John Benham had once said that the man was a mere posturer--but John Benham was wrong.
"Oh, well, you see, Benham is different," replied the young man as delicately as he could.

"He is apt to say only what I think, you know." So far there had been no breach of good taste in the Governor's manner, no warning reminder of an origin that was certainly obscure and presumably low, no stale, dust-laden odours of the circus ring.

He had looked and spoken as any man of Stephen's acquaintance might have done, facetiously, it is true, but without ostentation or vulgarity.

When the break came, therefore, it was the more shocking to the younger man because he had been so imperfectly prepared for it.
"And because he is different, of course you think he'd make a better Governor than I shall," said Gideon Vetch abruptly.

"That is the way with you fellows who have ossified in the old political parties.