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It had fitted him, for he was slimmish and of a good stock size, but he had told nobody, not even his wife, of this shocking defection from the code of true British gentlemanliness, and he had never repeated the crime; the secret would die with him. And now he was devoting the top of the morning to the commandment of a suit.
"I have no doubt my sister will be ready to tell you all there is to tell. It was she who gave me the cup," replied the lady of the house. Then Sir Robert turned to me. Looking at him full in the face I saw that there was a thoughtful, far-seeing look in his eyes, which redeemed his whole appearance from the somewhat commonplace gentlemanliness which was all I had before observed about him.
Most of the men slouched in their chairs and wriggled, while their wives sat rigidly at attention, but two of them red-necked, meaty men were as respectably devout as their wives. They were newly rich contractors who, having bought houses, motors, hand-painted pictures, and gentlemanliness, were now buying a refined ready-made philosophy.
To one to whom has been given only the common ordinary joints gentlemanliness is apparently an impossible ideal. It is not only the tie. I never read the fashionable novel without misgiving.
'I am not quite the person to decide on another's gentlemanliness, Miss Hale. I mean, I don't quite understand your application of the word. But I should say that this Morison is no true man. I don't know who he is; I merely judge him from Mr. Horsfall's account. 'I suspect my "gentleman" includes your "true man." 'And a great deal more, you would imply. I differ from you.
"But," continued Matilda, "he said it didn't matter, for he said he'd been brought up a locksmith. And he picked the lock right before my eyes." "That's one accomplishment of gentlemanliness I was never properly instructed in," said Mr. Pyecroft regretfully, almost plaintively. "I never could pick a lock." "And where is he now?" inquired Mrs. De Peyster. "In Mrs.
In nothing perhaps was Carey's true Christian gentlemanliness so seen as in his relations with his first wife, above whom grace and culture had immeasurably raised him, while she never learned to share his aspirations or to understand his ideals.
It occurred to her, with ominous sinkings of the heart, that she had relied mistakenly upon Dalhousie's gentlemanliness. What horrid intention was concealed behind these strange words about his taking matters into his own hands? And suppose she refused to see the emissary alone, and he then said: "Well, then, I'll just have to speak before your friend."... What would Mr. Canning think of her then?
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