effect of minute of high power just before the clock struck five oak and passed the village cross and went on together to the fields they were yet barely in view of their mistress s house when oak fancied he saw the opening of a in one of the upper windows the two men were at this moment partially by an elder bush now beginning to be enriched with black of fruit and they paused before emerging from its shade a handsome man leaned idly from the he looked east and then west in the manner of one who makes a first morning survey the man was his red jacket was loosely thrown on but not at an upper window and he had altogether the relaxed bearing of a soldier taking his ease spoke first looking quietly at the window she has married him he said had previously beheld the sight and he now stood with his back turned making no reply i fancied we should know something to day continued i heard wheels pass my door just after dark � you were out somewhere he glanced round upon good heavens above us oak how white your face is you look like a corpse do i said oak with a faint smile lean on the gate i ll wait a bit au right all right they stood by the gate awhile staring at the ground his mind sped into the future and saw there in years of leisure the scenes of repentance that would from this work of haste that they were married he had instantly decided why had it been so mysteriously managed it had become known that she had had a fearful journey to bath owing to her the distance that the horse had broken down and that she had been more than two days getting there it was not s way to do things with all her faults she was itself could she have been the union was not only an unutterable grief to him it amazed him notwithstanding that he had passed the preceding week in a suspicion that such might be the issue of s meeting her away from home her quiet return with had to some extent dispersed the dread just as that motion which appears like stillness is infinitely divided in its properties from stillness itself so had his hope from despair differed from despair indeed in a few minutes they moved on again towards the house the still looked from the window far from the crowd morning comrades i he shouted in a cheery voice when they came up replied to the greeting ye going to answer the man he then said to i d say good morning � you needn t spend a of meaning upon it and yet keep the man civil soon decided too thai since the deed was done to put the best face upon the matter would be the greatest kindness to her he loved good morning he returned in a ghastly voice a rambling gloomy house this said smiling why � they may not be married suggested perhaps she s not there shook his head the soldier turned a little towards the east and the sun kindled his scarlet coat to an orange glow but it is a nice old house responded yes � i suppose so but i feel like new wine in an old bottle here my notion is that windows should be put throughout and these old walls brightened up a bit or the oak cleared quite away and the walls it would be a pity i think well no a philosopher once said in my hearing that the old who worked when art was a living thing had no respect for the work of who went before them but pulled down and altered as they thought fit and why shouldn t we creation and preservation don t do well together says he and a of can t invent a style my mind exactly i am for making this place more modern that we may be cheerful we can the military man turned and surveyed the interior of the room to assist his ideas of improvement in this direction and began to move on oh said as if inspired by a l at an upper window tion do you know if insanity has ever appeared in mr s family reflected for a moment i once heard that an uncle of his was queer in his head but i don t know the rights o t he said it is of no importance said lightly well i shall be down in the fields with you some time this week but i have a few matters to attend to first so good day to you we shall of course keep on just as friendly terms as usual i m not a proud man nobody is ever able to say that of however what is must be and here s half a crown to drink my health men threw the coin across the front plot and over the fence towards who it in its fall his face turning to an angry red his eye edged forward and caught the money in its upon the road very well � you keep it said disdain and almost fiercely as for me i ll do without gifts from him don t show it too much s d for if he s married to her mark my words he ll buy his discharge and be our master here therefore tis well lo say friend outwardly though you say within well � perhaps it is best to be silent but i can t go further than that i can t flatter and if my place here is only to be kept by him down my place must be lost a whom they had for some time seen in the distance now appeared close beside them there s mr said oak i 