This imbecile, without a syllable to say for himself, without a solitary adroit word within tongue's reach, wherewith to annihilate the hussy, was a Musgrave of Matocton!

Also the story finds Colonel Musgrave in the company of his sister on a warm April day, whilst these two sat upon the porch of the Musgrave home in Lichfield, and Colonel Musgrave waited until it should be time to open the Library for the afternoon.

IV A curious little heartache accompanied Colonel Musgrave on his way home that afternoon.

And I had always thought of Gerald Musgrave as a learned person with a fringe of whiskers all around his facelike a centerpiece, you know.

This needs must tickle Musgrave to the quick, And stretch his heart-strings farther by an inch, That Lacy must be married to his love: And by that match my market is near marr'd For Mariana, whom I most affect; But I must cast about by some device To help myself, and to prevent the earl.

Thus it was that accident and a woman's intervention seemed once more to combine in shielding Rudolph Musgrave from discomfort.

As it was, she approached Rudolph Musgrave with a fixed purpose this morning as he smoked an after-breakfast cigarette on the front porch of Matocton.

My brother-in-law took me over to Edenhall, a lovely walk from Penrith, and we found both Sir George and Lady Musgrave at home.

Patricia spoke the truth: Rudolph Musgrave and all those rationally reliant upon Rudolph Musgrave for support, had lived for some five years upon the money which they owed to Patricia.

No, the capacity for originative and enduring work was not in him; and this incessant compilation of dreary footnotes, this incessant rummaging among the bones of the deaddid it, after all, mean more to this Rudolph Musgrave than one full, vivid hour of life in that militant world yonder, where men fought for other and more tangible prizes than the mention of one's name in a genealogical journal?

It occurred to Rudolph Musgrave after an interval that he was still half-way between sitting and standing, and that his mouth was open....