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Chapter XXVII: Father And Sons Listen to this text (help | file
info or download)  Things were not going on any better at Hamley
Hall. Nothing had occurred to change the state of dissatisfied
feeling into which the squire and his eldest son had
respectively fallen; and the long continuance merely of
dissatisfaction is sure of itself to deepen the feeling. Roger
did all in his power to bring the father and son together; but
sometimes wondered if it would not have been better to leave
them alone; for they were falling into the habit of respectively
making him their confidant, and so defining emotions and
opinions which would have had less distinctness if they had been
unexpressed. There was little enough relief in the daily life at
the Hall to help them all to shake off the gloom; and it even
told on the health of both the squire and Osborne. The squire
became thinner, his skin as well as his