text:  He was stiff priggish precise when he addressed any gentleman with light hair and an _English complexion_; but let him approach any foreign buttonhole with a bit of riband in it then worked he the muscles of his face into most grotesque expression of interest or pleasure--(_Tunc immensa cavi spirant mendacia folles!_)--and you had a famous display of grimace and deferential civility in bad French or worse Italian