With the changes in fashions, changes in the manufacture of Court luxuries became necessary.

Reuben would advance with the times, his father would remain where he was before.

It was a plan which had been carefully considered by both father and son for long, and would have been earlier carried out had it not been for the disastrous stoppage of all trade during the visitation of the plague.
Now, however, London seemed as gay as ever.

Orders were pouring in.
It was wonderful how little the gaps in the ranks seemed to be heeded.

It was scarcely, even amongst the upper classes, that persons troubled to wear the deep mourning for departed friends which, under ordinary circumstances, they would have done.