Anything will do.

A collection of buttons, for instance.
There are a great many kinds; and if ever some travelled friend crowns your collection with a mandarin's button, for one day at least you won't feel a grievance worth speaking of." I was feeling very much aggrieved as Lady Elizabeth spoke, and thinking to myself that "it seemed so hard to be scolded out visiting, and when one had not got into any scrape." But I only said that "nobody at home ever said that I grumbled so much;" and that I "didn't know that our servants complained more than other people's." "I do not suppose they do," said my godmother.

"I have told you already that I consider it a foible of ill-educated people, whose interests are very limited, and whose feelings are not disciplined.
You know James, the butler, Selina, do you not ?" "Oh, yes, godmamma!" I knew James well.

He was very kind to me, and always liberal when, by Lady Elizabeth's orders, he helped me to almonds and raisins at dessert.
"My mother died young," said Lady Elizabeth, "and at sixteen I was head of my father's household.

I had been well trained, and I tried to do my duty.