The philosophy of his class was to take good fortune or ill undemonstratively.

At Washington he came into contact with the statesmanship and the demagogy of the republic, and, while the former gave him a magnificent reception, the latter quietly and undemonstratively quenched his hopes.

The young wife, who I must say is the daughter of a penniless country clergyman with a large family, was radiant; the Major was quietly and undemonstratively pleased to see me; the veil of the years fell off, and I found myself back on the old easy terms with him, as when we were schoolboys together thirty years ago.

Undemonstratively, cheerily as they would go for a walk, with something of old-fashioned chivalry, the British went to death.