The Three Cousins A Novel Author:Frances Milton Trollope General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1847 Original Publisher: H. Colburn Subjects: Fiction / General Fiction / Classics Fiction / Literary Literary Criticism / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be t... more »ypos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: CHAPTER IV. On reaching the dining-room, however, they found the object of her thoughts and her conjectures standing just within the door. Laura, who was close behind Sir Joseph, heard him say to his unfortunate son as he passed him, " You will sit opposite to me, and converse with the lady on your right hand." " Who will that lady be ?" thought Laura; and the interest she took in this question, or the answer to it, prevented her at the moment from making any mental observation, as she otherwise might have done, on the strange tone and style in which these ordinances were put forth. Frederic, however, seemed to have no doubt upon the subject; for immediately offering his arm, with as good a grace as if he did not appear to live in perpetual fear for hislife, he led her up the noble room, and placed her on the right side of the chair, which, as soon as his father was seated, he occupied himself. The table, though by no means a very small one, looked as if it were so, from the great size of the room; but, being round, the little party seemed less widely scattered than they would have done if seated at a board capable of accommodating half a dozen, of any other form. Fortunately the fish was not spoiled, and therefore Sir Joseph gave every indication of intending to eat a very good dinner, and moreover to be in a very good humour. He really looked at his pretty right hand neighbour as if he had forgotten both his fourscore and ten years, ...« less