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His voice, too, had quite recovered its old dominance, as he said, with half-patronizing conventionality, "You'll have to find your way out alone. Let me know how you have sped at Santa Clara, will you? Good-by." The staircase and passage seemed to have grown shabbier and meaner as Paul, slowly and hesitatingly, descended to the street.
There had been some displeasures, general and personal, between the two men, and they did not speak; but now, at sight of Northwick, Putney came forward, and fixed him severely with his eye. "Northwick! Do you know who you tried to drive over, last evening?" Northwick returned his regard with the half-ironical, half-patronizing look a dull man puts on with a person of less fortune but more brain.
What he did object to was the half-patronizing, wholly matter-of-fact tone of her, which seemed to preclude any possibility of sentiment so far as she was concerned. She always looked at him so frankly, with never a tinge of red in her cheeks to betray that consciousness of sex which goes ever say what you like with the love of a man and a maid.
Even old Ursel had become half- pitying, half-patronizing; and the old Baroness, though not molesting her, took not the slightest notice of her. This state of things lasted much longer than there had been reason to expect at the time of the marriage.
Every man who reads Boswell considers himself the superior of Boswell, and therefore is perfectly at home. It is not pleasant to be in the society of those who are much your superiors. Any man who sits in the company of Samuel Pepys for a half-hour feels a sort of half-patronizing pity for him, and therefore is happy, for to patronize is bliss.
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