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The men , thinks he , are not such as they used to be in his time : the old grand manner and courtly grace of life are gone : what is Castlewood House and the present Castlewood , compared to the magnificence of the old mansion and owner ? The late lord came to London with four post-chaises and sixteen horses : all the North Road hurried out to look at his cavalcade : the people in London streets even stopped as his procession passed them . The present lord travels with five bagmen in a railway carriage , and sneaks away from the station , smoking a cigar in a brougham . The late lord in autumn filled Castlewood with company , who drank claret till midnight : the present man buries himself in a hut on a Scotch mountain , and passes November in two or three closets in an entresol at Paris , where his amusements are a dinner at a café and a box at a little theatre . What a contrast there is between _ his _ Lady Lorraine , the Regent 's Lady Lorraine , and her little ladyship of the present era ! He figures to himself the first , beautiful , gorgeous , magnificent in diamonds and velvets , daring in rouge , the wits of the world -LRB- the old wits , the old polished gentlemen -- not the _ canaille _ of to-day with their language of the cab-stand , and their coats smelling of smoke -RRB- bowing at her feet ; and then thinks of to-day 's Lady Lorraine -- a little woman in a black silk gown , like a governess , who talks astronomy , and laboring classes , and emigration , and the deuce knows what , and lurks to church at eight o'clock in the morning . Abbots-Lorraine , that used to be the noblest house in the county , is turned into a monastery -- a regular La Trappe .