Old Mr. Tredgold

OLD MR. TREDGOLDThey were not exactly of that conventional type which used to be common whenever two sisters had to be described—the one dark and the other fair the one sunny and amiable the other reserved and proud; the one gay the other melancholy or at least very serious by nature. They were not at all like Minna and Brenda in the “Pirate” which used to be a contrast dear to the imagination. But yet there was a very distinct difference between them. Katherine was a little taller a little bigger a little darker than Stella. She was three years older but was supposed to look ten. She was not so lively in her movements either of mind or person and she was supposed to be slow.