It was something, indeed, that she did not interfere with the purposes of others.

In early life she had undergone great trials with reference to the doctor's dinners, but for the last ten or twelve years her elder daughter Charlotte had taken that labour off her hands, and she had had little to trouble her--little, that is, till the edict for this terrible English journey had gone forth: since then, indeed, her life had been laborious enough.

For such a one, the toil of being carried from the shores of Como to the city of Barchester is more than labour enough, let the care of the carriers be ever so vigilant.

Mrs.Stanhope had been obliged to have every one of her dresses taken in from the effects of the journey.
Charlotte Stanhope was at this time about thirty-five years old, and whatever may have been her faults, she had none of those which belong particularly to old young ladies.

She neither dressed young, nor talked young, nor indeed looked young.