The Three Brides Author:Charlotte Mary Yonge They had all taken their cue from their senior who had always been more to his mother than all the world besides. For several years he being as old of his age as she was young Mr. and Mrs. Charnock Poynsett with scarcely eighteen years between their ages had often been taken by strangers for husband and wife rather than son and mother. And ... more »though she knew she ought to wish for his marriage she could not but be secretly relieved that there were no symptoms of any such went impending.« less