Assuredly, it was worth while to cross to England to study manners.

And there are sights for you that you will never see in France.

You would not, for instance, had you not come hither, have had an opportunity of observing a member of the noblesse seconding and assisting a tipstaff in the discharge of his duty.

And doing it just as a hog wallows in foulness--for the love of it.
"The gentlemen in your country, Leduc, are too fastidious to enjoy life as it should be enjoyed; they are too prone to adhere to the amusements of their class.

You have here an opportunity of perceiving how deeply they are mistaken, what relish may lie in setting one's rank on one side, in forgetting at times that by an accident--a sheer, incredible accident, I assure you, Leduc--one may have been born to a gentleman's estate." Rotherby had drawn himself up, his dark face crimsoning.
"D'ye talk at me, sir ?" he demanded.