maden , who in his trade often served as a factor for british visitors , spoke excellent english , and his family also ; they sat to table five , maden 's two sons being already established in their own homes ; besides his wife only his daughter sara remained at home , a young woman well out of the schoolroom : not yet thirty but old to be unmarried with so good a dowry as maden seemed able to provide , and her looks and manner were pleasing if in a foreign mode , dark hair and brows striking against fair skin , very like her elegant mother .