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the same afternoon. When living in this mediocre 

 way, superior women- servants are far preferable* 

 The horse or two horses can be kept, we know, 

 cheaper in private stables than at livery ; but if 

 you devote a man exclusively, to one or even two, 

 he will altogether cost as much as the horses ; so 

 the question merges into this : Which is preferred 

 keeping the carriage and horses at home, and 

 having a coachman; or sending the equipage to 

 livery, and keeping a footman only? I should 

 say, in a family in this position of society, the 

 latter is by far the preferable plan. 



The difference between the expense of keeping 

 a single-horse carriage, and one that always re- 

 quires two, is very disproportionably great, that 

 is, if both are done even in tolerable taste ; for it 

 is by no means the mere additional expense of the 

 extra horse that occasions it, but it arises from 

 other causes. 



In the first place, a regular pair-horse carriage 

 requires a regular coachman : this gentleman holds 

 himself as far above the mere driver of a single 

 horse, as does the valet over the teaboy, requires 

 twice or three times the wages, more clothes, and 

 more allowances of all sorts ; independent of which, 

 as they have generally made some lady happy, 

 they require suitable accommodation for their 

 families, and it is quite correct and reasonable that 

 master or mistress should in some way (probably 

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