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Russians are the most tactful of any European race that I have ever met; they did not stare with insolent or pitying curiosity, but there was something changed in their attitude which told me that the travelling Briton was no longer in their eyes the interesting respect-commanding personality that he had been in past days.
He looked upon the pale breathless Sara, and covered his eyes with his hand; the next moment, however, he seemed to collect himself, and with all the calm and respect-commanding dignity of a parent, he grasped her hand, and said, "You now follow me home. On Sunday the banns shall be proclaimed." Sara followed. She took his arm, and with a drooping head, and without a word, accompanied him home.
DeLeon, "Belles, Beaux and Brains of the Sixties," p. 158. Subsequently, later in life, it was again my privilege to hold close relations with another Columbian, an alumnus of this University as it then was in whom I had opportunity to study some of the strongest and most respect-commanding traits of the Southern character.
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