" It's not my own neck I'm saving, " said Harry tersely, tugging the trunk over a patch of particularly uneven, moth-eaten carpet right in front of the door.
Tormented by the certainty that he was his wife's brother, Aurelianoran out to the parish house to search through the moldy and moth-eaten archives for some clue to his parentage.
At the moment when Grandet was mending his worm-eaten staircase and whistling with all his might, in remembrance of the days of his youth, the three Cruchots knocked at the door.