I'm willing." "What kind of company have you been keeping, Ethel Rawdon?
Who has taught you to squander dollars by the thousand?
Discipline! I think you are giving me a little now--a thousand dollars a lesson, it seems--no wonder, after the carryings-on at Rawdon Court." "Dear grandmother, we had the loveliest time you can imagine.

And there is not, in all the world, such a noble old gentleman as Squire Percival Rawdon." "I know all about Percival Rawdon--a proud, careless, extravagant, loose-at-ends man, dancing and singing and loving as it suited time and season, taking no thought for the future, and spending with both hands; hard on women, too, as could be." "Grandmother, I never saw a more courteous gentleman.

He worships women.
He was never tired of talking about you." "What had he to say about me ?" "That you were the loveliest girl in the county, and that he never could forget the first time he saw you.

He said you were like the vision of an angel." "Nonsense! I was just a pretty girl in a book muslin frock and a white sash, with a rose at my breast.

I believe they use book muslin for linings now, but it did make the sheerest, lightest frocks any girl could want.