Sink or Swim? , Volume I

"How like my mother to be patronising this wedding -- just the thing she is certain to do! That sort of popularity costs nothing -- not five shillings, or trust Milady for staying away."

"O, but, Arthur, you forget the present," said Kate Vavasour -- "the present that cost, O, _such_ a quantity of money! -- mamma did not say how much. But it's a brooch like a bull's-eye, only flat, with a white stripe across it; and it came from the jeweller's at Leigh, with several others to choose from, and mamma kept the biggest. She said it was ‘just the thing,' but I can't say that I admired it much."