Stephen was not professedly a buy uggs online cheap free-hand draughtsman, but he drew the human figure with correctness and skill. In its numerous repetitions on the sides and edges of the leaves, Knight began to notice a peculiarity. All the feminine saints had one type of feature. There were large nimbi and small nimbi about their drooping heads, but the face was always the same. That profile-- how well Knight knew that profile!
     Had there ugg boots on sale been but one specimen of the familiar countenance, he might have passed over the resemblance as accidental; but a repetition meant more. Knight thought anew of Smith's hasty words earlier in the day, and looked at the sketches again and again.
     On the young man's entry, Knight said with palpable agitation--
     'Stephen, who are those intended for?'
     Stephen looked over the book with utter ugg boots cheap sale unconcern, 'Saints and angels, done in my leisure moments. They were intended as designs for the stained glass of an English church.'
     'But whom do you idealize by that type of woman you always adopt for the Virgin?'
     And then a thought raced along Stephen's mind and he looked up at his friend.
     The truth is, Stephen's introduction of Elfride's lineaments had been so ugg boots on sale unconscious that he had not at first understood his companion's drift. The hand, like the tongue, easily acquires the trick of repetition by rote, without calling in the mind to assist at all; and this had been the case here. Young men who cannot write verses about their Loves generally take to portraying them, and in the early days of his ugg boots for women attachment Smith had never been weary of outlining Elfride. The lay-figure of Stephen's sketches now initiated an adjustment of many things. Knight had recognized her. The opportunity of comparing notes had come unsought.
     'Elfride Swancourt, to whom I was engaged,' he said quietly.
     'Stephen!'
     'I know what you mean by speaking like that.'
     'Was it Elfride? YOU the man, Stephen?'
     'Yes; and you are thinking why ugg boots discount outlet did I conceal the fact from you that time at Endelstow, are you not?'
     'Yes, and more--more.'
     'I did it for the best; blame me if you will; I did it for the best. And now say how could I be with you afterwards as I had been before?'