Friends and Family
Ramses’s closest friend is David Todros, the grandson of the Emersons' reis Abdullah. Initially distrusted by the rest of the family, David becomes Ramses’s blood brother. They are virtually inseparable for many years, getting into some kind of mischief. Even though they are of different backgrounds, they are remarkably similar looking, a fact they use to their advantage in several of the more recent books.
David also becomes Ramses’s cousin by marriage, when he marries Walter and Evelyn Emerson’s daughter Lia.
Growing up to be a strong, intelligent, and strikingly handsome young man, Ramses has had several liaisons with women, kept secret (for the most part) from his parents. But his true love has always been Nefret Forth, who captured him the moment they first met, when he was only ten. After an extremely long wait, she falls just as passionately in love with him (The Falcon at the Portal), and after several monumental misunderstandings, they are married in January 1915. (‘’He Shall Thunder in the Sky’’)
Ramses and Nefret are the parents of twins Charlotte (“Charla”) and David John. In an ironic twist, Ramses’s children inherit his most aggravating speech patterns: Charla, his lisp (“Did you catch de lady?”) and David John his appallingly precocious loquacity.
At the end of ‘’Tomb of the Golden Bird’’ Nefret reveals she is pregnant again. Ramses also has an adopted sister, Sennia, the abandoned offspring of Amelia's nephew, the late (unlamented) Percy Peabody.
In the Vicky Bliss series' final installment, The Laughter of Dead Kings, it is revealed that main character John Tregarth is the descendant of the youngest of Ramses and Nefret's three children, an as-yet unnamed daughter. It is also mentioned that the children "bred like rabbits," and that at the time of Dead Kings, over eighty people are descended from Ramses and Nefret's offspring.
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Famous quotes containing the words friends and/or family:
“I do not believe that friends are necessarily the people you like best, they are merely the people who got there first.”
—Peter Ustinov (b. 1921)
“What we often take to be family values—the work ethic, honesty, clean living, marital fidelity, and individual responsibility—are in fact social, religious, or cultural values. To be sure, these values are transmitted by parents to their children and are familial in that sense. They do not, however, originate within the family. It is the value of close relationships with other family members, and the importance of these bonds relative to other needs.”
—David Elkind (20th century)