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Madge, four years younger than her sister, was of a different type

altogether, and one more easily comprehended She had very heavy

dark hair, and she had blue eyes, a coe more than it was admired by her

in return, and she kept herself very

what it considered to be its te she

nearly alith her sister; she stood aloof froh its streets, and

repelled, frigidly and decisively, all offers, and they were not a

fehich had been made to her by the sons of the Fenmarket

tradesfolk Fen thus

labelled her, considered it had exhausted her The very i which naturally stuck up?

Fenreat relief to that provincial

little town in 1844, in this and in other cases, to find a hich

released it froht any

troubleso, indefinable qualities which it would

otherwise have been forced to exae was certainly

stuck-up, but the projection above those around her was not

artificial Both she and her sister found the ways of Fenmarket were

not to their taste The reason lay partly in their nature and partly

in their history

Mrs Hopgood was theof the late er in the Fenmarket branch

of the bank of Rumbold, Martin & Rumbold, and when her husband died