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He appears to have acted, after her father's death, as Dorothy's guardian, and his name occurs more than once in the pages of her letters. So much for the Osbornes of Chicksands; an obstinate, sturdy, quick-witted race of Cavaliers; linked by marriage to the great families of the land; aristocrats in blood and in spirit, of whom Dorothy was a worthy descendant.
For a few minutes Calhoun was hilarious over the success of his bold dash; then came to him the thought that he had cruelly wronged the Osbornes in what he had done. He suddenly checked his horse, and then turned as if he would ride back, hesitated, then turned once more, and rode on his way, but more slowly. “It is too late now,” he sighed, to himself, “to undo the wrong I may have done.
Were it not for several high buildings in my sight I might fancy that I lived in one of the older squares of London. There is a look of Thackeray about the place as though the Osbornes might be my neighbors. A fat man who waddles off his steps opposite, if he would submit to a change of coat, might be Jos Sedley starting for his club to eat his chutney.
Now it looks for Osbornes, Maclures, and other names as trustworthy. It is a far easier thing to get into a house in Ireland than to get out of it again; for there is an attractive and retentive witchery about the hospitality of the natives of that country, which has no match, as far as I have seen, in the wide world.
And we shall not find ourselves following Dorothy's story with the less interest that we have mastered these details about the Osbornes of Chicksands. Temple, too, claims the consideration at our hands of a few words concerning his near relatives and their position in the country. As Macaulay tells us, he was born in 1628, the place of his birth being Blackfriars in London.
The news which that famous Gazette brought to the Osbornes gave a dreadful shock to the family and its chief. The girls indulged unrestrained in their grief. The gloom-stricken old father was still more borne down by his fate and sorrow. He strove to think that a judgment was on the boy for his disobedience.
We have already met three times, and I trust we may meet once more. If we do, it will be our last, for one or the other of us will die. I know of your damnable treatment of the Osbornes. Be assured it will be avenged. Sincerely yours, CALHOUN PENNINGTON, Lieutenant, Morgan’s Command. Captain Haines was no coward, but his hand trembled like a leaf when he laid the letter down.
Across the stage, in face of all the assembled people, then following the rest down the stairs on the other side, in among the audience, they went; but into an audience not dressed in costume! There were Ann Maria Bromwick and the Osbornes, all the neighbors, all as natural as though they were walking the streets at home, though Ann Maria did wear white gloves.
French Joe had been drilling them for three days ever since they had been invited to "de Chrismus dinner at de beeg house." After the merry dinner was over, the junior Osbornes brought in a Christmas tree, loaded with presents. They had bought them with the money that Mr. and Mrs. Osborne had meant for their own presents, and a splendid assortment they were.
When an editor is in the pleasant position of being able to retain an historian of the eminence of Macaulay to write a large portion of his introduction, it would ill become him to alter and correct his statements wherever there was a petty inaccuracy; still it is necessary to say, once for all, that there are occasional errors in the passage, as where Macaulay mentions that Chicksands is no longer the property of the Osbornes, though happily not one of these errors is in itself important.
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