His name for the flute-duet with the Hon.

Dudley Sowerby had not provoked the reserve opinion; it seemed, on the whole, a pretty thing in him to condescend to do: the sentiment he awakened was not flustered by it.

But the act of leading, appeared as an official thing to do.

Our soufe of sentiment will be seen subsiding under a breath, without a repressive word to send it down.

Sir Rodwell Blachington would have preferred Radnor's not leading or playing either.
Colonel Corfe and Mr.Caddis declined to consider such conduct English, in a man of station...