If my father had seen it he'd have had the prince off the box of the coach in no time." "Then, my dear," said the attorney, "I am very glad that your father did not see it." Poor Dolly, during this conversation about the prince, sat angry and silent, thinking to herself in despair of what extremes of vulgarity even a first cousin of her own could be guilty.

That she should be sitting at table with a girl who could boast that a reprobate foreigner had kissed his hand to her from the box of a fashionable four-horsed coach! For it was in that light that Miss Grey regarded it.
"And did you have any farther adventures besides this memorable encounter with the prince ?" "Nothing nearly so interesting," said Sophy.
"That was hardly to be expected," said the attorney.

"Jane, you will have a glass of port-wine?
Girls, you must have a glass of port-wine to support you after your disappointment with the prince." "We were not disappointed in the least," said Amelia.
"Pray, pray, let the subject drop," said Dolly.
"That is because the prince did not kiss his hand to you," said Sophy.
Then Miss Grey sunk again into silence, crushed beneath this last blow.
In the evening, when the dinner-things had been taken away, a matter of business came up, and took the place of the prince and his mustaches.
Mrs.Carroll was most anxious to know whether her brother could "lend" her a small sum of twenty pounds.

It came out in conversation that the small sum was needed to satisfy some imperious demand made upon Mr.
Carroll by a tailor.

"He must have clothes, you know," said the poor woman, wailing.