[The Danvers Jewels, and Sir Charles Danvers by Mary Cholmondeley]@TWC D-Link bookThe Danvers Jewels, and Sir Charles Danvers CHAPTER V 2/18
I could not have placed it better myself.
What, Brown? Sir George is in the drawing-room, is he? and tea, as I perceive, is going in at this moment.
Come, Colonel Middleton." And we followed the butler to the drawing-room. I am not a person who easily becomes confused, but I must own I did get confused with the large party into the midst of which we were now ushered.
I soon made out Sir George Danvers, a delicate, but irascible-looking old gentleman, who received me with dignified cordiality, but returned Charles's greeting with a certain formality and coldness which I was pained to see, family affection being, in my opinion, the chief blessing of a truly happy home.
Charles I already knew, and with the second son, Ralph, a ruddy, smiling young man with any amount of white teeth, I had no difficulty; but after that I became hopelessly involved.
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