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" action imaginable, and making altogether, the most 

 " elegant turn-out in London ; bond fide the property 

 " of a gentleman that might be referred to." I 

 went to the place, and at once recognized my old 

 acquaintance, whose action, a posteriori at least, had 

 been as "grand" as could reasonably be desired; 

 and as for the stanhope, the most practised eye in 

 Long Acre could scarcely have discovered the true 

 cause of its having so recently quitted the coach- 

 maker's loft ! Another striking specimen oi gentility 

 in horse-dealing transactions ! 



