The appearance of Lady Szentirmay was the surest guarantee of virtue and propriety.

The mere fact that Fanny _had_ gained Flora's friendship made her own domestics regard her with quite different eyes, and even Squire John himself began to understand what sort of a wife he had won; and so the nimbus of gentility began to shine around her.
The whole day the two ladies might have been seen together, engaged in their great and difficult labours.

No smiling, please! The work was really great and difficult.

It is easy enough for us men-folk to say, "I will give a great dinner-party to-morrow, or a month hence; and I will invite the whole country-side to it.

I will invite not only those I know, but those I have never seen;" but it is our women-folk who have to take thought for it.