You are bound up in all the recognizances of your wealth to dine stupidly, sup languidly, and sink down at last into a marriage of convenience,-to make a wife of her whom 'her Grace' has chosen for you without a single speculation in the contract save the thought of the earl you will be allied to, and the four noble families you 'll have the right to go in mourning for.
"The Martins Of Cro' Martin, Vol. II (of II)"
Charles James Lever
A pause-then "Did the earl of Twinkerton have hot or cold baths?"
"Fortitude"
Hugh Walpole
Grandfather, I may be an earl some day.
"The Maid of Maiden Lane"
Amelia E. Barr