They read the assurance in their mother's speech, in her looks; and, moving among the Epworth folk as neighbours, yet apart, they had acquired a high pride of family which derived nothing from vulgar chatter about titled, rich and far-off relatives; but, taking ancestry for granted, found sustenance enough in the daily life at the parsonage and the letters from Westminster and Oxford.
"Hetty Wesley"
Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch
In prestige the titled classes have profited thereby, and although their position is less and less dependent upon court favour, the royal family has also profited directly.
"The Government of England (Vol. I)"
A. Lawrence Lowell
In a few years I should leave her young, rich, titled, and free to choose some more suitable companion than the old man she had tended to his grave.
"The Master of the Ceremonies"
George Manville Fenn