d from his mother, belonged to his father.This older spectator might have been a little surprised at the empressement of Mrs Gibson's manner to a younger son, always supposing this said spectator to have read to the depths of her worldly heart.Never had she tried to be more agreeable to Osborne;and though her attempt was a great failure when practised upon Roger, and he did not know what to say in reply to the delicate Batteries which he felt to be insincere, he saw that she intended him to consider himself henceforward free of the house; and he was too glad to avail himself of this privilege to examine over-closely into what might be her motives for her change of manner.He shut his eyes, and chose to believe that she was now desirous of making up for her little burst of temper on his previous visit.The result of Osborne's conference with the two doctors had been certain prescriptions which appeared to have done him much good, and which would in all probability have done him yet more, could he have been free of the recollection of the little patient wife in her solitude near Winchester.
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