Excerpt from Vanity Fair, Vol. 2
Our friends at Brompton were meanwhile passing their Christmas after their fashion, and in a manner by no means too cheerful.
Out of the hundred pounds a year, which was about the amount of her income, the widow Osborne had been in the habit of giving up nearly three-fourths to her father and mother, for the expenses of herself and her little boy.
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