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These people for the most part a preposterously handsome race were the pleasantest of companions and their manners were perfection; but there was enough of old Roger Stapylton's blood in Patricia's veins to make her feel, however obscurely, that nobody is justified in living without even an attempt at any personal achievement.
Joe Parkinson tall and broad-shouldered, tanned, resolute, chary of speech, decisive in gesture, having close-cropped yellow hair and frank, keen eyes like amethysts, was the one alien present when Colonel Musgrave came again into Roger Stapylton's fine and choicely-furnished mansion.
And to do him justice, the reflection that old Stapylton's wealth would some day be at Rudolph Musgrave's disposal was never more than an agreeable minor feature of Patricia's entourage whenever, as was very often, Colonel Musgrave fell to thinking of how adorable Patricia was in every particular. Yet there were times when he thought of Anne Charteris as well.
The Petition of William Bullock, to be Hephestion to Penkethman the Great. Granted. The caricature here, and in following lines, is of a passage in Sir Robert Stapylton's 'Slighted Maid': 'I am the Evening, dark as Night, &c.
For in that particular October Patricia's father, an accommodating physician having declared old Roger Stapylton's health to necessitate a Southern sojourn, leased the Bellingham mansion in Lichfield.
Stapylton's house is pretty : there are pleasing shades about it, with a constant spring that supplies a cold bath. We then went to see a Cascade. I trudged unwillingly, and was not sorry to find it dry. The water was, however, turned on, and produced a very striking cataract. They are paid an hundred pounds a year for permission to divert the stream to the mines.
Thus Lichfield, as to its staid trousered citizenry, fell prostrate at Miss Stapylton's feet, and as to the remainder of its adults, vociferously failed to see anything in the least remarkable in her appearance, and avidly took and compared notes as to her personal apparel. "You have brought Asmodeus into Lichfield," Colonel Musgrave one day rebuked Miss Stapylton, as they sat in the garden.
It was characteristic of Colonel Musgrave that he went about answering the question without delay. The Stapletons for "Stapylton" was a happy innovation of Roger Stapylton's dead wife the colonel knew to have been farmers in Brummell County, and Brummell Courthouse is within an hour's ride, by rail, of Lichfield. So he set about his labor of love. And in it he excelled himself.
And with Roger Stapylton's loneliness in these days, and the long thoughts it bred, we have nothing here to do.
In fact, the matter had been settled; and Colonel Musgrave had received from Roger Stapylton an exuberantly granted charter of courtship. This befell, indeed, upon a red letter day in Roger Stapylton's life.
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