"Do you not know that he is not fit to be your husband ?" "No, papa." "Then you cannot have thought much either of your position or of mine." "He is a gentleman, papa." "So is my private secretary.

There is not a clerk in one of our public offices who does not consider himself to be a gentleman.

The curate of the parish is a gentleman, and the medical man who comes here from Bradstock.

The word is too vague to carry with it any meaning that ought to be serviceable to you in thinking of such a matter." "I do not know any other way of dividing people," said she, showing thereby that she had altogether made up her mind as to what ought to be serviceable to her.
"You are not called upon to divide people.

That division requires so much experience that you are bound in this matter to rely upon those to whom your obedience is due.