They tell me that all their great marriages are kept in the same public manner.

Nobody keeps more than two horses, all their journeys being post; the expense of them, including the coachman, is (I am told) fifty pounds per annum.

A chair is very near as much; I give eighteen francs a week for mine.

The senators can converse with no strangers during the time of their magistracy, which lasts two years.
The number of servants is regulated, and almost every lady has the same, which is two footmen, a gentleman-usher, and a page, who follows her chair.
Certainly the simple life appealed to Lady Mary, but much as she liked Geneva the cost of living irked her.

"Everything is as dear as it is at London," she complained to her husband in November, 1741.