Being so long established there the old Bank numbers among its customers some of the largest landed proprietors, the leading clergy, and solicitors.

The manager coming into contact with these, and being himself a man of intelligence, naturally occupies a certain position.

If any public movement is set on foot, the banks strive as to which shall be most to the fore, and, aided by its antiquity, the old Bank, perhaps, secures a social precedence.

Both managers belong to the 'carriage people' of the town.
Hodge comes into the place, walking slowly behind cattle or sheep, or jolting in on a waggon.

His wife comes, too, on foot, through the roughest weather, to fetch her household goods.