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"Well," he said apologetically, "I don't mean to be inquisitive that way but sometimes I speak unpolite too fur all I've saw high society a'ready!" he added, on the defensive. "Why, here one time I went in to Lancaster City to see Doc Hess, and he wouldn't have it no other way but I should stay and eat along.
And now, when she was safe on his horse and there was no further danger that she would refuse to ride with him, he gave her the answer to her question: "Patches wouldn't be unpolite to a lady, ma'am," he said quietly, into her hair; "he wouldn't throw you." He could not see her face it was too close to him and his chin was higher than the top of her head.
Must it not shew, that there is something implacable, as well as highly unpolite in his temper? And what creature can think of marrying so as to be out of all hopes ever to be well with her own nearest and tenderest relations? But here, having tired myself, and I dare say you, I will lay down my pen. Mr. Solmes is almost continually here: so is my aunt Hervey: so are my two uncles.
"By all the devils in hell," he exclaimed, whirling the chair round his head, "but I'll do you a mischief!" But he was soon pinioned from behind. "This is very unpolite conduct," said one; "you call yourself a gentleman?" "What shall we do, ladies?" "Do!" replied another; "let's strip him, and pawn his clothes, and then turn him adrift."
In a short time it changes colour; the lead becomes yellow, and is found to be converted into excellent gold: the iron becomes white, and is found to be pure silver. Delisle is altogether an illiterate person. M. de St. Auban endeavoured to teach him to read and write, but he profited very little by his lessons. He is unpolite, fantastic, and a dreamer, and acts by fits and starts."
Awaking at our approach he started to his feet, and though nothing could be more gracefully conciliatory than the bow with which I opened the conversation, I regret to say that after staring wildly round for a few minutes, the aboriginal bolted straight away in the most unpolite manner and left us to our fate. There was nothing for it but patiently to turn back, and try some other opening.
Frederick Montague, I'm sure, is too wellbred a young gentleman to do so unpolite, so ungallant a thing!" The jargon of politeness and gallantry is frequently brought by the silly acquaintance of young people to confuse their simple morality and clear good sense. A new and unintelligible system is presented to them, in a language foreign to their understanding, and contradictory to their feelings.
I shall have her courtesy to me by-and-by, I question not. What a-devil had I to do, to terrify the sweet creature by my termagant projects! Yet it was not amiss, I believe, to make her afraid of me. She says, I am an unpolite man. And every polite instance from such a one is deemed a favour.
"He is unpolite, my sister," cried Marguerite, laughing. "But that is only because he is sore. The wounded bird has moulted a feather in his empty nest." "All the same, he is flown," answered Mdme. de Maufant, gravely. "N'importe," answered the damsel. "Leave him to me. I can whistle him back when I want him if I ever do."
"He refused to sit, and again refused;" stoically talked graciosities, disregarding the pain of his foot; and did not, till refusal threatened to become uncivil, comply with her Majesty's entreaties. "How unpolite!" smiled he to us young ones. "He had a majestic port and physiognomy; an affable polite air accompanied all his movements, all his actions."
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