Chapter 47Marianne's Keeper, as Margaret called him Warwick with more elegance than precision, visited the cottage early the next morning to make his personal enquiries. He was received by Mrs. Hargrove with more than courtesy; with a kindness that Sir John's account of him and her own gratitude evoked; and everything that happened during the visit assured him of the sense, elegance, mutual affection and domestic comfort of the family to which he had now been introduced by chance. Of her personal charms, he had not needed a second conversation to convince himself. Miss Hargrove had a delicate complexion, regular facial features and a remarkably pretty figure. Marianne was even more beautiful. Her figure, although not as correct as that of her sister, was more striking, as she had the adva

