[A Dozen Ways Of Love by Lily Dougall]@TWC D-Link bookA Dozen Ways Of Love CHAPTER II 7/15
He went and stood again face to face with it. A goodly man was painted there, dressed in a judge's robe.
Courthope read the lineaments by the help of the living interpretation of the daughter's likeness.
Benevolence in the mouth, a love of good cheer and good friends in the rounded cheeks, a lurking sense of the poetry of life in the quiet eyes, and in the brow reason and a keen sense of right proportion dominant.
He would have given something to have exchanged a quiet word with the man in the portrait, whose hospitality, living after him, he was now receiving. Madge had been arranging the logs to her satisfaction, she would not accept Courthope's aid, and now she told him who were going to dine with them.
She had great zest for the play. 'Mr.and Mrs.Bennett, of course, and we thought we might have Mr. Knightley, because he is a squire and not so very young, even though he is not yet married.
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