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Gwynn; it discovered in him treasures of patricianism and a well-bred elegance. Since society insisted upon the enthronement of Mr. Gwynn, it would have been impolite, nay narrow, on my part to object. Besides, I recognized in it the essence of democracy and as an American rejoiced. 'By all means, said I, 'society shall have its excellent way. I can give it little, but I can give it Mr. Gwynn."
Ambrose began to suspect that he had ridden out on purpose to see him. The better men among the natives, such as Tole Grampierre, have a pride of their own; but they never presume to the same footing as the white men. Strange, however, talked as one gentleman to another. There was nothing blatant in it; he had a well-bred man's care for the prejudices of another.
For one thing, his jealousy had actually revived at the cool preference Kate had shown his old rival, Neville. "Oh!" said he, bitterly, "a man is not always his wife's favorite." "He does not always deserve to be," said Mrs. Gaunt, sternly. When matters had gone that length, one idea seemed to occur pretty simultaneously to all the well-bred guests; and that idea was, Sauve qui peut. Mrs.
If an exception seems to exist here in the case of a well-bred man, endowed with a delicate sense, this does not imply that he is a complete stranger to this instinct; but in his case the painful strength of compassion carries the day over this instinct, or it is kept under by the laws of decency.
There the assistant and an errand boy were unloading goods just arrived by cart, and behind the counter, reading a newspaper for it was early in the morning stood Mr. Jollyman himself. Seeing the young lady enter, he smiled and bowed; not at all with tradesmanlike emphasis, but rather, it seemed to Bertha, like a man tired and absent-minded, performing a civility in the well-bred way.
Pynsent listened as long as the duet lasted, and until Miss Amory began for herself, when he strode away. "What a nice, frank, amiable, well-bred girl that is, Wagg," said Mr. Pynsent to a gentleman who had come over with him from Baymouth "the tall one, I mean, with the ringlets and red lips monstrous red, ain't they?" "What do you think of the girl of the house?" asked Wagg.
A rather loud but well-bred exclamation of Madame de Grandmaison roused Amelie from her day-dream. "Not going to the Intendant's ball at the Palace, my Lady de Tilly! neither you nor Mademoiselle de Repentigny, whom we are so sorry not to have seen to-day? Why, it is to be the most magnificent affair ever got up in New France.
Soon there filed past us to supper the tall doctor and his little flock; some light and fair-skinned, with the easy step of a well-bred lady, others dark and bony-handed, but the strong, kind faces below the turbans told at a glance that you could trust your life there and find it again. They were not disturbed that night, and no certain information of our arrival got among them.
'Tisn't as if I didn't know the way, Bertram; and I'm sure that where that poor crippled woman and daughter are safe, I shall be. Mrs. Greggory is a lady, Bertram, well-born and well-bred, I'm sure and that's the pity of it, to have to live in a place like that! They have seen better days, I know.
He's aristocratic to the tips of his toes and English. That accounts for his rudeness. Sometimes, you know only sometimes Englishmen can be VERY rude! But I'd rather have them so it's a sort of well-bred clumsiness, like the manners of a Newfoundland dog. It's not the 'make-a-dollar' air of American men." "You are quite English yourself, aren't you?" queried her companion.
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