They arranged exactly how long he should stay at Lymport, whom he should visit, the manner he should adopt toward the different inhabitants.

By all means he was to avoid the approach of the gentry.

For hours Evan, in a trance, half stupefied, had to listen to the Countess's directions how he was to comport himself in Lymport.
'Show that you have descended among them, dear Van, but are not of them.
Our beautiful noble English poet expresses it so.

You have come to pay the last mortal duties, which they will respect, if they are not brutes, and attempt no familiarities.

Allow none: gently, but firmly.