Thus he became altogether divided from that Castle Richmond neighbourhood to which he was naturally attached by old intimacies and family ties.
It was a hard time this for the poor countess.

I have endeavoured to explain that the position in which she had been left with regard to money was not at any time a very easy one.

She possessed high rank and the name of a countess, but very little of that wealth which usually constitutes the chief advantage of such rank and name.

But now such means as had been at her disposal were terribly crippled.
There was no poorer district than that immediately around her, and none, therefore, in which the poor rates rose to a more fearful proportion of the rent.

The country was, and for that matter still is, divided, for purposes of poor-law rating, into electoral districts.