He's all very well, but what would anybody think of him if he were a younger brother with L300 a year." This was a kind of philosophy which Lady Augustus hated.

She threw herself back therefore in the phaeton and pretended to go to sleep.
The wheels were not out of sight of the house before the attack on the Trefoils began.

"I had heard of Lady Augustus before," said Lady Penwether, "but I didn't think that any woman could be so disagreeable." "So vulgar," said Miss Penge.
"Wasn't she the daughter of an ironmonger ?" asked the elder Miss Godolphin.
"The girl of course is handsome," said Lady Penwether.
"But so self-sufficient," said Miss Godolphin.
"And almost as vulgar as her mother," said Miss Penge.
"She may be clever," said Lady Penwether, "but I do not think I should ever like her." "She is one of those girls whom only gentlemen like," said Miss Penge.
"And whom they don't like very long," said Lady Penwether.
"How well I understand all this," said Lord Rufford turning to the younger Miss Godolphin.

"It is all said for my benefit, and considered to be necessary because I danced with the young lady last night." "I hope you are not attributing such a motive to me," said Miss Penge.
"Or to me," said Miss Godolphin.
"I look on both of you and Eleanor as all one on the present occasion.

I am considered to be falling over a precipice, and she has got hold of my coat tails.