high-life

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He hunted up high-life gossip for Mrs Blackmore; he admired the solicitor's law-stories after dinner; he was the humble servant of all the young ladies in turn, but his chief devoirs were paid to the fast Maria. The reason was that the fast Maria would have it so.

Various - Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 418 : Volume 17, New Series, January 3, 1852