ABSTRACT
Lord Danesforte now added frequently to the number of visitors which the return of Lady Newenden had brought to Denham. Gaiety and amusement reigned in the house: and Mr. and Mrs. Maltravers, who were sometimes there, by no means checked the dissipation of their daughter; but seemed to consider it as one of the privileges of great fortune to be insensible of the weaknesses of humanity and the prejudices of the vulgar. Ethelinde, who from the circumstances of her father, which were now too well known, began to be considered as a dependent, was sometimes wholly neglected by the lady of the house; and when she was noticed, it was done in such a way as gave the other visitors to understand, that notwithstanding her noble birth, she had very little on which to value herself, but the protection and assistance of her opulent relations.
