But no American politician, especially a wealthy one, is going to last two minutes if he’s caught looking down his nose at folk the way the French do. It’s the ordinary folks at home who vote you into office, remember - and out of it.
You are too old, she said. And in any case we are related. Only in the second degree, Jehan said cheerfully. She looked down her nose at him. Maybe I shall consider you, she said. But it isn’t interesting to be courted by someone you know.
And I can’t see any reason why they can’t. Why they should, people with a higher look down their nose at the people who are lower than themselves, I can not figure out.