text:  His friendly offices which his equals never require he generally bestows upon men whose position in society is marked and permanent and who never can by any possibility compete with him; to these if they be _safe_--that is if they keep quiet and are content to enjoy a sort of unpretending familiarity without boasting or pluming themselves upon their position he does the kindest and most liberal things in the kindest and most liberal way; in a way that no other man than one truly fashionable can accomplish