Every one looked on me as a noble being.

I call them China's "New Aristocracy".

Although this is far from being any kind of aristocracy, it's certainly not good.

The trouble was that Henry wanted money for causes that the English nobility did not see as benefiting their interests.

I found myself in a large room, where people were sitting at lunch or supper around small tables, as is the custom, I am told, at parties in the houses of our nobility and gentry.