Vietnam or Thailand ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
Updated: June 9, 2025
I wish that he would sometimes be dignifiedly humorous to us, or even humorous without the dignity. Barbara, true to her life-long instincts, is inviting the clergyman's shabby, gawky man-of-all-work, at whom the ladies'-maids are raising the nose of contempt. Mr. Musgrave is soliciting a kitchen-wench. "Are there as many here as you expected?" "Quite, my lady." Another pause.
The head of the spear was broad and flat, and was made of red mulga, a hard, tough, poisonous wood. It was bound to the shaft with kangaroo sinews and spinifex gum in such a way that the black-boy had no hesitation in pointing to the mountain range to the left of them. "Musgrave black-fella," he said. "Me know um this one."
I have a copy of the questions and answers here, if you care to ran your eye over them. "He handed me the very paper which I have here, Watson, and this is the strange catechism to which each Musgrave had to submit when he came to man's estate. I will read you the questions and answers as they stand: "'Whose was it? "'His who is gone. "'Who shall have it? "'He who will come. "'Where was the sun?
All these things, Rudolph Musgrave regarded with curiously deep interest for one who had seen them so many times before. Then, with a shrug of the shoulders, he sauntered forward across the lawn. He had planned several appropriate speeches, but, when it came to the point of giving them utterance, he merely held out his hand in an awkward fashion, and said: "Anne!" She looked up from her reading.
Were it not for the well-known names with which it is filled, it would be nothing: the names carry the poet, not the poet the names. MUSGRAVE. 'A temporary poem always entertains us. JOHNSON. 'So does an account of the criminals hanged yesterday entertain us. I once dined in company with him, and all he said during the whole time was no more than Richard.
So I went, and it proved a most agreeable expedition. All went well. Dolly gave away the prizes; Mrs. Hilary and Archie made little speeches. Then the matron came to me. I was sitting modestly at the back of the platform, a little distance behind the others. "Mr. Musgrave," said the matron to me, "we're so glad to see you here at last. Won't you say a few words?"
Those who knew her well were ill at ease, but Harry Musgrave dined in undisturbed, complacent comfort. He had known dons at Oxford, and placed Lady Latimer in the donnish caste: that was all. He thought she had been a more charming woman.
"Oh, general, do we not look as if we had been having an affecting parting?" cry I, jumping up and running to him. "Do not I look as if I had been crying? Quite the contrary, I assure you. But Musgrave and I have been asking each other such amusing riddles would you like to hear them? Mine is good, plain, vulgar English, but his is French, so we will begin with it 'Mon premier "
He is looking at me with that same greedy anxiety in his eyes, which I remember in our last fatal conversation about Musgrave. "He went away," reply I, unable any longer to keep watch and ward over my countenance and voice, rising and walking hastily to the window. The moment I have done it, I repent.
I shook hands sympathetically. I was sorry for Archie. But in great causes the individual cannot be considered. I had done my duty to my sex. "Now mind," said Mrs. Hilary Musgrave, impressively, "this is the last time I shall take any trouble about you. She's a very nice girl, quite pretty, and she'll have a lot of money. You can be very pleasant when you like " "This unsolicited testimonial "
Word Of The Day
Others Looking