The savings of a long minority alone amounted to a splendid fortune.
The young earl had vast estates in Scotland.

Lynnton Hall and Craig Castle, two of the finest seats in England, were his.

His mansion in Belgravia was the envy of all who saw it.
Young, almost fabulously wealthy, singularly generous and amiable, the young Earl of Airlie was the center of at least half a hundred of matrimonial plots; but he was not easily managed.

Mammas with blooming daughters found him a difficult subject.

He laughed, talked, danced, walked, and rode, as society wished him to do; but no one had touched his heart, or even his fancy.