Young love 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 HI. It has been said, and very truly, that it is not the where, but the who, which is chiefly important in the history of human beings; and therefore,... more » although for reasons which have been sufficiently explained, I have declined naming the county in which the scenes which I am about to recount occurred, I shall not be equally scrupulous respecting the people who took part in them, but take the liberty of describing the most prominent among them with equal freedom and sincerity. That they shall all be real human beings, who are existing, or who have existed, I faithfully promise and declare ; but I faithfully promise and declare likewise, that I will so manage matters as to leave no clue whatever to the recognition of the originals. And now, shall I go "from house to house," like a royal brief, in order to bring ray reader acquainted with all the neighbours who formed the society of Colonel and Mrs. Dermont?—or shall I content myself by narrating the adventures of my " principal family," and suffer all the rest to bring themselves forward in succession, as circumstances shall dictate? Perhaps I shall find myself obliged to have recourse to both. At twenty years old, Alfred Dermont was certainly one of the very handsomest young men that ever was seen. He was six feet in, height, but might have stood for the model of an Apollo. His features were magnificently handsome, and had his countenance expressed less of the daring self-confidence in which he had been so assiduously educated, it would have been charming—for the bright large blue eye was beaming with intelligence; his smile, though too often sotimed as to be most saucily impertinent, displayed teeth of the most perfect beauty, and his forehead might have been compared to that of any god or demigod that ever ch...« less