"Pray, who are you?" she said, looking at him
very earnestly in the face. He told her his name.
"Hm," said Lady Kew, "I have heard of you, and I have heard very little
good of you."
"Will your ladyship please to give me your informant?" cried out Colonel
Newcome.
Barnes Newcome, who had condescended to attend his sister's little fete,
and had been languidly watching the frolics of the young people, looked
very much alarmed.
CHAPTER XXI
Is Sentimental, but Short
Without wishing to disparage the youth of other nations, I think a
well-bred English lad has this advantage over them, that his bearing is
commonly more modest than theirs. He does not assume the tail-coat and
the manners of manhood too early: he holds his tongue, and listens to his
elders: his mind blushes as well as his cheeks: he does not know how to
make bows and pay compliments like the young Frenchman: nor to contradict
his seniors as I am informed American striplings do. Boys, who learn
nothing else at our public schools, learn at least good manners, or what
we consider to be such; and with regard to the person at present under
consideration, it is certain that all his acquaintances, excepting
perhaps his dear cousin Barnes Newcome, agreed in considering him as a
very frank, manly, modest, and agreeable young fellow.
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