No parties so crowded as Lady Dashfort's; no party deemed pleasant or fashionable where Lady Dashfort or Lady Isabel was not.

The bon-mots of the mother were everywhere repeated; the dress and air of the daughter everywhere imitated.

Yet Lord Colambre could not help being surprised at their popularity in Dublin, because, independently of all moral objections, there were causes of a different sort, sufficient, he thought, to prevent Lady Dashfort from being liked by the Irish; indeed by any society.

She in general affected to be ill-bred, and inattentive to the feelings and opinions of others; careless whom she offended by her wit or by her decided tone.

There are some persons in so high a region of fashion, that they imagine themselves above the thunder of vulgar censure.