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He admitted that the Osborns had some faults, but they were the Tarnside Osborns and had ruled the dale for a very long time. It was something to spring from such a stock, and the wilful girl had disgraced them all. Osborn had suspected Grace of holding dangerous modern views, but it was unthinkably humiliating that she had engaged in a flirtation with a farmer's son.
This was true, yet the healthy, childish creature had, in deep privacy, cried a little, and was pathetically glad to feel that the Osborns were to be near her, and that she would have Hester to think of and take care of during the summer. It was pathetic that she should cherish an affection so ingenuous for the Osborns, for one of them at least had no patience with her.
Miss Meadows said if reparation were not made, the Osborns had expressed their intention of omitting Lucy and Sophy from their Twelfth-day party. To this Albinia pettishly replied that the girls were to go to no Christmas parties without her; Miss Meadows had taken it very much to heart, and Lucy was declaiming against mamma making any condescension to Mrs.
'Then, said Sophia, slowly, as she looked full at her aunt, 'it was the Osborns who dared to say such wicked things. 'There now, I never meant you to be there. You ought to be gone to bed, child. It is not a thing for you to know anything about. 'I only want to know whether it was the Osborns who invented these stories, said Sophy. 'My dear, exclaimed Albinia, 'what can it signify?
"We cannot help our thoughts, you know." "I think we can, madam; and I also think we can hold our tongues," and he laughed at her very good-naturedly. "Sometimes we can even help to hold other people's if they are long." "Oh, what a rude speech to a lady!" she exclaimed gallantly. "Did you see the Osborns at church? And did you notice him? What an unhappy marriage! He is breaking Kate's heart.
Outside of Hutton's, who cheered him for the honour of their house, he had few well-wishers; but among them was a sprinkling of boys bearing the great Whig names Cowpers, Sackvilles, Osborns for whose sake and for its own tradition the ring would give him fair play.
'And he would take her out to Calcutta, and have no Drurys and Osborns to bother her! Oh! It would be beautiful! I would watch over her while he was gone! I'll go and tell him! 'Stop, Sophy, not from me that would never do. I don't think papa would think twenty-two such a great age 'But he would have loved her five years! said Sophy. 'And you said yourself that would be constancy!
"Look at the railing well," said Lady Walderhurst. "I often stand and lean on it and and watch the sunset." She faltered at this point, because she had suddenly remembered that this was a habit of hers, and that she had often spoken of it to the Osborns. There was a point on the bridge at which, through a gap in the trees, a beautiful sunset was always particularly beautiful.
All this was comforting, but Kit was vaguely disturbed on her account. He had noted a hint of anxiety and she had implied that things were not going well for the Osborns. He meant to marry Grace; his longing for her was keener than he had felt it yet, but it was not altogether selfish. She must be removed from surroundings in which she could not thrive.
The Osborns were given some of the most beautiful and convenient rooms in the house. No other visitors were impending and the whole big place was at their disposal. Hester's boudoir overlooked the most perfect nooks of garden, and its sweet chintz draperies and cushions and books and flowers made it a luxurious abode of peace.
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