She had not been born in the purple, like Lady Glencora, her father being a country clergyman who had never reached a higher grade than that of an archdeacon; but she knew the ways of high life, and what an exigeant husband would demand of her, much better than poor Glencora. 
Her father had been a country clergyman; but she knew the ways of high life much better than poor Glencora. 