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Updated: June 7, 2025
The family of Elihu Osborn lives in this house, and ghosts have been clambering through it lately in a wonderfully promiscuous fashion. Two or three families were compelled to vacate the premises before the Osborns, proud and skeptical, took possession of them. Now the Osborns are hunting for a new home.
Only a few months before this, at the wedding of the Osborns Kate being her closest friend, and George Osborn being Rowan's he and she had been the only attendants; and she knew how many persons in the church were thinking that they might be the next to plight their vows; with crimsoning cheeks she had thought it herself.
It was the price they, the Osborns, had taken for a shabby deed, and for which poor people and hard-worked women paid. Grace knew about the extra dust that peat fires caused and how often the bread was spoiled. When she entered the library Osborn was studying some documents. He looked up impatiently, and she said, "I was at Mireside. Railton's no better and is much disturbed about his lease."
"And yet, confound her confound her!" he thought, as he walked into the loose box to look the mare over and pat her sleekness. The relations which established themselves between Palstrey and The Kennel Farm were marked by two characteristic features. One of these was that Lord Walderhurst did not develop any warmer interest in the Osborns, and that Lady Walderhurst did.
If you don't mind, I should like to ask you something." "I don't mind. You are a reasonable woman, Emily. One's safe with you." "It is something connected with the Osborns." "Indeed!" chilling slightly. "I don't care about them, you know." "You don't dislike her, do you?" "No-o, not exactly."
It seems a pity that such a place should not be lived in and well, I thought how kind it would be of you to lend it to the Osborns while they are in England." "It would indeed be kind," remarked his lordship, without fervour. Her momentary excitement led Emily to take the liberty of putting out her hand to touch his.
His wife could not regret that his magisterial proceedings led to a coolness with the Osborns, augmented by a vestry-meeting, at which Mr. Dusautoy had begged him to be present. The Admiral and his party surpassed themselves in their virulence against whatever the vicar proposed, until they fairly roused Mr.
The Osborns cherished the old-fashioned traditions of their class, and anything that touched one touched all. Grace, however, was modern and rebellious, and Thorn knew she did not like him much. He was not afraid to risk his money, but he must not waste an opportunity he might not get again, and the opportunity could be used in one of two ways.
He had had a good education and had then spent two years at an agricultural college; but he was a farmer's son and he knew where he stood, from the Osborns' point of view. He had been of help, but this was no reason Miss Osborn should recognize him when they next met; yet he somehow thought she would.
In any case Emily Fox-Seton was a fine creature, and only thirty-four, and with Alec Osborn at the other side of the globe the question of leaving an heir had been less present and consequently had dwindled in importance. The nearness of the Osborns fretted him just now. If their child was a son, he would be more fretted still.
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