But within all these he was hopelessly and absolutely French.

The English boots trod the pavement--they knew no other path in life--in a manner essentially Gallic.

The check trousers, of a pattern somewhat loud and startling, had the mincing gait in them of any "pantalon de fantasie," purchased a prix fixe in the Boulevard St.
Germain, across the water.

It is useless to lift a Lincoln and Bennett from a little flat-topped head, cut, as they say, to the rat and fringed all over with black, upright hair.
But young Giraud held manfully to his purpose, and even essayed to copy the attitudes of his own groom, a thin-legged man from Streatham, who knew a thing or two, let him tell you, about a 'oss.

There was no harm in Alphonse.