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She was laughed at a good deal, and considered rather upstartish for doing so; but nevertheless, on Thursdays the friends came, being sure of a good dish of gossip as well as sugared and creamed tea and home-made cakes in abundance. On Thursdays Mrs. Bell put on every ring and ornament she possessed.
L. T. Meade - The Honorable Miss: A Story of an Old-Fashioned Town

Something she had heard of Lady Augustus, but chiefly from Mrs. Hopkins who certainly had not admired her master's future mother-in-law. Nor had Arabella been popular; but of her Mrs. Hopkins had only dared to say that she was very handsome and "a little upstartish."
Anthony Trollope - The American Senator
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