Colonel Silas Lapham, a self-made tycoon, has risen from a Vermont farm to wealth as a paint manufacturer. He moves his family to Boston where he builds a mansi... » 

Colonel Silas Lapham, a self-made tycoon, has risen from a Vermont farm to wealth as a paint manufacturer. He moves his family to Boston where he builds a mansion, and urges his wife and daughters to enter Brahmin society. Alas, there are difficulties because the family are nouveau riche. «