. The very next day, I asked the lady who kept the books at the hotel whether she knew of any family that could take me to board and give me the benefit of their conversation.
I try to talk with Madame de Maisonrouge all I can (she is the lady of the house, and the REAL family consists only of herself and her two daughters).
His own investigations had begun on a day in the preceding spring when, having been engaged in tracing the vicissitudes of the d'Urberville
family, he had observed Durbeyfield's name on his waggon, and had thereupon been led to make inquiries about his father and grandfather till he had no doubt on the subject.
If the purpose of marriage is the
family, the person who wishes to have many wives or husbands may perhaps obtain much pleasure, but in that case will not have a
family.
In the case to which I have referred, where the
family sat down to the table for the meal at which I was their guest, I could see plainly that this was an awkward and unusual proceeding, and was done in my honour.
Vanstone further explained that she had perhaps been the more inclined to adopt it through having been always accustomed, in her early days, to see the captain living now upon one member, and now upon another, of her mother's
family. Possessed of abilities which might have raised him to distinction in almost any career that he could have chosen, he had nevertheless, from his youth upward, been a disgrace to all his relatives.
It was not that any harm could be said concerning the vicar of that charming rural parish to which Dorlcote Mill belonged; he was a man of excellent
family, an irreproachable bachelor, of elegant pursuits,--had taken honors, and held a fellowship.
The
family had paid fifteen hundred dollars for it, and it had not cost the builders five hundred, when it was new.
Primrose tells of it: "My wife and daughters happening to return a visit to neighbour Flamborough's, found that
family had lately got their pictures drawn by a limner, who travelled the country, and took likenesses for fifteen shillings a-head.
There were two palaces and a vineyard behind the Palatine Hill; but in these days landed property had not much value, and the two palaces and the vineyard remained to the
family since they were beneath the rapacity of the pope and his son.
At half-past twelve, the table was laid in the small dining-room, and occasionally the general himself appeared at the
family gathering, if he had time.
Without further preface, then, I come to you, Mr Nightingale, from a worthy
family, which you have involved in misery and ruin." Mr Nightingale changed colour at these words; but Jones, without regarding it, proceeded, in the liveliest manner, to paint the tragical story with which the reader was acquainted in the last chapter.
There was one point which Anne, on returning to her
family, would have been more thankful to ascertain even than Mr Elliot's being in love with Elizabeth, which was, her father's not being in love with Mrs Clay; and she was very far from easy about it, when she had been at home a few hours.
"The great house and estate in our part of the world is Castra Regis, the
family seat of the Caswall
family.
His whole
family, if I may so express it, were cleared for action.
