If he wins a difficult case, he does it naturally, because he is a Rawdon.

He is handsome, gentlemanly, honorable, even a perfect horseman, all because, being a Rawdon, he was by nature and inheritance compelled to such perfection.

It is very provoking, Dora, and if I were you I would not allow Basil to begin a song about 'the English Stanhopes.' Aunt Ruth and I get very tired often of the English Rawdons, and are really thankful for the separating Atlantic." "I don't think I shall feel in that way, Ethel.

I like the nobility; so does father, he says the Dennings are a fine old family." "Why talk of genealogies when there is such a man as Basil Stanhope to consider?
Let us grant him perfection and agree that he is to marry you in the Spring; well then, there is the ceremony, and the wedding garments! Of course it is to be a church wedding ?" "We shall be married in Basil's own church.

I can hardly eat or sleep for thinking of the joy and the triumph of it! There will be women there ready to eat their hearts with envy--I believe indeed, Ethel, that every woman in the church is in love with Basil." "You have said that before, and I am sure you are wrong.