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who knows him could doubt his exertions being used 

 to their utmost extent where ladies are concerned. 



And a lady advertising her horses really has some- 

 thing dealing-like in it ! Now if house furniture and 

 the whole paraphernalia were to be advertised, well 

 and good : we should then, if Mr. Robins was em- 

 ployed, see her horses brought before the public in 

 something like the following modest announce- 

 ment : 



" Last though not least among the many prizes of 

 inestimable and matchless worth, 



THE BEAU MONDE 



may here possess themselves of those living specimens 



OF REFINED TASTE, 



selected for the use, and for some time the happy 



FAVOURITES OF THE FAIR ; 



and, as her lovely prototype of old, the then unrivalled 



MATCHLESS CLEOPATRA, 



was wont, when sailing on the Cydnus, to shine the leading 

 star of her less 



BRILLIANT HEMISPHERE I 



when these envied animals, these happy slaves were harnessed 

 to the 



CAR OF BEAUTY, 



did their fair mistress, by their willing aid, move amid 



I rather think there is a trifle of soap here, but not 

 the beastly yellow kind used (as mentioned) by Tom : 

 no, nor the plain brown Windsor used by my humble 

 self: Mr. Robins has an article for his especial 

 use, in comparison to which he would vote the best 

 Naples as detestably out of taste as musk or lavender 

 water. Long may he get the best of that and every- 

 thing else for his own use, for he is a capital fellow, 



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