The only un-English formalities were the habit of turning and bowing as one left the Mess, if a number of officers were still present, and the universal Italian custom by which a newcomer at his first appearance would walk round and shake hands in turn with all those whom he did not know and introduce himself to them by name.

It is a curiously un-English vision you get from the High Street for instance, looking back upon the hill or from the little borgo of Southover or from Cliffe, and yet there can be few more solidly English places than Lewes.

The recent letter of Lord Lansdowne, urging a peace with German imperialism, was but a feeler from the pacifist side of this most un-English, and unhappily most influential, section of our public life.

"Are you bound for Italy?" said the major, in a most un-English fit of curiosity.

Surely notsince" "This afternoon," she answered quietly, in a pretty, un-English sounding voice, with a soft little drawl of the South in it.

"Good evening, Shaik Tsin," the European replied in heavy un-English accents.

cried the fair man, and with a peculiarly un-English gesture he thrust his hand into his thick hair.

Mr. Van Torp raised his hat in a very un-English way, and at the same time, apparently out of respect for his friend, he went so far as to change his seat a little by laying his right knee over the pommel and sticking his left foot into the stirrup, so that he sat like a woman.

Considering itI don't want to hurt your feelings, Tuppybut considering it un-English.

A bit un-English, Tuppy, old man, you must admit.

If one twentieth part of what has been said is true, if I am entitled to any measure of your approbation, I may begin to think that my public career and my opinions are not so un-English and so anti-national as some of those who profess to be the best of our public instructors have sometimes assumed.

How, indeed, can I, any more than any of you, be un-English and anti-national?

Then how shall any man dare to say to any one of his countrymen, because he happen to hold a different opinion on questions of great public policy, that therefore he is un-English, and is to be condemned as anti-national?

Mr. Thackeray's notions of style and state and liveried retinues are probably not entirely un-English, notwithstanding he wields so sharp a pen against England's snobs; and he may naturally have looked for more display of greatness at the residence of an ex-ambassador.

It was broader about the chin than about the forehead, it was pink, the architecture of the nose was painfully un-English.

In others of these newspaper comments there was that unmistakable superciliousness, that goading contemptuousness of self-conceit and puffy disdain, which John Bull visits on all "un-English" things, especially when they happen under their unfortunate aspects.

First came the Brownes, eager-faced, bright-eyed, alert young people, far better looking than their new enemies could conscientiously admit under the circumstances; then the lawyer from the States; then a pert young lady in a pink shirt waist and a sailor hat; then two giggling, utterly un-English maidsand all of them lolling in luxurious ease.

As far as I know, he had not a drop of foreign blood in his veins, yet his nature was essentially un-English.

Equally un-English was his frank openness of speech and bearing.

"Tall, slender, with a grace most un-English, her face, instead of beauty, possessed a sweet benignity, and at times flashed into absolute brilliancy.

He looked rather un-English, rather cunning, cruel and unpleasantquite different somehow, from his ordinary cheery, bright English self.

" Having achieved the haven of loose Pathan trousers and a muslin shirt (worn over them) in the privacy of his bed-room, Mr. Ross-Ellison, looking rather un-English, sat on a camp-cot (he never really liked chairs) and read, as follows, from a sheaf of neatly-written (and bloodstained) sheets of foolscap.

Then she did something astonishing,something which seemed to him wholly un-English,and yet he thought it the sweetest thing he had ever seen.

And as we more and more rarely assimilate our borrowings, so even words that were once naturalized are being now one by one made un-English, and driven out of the language back into their foreign forms; whence it comes that a paragraph of serious English prose may be sometimes seen as freely sprinkled with italicized French words as a passage of Cicero is often interlarded with Greek.

The climate and colouring, too, are not only essentially un-English, but differ very widely in different parts of the Islands.