Habits of the House

who had made his fortune in the sixties in the Newcastle coalfields. If Dilberne had married her to spite his brothers, who had married with more propriety into landed families, which at the time she had rather assumed was the case – he had come to love and value her most d

Dilberne well, and had certainly lent him enough money in the past to want the debt repaid, and the sooner his Lordship’s affairs were in order the sooner that would happen. But while Eric Baum pulled and pulled the

s. Mr Eddie had not yet had word from Grace to the effect that the O’Brien girl was to have her reputation protected.

One has to take men with a pinch of salt

You’d best go abroad and buy yourself some toff who doesn’t know your history. Your mother would like an outing. And a title in the family is good for business.’

The bloodline was sullied. One had to marry a virgin, and Flora was certainly not that.

Wealth will make up for a good deal, but not everything

The wealthy could afford to be haughty: the poor needed friends, and the more influential the better.

Old wealth and new wealth would never speak the same language

One may smile, and smile, and be a villain