Fees and pretensions to gentility were high; standards seem to have been low. The store had a reputation for gentility and conservatism. At the same time, merchants strove to emphasize their gentility. In London, neither wealth nor gentility brings happiness. There are iron men in whom the iron corroded whatever gentility they possessed. The Jews preserved also the gentility and self-confidence characteristic of them in their Spanish homes. The hotel is said to have been built and furnished with Victorian era gentility. Once "a symbol of suburban gentility" they are now perceived as outdated. The first one had some gentility, some beauty. It is through the pursuit of gentility that the Family Compact was born.