As he wandered about the streets and parks, or killed time in museums and galleries (where nothing had to be paid), Mr. Tymperley often recognised brethren in seclusion; he understood the furtive glance which met his own, he read the peaked visage, marked with understanding sympathy the shabby-genteel apparel.

shouted the Captain, from the vessel; and the boy with the tied-up rags turned round, and weyes, we saw nothing but packthread, in bows, genteel bows.

Nothing cramped, nothing showy, nothing dim, grim, nor shabby-genteel enters into its proportions.

Yet they are fairly descended, they give you to know, well connected; Doubtless somewhere in some neighborhood have, and careful to keep, some Threadbare-genteel relations, who in their turn are enchanted Grandly among county people to introduce at assemblies To the unpennied cadets our cousins with excellent fortunes.

At the back of the Inn, in the shabby-genteel square called Lincoln's Inn Fields, Mr. Tulkinghorn was murdered in his rusty apartment.