They also affected to despise the small vanities of the world.

The effect of prosperity, however, on their natures was singularly instructive, since it entirely changed their manners.

No sooner did fortune favor them than Mrs.Chapman began to display an ambition for vulgar show, such as well-bred people never indulge in.

She never failed to remind her friends that she was brought up in Boston, where everything was very refined.

She regarded it as a compliment to herself that she had an intellectual husband.