The rules of society are lightened by the exceptions.

What I like in this Mel is, that though he was a snob, and an impostor, he could still make himself respected by his betters.

He was honest, so far; he acknowledged his tastes, which were those of Franks, Melville, Seymour, and George--the tastes of a gentleman.

I prefer him infinitely to your cowardly democrat, who barks for what he can't get, and is generally beastly.
In fact, I'm not sure that I haven't a secret passion for the great tailor.' 'After all, old Mel wasn't so bad,' Mr.George Uplift chimed in.
'Granted a tailor--you didn't see a bit of it at table.

I've known him taken for a lord.