Claudius had plenty of vanity, but it did not assume the personal type.

Some people call a certain form of vanity pride.

It is the same thing on a larger scale.
Vanity is to pride what nervousness is to nerve, what morbid conscience is to manly goodness, what the letter of the law is to the spirit.
Before they rose from the table, Mr.Bellingham proposed that they should adjourn to Newport on the following day.

He said it was too early to be in New York and that Newport was still gay; at all events, the weather promised well, and they need not stay more than twenty-four hours unless they pleased.

The proposition was carried unanimously, the Duke making a condition that he should be left in peace and not "entertained in a handsome manner by the _elite_ of our Newport millionaires"-- as the local papers generally have it.