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But the great gong, booming out for luncheon, interrupted him at this point, and Colonel Musgrave was never permitted to finish his complaint against Anne's unimaginativeness. On that same Sunday morning, while Anne Charteris and Rudolph Musgrave contended with little Roger's boredom on the lawn before Matocton, Patricia and Charteris met by accident on the seventh terrace of the gardens.
For he, a Musgrave of Matocton, had married a Stapylton; he had begun to comprehend that their standards were different, and that some daily conflict between these standards was inevitable. And besides, as it has been veraciously observed, the truth of an insult is the barb which prevents its retraction.
It could no longer be said that the wife of a Musgrave of Matocton lacked an authentic and tolerably ancient pedigree. The colonel made a book of his Stapyltonian researches which he vaingloriously proclaimed to be the stupidest reading within the ample field of uninteresting printed English.
Colonel Musgrave since the remainder of his house-party had already breakfasted raised his fine eyes toward the chandelier, and sighed, as Pilkins demurely closed the dining-room door. Leander Pilkins butler for a long while now to the Musgraves of Matocton would here, if space permitted, be the subject of an encomium.
And, as Patricia says, it is an unpleasant thing to realize that your wife is not leaving you through the ordinary channels of death or of type-written decrees of the court, but only in vulgar fractions, as it were " "Please don't be quite so brutal, Rudolph. It is not becoming in a Musgrave of Matocton to speak of women in any tone other than the most honeyed accents of chivalry."
It is rather odd how obstinately life clings to the most hackneyed trick of ballad-makers; and still naively pretends to enrich her productions by the stale device of introducing a refrain so that the idlest remarks of as much as three years ago keep cropping up as the actual gist of the present!... However, were it within my power, I would evoke Amaimon straightway now to come up yonder, through your hearthrug, and to answer me quite honestly if I did not tell him on the beach at Matocton that this, precisely this, would be the outcome of your knowing everything!"
Patricia had too high a sense of honor to exhibit these defeated rivals in a ridiculous light, even to him. It was a revelation of an additional and as yet unsuspected adorability. Then after a little further talk they separated. Colonel Musgrave left that night for Matocton in order to inspect the improvements which were being made there.
But, oh, it isn't possible that he should love you more than I," said Colonel Musgrave of Matocton. The man was destined to remember that utterance and, with the recollection, to laugh not altogether in either scorn or merriment.
So many of his books and pictures and other furnishings had been already carried to Matocton that the walls were a little bare. Also there was a formidable pile of bills upon the table by him, from contractors and upholsterers and furniture-houses, and so on, who had been concerned in the late renovation of Matocton, the heralds of a host he hardly saw his way to dealing with.
Her plan was simple; it was to slip out of Matocton at dawn, and walk to the near-by station. There they would take the train, and snap their fingers at convention. The scheme sounded preposterous in outline, but she demonstrated its practicability in performance. And Mr. Charteris consented. Rudolph Musgrave sat in the shadow of the cedar with fierce and confused emotions whirling in his soul.
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