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At this point the material interest of the common man would seem to coincide with that of the Imperial establishment. Still, his preconceived notions of the wisdom and beneficence of his gentlefolk would presumably hinder his seeing the matter in that reasonable light.
"You buys fine clothes for him, and nurses and tutors and schools for him. "You teaches him the speech of gentlefolk, and the airs of gentlefolk, and the learning of gentlefolk. "You crams his head with religion, which is a thing I doesn't hold with, and with holy words, which I thinks brings ill-luck.
Even such people as these had to pay preposterous rents for the privilege of huddling together in a single wretched room. But many of their wealthy neighbours spent hundreds, and even thousands of pounds a year over securing comfort and happiness for such domestic animals as horses, dogs, cats, and the like. Amiable, kindly gentlefolk they were, with tender hearts and ready sympathies.
"And a gentleman, too," the cabmen jeered at him; "like some cobbler...." "Is it the proper thing for gentlefolk to be disorderly in the street?" a policeman said to him. "You had better go into a tavern!" "Your honor, give us a trifle, for Christ's sake," the beggars wailed, surrounding Fyodor on all sides.
The gentlefolk never absented themselves from town but for a few weeks of autumn, when they went to their villas for the vintage, transporting thither all the diversions of city life and venturing no farther afield than the pleasure-grounds that were but so many open-air card-rooms, concert-halls and theatres.
Come, then, my dearest Athenais, come, and make closer acquaintance with these imposing Pyrenees, every ravine of which is a landscape and every valley an Eden. To all these beauties, yours is missing; you shall be here, like Dian, the goddess of these noble forests. All our gentlefolk await you, admiring your picture on the sweetmeat-box.
I can't just sit down comfortably in the shade of yours." "Pushful young woman!" chaffed Geoffrey. "Well, I can see your mind is made up. So what are your plans? Let's hear them." "I thought of taking rooms for a while with some really nice people gentlefolk who wanted to take a paying guest " "Poor but honest, in fact," supplemented Geoffrey. Sara nodded. "Yes.
Stowe's strength that I thought it better to live on less and be in a place of our own, and with no responsibilities except those of common gentlefolk." Mrs. Stowe's love of home, of the fireside, and her faith in family ties were marked characteristics of her nature.
Mavis, turning her eyes in all directions, looked at everything with intense interest at the gentlefolk, now inextricably mixed up with the tenantry and the mob; at her husband, standing so black and solemn, with a face that might have belonged to a marble statue; at the puff of smoke that crept upward when the gun went bang, at the sunlight on the church tower, at the birds flying so high and so joyous above its battlements.
You English gentlefolk do not let us share your griefs; you keep them to yourselves." Pierson stared. "True," he said. "Quite true!" "I am no judge of Christianity, monsieur, but for us artists the doors of the human heart stand open, our own and others. I suppose we have no pride c'est tres-indelicat.
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