Mind you, aunt, I am not glad that I belong to it.

I think I do understand about it all, and will do my best.
But Jack would have made a better Earl than I shall do.

That's the truth." "The Lord God has placed you,--and you must pray to Him that He will enable you to do your duty in that state of life to which it has pleased Him to call you.

You are here and must bear his decree; and whether it be a privilege to enjoy, you must enjoy it, or a burden to bear, you must endure it." "It is so of course." "Knowing that, you must know also how incumbent it is upon you not to defile the stock from which you are sprung." "I suppose it has been defiled," said Fred, who had been looking into the history of the family.

"The ninth Earl seems to have married nobody knows whom.