The advantage of being heir to a good property is so manifest,--the advantages over and beyond those which are merely fiscal,--that no man thinks of throwing them away, or expects another man to do so.

Moneys in possession or in expectation do give a set to the head, and a confidence to the voice, and an assurance to the man, which will help him much in his walk in life--if the owner of them will simply use them, and not abuse them.
And for Bernard Dale I will say that he did not often talk of his uncle the earl.

He was conscious that his uncle was an earl, and that other men knew the fact.

He knew that he would not otherwise have been elected at the Beaufort, or at that most aristocratic of little clubs called Sebright's.

When noble blood was called in question he never alluded specially to his own, but he knew how to speak as one of whom all the world was aware on which side he had been placed by the circumstances of his birth.