NOBLESSE OBLIGE • E-FREE TRANSLATION.COM • Definition of Noblesse oblige

... Vance for help. She was ill, without money, and asked for work. To him she was known as the last of a long line of people who had always been professional mediums and spiritualists, and, out of charity and from a sense of noblesse oblige to one of the elect of the profession, Vance had made her his assistant. He had never regretted having done so. The bread cast upon the waters was returned a thousandfold. From the first, the girl brought in money. And his wife, ...

— Vera - The Medium • Richard Harding Davis