"Nor even sometimes for their knightliness," I said ruefully, knowing that he had recognized me too.

It magnified human failings and made well nigh impossible the expression of his intellect and knightliness.

By the luck of a catching phrase applied to him by Robert G. Ingersoll, he stood before the imagination of the country "as the plumed knight," although on looking back we search in vain for any trait of knightliness or chivalry in him.