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There was not even one of these at hand, or my halfpenny would have been paid under protest; so I had to wander like a lost sprite among the network of semi-genteel streets that skirt that most ungenteel thoroughfare, the Kensal New Town Road, and forthwith I began to find the neighbourhood papered with placards, announcing a "Tea and Experience Meeting" at a local hall, under the presidency of the Free Church pastor, for the following Monday evening.
"Nor I neither, madam," cries Sophia. "I must say he behaved very handsomely in relation to my note." "Yes; and he is a very handsome fellow," said the lady: "don't you think so?" "I did not take much notice of him," answered Sophia, "but I thought he seemed rather awkward, and ungenteel than otherwise."
Some were wonderfully well pleased with this order; others blamed it as unsociable and ungenteel, and were of the opinion that, as soon as I was out of my office, the manner of entertainments ought to be reformed; for, says Hagias, we invite one another not barely to eat and drink, but to eat and drink together.
Ay, that I will! for who should know manners better than me, who used to work for the Staniers, and dine at the housekeeper's table, with the butler and all the head servants? to be sure I'll take care that she does not grow up ungenteel. Where is the dear child, brother James?" "She's gone out for a walk this fine morning," he answered. "Not alone?" cried Charlotte. "Who's gone out with her?
Besides, it requires little strength to use this," he added, laying his hand on a pistol. "If that were all, I could suit you there, my lad," muttered the stranger. He continued aloud, "Well, what is your will with me? D d ungenteel treatment this! But put your questions; and, to oblige you, I may answer them, if so be that I know anything of the matter."
She still sat in her nursery with her younger children as much as possible, darning all the stockings of the family; an occupation which Adeline thought very ungenteel, for she never condescended to use her needle at all. To make Mrs. Taylor a fine lady had been one of the least successful of Mr.
To explain what I mean: his boots had evidently seen much service, and had been re-topped, re-heeled, re-soled to the extent of cobbler's powers. Why should he have come in them if they were not his best his only pair? And what can be more ungenteel than poverty?
D-n him, he's starting his cargo! I see the good Nantz pitching overboard, keg after keg! that's a d-d ungenteel thing of Mr. Hatteraick, as I shall let him know by and by. Now, now! they've got the wind of him! that's it, that's it! Hark to him, hark to him! Now, my dogs! now, my dogs! hark to Ranger, hark!"
We went into one or two of the beer-halls not into the swell cafes, crowded with tourists and Munich masherdom, but into the low-ceilinged, smoke-grimed cellars where the life of the people is to be seen. The ungenteel people in a country are so much more interesting than the gentlefolks. One lady or gentleman is painfully like every other lady or gentleman.
My father had gone out to see some sick people in the parish; I recollect seeing him leave the house with his wig and shovel-hat and cane. What possessed our poor Peter I don't know; he had the sweetest temper, and yet he always seemed to like to plague Deborah. She never laughed at his jokes, and thought him ungenteel, and not careful enough about improving his mind; and that vexed him.
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