It needs none of the parvenu's _hauteur_ and pomp to support his dignity.

Every tenant is treated alike.
On small estates there is sometimes a complaint that the largest tenant is petted while the lesser are harshly treated.

Nothing of that is known here.

The tenants are as well content as it is possible for men to be who are passing under the universal depression.

_Noblesse oblige_--it would be impossible for that ancient house to stoop to meanness.