The Rivet in Grandfather's Neck 13 – Cabell · Verses Across
Literature · Fantasy
The Rivet in Grandfather's Neck 13Part 2 · Chapter 5
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Literature · Fantasy
The Rivet in Grandfather's Neck 13
Part 2 · Chapter 5
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In the shadow of a white lilac-bush, Colonel Musgrave paused with an awed face.
"Good Lord!" said he, aghast at the notion; "what would Agatha say if she knew I had been fighting like a drunken truck-driver! Or, rather, what would she refrain from saying! Only, she wouldn't believe it of me. And, for the matter of that," Rudolph Musgrave continued, after a moment's reflection, "I wouldn't have believed it of myself a week ago. I think I am changing, somehow. A week ago I would have fetched in the police and sworn out a warrant; and, if the weather had been as damp as it is, I would have waited to put on my rubbers before I would have done that much."
