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 In later years lie was assuredly nothing 

 of the dandy ; he himself ridicules his 

 youthful fondness for dress, while those 

 who visited him during his last years 

 speak of him as particularly lacking in 

 self- consciousness. 



Although he affected the dress of the 

 dandies of his time, he was temper- 

 ate and abstemious. " I ate no butcher 7 s 

 meat, lived chiefly on fruits, vegetables, 

 and fish, and never drank a glass of 

 spirits or wine until my wedding day. 77 

 "All this time I was fair and rosy, 

 strong and active as one of my age and 

 sex could be, and as active and agile as 

 a buck." 



That he was energetic and handy and 

 by no means the mere dandy that his ex- 

 travagance in dress might seem to indi- 

 cate, is evidenced from the fact that 

 about this time he made a journey on 

 foot to New York and accomplished the 

 ninety miles in three days in mid- 

 winter. But he was angry, and anger is 

 better than wine to walk on. 



