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'How is your son?' said Owenby the fire,' said the far he slipped indoors from God knohere, and there he sits and mopes, and thinks, and thinks, and presses his head so hard, that I can't help feeling for him' 'Is he married?' said Owen Cytherea had feared to tell hiarden
'No I can't quite understand how the matter restsAh!
Edward, too, who started with such promise; that he should now have become such a careless fellow--not a month in one place There, Mr
Graye, I knohat it isto If it hadn't been for that heart affair, he ht have done--but the less said about him the better I don't knoe should have done if Miss Aldclyffe had insisted upon the conditions of the leases Your brother-in-law, the steward, had a hand in ht for us, I know, and I heartily thank hi, and looked round at the sky
'Have you heard o' what's happened?' he said suddenly; 'I was just co' 'It is soh I don't knohat All I knohat I heard a man call out bynow--that it very ular enough, even to minds who have no dim beliefs in adumbration and presentiht crossed Owen's ht be hi to him The event about to transpire was as portentous to the woman whose welfare was more dear to him than his own, as any, short of death itself, could possibly be; and ever afterwards, when he considered the effect of the knowledge the next half-hour conveyed to his brain, even his practical good sense could not refrain froe after hearing those words of the farmer, in so leisurely and unconcerned a way 'How unutterably ence have appeared to the eye of a foreseeing God,' he frequently said in after-time 'Columbus on the eve of his discovery of a world was not so contemptibly unaware' After a few additional words of common-place the farmer left him, and, as has been said, Owen proceeded slowly and indifferently towards the village
The labouring ate, which opened into the street as Owen ca in a drift, earnestly talking, and were finally about to turn in at their respective doorways But upon seeing hinificantly at one another, and paused He careen which was opposite the row of cottages, and turned round to the right When Owen turned, all eyes turned; one or two men went hurriedly indoors, and afterwards appeared at the doorstep with their wives, who also conte as they looked They seemed uncertain how to act in some matter