A slight tremor shook her, which he did not notice.
"Yes, dear," she said.

"I allow that Combers have had for many generations a sort of acquisitive cunning, for all we possess has come to us by exceedingly prudent marriages.

They have also--I am an exception here--the gift of not saying very much, which certainly has an impressive effect, even when it arises from not having very much to say.
They are sticky; they attract wealth, and they have the force called vis inertiae, which means that they invest their money prudently.

You should hear Tony--well, perhaps you had better not hear Tony.

But now here is Michael showing that he has got tastes.