Chapslee offers a chance to enjoy the dandified life of the English gentry at a price which would barely buy afternoon tea in an English country house.
English gentlemen occasionally stopped there for the night, and I thought I might perhaps fall in with some one of better manners than the inhabitants of the country.
We knew that poor Oates was walking to his death, but though we tried to stop him, we knew that it was the act of a brave man and an English gentleman.
" I am just Tootles, " he said, " and nobody minds me. But the first who does not behave to Wendy like an English gentleman I will blood him severely" .
The smith, after several attempts, made the smallest that ever was seen among them, for I have known a larger at the gate of a gentleman's house in England.
In his heart was a great yearning to take the girl in his arms; but in time he remembered the other-the dapper young English gentleman-and that he was but a savage, uncouth ape-man.