Nobody knew this better than Lord Holmhurst, and to a person fond of observing such things nothing could have been more curious to notice than the small, but gradual increase of the pomposity of his manner, as the great ship day by day steamed further from England and nearer to the country where he was King.

It went up, degree by degree, like a thermometer which is taken down into the bowels of the earth or gradually removed into the sunlight.

At present, however, the thermometer was only rising.
"I was repeating, my Lord," said the harsh voice of Mr.Meeson, "that the principle of an hereditary peerage is the grandest principle our country has yet developed.

It gives us something to look forward to.

In one generation we make the money; in the next we take the title which the money buys.