Col. Grangerford was a gentleman, you see. He was a gentleman all over; and so was his family. He was well born, as the saying is, and that's worth as much in a man as it is in a horse, so the Widow Douglas said, and nobody ever denied that she was of the first aristocracy in our town.

Col. Grangerford was a gentleman, you see. He was a gentleman all over; and so was his family. He was well born, as the saying is, and that’s worth as much in a man as it is in a horse, so the Widow Douglas said, and nobody ever denied that she was of the first aristocracy in our town.

– Mark Twain

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Chapter 18. Huck believes the Grangerfords are the perfect Christian family, yet they turn out to be hypocritics. They and the Shepherdsons only take a break from their murderous feud to attend church on Sundays and then continue to carry their guns.

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