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.
Pierre was greatly surprised by his wife's view, to him a perfectly novel one, that every moment of his life belonged to her and to the
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.
Well knowing this (the letter proceeded to say), he had nevertheless persisted in forcing himself upon her as a species of
family connection: and she had weakly sanctioned the intrusion, solely from the dread that he would otherwise introduce himself to Mr.
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.
Our taste so much pleased the Squire that he insisted on being put in as one of the
family, in the character of Alexander the Great, at Olivia's feet.
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.
It is true that her nature sometimes rebelled against these dictates of reason, and that she grew yearly more capricious and impatient; but having a respectful and well-disciplined husband under her thumb at all times, she found it possible, as a rule, to empty any little accumulations of spleen upon his head, and therefore the harmony of the
family was kept duly balanced, and things went as smoothly as
family matters can.
Without further preface, then, I come to you, Mr Nightingale, from a worthy
family, which you have involved in misery and ruin.
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.
