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"Well, doing what you like." "To triumph, then, it seems to me, is to fail! Doing all the vain things one likes is often very tiresome." "Exactly," said Osmond with his quiet quickness. "As I intimated just now, you'll be tired some day." He paused a moment and then he went on: "I don't know whether I had better not wait till then for something I want to say to you."
She's not so coarse a piece of machinery nor am I." "Really," said Osmond after some meditation, "I don't understand your ambitions." "I think you'll understand this one after you've seen Miss Archer. Suspend your judgement." Madame Merle, as she spoke, had drawn near the open door of the garden, where she stood a moment looking out. "Pansy has really grown pretty," she presently added.
"I know I can with my own pony," said Alberic, "for Bertrand will not let me mount in any other way; but I will try with yours, if you desire it, my Lord." So the pony was led out. Alberic laid one hand on its mane, and vaulted on its back in a moment. Both Osmond and Richard broke out loudly into admiration. "Oh, this is nothing!" said Alberic. "Bertrand says it is nothing.
"He does not like to touch snow, and he cannot even slide on the ice, and he is afraid to go near that great dog that beautiful wolf-hound." "He is very little," said Osmond. "I am sure I was not as cowardly at his age, now was I, Osmond? Don't you remember?"
The fates were kind, however, to Brian that day; they were just too late for a train, and before the next one arrived, Raeburn and Erica were seen slowly coming down the steps, and in another minute had joined them on the platform. Charles Osmond and Raeburn fell into an amicable discussion, and Brian, to his great satisfaction, was left to an uninterrupted tete-a-tete with Erica.
For the feast, the court-room had been transformed into a banqueting hall, and the magistrates' bench, where habitual criminals were created and families ruined and order maintained, was hidden in flowers. Osmond Orgreave was dryly facetious about that bench.
Duke Richard of Normandy slept in the room which had been his father's; Alberic de Montemar, as his page, slept at his feet, and Osmond de Centeville had a bed on the floor, across the door, where he lay with his sword close at hand, as his young Lord's guard and protector.
It was Osmond Orgreave who, having been tramping for exercise in the high regions beyond the Loop railway line, was just going home. "Oh! Nowhere particular," said Edwin feebly. "Working off Sunday dinner, eh?" "Yes." And Edwin added casually, to prove that there was nothing singular in his mood: "Nasty night!" "You must come in a bit," said Mr Orgreave. "Oh no!" He shrank away.
Charles Osmond laughed to himself in the dim light; the remark was made with such perfect sincerity, and it evidently had not dawned on the speaker that she could be addressing any but one of her father's followers. Yet the words saddened Him too. He just caught a glimpse through them of life viewed from a directly opposite point.
"I will, grandmother, to the very best of my power," said Osmond; "I may die in his cause, but never will I be faithless!" "Alberic!" said Richard, "are you glad to be going back to Montemar?" "Yes, my Lord," answered Alberic, sturdily, "as glad as you will be to come back to Rouen."
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