Some of the most unexceptionable women in the neighborhood occasionally went to see the hounds throw off; but it happened that none of them were present this morning to abstain from following, while Mrs. Gadsby, with her doubtful antecedents, grammatical and otherwise, was not visible to make following seem unbecoming. 
Some of the most respectable women in the neighbourhood occasionally went to see the hounds throw off; but none of them were present this morning. 