in which the brain like a shaking himself is trying its he had some dim notion of an unusual proceeding but the realities of his situation soon conjecture on the other subject he waited in to discern some mental pointing he knew that if any intention of his concluded over night did not vanish in the light of morning it stood on a basis to one of pure reason even if by impulse of feeling that it was so far therefore to be trusted he thus beheld in the pale morning light the resolve to separate from her not as a hot and indignant instinct but of the which had made it and bum standing in its bones nothing but a skeleton but none the less there no longer hesitated at breakfast and while they were packing the few remaining articles he showed his weariness from the night s effort so that was on the point of revealing all that had happened but the reflection that it would anger him grieve him him to know that he had instinctively manifested a fondness for her of which his common sense did not approve that his inclination had his dignity when reason slept again her it was too much like laughing at a man when sober for his deeds during it just crossed her mind too that he might have a faint recollection of his tender and was to allude to it from a conviction that she would take advantage of the it gave her of appealing to him anew not to go he had ordered by letter a vehicle from the nearest town and soon after breakfast it arrived she saw in it the beginning of the end � the temporary end at the woman pays least for the revelation of his tenderness by the incident of the night raised dreams of a possible future with him the luggage was put on the top and the man drove them off the miller and the old expressing some surprise at their departure which attributed to his discovery that the mill work was not of the modem kind which he wished to investigate a statement that was true so far as it went beyond this there was nothing in the manner of their leaving to suggest o or that they were not going together to visit friends their route lay near the from which they had started with such solemn joy in each other a few days back and as wished to wind up his business with mr could hardly avoid paying mrs a call at the same time unless she would excite suspicion of their state to make the call as as possible they left the carriage by the leading down from the high road to the house and descended the track on foot side by side the bed had been cut and they could see over the the spot to which had followed her when he pressed her to be his wife to the left the in which she had been fascinated by his harp and far away behind the the which had been the scene of their first embrace the gold of the summer picture was now grey the mean the rich soil mud and the river cold over the gate the saw them and came forward throwing into his face the kind of deemed appropriate in and its vicinity on the of the newly married then mrs emerged from the house and several others of their old acquaintance though and did not seem to be there bore their sly attacks and friendly which affected her far otherwise than they supposed in the agreement of husband and of the d wife to keep their a secret they behaved as would have been ordinary and then although she would rather there had been no word spoken on the subject had to hear in detail the story of and the latter had gone home to her father s and had left to look for employment elsewhere they feared she would come to no good to the sadness of this recital went and bade all her favourite cows good bye touching each of them with her hand and as she and stood side by side at leaving as if body and soul there would have been something peculiarly sorry in their aspect to one who should have seen it truly two limbs of one life as they outwardly were his arm touching hers her touching him facing one way as against all the facing the other speaking in their as we and yet like the poles perhaps something stiff and embarrassed in their attitude some awkwardness in acting up to their profession of unity different from the shyness of young couples may have been apparent for when they were gone mrs said to her husband � how the brightness of her eyes did seem and how they stood like images and talked as if they were in a dream didn t it strike ee that twas so had always strange in her and she s not now quite like the proud young bride of a well be doing man they re entered the vehicle and were driven along the roads towards and lane till they reached the lane inn where dismissed the fly and man they rested here a while and entering the were next driven onward towards her home by a stranger who did not know their relations at a point when had been passed and where there were cross roads stopped the conveyance and said to that if she meant to return to her mother s house it was here that he would leave her as they could not talk with the woman pays freedom in the driver s presence he asked her to accompany him for a few steps on foot along one of the branch roads she assented and directing the man to wait a few minutes they strolled 