The River Room by Anne Weale

Author:Anne Weale [Weale, Anne]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
ISBN: 9780263093674
Publisher: Harlequin Mills & Boon
Published: 1977-12-31T16:00:00+00:00

Her grandfather's hands had been veined and freckled with age, his nails rather furrowed. He had always worn a gold signet ring on his left little finger. James wore no rings, and his hands, lean and brown with well-scrubbed nails, rested lightly on the wheel.

Suddenly Marina found herself wondering what it would be like to feel those long, square-tipped fingers caressing her face. The moment her conscious mind realised where her subconscious had led her, she gave herself a mental shake for falling into such an unwise reverie.

The mansion they were going to see had a lodge-house where a gardener, who was still living there, handed over the keys and opened the heavy iron gates.

They crossed a cattle-grid and drove up a winding drive through parkland where sheep were grazing, most of them with lambs nearby.

The house which came now into view was a fine seventeenth-century building with a Jacobean south front and a William and Mary west wing. As James stopped the car and Marina stepped down on to the gravelled sweep, she caught a gust of sweet scent from a drift of narcissi growing in the long grass under a Cedar of Lebanon.

Perhaps on a different day the house, denuded of all its furniture and paintings, might have had a forlorn atmosphere. Today, with sunlight slanting through the panels of mediaeval stained glass inserted into the mullion and transom windows of the Great Hall, it seemed to be tranquilly awaiting a new phase in its long history.

Beautiful rococo plasterwork designed by James Paine in the middle of the eighteenth century was a feature of the Dining-room; but the room which Marina liked best was the Library with its green marble chimneypiece and empty bookcases with brass-trellised doors.

It was half past one before they finished exploring the attics, the sculleries and the stable block.

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