'I would not, for the world, seem to turn him out of doors,' he added; 'but I think he will have the tact to see that he cannot stay long after this, with good taste.' 'He will, because he's a gentleman.

See how graceful his manners are,' Elfride went on; though perhaps Stephen's manners, like the feats of Euryalus, owed their attractiveness in her eyes rather to the attractiveness of his person than to their own excellence.
'Ay; anybody can be what you call graceful, if he lives a little time in a city, and keeps his eyes open.

And he might have picked up his gentlemanliness by going to the galleries of theatres, and watching stage drawing-room manners.

He reminds me of one of the worst stories I ever heard in my life.' 'What story was that ?' 'Oh no, thank you! I wouldn't tell you such an improper matter for the world!' 'If his father and mother had lived in the north or east of England,' gallantly persisted Elfride, though her sobs began to interrupt her articulation, 'anywhere but here--you--would have--only regarded--HIM, and not THEM! His station--would have--been what--his profession makes it,--and not fixed by--his father's humble position--at all; whom he never lives with--now.

Though John Smith has saved lots of money, and is better off than we are, they say, or he couldn't have put his son to such an expensive profession.