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"I suppose it is rather hard," Frank admitted; "but you won't be a boot-black always, I hope." "I'd just as lieves give it up for bankin', or cashier of a savings-bank," said Dick. "Them's light, genteel kinds of business, and don't dirty the hands." "Well, Dick, if I hear of an opening in either line I'll let you know. Now I must go and buy a trunk."
"Jessie smiled and nodded as if she was perfectly enchanted with the mistake," said Henrietta. "And I do not wonder at it," said Beatrice, "the mistake, I mean. Fred's white hands there have just the look of a doctor's; of course Roger thought the only use of them could be to feel pulses, and Philip, for want of something better to do, is always trying for a genteel look."
'And I was on the point of proving to her ladyship that in these days, when Art has become genteel, and even New Grub Street "decorates" her walls when success means not so much painting fine pictures as building fine houses to paint in the greatest compliment you can pay to a man of genius is surely to call him either a beggar or a madman.
"I really wonder at Mr. Danforth's bad taste. There are many boys of genteel family, who would have been glad of the chance. This boy is a low fellow of course." "Certainly," said her son, though he was quite aware that this was not true. "What could have brought the boy to Danforth's notice?" asked Dawkins, senior. "I don't know, I'm sure. The boy has managed to get round him in some way.
"Say 'were you, if you please, it is more euphonious Yes, I was at school in Leicester two years, and was called the best grammarian there, but since I've sojourned with this kind of people, I've nearly lost my refinement. To be sure I aim at exclusiveness, and now you've come I shall cut them all, with the exception of Uncle Peter, who would be rather genteel if he knew more of grammar."
But to go back for a moment to the time when Louis XVIII. was restored a second time to the throne of his father, and all the English who had money or leisure rushed over to the Continent. At that time there lived in a certain boarding-house at Brussels a lady who was called Mrs. Crabb; and her daughter, a genteel young widow, who bore the name of Mrs. Wellesley McCarty. Previous to this Mrs.
And to frequent shows and music-meetings with company is both more delightful and more genteel; because we take a great many witnesses, not of a luxurious and intemperate, but of a pleasant and respectable, manner of passing away our time.
Miss Pinwell, the proprietress of the extremely genteel seminary for young ladies, Queen Square quite an aristocratic retreat some two hundred years ago was pacing the school-room. Her cold, sharp eyes roamed over the shapely heads black, golden, brown, auburn, flaxen of some thirty girls eager to detect any sign of levity and prompt to inflict summary punishment.
Once this delicious practice had been indulged in, you may be sure it did not end with a single experience, but as thereafter the bonne bouche or finish of all our after-orgies. My beloved wife, whose eye for a capable man was infallible, had observed a genteel, tall, good-looking young German waiter in the hotel, who looked superior to his place.
People in different stations in England entertain different ideas of what is genteel, but it must be something gorgeous, glittering, or tawdry, to be considered genteel by any of them.
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