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It was a long time since I had been so much struck by anything as by an expression that a Hamburg lady, who had been to Copenhagen and had stayed there some time, used about the young Danish men, namely, that they had l'apparence chetive. I tried to persuade her that life in Copenhagen had only accidentally appeared so wretched to her; but I did not convince her in the least.
It was on an excursion into Normandy that they had met Mademoiselle de Maligny, the daughter of an impoverished gentleman of the chetive noblesse of that province. Both had loved her. She had preferred as women will the outward handsomeness of Viscount Rotherby to the sounder heart and brain that were Dick Everard's.
His family was of chétive noblesse, but well protected, and provided for by 'patent places. He was highly educated, took the degree of doctor of law, and wrote with acceptance on finance and literature.
Your lace-mender is too good for you, but not good enough for me; neither physically nor morally does she come up to my ideal of a woman. Your Mdlle. Henri is in person "chetive", in mind "sans caractere", compared with the queen of my visions.
The convent-bred Marie Charlotte Corday d'Armont was the daughter of a landless squire of Normandy, a member of the chétive noblesse, a man of gentle birth, whose sadly reduced fortune may have predisposed him against the law of entail or primogeniture the prime cause of the inequality out of which were sprung so many of the evils that afflicted France.
He happened to be standing at the door when the Boleskis were announced, and his light eyes devoured Harietta she seemed to him the ideal of things feminine and he immediately took steps to be presented. Assurance was one of his strongest cards. He was a fair man with the fairness of a Turk not European and there was something mean and chetive in his regard.
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