"Then," said Violet, "I must have some very erroneous notions of your English mansions."
"The Greater Power"
Harold Bindloss W. Herbert Dunton
The mass of the people is a proletariat; they are thronged in large towns; every tenth person is a pauper; and the great mansions of the rich cast an evil shadow into the crowded dens of the wretched.
"Contemporary Socialism"
John Rae
The men who are strong in doubt, as well as in the world's battles, come to that conclusion when they remember that there can be no other reward for such as you and Silas Davy, for your weakness is so unfit for this life that it must be a burden which can only be reckoned in your favor in the Master's house where there are many mansions.
"The Mystery of the Locks"
Edgar Watson Howe