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He retired hither after being perplexed and fatigued with useless crusades, and suffering the deprivation of nearly all his property by Henry II. Martin Stapylton, Esq. the present proprietor of Byland, discovered from some ancient manuscripts the precise situation in the ruin, where were deposited the bones of the illustrious chieftain; and after removing these relics of mortality which had been hid for six hundred years, he conveyed them in his carriage to Myton, and interred them in the church-yard.
This was on the evening Roger Stapylton gave the long-anticipated dinner at which he was to announce his daughter's engagement.
"You should have told her, Olaf," Miss Stapylton persisted; and then she asked, in a voice that came very near being inaudible: "Is it too late to tell her now, Olaf?" The stupid man opened his lips a little, and stood staring at her with hungry eyes, wondering if it were really possible that she did not hear the pounding of his heart; and then his teeth clicked, and he gave a despondent gesture.
I do hope you don't mind my being merely a Stapylton, Olaf, because if only I wasn't too modest to even think of alluding to the circumstance, I would try to tell you about the tiniest fraction of how much a certain ravishingly beautiful half-strainer loves you, Olaf, and the consequences would be deplorable." "My dear " he began. "Ouch!" said Patricia; "you are tickling me.
There had been very certainly an enjoyment all the while in reflecting how nobly Rudolph Musgrave was behaving for the sake of "the only woman he had ever loved." Yes, one had undoubtedly phrased it thus then, and until the time one met Patricia. But Anne was different, and in the nature of things must always be a little different, from all other people even Patricia Stapylton.
There were many hideous histories the colonel could have told you of, unmeet to be set down, and he was familiar with this talk of pelvic anomalies which were congenital. But he had never thought of Patricia, till this, as being his kinswoman, and in part a Musgrave. And even now the Stapylton blood that was in her pulled Patricia through long weeks of anguish.
"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.
Still, I am sorry, somehow, for that beautiful boy," she ended, with a disconsolate glance at the portrait. Long after Miss Stapylton had left him, the colonel sat alone in his study, idle now, and musing vaguely. There were no more addenda concerning the descendants of Captain Thomas Osborne that night. At last, the colonel rose and threw open a window, and stood looking into the moonlit garden.
Glad, indeed! Before he had finished shaking hands with Patricia Stapylton, it was all over with the poor man. "Er h'm!" quoth he. "Only," Miss Stapylton was meditating, with puckered brow, "it would be unseemly for me to call you Rudolph " "You impertinent minx!" cried he, in his soul; "I should rather think it would be!"
Patricia spoke without any regard for punctuation. "And I am so unlike you. I am only a Stapylton.
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