“Wine gave a sort of gallantry to their own failure.”
“gallantry”
“Gallantry emits respect.”
“Gallantry is gentleman's quality.”
“He had never known such gallantry as the gallantry of Scarlett O'Hara going forth to conquer the world in her mother's velvet curtains and the tail feathers of a rooster.”
“Leaders who won't own failures become failures.”