It is given to few men to make a great fortune and not bear the signs of it on their persons.
"I expect you enjoyed staying with Lady Manorwater, Alice ?" Mrs.
Andrews declared at dinner.

"They are very plain people, aren't they, to be such great aristocrats?
"I suppose so," said the girl listlessly.
"I once met Lady Manorwater at Mrs.Cookson's at afternoon tea.

I thought she was badly dressed.

You know Manorwater, don't you, George ?" said the lady to her husband, with the boldness which comes from the use of a peer's name without the handle.
"Oh yes, I know him well.

I have met him at the Liberal Club dinners, and I was his chairman once when he spoke on Irish affairs.