Her family--her beggarly family--turned their backs on her for marrying an honest man, who had made his own place and won his own fortune.

I had no ancestors.
I wasn't descended from a set of cut-throat scoundrels who lived by robbery and murder.

I couldn't point to the time when the Ablewhites hadn't a shirt to their backs, and couldn't sign their own names.

Ha! ha! I wasn't good enough for the Herncastles, when I married.

And now, it comes to the pinch, my son isn't good enough for YOU.