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Secret societies however are anything but forbidden under Dutch rule in Java,—on the contrary, it is rather bon ton to belong to some one of the lodges of freemasonry existent out there.

He had the manners of a high-bred English gentleman, but that did not, of course, constitute the something that made him a favourite, because bon ton, manners are happily not rare.

Quite a child she was, hardly more than eight, but with all the quiet dignity and easy affability that is only to be found among children of the bon ton.

"I shall be � la mode, I shall be � la mode and very bon ton and tr�s bon ton."

They were the �lite, the bon ton, the upper crust, and were looked on as such by the other slaves.