'Voila la Societe'! The sole quality these people have shown they have is cowardice.

I was educated by the Jesuits," he concluded; "it has given me a way of thinking." Under ordinary circumstances Shelton would have murmured in a well-bred voice, "Ah! quite so," and taken refuge in the columns of the Daily Telegraph.

In place of this, for some reason that he did not understand, he looked at the young foreigner, and asked, "Why do you say all this to me ?" The tramp--for by his boots he could hardly have been better--hesitated.
"When you've travelled like me," he said, as if resolved to speak the truth, "you acquire an instinct in choosing to whom and how you speak.
It is necessity that makes the law; if you want to live you must learn all that sort of thing to make face against life." Shelton, who himself possessed a certain subtlety, could not but observe the complimentary nature of these words.

It was like saying "I'm not afraid of you misunderstanding me, and thinking me a rascal just because I study human nature." "But is there nothing to be done for that poor girl ?" His new acquaintance shrugged his shoulders.
"A broken jug," said he; "-- you'll never mend her.

She's going to a cousin in London to see if she can get help; you've given her the means of getting there--it's all that you can do.