Excerpt from Young Musgrave, Vol. 2 of 3 The Squire made use of that discretion' which is the better part of valour. When Randolph for the second time insisted upon coming to an understanding on family affairs, which meant deciding what was to be done on the Squire's death, Mr. Musgrave, not knowing how else to foil his son, got up and came away. You can settle these matters with Mary, he said, quietly enough. It would not have been dignified to treat the suggestion in any other way. But he went out with a slight accelera tion of his pulses, caused half by anger and half by the natural human thrill of feeling with which a man has his own death brought home vol. II. B. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.