I don't think I'm a snob--" "Of course you're a snob, Wilsey." Mr.Wilsey smiled temperately.
"What do you mean by the word ?" It was a question about which Lanley had been thinking, and he answered: "I mean a person who values himself for qualities that have no moral, financial, or intellectual value whatsoever.

You, for instance, Wilsey, value yourself not because you are a pretty good lawyer, but because your great-grandfather signed the Declaration." A shade of slight embarrassment crossed the lawyer's face.
"I own," he said, "that I value birth, but so do you, Lanley.

You attach importance to being a New York Lanley." "I do," answered Lanley; "but I have sense enough to be ashamed of doing so.

You're proud of being proud of your old Signer." "As a matter of fact," Mr.Wilsey remarked slowly, "Josiah Wilsey did not sign the Declaration." "What!" cried Lanley.

"You've always told me he did." Wilsey shook his head gently, as one who went about correcting errors.
"No.