A glass of Champagne! Hicks, Champagne to Miss Swartz." There is little doubt that old Osborne believed all he said, and that the girls were quite earnest in their protestations of affection for Miss Swartz.

People in Vanity Fair fasten on to rich folks quite naturally.

If the simplest people are disposed to look not a little kindly on great Prosperity (for I defy any member of the British public to say that the notion of Wealth has not something awful and pleasing to him; and you, if you are told that the man next you at dinner has got half a million, not to look at him with a certain interest)--if the simple look benevolently on money, how much more do your old worldlings regard it! Their affections rush out to meet and welcome money.

Their kind sentiments awaken spontaneously towards the interesting possessors of it.

I know some respectable people who don't consider themselves at liberty to indulge in friendship for any individual who has not a certain competency, or place in society.