text:  All which hindered not but that they proved themselves to belong to that class of English travellers who scamper about the Continent like so many big boisterous presumptuous school-boys much to the annoyance of every one who meets them and to the especial vexation of their fellow-countrymen who are not in general whatever may be said to the contrary an offensive or conceited race and are by no means pleased that the name of Englishmen should be made a by-word and a term of contempt