They were truly lords of society.

I amused myself with running over in my mind the sum of the fortunes represented, and it ran well into the hundreds of millions.

And the possessors were not of the idle rich.

They were men of affairs who took most active parts in industrial and political life.
We were all seated when Miss Brentwood brought Ernest in.

They moved at once to the head of the room, from where he was to speak.