302 AWAKENING OF ENGLAND. 



Her ladyship, unlike she who stooped so 

 nobly to the butcher of Maurice Hewlett's 

 unforgettable romance, stopped the intrepid 

 youth and informed him that only from her 

 social equals could she accept so bold a 

 salute. On her side, one must recognise the 

 high moral courage in a lady, who, though not 

 nobly born, yet was richly endowed with the 

 panoply of wealth. In giving vent to a 

 freedom of speech, rare even among snobs, she 

 had struck a true note amid her clanging 

 discords. Good manners are only possible 

 where social equality is assured. 



In the whole of my experience in Arcady 

 I have known only one individual of the 

 educated classes, and she a lady, who could 

 treat the poor in exactly the same way as 

 she did the rich. One other of my acquaint- 

 ance, who came of the stock of scholars and 

 grandes dames, considered herself a democrat 

 until she went to keep house on her brother's 

 farm in Canada. Her Christian name was 

 Lucy, and she declares that on the day of her 

 arrival she knew that she was no democrat, 

 for she shivered all over when one of the farm 

 hands addressed her as " Lu." 



The manners of the English are, of course, 



