Pointing him out to Cynthia: "Would you rather," he cried hotly, "have me such a man as that ?" "And, pray, why not ?" she taunted him.

"Leastways, you would then be a man." "If, madam, a debauchee, a drunkard, a profligate, a brawler be your conception of a man, I would in faith you did not account me one." "And what, sir, would you sooner elect to be accounted ?" "A gentleman, madam," he answered pompously.
"I think," said she quietly, "that you are in as little danger of becoming the one as the other.

A gentleman does not slander a man behind his back, particularly when he owes that man his life.

Kenneth, I am ashamed of you." "I do not slander," he insisted hotly.

"You yourself know of the drunken excess wherewith three nights ago he celebrated his coming to Castle Marleigh.