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Isidor, the valet, had looked on very sulkily, while Osborne's servant was disposing of his master's baggage previous to the Captain's departure: for in the first place he hated Mr. Of this defeat he and a vast number of other persons in Brussels and Belgium did not make the slightest doubt.
"Much obliged for your compliment," replied Ralph, not at all disconcerted by Osborne's rather personal remark; "but I may become poet enough for my own use. All poets are not first-best when they begin. It is practice that makes perfect, you know." "Practice can't make a poet out of a man who is not born one; and you are not such," continued Osborne.
But Cynthia had come across too many varieties of flirtation, admiration, and even passionate love, to be for a moment at fault as to the quiet friendly nature of Osborne's attentions. She received him always as a sister might a brother. It was different when Roger returned from his election as Fellow of Trinity.
Osborne's man agreed as they followed George and William into the church, that it was a "reg'lar shabby turn hout; and with scarce so much as a breakfast or a wedding faviour." "Here you are," said our old friend, Jos Sedley, coming forward. "You're five minutes late, George, my boy. What a day, eh? Demmy, it's like the commencement of the rainy season in Bengal.
"Well really! Messages! Why this haughty aloofness? Doesn't he mean to come over?" "Oh yes, of course; to-morrow perhaps to-night. He's fearfully busy stopped off on his way East. There's a row on in the forest service about some of Osborne's timber claims mining claims, too, I believe in Colorado. Those years in the West have developed Fred splendidly.
Gibson made time to ride round by Hamley, desirous to learn more exact particulars of this scheme for Roger than he could obtain from any extraneous source, and rather puzzled to know whether he should interfere in the project or not. The state of the case was this: Osborne's symptoms were, in Mr. Gibson's opinion, signs of his having a fatal disease.
"Osborne's" was a notable house in those days, and if its full records were available, no doubt many an entertaining story concerning its activities could be told.
'Tis all the service I expect from two girls whose friends have given me leave to provide for, that some order I must take for the disposal of them may serve for my pretence to see you; but then I must find you pleased and in good humour, merry as you were wont to be when we first met, if you will not have me show that I am nothing akin to my cousin Osborne's lady.
He was deaf to the waltzes; they grew fainter and fainter; the discomfited performer left the huge instrument presently; and though her three friends performed some of the loudest and most brilliant new pieces of their repertoire, she did not hear a single note, but sate thinking, and boding evil. Old Osborne's scowl, terrific always, had never before looked so deadly to her.
Something in her father's manner disheartened Molly, who had persuaded herself that Osborne's evident illness was partly 'nervous, by which she meant imaginary.
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