#stanhopes

I just got this ad extolling the wonders of a new invention to imbed photographs into tiny beads of glass that you can carry with you, or hide in objects, that is to say, what is clearly STANHOPES, aka the hot new fad of 1857, lol.

The great family characteristic of the Stanhopes might probably be said to be heartlessness, but this want of feeling was, in most of them, accompanied by so great an amount of good nature as to make itself but little noticeable to the world. They were so prone to oblige their neighbours that their neighbours failed to perceive how indifferent to them was the happiness and well-being of those around them. The Stanhopes would visit you in your sickness (provided it were not contagious), would bring you oranges, French novels, and the last new bit of scandal, and then hear of your death or your recovery with an equally indifferent composure. Their conduct to each other was the same as to the world; they bore and forbore; and there was sometimes, as will be seen, much necessity for forbearing; but their love among themselves rarely reached above this. It is astonishing how much each of the family was able to do, and how much each did, to prevent the well-being of the other four.

"Well, Madeline, so I'm going to be married," Bertie began as soon as the servants had withdrawn. "There's no other foolish thing left that you haven't done," said Madeline, "and therefore you are quite right to try that."

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