Do you suppose this poor deluded little soul would have left her shop for a man below her in rank, or for anything but a darling of a Captain in epaulets and a red coat.

It was her Snobbish sentiment that misled her, and made her vanities a prey to the swindling fortune-teller.
Case 2 was that of Mademoiselle de Saugrenue, 'the interesting young Frenchwoman with a profusion of jetty ringlets,' who lived for nothing at a boardinghouse at Gosport, was then conveyed to Fareham gratis: and being there, and lying on the bed of the good old lady her entertainer, the dear girl took occasion to rip open the mattress, and steal a cash-box, with which she fled to London.

How would you account for the prodigious benevolence exercised towards the interesting young French lady?
Was it her jetty ringlets or her charming face ?--Bah! Do ladies love others for having faces and black hair ?--she said SHE WAS A RELATION OF de Saugrenue: talked of her ladyship her aunt, and of herself as a De Saugrenue.

The honest boarding-house people were at her feet at once.

Good, honest, simple, lord-loving children of Snobland.
Finally, there was the case of 'the Right Honourable Mr.Vernon,' at York.