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Mrs Hopgood, too, had been the intimate friend of her husband, and

was the intihters She was now nearly sixty,

but still erect and graceful, and everybody could see that the

picture of a beautiful girl of one-and-twenty, which hung opposite

the fireplace, had once been her portrait She had been brought up,

as thoroughly as a wooverness The war prevented her education abroad, but her father,

as a clergyrant lady to

live in his house to teach her French and other accomplishments She

consequently spoke French perfectly, and she could also read and

speak Spanish fairly well, for the French lady had spent soood had never been particularly in earnest about

religion, but his as a believer, neither High Church nor Low

Church, but inclined towards a kind of quietis its bad tienerally prevailed When she ether follow her husband She never separated herself

from her faith, and never would have confessed that she had separated

herself froh she knew that his creed

externally was not hers, her oas not sharply cut, and she

persuaded herself that, in substance, his and her belief were

identical As she grew older her relationship to the Unseen became

more and more intimate, but she was less and less inclined to

criticise her husband's freedom, or to impose on the children a rule