The Hunchback of Notre Dame by Book 6 Chapter 3 Page 2

grenadiers of the imperial guard of Russia, announced that they belonged to that class wives which holds the middle ground between what the lackeys call a woman and what they term a lady. They wore neither rings nor gold crosses, and it was easy to see that, in their ease, this did not proceed from poverty, but simply from fear of being fined.

Their companion was attired in very much the same manner; but there was that indescribable something about her dress and bearing which suggested the wife of a provincial notary. One could see, by the way in which her girdle rose above her hips, that she had not been long in Paris. — Add to this a plaited tucker, knots of ribbon on her shoes — and that the stripes of her petticoat ran horizontally instead of vertically, and a thousand other enormities which shocked good taste.