You see, I am the last in the line of a very old family.

Others of the old families will not talk to you about them.

He comes from an old family, and is an only child.

But some people just are like that - especially in old families.

I myself am of an old family, and to live in a new house would kill me.

In all our section there was only one other old American family.

"But what have we to learn from the records of old families?"

His secretary, now, comes from an old family, but no money.

"He will only do it for the old families, not the companies."

"And of what old family can that not be said?"