actions mean yes i go to write a note here if you don t mind sleep over it � it is the best plan � and write to morrow meantime go there to that window and sit down and look at my humanity show i am going to dine out this evening and have to dress here out of my i bring up my things like this to save the trouble of going down to my place at and back again knight then went to the middle of the room and flung open his and drew near the window the streak of sunlight had crept upward edged away and vanished the slept a dusky gloom pervaded the room and now another volume of light shone over the window there said knight where is there in england a spectacle to equal that i sit there and watch them every night before i go home softly open the beneath them was an alley running up to the wall and thence turning sideways and passing under an arch so t knight s back window was immediately over the h and commanded a view oi j xv v a fair of blue eyes crowds � mostly of women � were bustling and pacing up and down glared from the of flesh to of orange and like the wild of s later pictures while the and of tongues of every pitch and mood was to this human what the ripple of a brook is to the natural forest nearly ten minutes passed then knight also came to the window well now i call a cab and vanish down the street in the direction of square he said his waistcoat and kicking his morning suit into a corner rose to leave what a heap of literature remarked the young man taking a final longing survey round the room as if to abide there forever would be the great pleasure of his life yet feeling that he had almost his his eyes rested upon an arm chair piled full of newspapers magazines and bright new volumes in green and red yes said knight also looking at them and breathing a sigh of weariness something must be done with several of them soon i suppose you needn t hurry away for a few minutes you know if you want to stay i am not quite ready those volumes while i put on my coat and i ll walk a little way with you sat down beside the arm chair and began to tumble the books about among the rest he found a in one volume the court of castle by field are you going to review this inquired with apparent and holding up s which o that i i may � though i don t do much now but it is how do you mean knight never liked to be asked what he meant mean i mean that the majority of books published are neither good enough nor bad enough to io and t that book does provoke it a pair of eyes by its goodness or its said with some anxiety on poor little s score its it seems to be written by some girl in her said not another word he did not care to speak plainly of after that unfortunate slip his tongue had made with regard to her having committed herself j and apart from that knight s severe � almost dogged and self willed � honesty in was by the humble wish of a youthful friend like knight was now ready turning off the gas and together the door they went down the stairs and into the street chapter xiv we while tis may it has now to be not only supposed but clearly realized that nearly three quarters of a year have passed away in place of the scenery that formed a setting to the previous we have now before us the summer of the year following is in india away at an office in occasionally going up the country on professional errands and wondering why people complained so much of the of the climate upon their never had a young man a finer start than seemed now to present itself to it was just in that exceptional of prosperity which shone over about ten years ago that he arrived on the scene building and partook of the general speculation moved with an every successive day the only disagreeable connected with it being the possibility of a had never told her father of the four and twenty hours with nor had it to her knowledge come to his ears by any other route it was a secret trouble and grief to the girl for a short time and s departure was another in her sorrow but possessed special for getting rid of trouble after a decent interval while a slow nature was a misfortune little by little she had swallowed the whole agony of it at a and was brightening again she could off a sadness and replace it by a hope as easily as a a limb and two such excellent h ld x t � sc selves one was bringing out the w � ii notices in the papers which v a i v pa r of blue eyes short so far had served to divert her thoughts the other was from the to the more old house of mrs overlooking the same valley mr at first disliked the idea of to feminine soil but the obvious advantages of such an accession of dignity reconciled him to the change so there was a radical move the two ladies staying at as had been arranged the going to and fro mrs considerably enlarged s ideas in an aristocratic direction and she began to forgive her father for his marriage certainly in a worldly sense a handsome face at three and forty had never served a man in better stead the new 