With such encumbrances, and an income altogether not exceeding three thousand pounds per annum, Lady Fawn could not be rich.

And yet who would say that an old lady and her daughters could be poor with three thousand pounds a year to spend?
It may be taken almost as a rule by the unennobled ones of this country, that the sudden possession of a title would at once raise the price of every article consumed twenty per cent.

Mutton that before cost ninepence would cost tenpence a pound, and the mouths to be fed would demand more meat.

The chest of tea would run out quicker.

The labourer's work, which for the farmer is ten hours a day, for the squire nine, is for the peer only eight.