Sir James Chettam was going to dine at the Grange to-day with another gentleman whom the girls had never seen, and about whom Dorothea felt some venerating expectation.
So Miss Brooke presided in her uncle’s household, and did not at all dislike her new authority, with the homage that belonged to it. Cadwallader the Rector’s wife, and the small group of gentry with whom he visited in the northeast corner of Loamshire. But he himself dreaded so much the sort of superior woman likely to be available for such a position, that he allowed himself to be dissuaded by Dorothea’s objections, and was in this case brave enough to defy the world-that is to say, Mrs. Brooke to be all the more blamed in neighboring families for not securing some middle-aged lady as guide and companion to his nieces.
These peculiarities of Dorothea’s character caused Mr.
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