"Of Levitic extraction, and born at a time when by kingly edict had been decreed the drowning of every new male offspring among the"
"Fils de sang, m blood-son; “turned” male offspring of a vampire."
"Strong-minded Brother Sextus aside, the whole trouble with the Julius Caesars was their tendency to breed more than one son, and then turn sentimental about the predicament more than one son embroiled them in; they were never able to rule their hearts, give up some of their too-profuse male offspring for adoption, and see that the children they kept married into lots of money."