"Must even the old titles of the country be buttressed into respectability with money?
Away in quiet places, reading old history books, we peasants are accustomed to think differently.

If some millionaire money-lender were to buy the old keep of Arundel castle, you would respect him just as much as the present earl!" "I would not," said Mr.Graeme.

"I confess you have the better of me .-- But is there not a fallacy in your argument ?" he added, thinkingly.
"I believe not.

If the title is worth nothing without the money, the money must be more than the title!--If I were Lazarus," Donal went on, "and the inheritor of a title, I would use it, if only for a lesson to Dives up stairs.

I scorn to think that honour should wait on the heels of wealth.