garnet had not been fortunate to inherit any of his fathers physical attributes : the word most commonly associated with describing his childhood was sickly , although a succession of nannies would have probably have been able to come up with several more colourful adjectives : in a sensationalist tabloid feature about the wendelson fortune , published in the early 1950s , when garnet was then a young man , one of his very earliest nursemaids , the redoubtable miss emily larchester , was persuaded to divulge - no doubt for an accommodating sum of money - that she had considered the orphaned infant unloved , unlovely and unlovable , adding that her predecessor had only managed to stick the kid because the pay was good , but that a larchester was above being bought .