His American was that of Sam Slick and Artemus Ward, Punch and various English witticisms in anecdote.

Life at the vicarage of Dunstan had not revealed to him that the model had become archaic.
The revelation dawned upon him during his intercourse with G.Selden.
The young man in his cheap bicycling suit was a new development.

He was markedly unlike an English youth of his class, as he was neither shy, nor laboriously at his ease.

That he was at his ease to quite an amazing degree might perhaps have been remotely resented by the insular mind, accustomed to another order of bearing in its social inferiors, had it not been so obviously founded on entire unconsciousness of self, and so mingled with open appreciation of the unanticipated pleasures of the occasion.

Nothing could have been farther from G.Selden than any desire to attempt to convey the impression that he had enjoyed the hospitality of persons of rank on previous occasions.