E. F. Benson 
Colin [PDF ebook] 

In Elizabethan times, Colin Stanler, first Earl of Yardley, made a certain Satanic bargain, ensuring to himself, and those of his descendants who did not personally repudiate it, boundless prosperity at the traditional price of the Faust legend. The story relates how, three hundred years later, at the present day, young Colin Stanler of the direct line confirms the deed executed by his ancestor.