[A Pair of Blue Eyes by Thomas Hardy]@TWC D-Link bookA Pair of Blue Eyes CHAPTER XI 1/27
CHAPTER XI. 'Journeys end in lovers meeting.' Stephen lay watching the Great Bear; Elfride was regarding a monotonous parallelogram of window blind.
Neither slept that night. Early the next morning--that is to say, four hours after their stolen interview, and just as the earliest servant was heard moving about--Stephen Smith went downstairs, portmanteau in hand.
Throughout the night he had intended to see Mr.Swancourt again, but the sharp rebuff of the previous evening rendered such an interview particularly distasteful.
Perhaps there was another and less honest reason.
He decided to put it off.
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