impudent sell said she patting her hair with her two hands y have tossed me jack i had no idea that you would so forward but all my fear of her was gone and a love fold than ex er was boiling in my veins i took up again and kissed her as if it were my right you are mv er own now i cried i shall go to but til stay and marry you but she laughed when i spoke of marriage silly boy silly boy said she with her finger up and then when i tried to lay hands on again she gave a little dainty and was the house chapter iv the choosing of jim and then there came those ten weeks which like a dream and are so now to look back upon would weary you were i to tell you what passed us but oh how earnest and and important it was at the time her wa ever varying moods now bright now dark like meadow under drifting clouds her an her sudden each in turn filling me the choosing of jim or sorrow these were my life all the rest was but but ever deep down behind all my other feelings was a vague a fear that i was like the man who set forth to lay hands upon the rainbow and that the real near she might seem was in truth for ever beyond my reach for she was so hard to understand or at she was so for a dull country lad like me for if i would talk to her of my real prospects and how by taking in the whole of we might earn a hundred good pounds over the extra rent and maybe be able to build out the parlour at west inch so as to make it fine for her when we married she would her lips and her eyes as though she scarce had patience to listen to me but if i would let her build up dreams about what i might become how i might find a paper which proved me to be the true heir of the or how without joining the army which she would by no means hear of i showed myself to be a great warrior until my name was in all folks mouths then she would be as as the may i would keep up the play as well as i could but soon some word would show that i was only plain of west inch and out would come her lip again in scorn of me so we moved on she in the air and i on the ground and if the had not come in one way it must in another it was after christmas but the winter had been mild with just frost enough to make it safe walking over the one fresh morning had been out early and she came back to breakfast with a of colour on her cheeks the great shadow has your friend the doctor s ji ic says she i h ard that it was expected ah then it must have been him that i met you met jim i am sure it must be he a splendid looking m � a hero with black hair a short straight no eyes he had shoulders like a statue ai sl to height why i suppose that your head up to his pin up to his ear said i indignantly tl ti if it was jim but tell me had he a brown wood pipe � in the comer of his mouth he was smoking he was dressed in and he has a grand deep strong voice ho ho you spoke to him said l she coloured a little as if she had said more th she meant i was going where the ground was a little s and he warned me of it she said ah it must have been dear old jim said l i should have been a doctor years back if his brains h been as strong as his arm why heart alive here the very man himself i had seen him through the kitchen window a now i rushed out with my half eaten in i hand to greet him he ran forward too with his hand out and his eyes shining ah he cried it s good to see you there are no friends like the old ones suddenly he stuck in his speech and f the choosing of jim his mouth open over my shoulder i turned and re was with such a merry smile in the door how proud i felt of her and of self too as i looked at her this is my cousin miss jim said l do you often take walks before breakfast mr she asked 