Every community evolves its own spirit not easily to be apprehended by the onlooker.

The state of society in America was vitally different from that in England.

The plain living of Virginia was in sharp contrast with the magnificence and ease of England.

It is true that we hear of plate and elaborate furniture, of servants in livery, and much drinking of Port and Madeira, among the Virginians: They had good horses.

Driving, as often they did, with six in a carriage, they seemed to keep up regal style.