John quoted A Question of Inheritance by Elizabeth Edmondson (A Very English Mystery, #2)
December 1953
Hugo Hawksworth is on the tail of rogue Cold War agents at a …
I’ve been looking at the portraits in the gallery, all those ancestors. I suppose everyone has exactly the same number of ancestors as everyone else, but most people don’t have so many of them hanging on the wall.
— A Question of Inheritance by Elizabeth Edmondson (A Very English Mystery, #2) (Page 187)
This is another way of looking at Tennyson's Lady Clara Vere de Vere The Ggand old gardener and his wife, Smile at the claims of long descent.