Dimity Cranford - age 21At one and twenty, Dimity was a tall and shapely creature, with warm brown hair and long, slightly slanting hazel eyes. Despite her sad lack of dowry, and although she was held by some to lack the gentle timidity a lady would welcome in her daughter-in-law, Dimity would have been wed long since, save for two stumbling blocks, the first being that she had yet to meet the man to whom she could give her heart, and the second that - with one exception - the twins had yet to meet a man they judged worthy of her.
Chapter 1Looking down with incredulity at the girl beneath him, Farrar saw a pale oval face, delicate features, a pair of laughing hazel eyes that had a slight and very fetching slant to them, all set off by a mass of tumbled rich brown ringlets.
Tony, after saving Dimity from being run over by the carriage
Chapter 3Sir Anthony Farrar - age 29
She guessed him to be in his late twenties. He wore no hat, and his thick hair was powdered and tied back. The sun-bronzed, fine-boned face was enhanced by a pair of vivid green eyes wide set under heavy, brown eyebrows. The nose and chin warned of inflexibility; the mouth was generous and well shaped, but with a haughty droop.
Chapter 3Today he had not allowed his man to apply powder and she was surprised to find that his hair was very fair, in startling contrast to his tan.
Chapter 4She saw only the beloved figure, bowed now and moving weavingly between his guards, the fair head hanging low. She heard the clank of chains as one of the guards lifted his arm and guided the manacled hand to grip the edge of the dock.
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One side of his face was almost covered by dark bruises; his mouth was swollen, and there was a deep gash above his right eye.
Sir Anthony, at the trial
Chapter 18Carlton - age 6
Shaking hands with Mrs. Deene, Dimity thought she had never seen so beautiful a little boy. Fair curls clustered about his well-shaped head, eyes of a deep green regarded her from under brows that already showed a firm line, and the delicately chiselled nose and cheekbones, the tender mouth, were saved from girlishness by that strong chin.
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Shuffle - age 12
The rider swayed with lithe grace to the movements of his fiery steed, glancing back from time to time to where a golden spaniel followed, all ears and feet.
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The spaniel trotted up and sat down, watching pantingly.
Chapter 3Alarmed by her beloved master's distress, Shuffle stood with her front paws on his muscular thigh, her tucked-in tail quivering anxiously, adoration apparent in every inch of her golden body.
Shuffle's reaction to Tony's fit of laughter after Mitten's staylaces break
Chapter 5Brandy, my mother's 12 year old Cocker Spaniel, graciously posing as a 12 year old 18th century spaniel. Lady Helen Farrar
The female voice was deeply musical, but held a rim of ice. Dimity saw Farrar stiffen. Following his gaze, she saw the woman who had come to the top of the steps with Carlton peeping from behind her skirts. Auburn hair touched with silver and high-piled on her head made her seem very tall. She was generously formed and statuesque, and she wore a graceful negligee of striped blue and white silk with a long blue cape. Like some feudal queen she stood there, surveying them all with proud hauteur.
Chapter 3The Duke of Marbury
Following his gaze she saw a magnificent personage standing a short distance up the slope, quizzing glass in one hand and a long, gold-handled cane in the other. He wore a superb purple brocade coat, the front openings and pocket flaps richly embroidered with silver thread. His waistcoat was quilted lilac satin and satin unmentionables of the same shade looked as though the word "crease" was unknown to them; his stockings were of white with a lilac lattice up one side, and upon his feet were high-heeled shoes with amethysts gleaming from the buckles. His countenance was thin and haughty, with a hooked nose, pale blue eyes, and stern mouth. His chin was long and his forehead high. A slender gentleman, somewhere past sixty, she guessed, he was neither brawny nor tall, yet it appeared to her that he towered over the young man who stared at him in such speechless surprise. And sprawling at his side, head lazily propped on an immaculate shoe, was a large dog of dubious parentage and nondescript lines who snored softly into the amethyst encrusted buckle.
Mitten meets Muffin - the speechless young man is Roly
Chapter 12Colonel Mariner Fotheringay
She scanned the colonel's face; the proud tilt to the strong chin, the narrow swoop of the nose, the disdainful twist to the thin lips, and the coldness of the unreadable dark eyes, and her heart sank.
