"So the family council is over," said Hushidh, when at last he was near enough for easy speech.

"Your family council agreed to my interviewing you," I said.

I mean, it was not a family council or anything of that kind.

The family council would probably not be a pleasant social affair.

I shall hold a family council on the afternoon Grace is buried.

Because we had a family council and decided you couldn't be trusted alone.

Apparently, he was the last of the sixteen in the family council to have arrived.

And he'd been around long enough that he had a certain influence in the family councils.

In these last weeks he had taken his place quite naturally at the family councils.

The next day Tom convened a session of the family council.