Father Eustace - 1847 Author:Frances Milton Trollope Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER III. The drawing-room apartment at Langloy Knoll consisted of one good middle-sized room, very amply furnished, though now wearing the peculiar dun hu... more »e, which furnished mansions, that have been let to more tenants than one, are apt to assume. But at one end of it was a much smaller room, communicating with the first by a pair of rather small folding doors, which usually remained open. This little room had been fitted with more expense and pretension than its larger neighbour, ard had preserved its complexion better, so that nobody entered it without still exclaiming, " What a very pretty room!" And being at the gable end of the house, it had, moreover, the advantage of a window commanding a different and more richly-wooded point of view than any other on the ground floor. This window had the farther advantage of being a very large one, and of opening to the ground, so as to give access to a charming little flower garden, communicating, at right angles, with the terrace which has been already mentioned. Yet, notwithstanding the attractions of this smaller room, it was the larger one which appeared the favourite; for it was there that the whole party seated themselves, after having sufficiently admired its little neighbour. When the company, which was a pretty large one, returned from the dining-room, they found t/te drawing-room, par excellence, extremely well lighted, but the other only sufficiently so, to indicate that it was ready for use if wanted. During dinner, Mrs. Vavasor, adopting the fashion of Old England, sat at the head of the table, and was thus, of necessity, separated from the two young ladies, who were to her the only very interesting part of the company. And not only in this, but in every other part of the dinner-table arrangement, did the ty- ...« less