cities used now to the company manners and ladies who almost think it vulgar to smile broad how could ye do it i � i didn t think about how i was altered i said the conscience stricken girl i used to kiss him and he used to kiss me before he went away but that was years ago my dear i o yes and for the moment i forgot he seemed just the same to me as he used to be well it can t be helped now you must be the well beloved careful in the future he s got lots of young women warrant and has few thoughts left for you he s what they call a and he means to be a great genius in that line some day they do say well i ve done it and it can t be mended moaned the girl meanwhile the of fame had gone onward to the house of his father an man of trade and commerce merely from whom nevertheless accepted a yearly allowance the famous days to come but the elder having received no warning of his son s intended visit was not at home to receive him looked round the familiar premises glanced across the common at the great yards within which eternal were going to and fro upon eternal blocks of stone � the very same and the very same blocks that he had seen there when last in the island so it seemed to him � and then passed through the dwelling into the back garden like all the gardens in the isle it was surrounded by a wall of dry and at its further extremity it ran out into a corner which the garden of the he a sketch of a temperament had no sooner reached this spot than he became aware of a murmuring and sobbing on the other side of the wall the voice he recognized in a moment as s and she seemed to be con her trouble to some young friend of her own sex oh what shall i do i what shall i do she was bitterly so bold as it was � so how could i think of such a thing he will never forgive me � never never like me again he ll think me a forward and yet � and yet i quite forgot how much i had grown but that he ll never believe the accents were those of one who had for the first time become conscious of her womanhood as an unwonted possession which and frightened her did he seem angry at it inquired the friend o not angry worse cold and haughty o he s such a fashionable person now � not at all an island man but there s no use in talking of it i wish i was dead retreated as quickly as he could he grieved at the incident which had brought such pain to this innocent soul and yet it was beginning to be a source of vague pleasure to him the well beloved he returned to the house and when his father had come back and welcomed him and they had shared a meal together again went out full of an earnest desire to soothe his young neighbour s sorrow in a way she little expected though to tell the truth his affection for her was rather that of a friend than of a lover and he felt by no means sure that the i p g f f j who ever since his boyhood had flitted from human shell to human shell an indefinite number of times was going to take up her abode in the body of a sketch of a temperament the is assumed to be true i ii it was difficult to meet her again even though on this lump of rock the difficulty lay as a rule rather in than in meeting but had been transformed into a different kind of young woman by the self consciousness of her impulsive greeting and notwithstanding their near neighbourhood he could not encounter her try as he would no sooner did he appear an inch beyond his father s door than she was to earth like a fox she bolted upstairs to her room anxious to soothe her after his slight he could not stand these long the manners of the isle were primitive and straightforward even among the well to do and noting her disappearance one day he followed ii the well beloved her into the house and onward to the foot of the stairs he called yes mr pier why do you run upstairs like that only because i wanted to come up for something well if you ve got it can t you come down again no i can t very well come dear that s what you are you know there was no response well if you won t you won t he continued i don t want to bother you and went away he was stopping to look at the old fashioned flowers under the garden walls when he heard a voice behind him mr � i wasn t angry with you when you were gone i thought � you might mistake me and i felt i could do no less than come and assure you of my friendship still turning he saw the blushing immediately behind him you are a good dear girl said he and a sketch of a temperament seizing her hand set upon her cheek the kind of kiss that should have been the response to hers on the day of his coming darling forgive me for the slight that day say you do come now and then til say to you what i have never said to any other woman living or dead will you have me as your husband ah � says i am only one of many you are not dear 