And he would pour compliments for that shallow lady, which said compliments our shallow one drank in like water from the well.

Mrs.Hanway-Harley had never known a more finished gentleman; and so she told her friends.
"It is a pity," cried Storri one day, "that Europe has none such as yourself to set examples of refinement! Now if your beautiful daughter would but make some nobleman happy as his wife! You would come to Europe, no ?" and Storri spread his hands in rapture over so much possible good fortune.

"Yes, if your lovely daughter would but condescend!" Storri paused, and sighed a sigh of power.
Mrs.Hanway-Harley thought this exceeding fine; the treacle of coarse compliment sweetened it to her lips.

Some would have laughed at such fustian.

Mrs.Hanway-Harley was none of these; the compliment she laughed at must emanate from someone not a Count.