Most of them were the children of rich parents, but on the whole they were the un-aristocratic rich, the sort of people who live in huge shrubberied houses in Bournemouth or Richmond, and who have cars and butlers but not country estates.

As among the Yoruba, Vodouisants must also recognize Bondye as the first and the last.

About a week afterwards she said to him, point-blank, “Are you seriously making love to your little cousin?”

Other very different styles of fabric are now indifferently called muslins, and the term is used differently on the respective sides of the Atlantic.