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My dear, I have wanted very often to shake you," he said. And she knew, in a glorious terror, that she desired him to shake her, and as she had never desired anything else in life. "Oh, well, I am just a common, ordinary, garden-sort of fool. The Musgraves always are, in one fashion or another," he sulkily concluded.
Far away, a pale-blue silhouette against the bright north-west sky, was a range of high mountains. "Those are the Musgraves," said Mick, in answer to a question. "That's where those niggers come from who speared my two horses." "Are the niggers very wild?" asked Sax, thinking of his father. "They're the last that really are wild in this part of the country," answered the drover.
He wanted so many men to believe him that there would be such a rush to the Musgraves that they would escape, by sheer force of numbers, from the terrible fate of the lonely prospectors. But how could he take that golden sand away?
Close behind us is the moline cross of the gallant William Molyneux, and beside it the bloody chevrons of the Norfork Woodhouses, with the amulets of the Musgraves of Westmoreland. By St. Paul! it would be a very strange thing if so noble a company were to gather without some notable deed of arms arising from it.
"The rest have either come in and made camps near stations, or cleared right out into West Australia." "Are there many of them?" asked Vaughan. "Nobody really knows," replied Mick. "The Musgraves is a big slice of country, as you can see, and it stretches back for a couple of hundred miles north. They say there's plenty of water and game in those mountains.
"The ones that had a cabin near Matocton? Very deserving people, I believe." "And their son, sir, wants to marry my daughter," said Mr. Stapylton, "my daughter, who is shortly to be connected by marriage with the Musgraves of Matocton! I don't know what this world will come to next." It was a treat to see him shake his head in deprecation of such anarchy.
The same routine is gone through day after day, and there is not even the relief of meeting new faces, for one's companions are often the only human beings met with during the whole of a trip of many weeks. For the first few days of journeying towards the Musgraves, young Stobart and Vaughan found everything new and intensely interesting.
He was wondering if Patricia had married him in the belief that she was marrying a man who, appraised by any standards, had acted infamously. "I was only thinking you had better ask Judge Allardyce, Patricia. You see, he is absolutely certain not to come " This year the Musgraves had decided not to spend the spring alone together at Matocton, as they had done the four preceding years.
It is not your fault, perhaps, but the fact remains that you have never amounted to anything personally. You have simply traded upon the accident of being born a Musgrave of Matocton. In consequence you were enabled to marry Patricia's money, just as the Musgraves of Matocton always marry some woman who is able to support them. Ah, but it was her money you married, and not Patricia!
When the Reliance, the Constitution and the Columbia were holding trial races off Newport to decide which one of these yachts should defend the America's cup; when the tone of the Japanese press as to Russia's actions in Manchuria was beginning to grow ominous; when the Jews of America were drafting a petition to the Czar; and when it was rumored that the health of Pope Leo XIII was commencing to fail: at this remote time, the Musgraves gave their first house-party.
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