Excerpt from Collection of British Authors, Vol. 2 of 2: Tauchntz Edition
May has arrived, and Cardigan Place has put on a holiday garb to welcome the advent of Lady Mountcarron, who is to spend a week with her parents, preparatory to taking up her residence in her town-house for the season.
Her husband comes with her, but he is quite a secondary consideration. An earl may be put anywhere - in the attics, if he is a bachelor, and there is no better accommodation for him; but a countess is quite a different matter. The honours of a coronet all fall in the female line, and Mrs. Fuller could not have taken more trouble to make her house fit to receive the Countess of Mountcarron if Gladys had been an utter stranger to her, instead of her own child.
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