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That work had to be done by the woman, and she did it exceedingly well." Nick told how Musgrave had been duped. "Now," he continued, "nothing remains but to clear up the details of the crime in the restaurant. I shall proceed to state exactly how it was done." At this moment Jones, who had previously remained perfectly calm, uttered a horrible groan, and half arose to his feet.
Colonel Musgrave was intent upon the portrait.... So! she had chosen at last between himself and this young fellow, a workman born of workmen, who went about the world building bridges and canals and tunnels and such, in those far countries which were to Colonel Musgrave just so many gray or pink or fawn-colored splotches on the map. It seemed to Colonel Musgrave almost an allegory.
He had an invalid wife and no attraction for resident pupils, but he was thankful when he could get one living not too far off. Young Musgrave walked from Brook twice a week a long four miles to read with him. The lad was in the vicar's parlor when Mr. Carnegie and Bessie Fairfax stopped at the gate.
"Father, I hope that you will not consider I have been wanting in duty in having refrained from writing what I now wish to tell you," she began. Mr Ashton looked uncomfortable, but nodded for her to continue, which she did. "While I was with Mrs Musgrave, at Scarborough, a gentleman of our name, who happened to be there with some members of his family, was introduced to me.
"You will be better by yourselves," she says, gently, when she announces her intention of going. "He will like it better. I should if I were he. It will be like a new honey-moon." "That it will not," reply I, stoutly, recollecting how much I yawned, and how largely Mr. Musgrave figured in the first. "I have no opinion of honey-moons; no more would you if you had had one."
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.
The colonel was a strong man, physically, and, on this occasion, he made no effort to curb his strength. "Now," Musgrave concluded, "you are going away from this place very quickly, and you are going alone. You will do this because I tell you to do so, and because you are afraid of me.
Zéphine not making the slightest objection, but, on the contrary, being heartily glad to be rid of it do you like to know that?" "How do you know it?" "I was told." "But who told you?" "That is not of the slightest consequence." "I wish to know." "Mr. Musgrave told me." I can manage his name better than I used, but even now I redden.
Candor even compels the statement that in her pudgy swarthy face there was a droll suggestion of the pug-dog. "I am sure," Miss Musgrave remonstrated, with placid dignity, "that you know nothing whatever about her, and that the reports about the earl have probably been greatly exaggerated, and that her picture shows her to be an unusually attractive girl.
"I wish he wouldn't," she said. "What? Play spelicans? I should think he might prove as great an adept at that as walking the tight rope," said Max. "Ah, here comes your friend Mrs. Musgrave! She went home and told her husband this morning that I was the most objectionable young man she had ever met." Olga's eyes widened with indignation.
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