What if his manners are a little rough?
Heaven does not choose its elect from among the great and wealthy.

I wish you knew one book, children, as well as Mr.Ward does.
It is your wicked pride--the pride of all the Esmonds--which prevents you from listening to him.

Go down on your knees in your chamber and pray to be corrected of that dreadful fault." Ward's discourse that evening was about Naaman the Syrian, and the pride he had in his native rivers of Abana and Pharpar, which he vainly imagined to be superior to the healing waters of Jordan--the moral being, that he, Ward, was the keeper and guardian of the undoubted waters of Jordan, and that the unhappy, conceited boys must go to perdition unless they came to him.
George now began to give way to a wicked sarcastic method, which, perhaps, he had inherited from his grandfather, and with which, when a quiet, skilful young person chooses to employ it, he can make a whole family uncomfortable.

He took up Ward's pompous remarks and made jokes of them, so that that young divine chafed and almost choked over his great meals.

He made Madam Esmond angry, and doubly so when he sent off Harry into fits of laughter.