Miss Jones, when she becomes Lady de Jongh, does not pay less than threepence apiece for each "my lady" with which her ear is tickled.

Even the baronet when he becomes a lord has to curtail his purchases, because of increased price, unless he be very wide awake to the affairs of the world.

Old Lady Fawn, who would not on any account have owed a shilling which she could not pay, and who, in the midst of her economies, was not close-fisted, knew very well what she could do and what she could not.

The old family carriage and the two lady's maids were there,--as necessaries of life; but London society was not within her reach.

It was, therefore, the case that they had not heard very much about Lizzie Eustace.