She said it would be a lesson to Helen for her pride and absurd infatuation about that boy.

Mrs.Pybus said many people were proud of very small things, and for her part, she didn't know why an apothecary's wife should give herself such airs.

Mrs.Wapshot called her daughters away from that side of the street, one day when Pen, on Rebecca, was stopping at the saddler's, to get a new lash to his whip--one and all of these people had made visits of curiosity to Fairoaks, and had tried to condole with the widow, or bring the subject of the Fotheringay affair on the tapis, and had been severally checked by the haughty reserve of Mrs.Pendennis, supported by the frigid politeness of the Major her brother.
These rebuffs, however, did not put an end to the gossip, and slander went on increasing about the unlucky Fairoaks' family.

Glanders (H.P.), a retired cavalry officer, whose half-pay and large family compelled him to fuddle himself with brandy-and-water instead of claret after he quitted the Dragoons, had the occasional entree at Fairoaks, and kept his friend the Major there informed of all the stories which were current at Clavering.

Mrs.Pybus had taken an inside place by the coach to Chatteris, and gone to the George on purpose to get the particulars.
Mrs.Speers's man, had treated Mr.Foker's servant to drink at Baymouth for a similar purpose.