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But peccadilloes such as these, which it is well to realize in view of the absurd claims to artistic impeccability for Thackeray made by rash admirers, melt away into nothing when one recalls Rawdon Crawley's horsewhipping of the Marquis; George Osborn's departure for battle, Colonel Newcome's death, or the incomparable scene where Lady Castlewood welcomes home the wandering Esmond; that "rapture of reconciliation"! It is by such things that great novelists live, and it may be doubted if their errors are ever counted against them, if only they can create in this fashion.
Osborn, or herself being supposed to care for 'the Osborn's parties, where the boys were so rude and vulgar, the girls so boisterous, and the dancing a mere romp. Sophy might like it, but she never did!
'And now, Sophy, she said, 'that I have told you why we were obliged to have the pond drained, will you tell me what you wanted with baby at Mrs. Osborn's? 'I will tell, said Sophy, 'but you wont like it. 'I like anything better than concealment. 'Mrs. Osborn said she never saw him.
That reminded her that they had something else to buy, a big thing that would swallow up nearly, or quite, a week of Osborn's pay, a perambulator. The baby had luxuries; his toilet set from Rokeby, his christening robe from Julia, his puffed and frilly baby-basket from Grannie Amber, were dreams to delight a mother's heart; but he had no carriage.
"Day in, day out, are we always to live the life domestic pure and simple?" Osborn demanded. For answer she shrugged her shoulders. Osborn thought her strangely nonchalant, almost contemptuous. "Well, I, for one, damned well won't do it," he said, rising from the table. "But I must," Marie replied in a level voice. It was Osborn's turn to look at her; he wondered just what she meant by it.
He had an idea of creating a haven of refuge for beleagured travelers in a cave about sixty miles northeast of Overton. In this cave he had placed bottles of medicine, which he wished the Indians to understand was good only for white men. This refuge he called the "Travelers' Home." It had been known as "Dr. Osborn's Cave." A number of the Indians were gathered and a treaty was concluded.
As Marie Kerr stood by the fire in her sitting-room with Osborn's letter in her hand, she awoke fully, as from a dream, to the understanding of what was about to befall her. She was once more, after this year of miraculous growth and power and recovery, to take unto herself her husband. The door opened and the maid came in quietly, a teacloth over her arm, the tray in her hand.
"Great business!" said Osborn cheering; "put it down, darling." So under the "Rent, forty pounds," she wrote, "Housekeeping, including gas, seventy-eight pounds." "That's one hundred and eighteen pounds out of my two hundred," said Osborn, knitting his brows and staring into the fire. "Coal?" whispered Marie, her pencil poised. Osborn's stare at the fire took on a belligerent nature.
These instructions created some adverse comment in England, with the result that, in the supplementary instructions issued on the occasion of Mr. Osborn's appointment as Resident, they were somewhat modified. In the despatch to the Secretary of State in which he announces the new appointment, Sir Garnet says that Mr.
Ferrars, who shot at the woodcock, had probably not had time to tell Osborn about his carelessness, and it looked as if nobody else had been posted near the road. This was something of a relief, but Grace felt anxious. A gate not far off led to a drive in the wood, and she thought she had heard Osborn's voice.
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