Lord, very sensitive in such matters.

Fond of fitting people with nicknames, she called this young man sometimes 'His Royal Highness,' sometimes 'His Majesty.' Of Mr.Tarrant's station in life nothing was discovered.

His grandmother, though seemingly in possession of ample means, betrayed an indifferent education, and in her flow of gossip never referred to ancestral dignities, never made mention of the calling her husband had pursued.

Mr.Vawdrey was known to be 'in business,'-- a business which must be tolerably lucrative.
On their return to London, the children passed from Miss.

Morgan's care into that of Mrs.Baker, who kept house for the widower at Champion Hill; but Jessica did not wholly lose sight of them, and, at their request, she persuaded Nancy Lord to make an occasional call with her.
Mrs.Baker (relict, it was understood, of a military officer who had fallen in Eastern warfare) behaved to the young ladies with much friendliness.