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Show Ungraciousness. Ungraciousness is wholly opposed to all our ideas of good breeding. Its possessor pos-sessor will never come up to our standard stand-ard of a true gentleman or gentlewoman, although, possibly, well born and well educated. The sensation of insecurity and of being on the lookout for some ill judged speech dissipates that safe and calm atmosphere which surrounds the truly refined. There is always a nervous dread of what may come next, and a feeling of constraint is generated. Persons Per-sons who are much in the society of the ungracious foster insensibly a guarded carefulness as to topics likely to call forth a show of ungraciousness, and a cautious manner of feeling their way on a subject, so to speak, very trying to those having to practice it. Yet, with every care taken, the failing will appear, and almost always when least expected and on occasions seemingly the least calling call-ing for it. New York Ledger. |