He was very tall and ungainly, with a long neck and a small round head on the top of it.

His features were flat, and the skin much wrinkled; there seemed nothing in his countenance to recommend him to the notice of the other sex.

Yet he had been twice married; the last time to a comparatively young lady with some money, who dressed in the height of fashion.
Frank had two families--one, grown up, by his first wife, the second in the nursery--but it made no difference to him.

All were well dressed and well educated; the nursery maids and the infants went out for their airings in a carriage and pair.

Mrs.D----, gay as a Parisian belle, and not without pretensions to beauty, was seen at balls, parties, and every other social amusement.