s ears. Hodge scratches his head and says, "Well, I have
nothing to say to that; all I know is, that he is bang up, and I wish I
were he;" perhaps he will add--a Hodge has been known to add--"He has
been kind enough to put my son on that very railroad; 'tis true the
company is somewhat queer and the work rather killing, but he gets there
half-a-crown a day, whereas from the farmers he would only get eighteen-
pence." You remind the mechanic that the man in the landau has been the
ruin of thousands, and you mention people whom he himself knows, people
in various grades of life, widows and orphans amongst them, whose little
all he has dissipated, and whom he has reduced to beggary by inducing
them to become sharers in his delusive schemes. But the mechanic says,
"Well, the more fools they to let themselves be robbed. But I don't call
that kind of thing robbery, I merely call it outwitting; and everybody in
this free country has a right to outwit others if he can. What a turn-
out he has!" One was once heard to add, "I never saw a more
genteel-looking man in all my life except one, and that was a gentleman's
walley, who was much like him. It is true he is rather undersized, but
then madam, you know, makes up for all."

CHAPTER V. SUBJECT OF GENTILITY CONTINUED.

In the last chapter have been exhibited specimens of gentility, so
considered by different classes; by one class, power, youth, and epaulets
are considered the _ne plus ultra_ of gentility; by another class, pride,
stateliness, and title; by another, wealth and flaming tawdriness. But
what constitutes a gentleman? It is easy to say at once what constitutes
a gentleman, and there are no distinctions in what is gentlemanly, {316}
as there are in what is genteel. The characteristics of a gentleman are
high feeling--a determination never to take a cowardly advantage of
another--a liberal education--absence of narrow views--generosity and
courage, propriety of behaviour. Now a person may be genteel according
to one or another of the three standards described above, and not possess
one of the characteristics of a gentleman. Is the emperor a gentleman,
with spatters of blood on his clothes, scourged from the backs of noble
Hungarian women? Are the aristocracy gentlefolks, who admire him? Is
Mr. Flamson a gentleman, although he has a million pounds? No! cowardly
miscreants, admirers of cowardly miscreants, and people who make a
million pounds by means