Tells you that you have to take him for a gentleman and nothing else in the first three words he says to you--and Brenda seems to like him.

I never saw her go off with a man like that on such short notice, for Brenda's pretty proud and cold with men, for all her nice ways and high spirits." "You would have to search a long time, Mrs van Huysman," replied Nitocris very demurely, "before you found a better type of the real English gentleman than Lord Leighton.

His family is one of the oldest in the country, and, unlike too many of our noble families, the Kynestons have no bar-sinister on their escutcheon." "I guess you're getting a little beyond me there, Miss Marmion.

I don't think I ever heard of a--what is it ?--a bar-sinister, before.

What might it be ?" Nitocris flushed very faintly as she replied: "I think I can explain it best, Mrs van Huysman, by saying that it means that Lord Leighton's ancestors have preserved their honour unstained through many generations.