. Wives and daughters : an every-day story . apeunji his brother was sure to have half of it, made liim more re-luctant than ever to irritate his father by a revelation of his secret.• Not just yet, not just at present, he kept saying both to Rogerand to himself. By-aud-by, if we have a boy, I will call it Roger—and then visions of poetical and romantic reconciliations broughtabout between father and son, through the medium of a child,the offspring of a forbidden marriage, beca^me still more vividlypossible to him, and at any rate it was a staving-off of an unpleasantthing. He atoned to himsel
. Wives and daughters : an every-day story . apeunji his brother was sure to have half of it, made liim more re-luctant than ever to irritate his father by a revelation of his secret.• Not just yet, not just at present, he kept saying both to Rogerand to himself. By-aud-by, if we have a boy, I will call it Roger—and then visions of poetical and romantic reconciliations broughtabout between father and son, through the medium of a child,the offspring of a forbidden marriage, beca^me still more vividlypossible to him, and at any rate it was a staving-off of an unpleasantthing. He atoned to himself for taking so much of Rogers fellow-ship money by reflecting that, if Roger married, he would lose thissource of revenue; yet Osborne was throwing no impediment in theway of this event, rather forwarding it by promoting every possiblemeans of his brothers seeing the lady of his love. Osborne endedbis reflections by convincing himself of his own generosity. END OF VOL. I. t. -. Loudon;: Irinted by Smith, Eldeu aud Cc, Old Bailey,
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