He was not loud in demanding them.

As he went through the world he sent no trumpeters to the right or left, proclaiming that the Earl De Guest was coming.

When he spread his board for his friends, which he did but on rare occasions, he entertained them simply with a mild, tedious, old-fashioned courtesy.

We may say that, if properly treated, the earl never walked over anybody.

But he could, if ill-treated, be grandly indignant; and if attacked, could hold his own against all the world.