"I may not be as good as yourselves, or I may be--that's neither here nor there.

I'm not quite a bad fellow, I believe, though at times I am driven to keep indifferent company.

Still, I am not very fond of those I'm among at present, so I thought I'd look in on you.

Your servant, sir," to my father.

"A votre service, madame," very politely to my mother.