Daughters of the Rich by Edgar Saltus

The People in It / Gerard Welden, M. F. H., An American sportsman / Maud Barhyte, a New York girl of the fashionable set / Sally Malakoff, afterward Mrs. Welden / The Duc de Malakoff, Sally's first husband / Mrs. Kandy, Sally's mother, a rich widow / General Barhyte, Maud's father, a rich widower / The Comte de Dol, a French sportsman / The Marquis Aquaviva, an Italian sportsman / Prince Kara, a Russian sportsman / Lord Ferrers, an English sportsman / Mull Cantire, undersecretary, British Embassy, Paris / Mme. Oppensheim, a mondaine / Mme. de Cérisy, another mondaine / The Princesse de Solférino, a third mondaine / Louis Le Hillel, a swordsman / Baron Louradour, another swordsman / Dr. Binet-Valmer, one of the lights of French science / Society people, maîtres d'hôtel, footmen, chauffeurs, trainers, stable lads, surgeons, lawyers, a coroner, a chief of police

"Nearly a crumpler," said a fat-faced man to Welden, whose horse, stumbling in the main street of Santa Barbara, had almost sat down.