Dimity's opinion of the colonel
Chapter 14The Palfreys - Wiltshire
The Palfreys was set in the lee of a gentle slope. It was a very large two-storey house built entirely of cream-coloured stone, with many big square-headed windows and a steeply gabled roof. There was an air of French Gothic about it, with its Norman tower, tall elaborate clusters of chimneys, and the gargoyles that were placed at intervals all along the north front above the ground floor. The west face had several smaller individually gabled windows under the eaves, indicating at least a partial third floor.
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Cranford Family Sir Isaac Cranford Elizabethan privateer
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seven children
| John Cranford=Joanna Guild-Jane Guild died 1733 in India | +---------+---------+ | | | Piers Peregrine Dimity twins b.summer 1721 b.1725
Horatio Viscount Glendenning is a distant cousin
Dimity has five aunts, including Aunt Miriam who is sour.
Farrar Family +---------------------------------------+ | | Sir Gilbert Farrar=Lady Helen Farrar male Farrar=f | | | +-----------+ | | | Sir Harding Bradwell Farrar-Mary Arnold Walter Sir Anthony Farrar | b.1717 Carlton b.1740Mr. Phillip Ellsworth is a cousin and is Tony's heir presumptive.
The Earl of Elsingham is Tony's uncle (I assume on his mother's side)
Military Captain Jacob Holt
Major Hilary Broadbent - Anthony and Mitten met him in Salisbury
Captain Brooks Lambert
Lieutenant Colonel Mariner Fotheringay
Major Horace Rhodes - Tony and the Cranfords' superior officer, and Lady Helen's beau
Villains Lord Hibbard Green
Oliver "Rafe" Ralph Green
Phillip Ellsworth
False Soldiers
Parker - came to tell Cranfords about Tony's "desertion"
Colonel Light - sent to Tony to tell him to hold himself ready for a court-martial
Witnesses at the trial - Corporal Goodwin, Sergeant Shortbridge who also gave testimony from Private Slate, deceased
Servants Cranford
Mrs. Burrows - cook and housekeeper
South - Jane and Dimity's maid
Johns - Piers and Peregrine's valet
Sudbury - head groom and coachman
Peale - undergroom
Billy - stableboy
Peddars - the only footman
Tilly Thornton - housemaid
Farrar
Leonard - butler
Rodgers - Lady Helen's abigail
Jordan - Anthony's valet
Cissie
Younce - groom
Billings - unloyal lackey
Samuels - Tio's groom
Other Folk Jane Guild, aunt to the Cranfords
Tio Viscount Glendenning
Mrs. Catherine Deene
Carlton - age 6
Lady Helen Farrar, Tony's aunt
Mr. Norris - Farrar family solicitor
Jenkins - farrier who doctored Shuffle and Tony
Gordon Chandler
Dr. Roger Steel
James Knight - surgeon from London
Trevelyan de Villars
Charles Albritton, temporary priest at St. Michael's in Decimus Green
Florian - gypsy lad
Jermyn - Carlton's friend at the Home
Muffin - his Grace, the Duke of Marbury
Animals Odin - Perry's big bay stallion, fast but horrid
Shuffle - Tony's spaniel, age 12
Scamp - Piers' dog who died
Poli - Tony's grey stallion (name means refined in French)
Beast - Muffin's slumberous dog - there's some Mastiff and Alsatian (German Shepherd) in him
Travels I haven't found time to deal with this section yet.
Soon, I hope, but I wanted to post the rest of it now.
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Trivia There's news of Quentin and Penny, living in a place near Paris. Quentin is fully recovered and is having a grand time with his digging and hoeing.
Chapter 4The song that Lady Helen, Dimity and Carlton sing is "It Was a Lover and His Lass" from Shakespeare's As You Like It.
Chapter 6There is a mention that Col. Fotheringay is after Haliwell and the list. (from The Mistress of Willowvale)
Chapter 17The courier with the 4th stanza died just after Tio caught up with him. And Tio had been out for Charlie, not just involved in the aftermath.
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