the district of clay the character and of the two being so distinct that the appeared but as a deposit of a few years antiquity upon the level he kept along the edge of this high country and the sky behind him being deep violet she could still see white darling in relief upon it � a mere speck now � a reduced to dimensions upon this s he gradually disappeared thus she had beheld the pet animal purchased for her own use in pure love of her by one who had always been true impressed to convey her husband away from her to the side of a new found idol while she was musing on the of horses and wives she discerned shapes moving up the valley towards her quite near at hand till now hidden by the hedges surely they were with his two horses and apparatus conducted by robert up upward they crept a stray beam of the sun eveiy now and then like a star on the blades of the which had been converted to steel by the action of the she opened the gate when he m came nd die as thej the how do do the m to be with him he replied with much m mn he added it is now no i em the the gate � and walked by her in the rear of the i mill he looked and like s his � m� being to wheat color his eyes as his boots and with his hands with the sweet of apples his hat with and everywhere him that atmosphere of which at its return each season has such an indescribable fascination for those who have been bom and bred among the her heart rose from its late sadness like a released ring her senses in the sudden lapse back to nature the consciousness of having to be genteel because of her husband s the of which she had acquired at the fashionable schools were and she became the crude country ml of her latent earliest instincts was she thought no sooner had she been starved off by than another being bare and had arisen out of the earth ready to hand this was an excursion of the imagination which she did not encourage and she said suddenly to disguise the confused regard which had followed her thoughts did you meet my husband f with some hesitation yes where did you meet him f at bay cross i come from abbey i have been making there for the last week haven t they a mill of their own f yes but it s out of repair i think � i heard that mrs had gone there to yes i have seen her at the windows once or twice thb once waited aa interval before went on did mr take the way to f yes i met him on darling as she did not reply he added with a yon know why the mare was called that r oh yes � of course she answered quickly they had risen so far over the crest of the hill that the whole west sky was revealed between the broken they see far into the recesses of heaven the eye on under a species of golden and past fiery fancied stones and of deeper than this their gaze passed thin of till it plunged into a medium of soft green fire her to the time after her sense ol ill usage her revolt for the against social law her desire for primitive life may have showed in her face was at her his eyes lingering on a that she wore in her bosom almost with the abstraction of a he stretched out his hand and gently c the flower she drew back what are you doing winter borne i she exclaimed with a look of severe surprise the evident absence of all from the act however speedily led her to think that it was not necessary to stand upon her dignity here and now you must bear in mind she said kindly that we are not as we were and some people might have said that what you did was taking a liberty it was more than she need have told him his action of forgetfulness had made him so angry with himself that he flushed through his tan i don t know what i am coming to he exclaimed savagely ah � i was not once like this tears of vexation were in his eyes no now � it was nothing i was too it would not have to me if i had not seen something like it done elsewhere at lately he said thoughtfully after a while by whom the she him narrowly i know well enough she indifferently it was by my husband and the woman was mrs association of ideas reminded yon when yon saw me � tell me all yon know that � please do bat i won t hear it let the subject cease and as yon are my friend say nothing to my father they reached a place where their ways divided continued along the highway which kept outside tjie and opened a gate that entered it chapter hb walked up the soft grassy ride on either hand by nut bushes just now heavy with clusters of and and a little way on the track she pursued was crossed by a similar one at right angles here grace stopped some few yards up the ride the was visible � her gown tucked up hi h through her and no bonnet on her head � m the act of pulling down boughs from which she was gathering and eating nuts with great rapidity her lover tim standing near her engaged in the same pleasant meal crack crack went s jaws every second or two by an chain of thought grace s mind to the tooth drawing scene described 