Farebrother, Mrs.

The vicar's mother, a formal and precise old lad. "The vicar's white-haired mother, befrilled and kerchiefed with dainty cleanliness, upright, quick-eyed, and still under seventy. . . . The old lady was evidently accustomed to tell her company what they ought to think, and to regard no subject as quite safe without her steering. She was afforded leisure for this function by having all her little wants attended to by Miss Winifred."

<em>Middlemarch</em>

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