the game s heart beat so violently that she could not sit still her dread was lest he should hear it and he did discover it at last � some flowers upon the table being set throbbing by its i think we had better give over said knight looking at her gently it is too much for you i know let us write down the position and finish another time no please not she implored i should not rest if i did not know the result at once it is your move ten minutes passed she started up suddenly i know what you are doing she cried an angry color upon her cheeks and her eyes indignant you were thinking of letting me win to please me i don t mind that i was knight responded and appearing all the more so by contrast with her own turmoil but you must not i won t have it very well no that will not do i insist l om ox x � sa such absurd thing it is insulting me a fair of blue eyes very well madam i won t do tiny such absurd thing you shall not win that is to be proved she returned proudly and the play went on nothing is now heard but the of a quaint old time piece on the summit of a ten minutes pass j he her knight she takes his knight and looks a very more minutes away she takes his and has the advantage showing her sense of it rather five minutes more he takes her bishop she brings things even by taking his knight three minutes she looks bold and takes his queen he looks placid and takes hers eight or ten minutes pass he takes a she a little but not the ghost of a can she take in ten minutes pass he takes another and says check she herself by his bishop and looks triumphant he immediately takes her bishop she looks surprised five minutes longer she makes a dash and takes his only remaining bishop he replies by taking her only remaining knight two minutes he gives check her mind is now in a � painful state of and she shades her face with her hand yet a few minutes more he takes her and again she literally now lest an artful surprise she has in store for him shall be anticipated by the surprise he evidently has in store for her five minutes in two moves if you can says knight o i have that is cruel says knight and the victory is won arose and turned away without letting him see her face once in the hall she ran up stairs and into her room and herself down i x d ing bit a pair of blue eyes where is said her father at luncheon knight listened anxiously for the answer he had been hoping to see her again before this time she isn t well sir was the reply mrs arose and left the room going up stairs to s apartment at the door was unity who occupied in the new establishment a position between s maid and middle she is sound asleep ma am unity whispered mrs opened the door was lying full dressed on the bed her face hot and red her arms thrown abroad at intervals of a minute she tossed from side to side and moaned words used in the game of mrs had a turn for and felt her pulse it was like a harp string at the rate of two hundred a minute softly moving the sleeping girl to a little less cramped position she went down stairs again she is asleep now said mrs she does not seem very well cousin knight what were you thinking of her tender brain won t bear like your great head you should have strictly forbidden her to play again in truth the s experience of the nature of young women was far less extensive than his abstract knowledge of them led himself and others to believe he could pack them into sentences like a workman but was nowhere i am indeed sorry said knight feeling even more than he expressed but surely the young lady knows best what is good for her bless you that s just what she doesn t know she never thinks of such things does she her father and i have to command her and keep her in order as you would a child she will say things worthy of a french and act like a robin in a but i think we will send for dr � there can be no harm a man was straightway despatched ox vi and the gentleman known as t x c x ac x the coarse of the afternoon he see k af a air of blue eyes system to be in a decided state of disorder forwarded some soothing draught and gave orders that on no account whatever was she to play again the next morning knight waited with a curiously feeling for her entry to breakfast the female servants came in to prayers at irregular intervals and as each entered he could not to save his life avoid turning his head with the hope that she might be mr began reading without waiting for her then somebody glided in noiselessly knight softly glanced up it was only the little kitchen maid knight thought reading prayers a bore he went out alone and for almost the first time failed to recognize that holding converse with nature s charms was not solitude on the house again he perceived his young friend crossing a slope by a path which ran into the one he was following in the angle of the field here they met was at once and abashed coming into his presence had upon her the effect of entering a cathedral knight had his note book in 