You've been a viscount ever since I come into the title, and then he went on and explained what he wanted cut on his tombstone, and had my grandfather write it out, so there couldn't be any mistake.
When he'd passed away, my grandfather took the title.

He said it made him feel mighty solemn and grand-like, and it come over him all at once why it was his father hadn't no heart fo' work." "Does it always take 'em that way ?" inquired Yancy.
"It takes the Earls of Lambeth that way.

I reckon you might say it was hereditary with 'em.

Where was I at ?" "Your grandpap, the second earl," prompted Polly.
"Oh, yes--well, he 'lowed he'd emigrate back to England, but while he was studying how he could do this, along come the war.

He said he couldn't afford to fight agin his king, so he pulled out and crossed the mountings to avoid being drug into the army.