Select the detail from the text that best supports the inference that Mr. Conway is a polite and courteous person
Barting had always seemed to me an honorable and truthful man, and the warm
A friendship which he expressed in his note for Mr. Conway was to me sufficient evidence
that the latter was in every way worthy of my confidence and esteem.
He hesitated a moment; then, looking me frankly in the eyes, said:
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"I do not think, Mr. Foley, that I have any longer a claim to your friendship, since Mr.
Barting appears to have withdrawn his own from me...
"I met him yesterday ten minutes before meeting you. I gave you exactly the same
O c. greeting that he gave me. I met him again not a quarter of an hour ago, and his manner
was precisely the same: he merely bowed and passed on."