There lies some subtle distinction here; due to the minute perceptions which compel the gossips of a family to coin phrases that shall express the nicest shades of a domestic difference.

By a Port, one may understand them to indicate something unsympathetically impressive; whereas a Presence would seem to be a thing that directs the most affable appeal to our poor human weaknesses.

His Majesty King George IV., for instance, possessed a Port: Beau Brummel wielded a Presence.
Many, it is true, take a Presence to mean no more than a shirt-frill, and interpret a Port as the art of walking erect.

But this is to look upon language too narrowly.
On a more intimate acquaintance with the couple, you acknowledge the aptness of the fine distinction.

By birth Mrs.Harrington had claims to rank as a gentlewoman.