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Class distinction can hardly be said to exist; there are employers and employed, masters and servants, of course, but the line of demarcation is lightly drawn, and we find an easy familiarity wholly free from impoliteness, much less vulgarity, existing between them. That automatic demureness characterizing English servants in the presence of their employers, is wholly unknown here.
Meanwhile, the tall man had put the green bag up on the rack, gone quickly to the far side of the carriage, and sat down looking out of the window. Domini was struck by the mixture of indecision and blundering haste which he had shown, and by his impoliteness.
Disagreeable feelings would rise when she remembered the impoliteness, the half-sneer, the whole taunt, and the real unkindness of several of the young party. She found herself ready to be irritated, inclined to dislike the sight of those, even wishing to visit some sort of punishment upon them.
It was in the midst of this occupation that Madame Bordin accosted him one day on the high-road. When she had complimented him, she inquired about his friend. He replied curtly, and turned his back on her an impoliteness of which Bouvard disapproved. Then the bad weather came on, with frost and snow.
"Very likely he can play better than Paul Beck," said Maria not because she thought so, but because she knew it would tease her partner. "Don't be a fool, Maria," said Jedidiah, scarcely conscious of the impoliteness of his speech. The young lady, however, resented it at once. "I am sure you are very polite, Mr. Jedidiah Burbank so polite that I think you had better find another partner!"
Miltoun would not have obeyed that invitation from anyone else, but there was something about Lord Dennis which people did not resist; his power lay in a dry ironic suavity which could not but persuade people that impoliteness was altogether too new and raw a thing to be indulged in. The two sat side by side on the roots of trees.
"Thank you, Mr. Force," she muttered, and was guiltily conscious of impoliteness. Frederick snickered. "I I don't want to," she went on, spurred to defiance by her brother's action. "Why not?" demanded Mr. Force coaxingly. "Oh because," said Kathleen, almost surlily. "Don't you like me, Kathleen?" "Yes, sir," said she, but without enthusiasm. "Would you like to see what I've got for you?
The Tommy then started to run; the German thought he must keep up with his captor and Tommy realized that the joke was on him, just as the bomb went off and killed them both. Such stories are innumerable. They are probably untrue. But they indicate what men at war think is funny; they reflect a certain impoliteness and lack of courtesy that prevails in war.
"Look, look, how he talks her down purposely poor woman, she will go back to the city beaten." "But no! That would be an impoliteness on his part." "Who is this handsome young man with golden hair?" asked some woman. "Young Darvid. The son of the great financier. How young! He is a child." "A man with millions ripens quickly, like a peach in sunlight." "What language are they speaking?
He was a dales-man born and bred, shrewd, much given to silence, but with a plenitude of genial good sense. He began by being somewhat suspicious of us after the usual country fashion. When he at last understood the sincerity and novelty of our intentions, he treated us with a kind of fatherly derision, which had no hint of impoliteness or impertinence in it.
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