How it was that these ladies lived so luxuriously was a mystery to their friends, as for some time past they had enjoyed no particular income of their own.

Lord Augustus had spent everything that came to his hand, and the family owned no house at all.

Nevertheless Arabella Trefoil was to be seen at all parties magnificently dressed, and never stirred anywhere without her own maid.

It would have been as grievous to her to be called on to live without food as to go without this necessary appendage.

She was a big, fair girl whose copious hair was managed after such a fashion that no one could guess what was her own and what was purchased.