No more were bergamot or southern-wood, although vegetable in their nature.

She considered these two latter as betraying a vulgar taste in the person who chose to gather or wear them.

She was sorry to notice sprigs of them in the button-hole of any young man in whom she took an interest, either because he was engaged to a servant of hers or otherwise, as he came out of church on a Sunday afternoon.

She was afraid that he liked coarse pleasures; and I am not sure if she did not think that his preference for these coarse sweetnesses did not imply a probability that he would take to drinking.

But she distinguished between vulgar and common.