At the same time she thought she understood why Falloden, and Meyrick, and others called the youth a _poseur_, and angrily wished to snub him.

He possessed besides, in-bred, all the foreign aids to the mere voice--gesticulation of hands and head, movements that to the Englishman are unexpected and therefore disagreeable.

Also there, undeniably, was the frilled dress-shirt, and the two diamond studs, much larger and more conspicuous than Oxford taste allowed, which added to its criminality.

And it was easy to see too that the youth was inordinately proud of his Polish ancestry, and inclined to rate all Englishmen as _parvenus_ and shopkeepers.
"Was it in Paris you first made friends with Mr.Sorell ?" Connie asked him.
Radowitz nodded.
"I was nineteen.

My uncle had just died.