Her good sense could not survive it.

She not only became impressed with the idea, that, because she was richer, she was better than others, but that only such customs were to be tolerated in "good society," as were different from prevalent usages in the mass.

Into this idea her two eldest daughters were thoroughly inducted.

Mr.Ludlow, immersed in business, thought little about such matters, and suffered himself to be led into almost anything that his wife and daughters proposed.
But Mrs.Ludlow's brother--Uncle Joseph, as he was called--a bachelor, and a man of strong common sense, steadily opposed his sister in her false notions, but with little good effect.

Necessity at last called into proper activity the good sense of Mr.Ludlow, and he commenced the opposition that has just been noticed.