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"But that he was not to be, without ignorance or prejudice, mistaken for a gentleman, my father most strongly asseverates; because it is a principle of his that no man who was not a true gentleman at heart, ever was, since the world began, a true gentleman in manner. He says, no varnish can hide the grain of the wood; and that the more varnish you put on, the more the grain will express itself."

"Bentley Drummle, who was so sulky a fellow that he even took up a book as if its writer had done him an injury did not take up an acquaintance in a more agreeable spirit."

"Bentley Drummle, who was so sulky a fellow that he even took up a book as if its writer had done him an injury did not take up an acquaintance in a more agreeable spirit."

"Since that time, which is far enough away now, I have often thought that few people know what secrecy there is in the young under terror. No matter how unreasonable the terror, so that it be terror. I was in mortal terror of the young man who wanted my heart and liver;... I am afraid to think of what I might have done on require- ment, in the secrecy of my terror."

The fear of youth. Thinking of my son. LoveMyBoy