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She did know and would rather not have met Kit, but was too proud to turn back. Besides, she felt her father was prejudiced, and although it was a family tradition that the Osborns stood together, she rebelled and wanted to be just. The situation was embarrassing, but there was no use in pretense. "I think you were generous and imagine my mother agrees," she said.
How fresh and sweet they looked as they drifted gracefully down the aisles this summer morning! How light-hearted! How far away from her in her new wretchedness! Some, after they were seated, glanced back with a smile. She avoided their eyes. A little later the Osborns entered, the bride and groom of a few months before. Their pew was immediately in front of hers.
"If I was to say a word, or if you did, and we was wrong, how should we feel? I've kept my nerves to myself till I've nearly screamed sometimes. And my lady would be so hurt if she knew. But well," in a hurried outburst, "I do wish his lordship was here, and I do wish the Osborns wasn't. I do wish it, I tell you that." "Good Lord!" cried Mrs.
It appeared that there was a prospect of a child there. This last was indeed true, and Emily had been much touched and awakened to sympathy. It had gradually become revealed to her that the Osborns were poorer than they could decently admit.
"And and " She put it to him with a sudden recollection of the thing her emotions had momentarily swept away. "Oh! I must not forget, because I am so pleased. When it is furnished " "Oh! the Osborns? Well, we will let them have it for a few months, at any rate." "They will be so thankful," emotionally. "You will be doing them such a favour." "I am doing it for you, not for them.
Under the influence of fresh morning air and sunlight, of ordinary breakfast and breakfast talk with the Osborns, her first convictions receded so far that she laughed a little as she related the incident. "I never had such a real dream in my life," she said; "but it must have been a dream." "One's dreams are very real sometimes," said Hester. "Perhaps it was the Palstrey ghost," Osborn laughed.
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.
I shouldn't like to think she could be." In fact the tropic suggestion of the Ayah's personality had warmed the imagination of the servants' hall, and there had been much talk of many things, of the Osborns as well as of their servants, and thrilling stories of East Indian life had been related by Walderhurst's man, who was a travelled person.
Then he began to tell her his reason for calling at this particular hour. He came to prepare her for a visit from the Osborns, who had actually just returned from India. Captain Osborn had chosen, or chance had chosen for him, this particular time for a long leave. As soon as she heard the name of Osborn, Emily's heart beat a little quickly.
Miss Osborn had, no doubt, forgotten, but he had not. The trouble was, he could not forget; his imagination pictured her vividly, sitting beneath the alders talking to him. With something of an effort Kit pulled himself up. He was a small farmer's son and the Osborns were important people. He knew Osborn's family pride, which he thought his daughter had inherited.
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