Excerpt from The Next of Kin, Vol. 2: A Novel in Three Volumes

If money can procure a luxury, why should the rich man be long without it, and when damasks and velvets hang in graceful folds around his rooms, and chandeliers glitter and sparkle above his head, while his feet sink into the soft pile of his carpet, and his coffee is handed to him on a silver salver, he may feel as supremely happy as any modern Fortunatus can be expected to feel, that is, if his dear friends and neighbours are looking on and envying him as much as he wishes them.

Some of our dinner parties are grand affairs, indeed seldom less than half a dozen courses, consisting of every delicacy in and out of season - hot-house fruit in profusion, and nothing drank but the most expensive wines.

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