The Rivet in Grandfather's Neck A Comedy of Limitations

f the species; and, resolving for the future to view these weakly, big-hipped and slope-shouldered makeshifts of Nature's with larger tolerance, he cocked his hat at a devi

take kindlily enough to that; and in the exercise of hospitality a host m

e came

dible; but as she passed through the long shadows of the garden-fire-new, from the heart of the sunset, Rudolph Musgrave would have sworn to you,-the lacy folds and furbelows and semi-transparenci

itted," he was repea

u see until to-day I always thought that if I had been offered the choice bet

e the reflection of a sunset in rippling waters,-only many times more beautiful, of course,-and that her mout

elves into the statement he was glad to see her. And immediately afterward the banality of this remark brought the hot blood to h

, in

ands with Patricia Stapylton, it

m!" qu

g, with puckered brow, "it would be

ed he, in his soul; "I shou

g to be like that, and I regard it as extremely hospitable of you not to be. You are more like-like what now?" Miss Stapylton put her head to one

yourself how the colonel stood before her, big, sturdy and blond, and glared down at her, and assured himself that he was very ind

sgrave declared, stiffly. "They were a rude and barbarous

t time, he saw the teeth that were like grains of rice upon a pink ros

The word is of Icelandic origin, from vik, the name applied to the small inlets along the coast in which they concealed their

Miss Stapylton;

ed with delib

ded, "I shall call yo

said the

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umph of his generation! This imbecile, without a syllable to say for himself, without a solitary

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r he was "Olaf" fr

urse, by her forwardness-"Olaf," indeed!-yet he found it,

urrent literature. Then, too, she is not especially anxious to be realistic. She prefers to jog along in the old rut, contentedly turning out chromolithographic sunrises such as they give away at

omething is altered somewhere in some untellable fashion, and the world, suddenly, becomes the most delightful place of residence in all the universe. Indeed, it is her favorite miracle, this. Fo

erstanding what had happened to him, on

ent, is eaten at two in the afternoon-that he fell a-speculating as

t first suspected?-wasn't the cool glow of them, in a wor

n debating a matter of such nicety, a man must necessarily lay aside all petty irritation, s

of decision, Miss Musgrave in all innocence announced that

himself in his study, where eight o'clock had found him every evening for the last ten years, wh