| What must it be like to be gentlefolk, to have the money to buy calm and cleanliness? |
| It's the diplomatic version of distressed gentlefolk keeping up appearances, making ourselves ridiculous and obnoxious to our real equals, the other Europeans. |
| The sum is the money lost on sales of cigars and brandies when gentlefolk once repaired after dinner to the Oval Office downstairs to blow rings of smoke and converse. |
| To judge by their way of talking, they divide the world into folk and gentlefolk. |
| Why should we not clothe ourselves like gentlefolk as well as our kindred and friends at home? |
| Who are the gentlefolk the loss of whose patronage to the Feydau will be so poignantly felt? |
