1906 A Bachelor's Cupboard

CHAPTER IV

"Manners are of more importance ttan laws. " Burke. "What Is a gentleman? " a young debutante naively asked of her uncle, a club man and " gentleman of the old school." The world-old query provoked the following reply from the man, who was too wary, how- ever, to fall Into the pitfall laid for him. " My dear, I can't tell you In set terms. It Is a condition of being that Is no more definable than a woman's charms. Either one Is or isn't a gentleman — that's all." " Has birth anything to do with It?" *' It has — and It hasn't. There are men of the bluest blood who are hopeless bounders and cads, and, on the other hand, some of the most per-

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