and had announced her intentions to hear

  Harry and Emily, after travelling about for some time, had settled in H----, not far from the college, and had insisted upon Everard spending a great deal of his time with them, as they had fitted up a nice little study for his especial use.   Emily was very anxious for the ordination, and had announced her intentions to hear him preach his first sermon, let it be when and where it might, in spite of his saying that he would go where he was quite unknown.   "Now, Everard, I'm going to have a party on the fifth," said Emily, "and I want you to bring some of the students, and I should like very much to have tall, handsome ones, and none of your little 'ugly mugs.' I want particularly that nice Mr. Elliott you introduced to me the other day."   "I do not choose my friends merely for their appearance, and Elliott is not one of the students," returned Everard.   "Never mind who he is, I want him to come."   "I will ask him if he is in town; but I can't come, I am altogether too busy."   "Nonsense, Everard, you only say that to vex me. I mean you to come, that's pos'. Isn't he provoking, Isabel?"   "Perhaps his business is as important as it was that Christmas," said Isabel, quietly.   Everard looked up quickly from his book, but Isabel was fully employed with her tatting.   "What do you know about my engagements at that time?" he asked.   "Oh, nothing; only, perhaps, you can as easily put aside your work as you did then."