He says the Petworth property meant _everything_ to the Armstrongs, to _his_ branch of the Armstrongs.

But for that, they might have been any other kind of Armstrong--it always kept him straight at school and in the army, he says, to remember he was an Armstrong of Petworth.
They have held that poor little property (_I_ call it) alongside the Egmonts and the Leconfields for three hundred years, though they've been miserably poor.

His second name is James--Petworth James Armstrong.

But he loathes being called 'Jimmy.' "Of course, dear, I've no illusions.

I'm not bad to look at--indeed I sometimes quite admire my figure when I see myself after my bath in the cheval glass--but I'm pretty well sure that one of the factors in Pet's admiration for me was my income.