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'My betters, scoffed the lady in blue, looking Kitty up and down with a disdainful smile on her painted face; 'where are they, I'd like to know? ''Ere, 'old your tongue, bleated Spilsby, angrily, 'or I'll tell the perlice at the corner. 'And much I care, retorted the shrill-voiced female, 'seeing he's a particular friend of mine.
He did not meet a single man he knew. The presence of the crowd which occupied the town during the absence of their betters annoyed him, for, like the rest of us, the education which he had received at school had made an aristocrat of him. In his first anger he had forgotten his hunger, but now it re-asserted itself.
An Election sermon was also preached. Boston had two Election Days. "Nigger 'Lection" was so called in distinction from Artillery Election. On the former anniversary day the election of the governor was formally announced, and the black population was allowed to throng the Common, to buy gingerbread and drink beer like their white betters.
The goodwife had intended to feed this young tramp with broken victuals in a corner, like any other tramp or like a dog; but she was so remorseful for the scolding she had given him, that she did what she could to atone for it by allowing him to sit at the family table and eat with his betters, on ostensible terms of equality with them; and the King, on his side, was so remorseful for having broken his trust, after the family had been so kind to him, that he forced himself to atone for it by humbling himself to the family level, instead of requiring the woman and her children to stand and wait upon him, while he occupied their table in the solitary state due to his birth and dignity.
"I just wish I could git discoorsin' wid that young feller," said old Felix, vindictively, "himself and his tassel in his cap." "Sure, man, 'twas no fault of his," said Mr. Polymathers, "and I can live widout a Degree, if that's all. Me betters did before me.
She's our betters now, and we be to take notice of the fact" "She'll have to learn and unlearn a good lot before she is to be spoke of as any one's 'betters. I hope while she is seeing the world she will get her eyes opened to her own faults; they will give her plenty to think of." "Keep me, woman! Such a way to go on about your own kin." "She is no kin to the Binnies.
See D. Alan Williams, "The Virginia Gentry and the Democratic Myth", Main Problems in American History, 3rd. ed. The liberal humanism of the planter gentry did much to assure the people that they had little to fear from their "betters". The gentry served because they believed in noblesse oblige with power and privilege went responsibility.
I can see it in his eyes, and hear it in his voice; but I am of tougher hide and stiffer clay, and so you see I can't die even if I tried. But I'll obey my betters, and wait." And so Jack went home to his parish that very evening, weary as he was, in spite of all entreaties to pass the night at Clovelly.
Be sure to tell your friends that. And tell them, too, Laban, that it would be well for them to leave matters of government to their betters and attend to their farms," and as Laban turned mechanically and walked back Sedgwick added, speaking to the gentlemen about him: "I like not this assembling of the people to discuss political matters.
I shall do just what my betters tell me to do." Phineas had now seated himself on the exact stone on which he had wished her to sit when he proposed to tell his own story, and was looking forth upon the lake. It seemed to him that everything had been changed for him while he had been up there upon the mountain, and that the change had been marvellous in its nature.
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