Tales Of A Traveller, By Washington Irving

















































































































 -  The doctor's and lawyer's ladies
held their heads still higher; but they in their turn were kept in
check by - Page 237
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The Doctor's And Lawyer's Ladies Held Their Heads Still Higher; But They In Their Turn Were Kept In Check By

The wife of a country banker, who kept her own carriage; while a masculine widow of cracked character, and second-

Hand fashion, who lived in a large house, and was in some way related to nobility, looked down upon them all. She had been exiled from the great world, but here she ruled absolute. To be sure her manners were not over-elegant, nor her fortune over-large; but then, sir, her blood - oh, her blood carried it all hollow, there was no withstanding a woman with such blood in her veins.

After all, she had frequent battles for precedence at balls and assemblies, with some of the sturdy dames of the neighborhood, who stood upon their wealth and their reputations; but then she had two dashing daughters, who dressed as fine as dragons, and had as high blood as their mother, and seconded her in everything. So they carried their point with high heads, and every body hated, abused, and stood in awe of the Fantadlins.

Such was the state of the fashionable world in this self-important little town. Unluckily I was not as well acquainted with its politics as I should have been. I had found myself a stranger and in great perplexities during my first season; I determined, therefore, to put myself under the patronage of some powerful name, and thus to take the field with the prejudices of the public in my favor.

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