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He and Owen both realized that the house was old and poorly arranged; but their father and mother liked it, and business sense and family peace dictated silence on this score. "Well, I think it's mean to have to live in this old place when people not one-fourth as good as we are are living in better ones. The Cowperwoods why, even the Cowperwoods " "Yes, the Cowperwoods!
There was a primeval piano in his sitting-room, and on the second morning it suited his mood to sit down at this and sing 'Asthore', the fruity pathos of which ballad appealed to him strongly at this time, accompanying himself by an ingenious arrangement in three chords. He had hardly begun, however, when Mr Dorman appeared, somewhat agitated. 'If you don't mind, Mr Owen, he said.
It was now again the hurricane season, and some time would probably elapse before the pirates would venture to put to sea. For the same reason Owen considered that it would not be prudent to try and make their escape.
Why, she wondered, should Owen have thought that Darrow had already guessed his secret, and what, after all, could be so disturbing to him in this not improbable contingency? At any rate, his doubt must have been dispelled: there was nothing feigned about Darrow's astonishment.
"Gouge him, Owen Daw!" "Hit him agin, Cyrus James!" "Chaw him right up!" "Give' em room, boys!"
When it was opened, Owen was to be seen in the hall, apparently in a state of great excitement; and the gentleman whom he had lately asked to breakfast, he was to be seen also, in a position of unmistakable discomfort.
"I won't trouble you to send her back," said Mrs. Owen. "The children will go for her to-morrow afternoon." The next day Peggy and Alice could hardly wait to finish their dinner, they were so eager to go for Lady Jane and get back in time to spend a long afternoon with Clara. As they came near the Carters' house, they saw Christopher just coming out of the gate.
'That's right, said Owen. 'I've been wanting to meet you again. I thought the whole thing over, and it struck me, said Mr Prosser, handsomely, 'that I may have seemed a little abrupt at our last meeting. 'No, no. 'The fact is, I was in the middle of an infernally difficult passage of my book that morning, and when you began 'It was my fault entirely. I quite understand.
Regarding the money question, he approved of what she had written to Sir Owen, and he was far more indulgent regarding her breakdown than she had dared to hope. He had expected some such mental crisis.
A month later Barry relinquished his post as secretary to the man he called "old Joliffe," and announced himself to be from henceforth at Owen's disposal. The review to which the latter had alluded was a long-standing ideal of Owen Rose's.
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