Chapter 46He was not Mr. Cambridge, the former vicar of Monkford, however suspicious the appearance may be, but a captain Frederick Cambridge, his brother, who had been appointed commander as a result of the action off St. Domingo and not immediately hired, had come to Somersetshire in the summer of 1806; and without living parents, he found a home in Monkford for half a year. He was then a remarkably fine young man with a lot of intelligence, spirit and brilliance; and Anne, an extremely pretty girl, with gentleness, modesty, taste and feeling. Half the attraction on both sides might have been enough, because he had nothing to do, and she had hardly anyone to love; but the encounter with such wasteful recommendations could not fail. They gradually got to know each other, and as they got t
