If his nose had been upside-down, he would have made that respectable.

He surrounded himself with an atmosphere of respectability, and walked secure in it.

It would have been next to impossible to suspect him of anything wrong, he was so thoroughly respectable.
Nobody could have thought of putting him in a livery, he was so highly respectable.

To have imposed any derogatory work upon him, would have been to inflict a wanton insult on the feelings of a most respectable man.

And of this, I noticed--the women-servants in the household were so intuitively conscious, that they always did such work themselves, and generally while he read the paper by the pantry fire.
Such a self-contained man I never saw.