She could flatter also, though her very flattery had always in it something that was disagreeable.

And she must have had some power of will, as otherwise her husband would have escaped from her before the days of which I am writing.

Otherwise, also, she could hardly have obtained her footing and kept it in Mrs Roper's drawing-room.

For though the hundred pounds a year, either paid, or promised to be paid, was matter with Mrs Roper of vast consideration, nevertheless the first three months of Mrs Lupex's sojourn in Burton Crescent was not over before the landlady of that house was most anxiously desirous of getting herself quit of her married boarders.
I shall perhaps best describe a little incident that had occurred in Burton Crescent during the absence of our friend Eames, and the manner in which things were going on in that locality, by giving at length two letters which Johnny received by post at Guestwick on the morning after Mrs Dale's party.

One was from his friend Cradell, and the other from the devoted Amelia.