Once upon a time there were the Monday Club Empire faction, and the third one was sort of the social liberals.

曾几何时，有星期一俱乐部帝国派系，第三派是社会自由主义者。

Their intimacy was now considerable, and it may appear that for a shrinking and retiring person our heroine had been liberal of her favours.

他们现在非常亲密，对于一个畏缩和隐退的人来说，我们的女主人公似乎对她的恩惠很慷慨。