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I use this word "chivalrous" as exactly descriptive of something in his whole personnel, distinct from either polish or high-breeding, and which, though instantly apparent, was yet an effect too subtle to be described. He rose on my entrance, and, other visitors being present, stood with one hand on the back of his chair, awaiting my greeting.
By dint of having been able to produce, here and there, for the edification of foreigners, a few types of American manhood and womanhood which came up to the standard of high-breeding entertained in the Old World, and of having occasionally dispensed hospitality, both at home and abroad, in a manner which was unexceptionable, besides having shown other evidences in social life not to speak of political life of being able to hold our own quite creditably, the "condescension" has gradually diminished in a very satisfactory manner.
He was certainly not given to sentiment. He had married for money, and his wife had died in a mad-house. He was now anxious to marry again for position; and while looking round the market for a sufficiently perfect person of high-breeding, he patronized the theatre largely, and 'protected' several ballet-girls and actresses.
The vain little gray squirrels thought themselves much better than these little chitmunks, whom they treated with very little politeness, laughing at them for living in holes in the ground, instead of upon lofty trees, as they did; they even called them low-bred fellows, and wondered why they did not imitate their high-breeding and behaviour.
You will like him when you know him." "I can't bear fine folks." "They are anything but fine!" cried Babie indignantly. "They can't help it. That way of Lord Fordham's, high-breeding I suppose you call it, just makes me wild. I hate it!" "Poor Ellie. You'll have to get over it, for Essie's sake." "No, I shan't. It is really losing her, as much as Jessie " "Jessie looks worn." "No wonder.
Always handsome, her features shaped themselves in a finer symmetry, her color grew richer, her figure promised a perfect womanly development, and her movements had the grace which high-breeding gives the daughter of a queen, and which Nature now and then teaches the humblest of village maidens.
In the South, bristling with Africo-American villages, will almost disappear fillibusterism, murder, and the bowie knife, and other supreme manifestations of Southern chivalrous high-breeding. Fremont's reports and defence show what a disorder and insanity prevailed under the rule of Scott.
In manner he was quiet and gentlemanlike, with the natural courtesy of high-breeding. On an occasion when he was dining somewhere the other guests found the oil too rancid for them. Caesar took it without remark, to spare his entertainer's feelings. When on a journey through a forest with his friend Oppius, he came one night to a hut where there was a single bed.
She only understood Hector Garret as a considerate friend, distinguished personally, and gifted mentally for her father set great store upon him but, unlike the gruff or eager servants to whom she was accustomed, condescending to her youth and ignorance, and with a courtesy the nearest to high-breeding she had ever met.
I am here to help not to make things worse." He shrugged his shoulders and said no more. In a few minutes Dick's cheery banjo thrummed into silence and he turned round. "Are you ready?" he said to Juliet. She rose and came forward, tall and graceful, bearing the unmistakable stamp of high-breeding in every delicate movement.
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