Their physiognomies were such as inspire benevolence and command respect.

To complete their outward resemblance to the patriarchs, nothing was needed but children and grandchildren.

Nature had given them one son--an only one, because they had not solicited Nature for more.

They would have thought it criminal improvidence to divide their fortune among several.
Unhappily, this only child, the heir-presumptive to so many millions, died at the University of Heidelberg from eating too many sausages.

He set out, when he was twenty, for that Valhalla of German students, where they eat infinite sausages, and drink inexhaustible beer; where they sing songs of eight hundred million verses, and gash the tips of each other's noses with huge swords.