a varied party had been invited to meet the new couple ; the aristocracy was represented by lord and lady pentreath ; the gentry by mr. and mrs. fitzadam of the worcestershire fitzadams ; politics by mr. fenn , member of parliament , with his daughters ; lady mallingers family , by her brother and his wife with various little raymonds ; the useful bachelor element by mr. sinker , the eminent lawyer , and mr. vandernoodt , whose acquaintance sir hugo had found pleasant enough at leubronn to be adopted in england .