It supplied them with a new amusement, telling how the attractive marchioness had become a "Methodist."

Why should we not, in solider things, derive more aid, like the poor little "Marchioness" of Dickens, from this blessed power of imagination?

These were the dandies of the Chapter, the young canons, who often made journeys to Madrid to confess their patronessesancient marchionesses who, by dint of influence, had gained for them a seat in the choir.