One certainly did see them everywhere.
They were almost too extraordinary.
Now the American knew quite all about these van Squibbers.

He knew also that in New York, and Boston, and Philadelphia, and in many other places where existed a society with still some ragged remnants of decency and decorum left, one would not meet this highly star-spangled family "everywhere." The hostess kept it up.

Did the American know the Butteredbuns?
No?
Well, one met the Butteredbuns everywhere too.

They were rather more extraordinary than the van Squibbers.

And then there were the Cakewalks, and the Smith-Trapezes' Mrs.Smith-Trapeze wasn't as extraordinary as her daughter--the one that put the live frog in Lord Meldon's soup--and of course neither of them were "talked about" in the same way that the eldest Cakewalk girl was talked about.