Reginald Musgrave had been in the same college as myself, and I had some slight acquaintance
with him. He was not generally popular among
the undergraduates, though it always seemed to
me that what was set down as pride was really
an attempt to cover extreme natural diffidence. In
appearance he was a man of exceedingly aristocratic type, thin, high-nosed, and large-eyed, with
languid and yet courtly manners. He was indeed
a scion of one of the very oldest families in the
kingdom