There was a certain amount of screaming and hair-pulling between those younger two.
Since Fanny was always busy in the shop, Sophie was the one who looked after the younger two. It was a disappointment to her, but she was still happy enough, looking after her sisters and grooming Martha to seek her fortune when the time came. She read a great deal, and very soon realized how little chance she had of an interesting future. Hatter was proud of his three daughters and sent them all to the best school in town. Fanny treated all three girls with the same kindness and did not favor Martha in the least. This ought to have made Sophie and Lettie into Ugly Sisters, but in fact all three girls grew up very pretty indeed, though Lettie was the one everyone said was most beautiful.
Fanny shortly gave birth to the third sister, Martha. True, her own mother died when Sophie was just two years old and her sister Lettie was one year old, and their father married his youngest shop assistant, a pretty blonde girl called Fanny. Her parents were well to do and kept a ladies' hat shop in the prosperous town of Market Chipping. She was not even the child of a poor woodcutter, which might have given her some chance of success. Sophie Hatter was the eldest of three sisters. Everyone knows you are the one who will fail first, and worst, if the three of you set out to seek your fortunes. Jones, Diana Wynne - Howl's Moving Castle.txt Howl's Moving Castle By Diana Wynne Jones 1: in which Sophie talks to hats In the land of Ingary, where such things as seven-league boots and cloaks of invisibility really exist, it is quite a misfortune to be born the eldest of three.
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