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"Ah!" said Grace, "I wonder Well, you know I am sometimes rash." Then she was careful to talk about something else, for she thought Alan had not philosophized without an object and it was not difficult to see where his hints led. When they reached the lodge, she firmly sent him away, although he looked as if he wanted to come to the house. Dinner was nearly over at Tarnside.
Osborn's heart is good, but at Tarnside women dinna count. It's a kind o' pity, because t' Osborn menfolk are lakers and always was." A laker is a lounging pleasure-seeker and Kit admitted that the remark was justified. "I sometimes think Osborn means well," he said. "Mayhappen! For aw his ordering folks aboot, he's wake; like his father, I mind him weel.
Now you have given him a fresh start, he may make a useful man, but Tarnside is not for him." She paused and blushed, but her glance was steady as she went on: "It must be ours, if you buy it, for us to hold in trust " She turned her head and Kit quietly touched her hair.
The choice is almost too hard for flesh and blood." "I know," said Grace, with quick sympathy. "It is horrible!" "Well," said Mrs. Osborn, "the line I ought to take is plain Tarnside will be Gerald's; our honor must be saved. But I do not know. If you shrink from Alan " "If he insists, I shall hate him always. Yet, it looks as if there was no use in rebelling.
It looked as if he were about to make a rash plunge, because he would not have much money left when he had carried out his plans. However, he could guard against the worst risks and on the whole imagined the venture ought to pay. Some weeks later, Osborn sent for him and on reaching Tarnside he was shown into the library. Mrs.
They're an independent lot and believe in standing on their own feet. For a time after I got Tarnside, they used a sensible, give-and-take attitude; it's only recently they've met with stupid, sullen suspicion." "Perhaps it was rather a mistake to give Bell the coal yards' lease." "The coal yards had nothing to do with it," Osborn declared.
The others gathered up their tools and climbing into the carts drove down the dale. When they reached the Tarnside lodge Kit pulled up. "You have done a good job for Osborn and there's no reason you shouldn't get your pay," he said. Two or three jumped down, without much enthusiasm, and the old gardener came out and gave one an envelope. "For Mr. Askew," he remarked.
Anyhow, if there's a difficulty about their getting paid, I'm accountable." "Bring them to Tarnside when you have finished," Osborn answered and went off. Kit resumed his work with savage energy. He thought Osborn did not deserve to be helped, but this did not matter much. Others would suffer unless he finished the job he had undertaken and it almost looked as if the flood would beat him.
"We need a number of new things and I don't know how they're to be got," he remarked, and when Mrs. Osborn said nothing knitted his brows. He had put away some money for renovations, but it had gone. One could not keep money at Tarnside; it vanished and left nothing to show how it had been spent. "I understand young Askew is back at Ashness," he resumed, looking hard at Grace. "Yes," said Grace.
"You are entitled to ask and I have brought a short draught of the arrangements I am ready to make if I am fortunate enough to win your daughter." Osborn picked up the paper and gave it to his wife. Then he looked at Kit with surprise. "This alters things; you are almost a rich man! If you wanted, you could buy a house like Tarnside."
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