father is isn t he it appeared to frank that mr had managed to help himself very liberally indeed to all the good things in life but with his false nature he had no difficulty in re his ideas and a view of mr more in harmony with s he was as usual enthusiastic about his friends and was with love and he saw nothing of their faults � they were the best and truest people he had ever known and he could spring days not love them too much indeed he was angry and regretted the that nature has set on the human heart and he would if he could have lost himself in one immense and eternal love of the when he bade good bye at london bridge and wished him well with his shop these sentiments ceased to be active forces in him and they lay latent in his life of and bar rooms until the summer returned and he received an invitation from the house to come down for a garden party at mrs s when he opened the letter he in thoughts of them � of and her fascinating of sally s blunt speech and sturdy good looks of and all the quiet talks they would have together he counted the and striving to recall the landscape guessed the number of miles that separated him from them he walked up the drive with a beating heart looking for the girls between the laurel bushes he found them and their habits which them to him unchanged and to slip back into the old ways without the slightest difficulty or jar was like waking from a dream and entering again on a pleasant reality there wm the excellent dinner and the usual complaints about the the cigars in the room conversation about pictures and gin and water and then a long with in his bed room life moved at the house without any spring creaking without or jar and it was this beautiful regularity that made frank feel so and so unexpectedly happy he loved the desolation of ireland this was the stronger sense but there was another sense a half stifled sense that spring days found an echo in these southern downs with life in other words a faint of the original english mind in him he enjoyed and he grew akin to this saxon prosperity he learned to recognise it as manifested in the various prospects of the and the and he loved this of contradictory aspects � the of the village churches the of the the rich and their elm trees the between masses of chalk the seen against the sky of the downs it is true that he felt that this country was alien to him but he was not conscious that his love of was a morbid affection opposed to the normal and bonds of inherited aspirations and prejudices and the forms and colours that had filled his eyes in childhood consciousness in frank was always slow and always so governed and coloured by the sentiment of the moment that his comprehension of things was always or in his mind the phenomenon of life was ever in and though very often one thought would define itself no group of thoughts or part of a group ever became clear so there was no abiding principle nothing that he might know and steer by he was of course aware that the were not equal to him in rank but he did not know or rather he would not know that they were vulgar nor did he think that mount might marry again if he were to marry or sally all that was really alive and distinct in him was love of them and this love in a sensation of class which he would not acknowledge even to himself had any existence the glass houses and spring days and had a meaning and fascination for him that he could not account for or describe and he found these feelings which were mainly class feelings of an unusual kind not only in the aspect of the country but in the accent and speech of his friends in the expression of their eyes and very hands the english servants pleased him and he strove to detect qualities in the carriage and horses and he compared them to their advantage with mount s he loved to wrap the rug about the young ladies knees and they seemed to him quite perfect and delightful as they lay back in their carriage driving beneath a sky full of blue and through the changing views of the downs all distinct with light and shade sally and made much of him covered him up and addressed to him pleasant speeches his eyes and ears were open and eager for new impressions and his heart panted with readiness to admire and praise all he saw he was ready to think that he had never seen anything so lovely as the and the numerous glass houses and he wondered why he had ever thought so little of and he listened with interest to that gentleman s explanation of the superiority of his possessions over everybody else s possessions he even allowed himself to be persuaded that there was no shooting in the kingdom � for its size � equal to that in the little wood sally who did not attempt to conceal her dislike of her brother in law whispered that s the way to bring them down and frank was obliged to laugh then she and disappeared as if the earth had swallowed them for several hours the guards played on the lawn and frank was introduced to ladies of all ages and sizes and as these bored him he began to see that spring days the place was vulgar and the people and he wondered what mount would say if he were to come suddenly across him grace was the subject of 