I am sure that she wishes that the Bible had been written on the principle of that dreadful little book called Don't, which gives you a list of the solecisms you should avoid; she would have understood it so much better than the present system." "But you would call Miss Herbert a lady, wouldn't you ?" Christopher asked.
"Oh, yes; a perfect lady.

She is even well-bred when she talks about her love affairs; and if a woman is a lady when she talks about her love affairs, she will be a lady in any circumstances.

It is the most crucial test out." "Yes; I should have called Miss Herbert a perfect lady myself."' "That is the effect of Fox How; it always turned out ladies, whatever else it failed in." "But I thought you maintained that it failed in nothing!" "No more it did; but I threw that in as a sop to what's-his-name, because you are so horribly argumentative." Christopher was amused.

Elisabeth was a perfect _chef_ in the preparing of such sops, as he was well aware; and although he laughed at himself for doing it (knowing that her present graciousness to him merely meant that she was dull, and wanted somebody to play with, and he was better than nobody), he made these sops the principal articles of his heart's diet, and cared for no other fare.
"What is Mr.Herbert like ?" he inquired.
"Oh! he is a good man in his way, but a back-boneless, sweet-syrupy kind of a Christian; one of the sort that seems to regard the Almighty as a blindly indulgent and easily-hoodwinked Father, and Satan himself as nothing worse than a rather crusty old bachelor uncle.

You know the type." "Perfectly; they always drawl, and use the adjective 'dear' in and out of season.