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Barnum afterward, "entirely at ease in her presence, and could not avoid contrasting her sensible and amiable manners with the stiffness and formality of upstart gentility at home or abroad. "The Queen was modestly attired in plain black, and wore no ornaments.
These are they in whose estimation wealth and distinction only gain their proper flavor their bouquet, so to speak by resting stagnant for three generations, for gentility, like game, acquires an admirable highness by the lapse of time.
Their engagements at Exeter instantly gave way before such an invitation, and Lady Middleton was thrown into no little alarm on the return of Sir John, by hearing that she was very soon to receive a visit from two girls whom she had never seen in her life, and of whose elegance whose tolerable gentility even she could have no proof; for the assurances of her husband and mother on that subject went for nothing at all.
Kendal's house was for more gentility called 'Willow Lawn. Gilbert was not to be found; but at four o'clock the whole party met at dinner, before the evening service. Gilbert could eat little, and on going back to the fire to roast his cheek instead of going to church, was told by his father, 'I cannot have this going on. You must go to Mr.
I raged at your incessant pretensions to gentility because I knew you to be so much more than a gentleman. Oh, it infuriated me how long ago it was! to see you cringing to the Court blockheads, and running their errands, and smirkingly pocketing their money, and wheedling them into helping the new play to success.
The dingy, oblong dining-room, with its mosquito netting, stained tablecloth, and hard cane chairs, expanded until she fancied herself in the drawing-room of Blenheim House. Between the landladies there was little enough to choose. Mrs. Raithby Lawrence, notwithstanding her caustic tongue and suspicious nature, had at least made some pretense at gentility.
He had always been struck with the grace, gentility, and touching goodness with which Rigolette consoled Germain when she came to converse with him. Germain, on his part, was no ordinary prisoner.
He could attract and earn the friendship of an apple-woman, thimble-riggers, tramps, thieves, gypsies, in short with any vagrant he chose to speak to; but his hatred of gentility was a great and grave obstacle in the way of his material advancement.
I should have left the flies and wasps to worry a corpse. And then-good-bye gentility! I should have worked for my bread. I had thoughts of America. I fancy I can write; and Americans, one hears, are gentle to women. 'Ah, Tony! there's the looking back. And, of all women, you!
"I doubt not," said I, "that both gouty George and his devoted servant will be mouldering in their tombs long before royalty in England thinks about adopting popery." "We can wait," said the man in black; "in these days of rampant gentility, there will be no want of kings nor of Scots about them." "But not Walters," said I.