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"You're certainly Peter's son," he remarked. "I can imagine I'd just left him at the end of the Ashness lonning thirty years since. Except that he's got older, I reckon he hasn't changed, and for that matter, Peter was never young. Well, you are surely like him, but if you stop in this country we'll put a move on you." "If I'm like my father, I am satisfied," Kit rejoined.
You'll come with me to the town. Sit down and write to your mother; I'll see she gets the note." Gerald did as he was told and not long afterwards Kit and he drove out of the Ashness lonning and took the road to the town. As the sun got lower an apathetic gloom began to replace the anxiety that had kept the Osborns highly strung. Mrs.
In the meantime, it was a relief to drive the sheep down the dale; he could not think while he was occupied and thought was disturbing. He put the sheep into a field and overtook Osborn as he went up the farm lonning in the dark. A lamp burned in the kitchen, and when they went in Peter got up and put his pipe on the table. He looked at them with some surprise, but waited without embarrassment.
"I suppose so," Grace agreed, but her look was doubtful, and they reached the Ashness lonning a few minutes later. When Kit stopped she gave him her hand. "I hear you are going to make a number of improvements, and wish you good luck!" Kit went up the lonning and sitting down in the porch lighted his pipe.
He felt awkward and thought Janet knew this, for she resumed: "However, one mustn't expect too much and you want to get back. It's a habit of yours. You were in a hurry to get away the last time I saw you, when the stone-boat broke Creighton's wall." "I'd been at work since morning in the snow." "And Miss Osborn was waiting for you in the lonning?" "No," said Kit sharply; "she was not."
"Then am I to understand that Mr. Bell expects me to reduce his rent?" "Not to begin with," Hayes answered, giving Bell a warning glance. "He imagines he might gain his object almost as well if we stopped Askew cutting peat." "You cannot stop him. The peat is his." "We might embarrass him. While the snow lasts, it saves some awkward labor to cross Creighton's field and use his lonning.
"Janet, gan on and see what's brokken t' wa'." Another figure came out of the gloom and Grace looked at Kit. "I don't know who Janet is, but I do know Mrs. Creighton. She talks," she said. "If you'll stop and explain matters, I'll go down the lonning. It was a glorious adventure! Good-night!"
"I hate your modern smartness!" Thorn, noting the hardness of her voice, stopped with an apologetic gesture and let her go. Winter had begun, and although the briars shone red along the hedgerows and the stunted oaks had not lost all their leaves, bitter sleet blew across the dale when Grace went up the muddy lonning to Mireside farm.
"Anyhow, none of the men came with me and I must go back and tell them not to send off another lot. We'll see about mending your wall to-morrow, Mrs. Creighton." He went off to a gate that opened into the lonning. This was the wisest plan, because he did not want to talk to Janet.
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