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That these people, these millionaires and aristocrats should feel that they had been avoided and slighted, that we Denboroites were the snobs, that THEY should be lonely because no one, or almost no one, came to call upon them this was too much for my bewildered brain to grasp all at once. The young lady went on. "And you!" she exclaimed. "You are as bad as the rest.
But hark again! What's up now? 'Hooray! 'hooray! 'h-o-o-o-ray! 'Three cheers for the Squire! H-o-o-o-ray! Old Puff as we live! The 'amazin' instance of a pop'lar man' greeted by the Swillingford snobs. The old frost-bitten dandy is flattered by the cheers, and bows condescendingly ere he alights from the well-appointed mail phaeton.
As long as this unnatural and monstrous etiquette continues, Snobs there must be. The three persons engaged in this transaction are, for the time being, Snobs. A free Portuguese gamekeeper, who professes himself to be unworthy to communicate directly with any person, confesses himself to be a Snob. The nobleman in waiting is a Snob.
Yes, they used just those words, tried and true integrity! Think of it! And OUR JANE! The idea! The catty little snobs! The jealous little cats! No, it wasn't Eugenia Frazer who said it, it was Eunice Brice but I'm certain she was at the bottom of it, for she sat with her nice smug little painted face as sweet and complacent as an angel, all the time it was going on, and she seconded the motion!
Wouldn't you think she was a canary-bird, to listen to her, and to see that Scandahoofian tow-head of hers? But say, know what she is? She's a mother hen! Way she fusses over me way she makes old Miles wear a necktie! Hate to spoil her by letting her hear it, but she's one pretty darn nice nice Hell! What do we care if none of the dirty snobs come and call? We've got each other."
"Go on playing; don't bother about me. Oh, I saw Charlie Geary, too," he continued, "on another coach; there was a party of them. Charlie was with Turner Ravis on the box seat. You remember Turner Ravis, don't you, Bandy? The girl I used to go with." "There's a girl I never liked," observed Ellis. "She always struck me as being one of these regular snobs."
'I have not the Minister of Fine Arts in my pocket, dearest lady, observed the manager, 'but I will try. Why do you name such a very early hour? 'Because I breakfast at eleven. Tell the Minister that the King is coming too. That will bring him. All Ministers are snobs. 'The King? repeated Margaret in surprise, and somewhat aghast. 'He is in Paris, explained Madame Bonanni carelessly.
All sorts of stories are told of the desperate efforts made by the indomitable Lady de Mogyns to gain the place she now occupies, and those of my beloved readers who live in middle life, and are unacquainted with the frantic struggles, the wicked feuds, the intrigues, cabals, and disappointments which, as I am given to understand, reign in the fashionable world, may bless their stars that they at least are not FASHIONABLE Snobs.
Whether it was another phase of my insanity or not, I don't know, but I woke the next morning in pretty good spirits. Remembrance of the previous day's humiliations troubled me surprisingly little. They did not seem nearly so great in the retrospect. What difference did it make to me what that crowd of snobs did or said or thought?
It is as much a sign of being no gentleman to over-dress as to dress like a sloven, but, as in every other case, the secret is to find the golden mean. I have often seen working-men dressed in a more gentlemanly way than certain gorgeous snobs of my acquaintance; not that their clothes were grander or cost more, but because they were neat. That really is the secret.
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