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when people ate roast beef. I must positively hide 

 it." He took me to his dressing-room, and made me 

 admissible by giving me one of his own, making mine 

 play the part of under-vest. Poor Brummell! sic 

 transit gloria mundi ! I was quite a young one at the 

 time, but had I been forty he would have done the 

 same thing. 



Now " Hie-ho's " hat I did not begin with the 

 head in this case, no matter why if he wishes to be 

 " warmint," he sports a shallow, a regular Jonathan, 

 which he conceives looks like " going a-head ; " or, if 

 he thinks his friend Mr. Lutestring (who alvays ires 

 a orse to see the Easter Monday's turn-out) knows 

 how to do the thing, he gets the loan of his identical 

 hunting hat ; and a very smart hat indeed it is, with 

 a full yard of inch-wide satin ribbon as a check-string. 



His tie he thinks he must not show a white, be- 

 cause Dominie Sampson does in " Guy Mannering " 

 (so does Jem Kobinson, but he does not know this) ; 

 nor must he sport a black, because William does in 

 " Black-eyed Susan : " he might see such a thing at 

 Barkby Holt and other places ; this he does not 

 know either : not by-the-by that I think black looks 

 well with a hunting coat, but many first goers do : a 

 blue or green with a white dot he could not bear, be- 

 cause the bird's-eye is sported by fighting men ; so 

 this must be low : he therefore takes one, relying on 

 the taste of his Ladye love, and which quite accords 

 with his own : he exhibits his bit of silk, a peach- 

 blossom ground, light green cross-barred, with scar- 

 let and blue transverse stripes. This is a tie ! By 

 George ! I should tumble off if I got on a horse with 

 it on. 



Now for his waistcoat : the bare mention of a plain 



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