They spend enormously--seldom ostentatiously--but they are more than likely to add some of their income every year to their principal.

They have better houses in town and in the country than I had imagined.

They spend vast fortunes in making homes in which they expect to live forever--generation after generation.
To an American democrat the sad thing is the servile class.

Before the law the chimney sweep and the peer have exactly the same standing.

They have worked that out with absolute justice.