Not trying to be a gentleman.
b.

Self-respect underlying courtesy.
c.

Knowledge and observance of the fitness of things in social intercourse.
d.

f.s.d.

(as many suppose.) 3 .-- Whether face or figure is most attractive in the female sex?
Answered in the following epigram, by a young man about town: Quoth Tom, "Though fair her features be, It is her figure pleases me." "What may her figure be ?" I cried.
"One hundred thousand!" he replied.
When this was read to the boarders, the young man John said he should like a chance to "step up" to a figger of that kind, if the girl was one of the right sort.
The landlady said them that merried for money didn't deserve the blessin' of a good wife.