The keeper of a great hotel and the editor of a widely circulated newspaper were considered as ranking with the wholesale dealers, and their daughters belonged also to the untitled nobility which has the dollar for its armorial bearing.

The second set had most of the good scholars, and some of the prettiest girls; but nobody knew anything about their families, who lived off the great streets and avenues, or vegetated in country towns.
Myrtle Hazard's advent made something like a sensation.

They did not know exactly what to make of her.

Hazard?
Hazard?
No great firm of that name.

No leading hotel kept by any Hazard, was there?
No newspaper of note edited by anybody called Hazard, was there?
Came from where?
Oxbow Village.