She could not, without horror, behold an entire joint of meat; and nothing but fricassees and other made dishes were seen upon her table.

She caused all her floors to be lined with green baize, that she might trip along there with more ease and pleasure.

Her footmen wore clogs, which were deposited in the hall, and both they and her chairmen were laid under the strongest injunctions to avoid porter and tobacco.

Her jointure amounted to eight hundred pounds per annum, and she made shift to spend four times that sum.

At length it was mortgaged for nearly the entire value; but, far from retrenching, she seemed to increase in extravagance, until her effects were taken in execution, and her person here deposited in safe custody.
"When one considers the abrupt transition she underwent from her spacious apartments to an hovel scarce eight feet square; from sumptuous furniture to bare benches; from magnificence to meanness; from affluence to extreme poverty; one would imagine she must have been totally overwhelmed by such a sudden gush of misery.