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When Grace reached Tarnside she met Gerald on the lawn and took him to the bench under the copper-beech. "Mr. Askew wants you to go to Ashness at four o'clock," she said. "Askew wants me!" Gerald exclaimed, with a start, and Grace thought he looked afraid. "Why?" "I don't know. He said it was important." Gerald looked hard at her. "Well, I suppose it is important.
"If five minutes' digging wad save Tarnside Hall, I'd sooner lose my hay than stir a hand!" Then they got into the carts, and drove off in the rain. The rain stopped at night, the next day was fine, and in the afternoon Kit went up the dale to look at the mended dyke. It had stood better than he had thought, the beck was falling, and Osborn's fields were safe until another flood came down.
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.
We have had wet summers and heavy snow in spring. The flocks are poor and rents have come down. Bell has gone; he quarreled with Hayes about some new machinery for the mill. All is much the same at Tarnside, though my father is not so active. Gerald left Woolwich perhaps you knew and is in a London bank." Kit hid his surprise.
Grace suggested. "Well, I'm afraid he would never be economical and he likes to rule. But I didn't mean, Kit, that you should give him money to squander." "I know," said Kit gently, although his face was rather stern. "Adam's legacy must not be wasted in extravagance. Then, you see, Tarnside ought to have been Gerald's; but he's ruled out " Grace looked up. "Yes, Kit.
"We have not been good friends Kit," he said with some emotion. "Old prejudices are hard to conquer, but mine have broken down at last you have beaten me. Well, I suppose I would not admit that the code I clung to had gone for good, but now I'm dropping out, I don't know that I could find a better man to step into my place." He paused and gave Kit his hand. "After all, Tarnside is not lost to us.
Rather a bore to walk to Tarnside, and the trout will probably rise again if there's wind enough to make a ripple, but I forgot to ask for sandwiches." "If you lunch with me, you could come back afterwards," Kit suggested, and they set off down the hill. When they reached Ashness, Gerald tried to hide his surprise.
You steal in through the mist at the top of a high tide, much as the old pirates did, and when you land, find hints of a vanished civilization and the Spaniards' broken power. But you seem to know something about the coast." Grace smiled. "You look surprised! There is a library at Tarnside, although it is not often used, and we have books about the voyages of the buccaneers.
Sometimes she tactfully exercised a restraining influence, but for the most part acquiesced, for she had found out, soon after her marriage, that her husband must not be opposed. Grace, who sat opposite, had recently come home from school, and was marked by an independence somewhat unusual at Tarnside. She argued with Osborn and was firm when he got angry.
Tarnside, with its rash extravagance, pretense, and stern private economy, was not the place for her. But he felt he must be patient and cautious; there were numerous obstacles in his way. In the meantime, Grace met Thorn farther along the road and tried to hide her annoyance as he advanced.
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