Eleanor Catton Quotes

It Was His Pleasure To Strike Up Friendships Within The Servile Classes, With Children, With Beggars, With Animals, With Plain Women And Forgotten Men. His Courtesies Were Always Extended To Those Who Did Not Expect Courtesy: When He Encountered A Man Whose Station Was Beneath Him, He Was Never Rude. To The Higher Classes, However, He Held Himself Apart. He Was Not Ungracious, But His Manner Was Jaded And Wistful, Even Unimpressed - A Practice That, Though Not A Strategy In Any Real Sense, Tended To Win Him A Great Deal Of Respect, And Earn Him A Place Among The Inheritors Of Land And Fortune, Quite As If He Had Set Out To End Up There. In This Way Aubert Gascoigne,

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