As Mrs.Masters was too high-spirited to run after people who did not want her, she took to hating gentry instead.
"We have always been on the other side," said the old attorney,--"I and my father and grandfather before me." "They lived on it and you can't.

If you are going to say that you won't have any client that isn't a gentleman, you might as well put up your shutters at once." "I haven't said so.

Isn't Runciman my client ?" "He always goes with the gentry.

He a'most thinks he's one of them himself." "And old Nobbs, the greengrocer.

But it's all nonsense.