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knowledge of what should constitute a 

 respectable and desirable servant. Indeed, 

 his natural bearing, made up of impu- 

 dence, ignorance, and swagger, would 

 convey an impression to the unthinking 

 that he was a person of considerable im- 

 portance. 



Passing over the next, who was, or had 

 been, a gentleman's coachman, or flunkie, 

 and had acquired his position, as our 

 younger sons of nobility and others do 

 in the army, by purchase; I come to 

 the third, whom I found to come a little 

 nearer to what I had pictured to myself 

 ought to be the conductor of a public 

 conveyance, loaded with visitors to a 

 fashionable watering-place. As the up 

 and down coaches met midway, and the 

 men exchanged seats and way-bills, the 

 other man had told him who I was, con- 

 sequently there needed no introduction. 



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