Mrs.Saymore expressed the feeling of many beside herself.

She had, however, a special right to be proud of the name she bore.

Her husband was own cousin to the Saymores of Freestone Avenue (who write the name Seymour, and claim to be of the Duke of Somerset's family, showing a clear descent from the Protector to Edward Seymour, (1630,)--then a jump that would break a herald's neck to one Seth Saymore,( 1783,)--from whom to the head of the present family the line is clear again).

Mrs.Saymore, the tailor's wife, was not invited, because her husband mended clothes.
If he had confined himself strictly to making them, it would have put a different face upon the matter.
The landlord of the Mountain House and his lady were invited to Mrs.
Sprowle's party.

Not so the landlord of Pollard's Tahvern and his lady.
Whereupon the latter vowed that they would have a party at their house too, and made arrangements for a dance of twenty or thirty couples, to be followed by an entertainment.