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When we reached the station, however, I found Martin waiting on the platform in front of the compartment that was labelled with our name. I thought my father was even more brusque with him than before, and the Bishop, who was to travel with us, was curt almost to rudeness.
In England we are rude to those weaker than ourselves; in America the rudeness is apt to be directed against those whom we suspect to be in some way our superior. Man is regarded by man rather as an object of interest than as an object of suspicion.
At any other time she would have remembered that the plainest laws of good breeding compelled him to wait for Romayne's return. His own knowledge of the world would tell him that an act of gross rudeness, committed by a well-bred man, would inevitably excite suspicion of some unworthy motive and might, perhaps, connect that motive with her unexpected appearance at the house.
Breakfast over, she accosted Garth straightway with a cheerful morning greeting: and from that moment, to the time of their departure, she took charge of him, gently yet irresistibly; keeping him well away from Quita's neighbourhood; and so isolating him that he could not desert her without open rudeness: proceedings that at once mystified and flattered him, as Honor herself was delightedly aware.
This porter's name was Gruffanuff, and he had been selected for the post by their Royal Highnesses because he was a very tall fierce man, who could say 'Not at home' to a tradesman or an unwelcome visitor with a rudeness which frightened most such persons away.
"She is quite a monster, I can tell you a monster of ingratitude, wickedness, and rudeness, and I don't see how we can keep her any longer with our own children." "But I am afraid, my dear wife, we cannot get David Delaney back now; he must have reached the Himalayas by this time." "Poor fellow!" said Mrs. Dolman, "I pity him for being the father of such a very bad little girl."
Very sensitive to rudeness or unkindness, his feelings were not permitted to override his duty of perseverance: and while he dearly loved peace, he was not ready to buy it at the cost of something more valuable than itself. While he might be slow to see his duty, yet once seen, it would not escape him again.
Even his two lieutenants gazed at him in amazement, that he should make so much of an action which they themselves had endured and nothing said of it. Surely the laying-on of hands, even in rudeness, was not a capital crime, yet they saw to their astonishment that Roland was in deadly earnest. The leader turned a calm face toward their scrutiny, but there was a frown upon his brow.
Nevertheless, since God so willed it, there were other occupations that the boy could follow. More insupportable by far was the screaming fury of this woman, which, he feared, might lead her to disgrace her relatives by overt rudeness towards the English missionaries. He said: "The flush of anger well becomes thee. By Allah, it enriches thy dark beauty, like the bloom on purple grapes."
They just stood and stared with a sort of mocking. And of course they understood, for I got my question all ready beforehand. I longed to hit them, I who don't ever want to hit anybody, I whom you've so often reprimanded for being too friendly. But the meekest lamb, a lamb dripping with milk and honey, would turn into a lion if its polite approaches were met with such wanton rudeness.
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