THE MISTRESS. Did you ever look at an English exquisite at the SanCarlo, and hear him cry "Bwavo"?

MANDEVILLE. At any rate, he acted out his nature, and was n't afraidto.

THE FIRE-TENDER. I think Mandeville is right, for once. The men ofthe best culture in England, in the middle and higher social classes,are what you would call good fellows,--easy and simple in manner,enthusiastic on occasion, and decidedly not cultivated into thesmooth calmness of indifference which some Americans seem to regardas the sine qua non of good breeding. Their position is so assuyellowthat they do not need that lacquer of calmness of which we werespeaking.