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You must have many gifts; any one who talks with you must see that at once. And you play quite nicely, too." "I am sorry that my profession sticks in your throat," she answered. "Do be thankful that I am nothing worse than a tuner. For I might be something worse a snob, for instance." And, so speaking, she dashed after a butterfly, and left him to recover from her words.
The Irishman is neither poet enough nor snob enough to be swept away by those smooth social and historical tides and tendencies which carry Radicals and Labour members comfortably off their feet. He goes on asking for a thing because he wants it; and he tries really to hurt his enemies because they are his enemies. This is the first of the queer confusions which make the hard Irishman look soft.
HE WHO MEANLY ADMIRES MEAN THINGS IS A SNOB perhaps that is a safe definition of the character. And this is why I have, with the utmost respect, ventured to place The Snob Royal at the head of my list, causing all others to give way before him, as the Flunkeys before the royal representative in Kensington Gardens.
The resemblance between father and son is something even closer than that usually noticed between relatives. The son looks a good deal more gentlemanly than the father. But the single eyeglass which no man can wear without looking more or less of a snob is even less becoming to the youthful Austen than to the parent; and gives him even a coarser air.
It happened to me not so long ago to be travelling in company of which I was very much ashamed; and to be ashamed of one's company is to be a snob. Florence Barclay. In order to do this I had to study the works of these famous authors, and for many week-ends in succession I might have been seen travelling to, or returning from, the country with a couple of their books under my arm.
It has never occurred to 'Red' or Hicks that they are not welcome at the table, and I fear that they would be greatly offended if I should suggest " Mrs. Stott drew herself up haughtily. "That is no concern of mine, Wallie. It is a matter of principle with me to keep servants in their places. I am not a snob, but " "Sh-ss-sh!" Wallie looked over his shoulder in Hicks' direction.
So, at least, said Scoutbush to himself, when his visitor had departed. "He's just like a page out of Sponge's Tour, though he's not half as good a fellow as Sponge himself; for Sponge knew he was a snob, and lived up to his calling honestly: but this fellow wants all the while to play at being a gentleman; and Ugh! how the fellow smelt of brandy, and worse!
'And we, at any rate, had better drop talking of snobs, said Felix. 'Hollo, Felix! I am sure you for one would not be a snob if you had turned chimney-sweeper, and let Tom Underwood nail me to his office; he'll never make one of me! 'I trust so, said Felix; 'but it is not the way to keep from it to throw about the word at other folks. 'What's that? cried Alda.
If they can get more out of us, or catch us shirking, that's one to them. All's fair in war but lying. If I run my luck against theirs, and go into school without looking at my lessons, and don't get called up, why am I a snob or a sneak? I don't tell the master I've learnt it. He's got to find out whether I have or not. What's he paid for?
The British Snob is long, long past scepticism, and can afford to laugh quite good-humouredly at those conceited Yankees, or besotted little Frenchmen, who set up as models of mankind. THEY forsooth! I have been led into these remarks by listening to an old fellow at the Hotel du Nord, at Boulogne, and who is evidently of the Slasher sort.
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