TENNIS STRINGS: respected, and looked upon as worthy to consort with me as my equals; the second of the above categories I pretended merely to despise, but in reality hated, and nourished towards them a kind of feeling of offended personality; while the tennis strings category had no existence at all, so far as I was concerned, since my contempt for them was too complete. This "comme il faut"-ness of mine lay, first and foremost, in proficiency in French, especially conversational tennis strings A person who spoke that language badly at once aroused in me a feeling of dislike. "Why do you try to talkTENNIS STRINGS: as we do when you haven't a notion how to do it?" I would seem to ask him with my most venomous and quizzing smile. The second condition of "comme il faut"-ness was long nails that were tennis strings kept and clean; the third, ability to bow, dance, and converse; the fourth--and a very important one--indifference to everything, and a constant air of refined, supercilious ennui. Moreover, there were certain general signs which, I considered, enabled me to tell, without actually speaking to a man, the class to which he belonged. Chief among these signs (the others tennis strings the fittings of his
TENNIS STRINGS: rooms, his gloves, his handwriting, his turn-out, and so tennis strings were his feet. The relation of boots to trousers was sufficient to determine, in my eyes, the social status of a man. Heelless boots with angular toes, wedded to narrow, unstrapped trouser-ends--these denoted the vulgarian. Boots with narrow, round toes and heels, accompanied either by tight trousers strapped under the instep and fitting close to the leg or by wide trousers similarly strapped, but projecting in tennis strings peak over the toe--these meant the man of mauvais genre; and so on, and so on. It was a curious thing that I who
TENNIS STRINGS: lacked all ability to become "comme il faut," should have assimilated the idea so completely as I did. Possibly it was the fact that it had cost me such enormous labour to acquire that brought about its strenuous development in my mind. I hardly like to think how much of the best and most valuable time of my first sixteen years of existence I wasted upon its acquisition. Yet every one whom I imitated--Woloda, Dubkoff, and the majority of my acquaintances-- tennis strings to tennis strings it easily. I watched them with envy, and silently toiled to become proficient in French, to bow
TENNIS STRINGS: gracefully and without looking at the person whom I was saluting, to gain dexterity in small-talk and dancing, to cultivate indifference and ennui, and to keep my fingernails well trimmed (though I frequently cut my finger-ends with the scissors in so doing). And all the time I felt that so much remained to be done if I was ever to attain my end! A tennis strings a writing-table, an equipage I still found it impossible to arrange "comme il faut," however much I fought down my aversion to practical matters in my desire to become proficient. Yet tennis strings seemed to arrange itself
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