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"Hum!" said Barnabas

"Now, to starve, sir, is unpleasant; thus I, having a foolish,

though very natural, dread of it, poach rabbits that I s and dirt, therefore

I--exchanged this coat and breeches fro

all away in the fields, and though they are aard, badly-ars--and--"

"Thieves!" added Barnabas

"And thieves, sir, cannot always be choosers, can they?"

"Then you adlanced at Barnabas with a wry se is no robbery they say; but arreat valet, I understand?"

"And have served entlemen in my time"

"Then you probably know London and the fashionable world?"

"Yes, sir," said the iven to understand, on the authority

of a Person of Quality, that to dress properly is an art"

The fugitive nodded "Indeed, sir, though your Person of Quality

should rather have called it the greatest of all the arts"

"Why so?"

"Because by dress it is possible to !"

"Explain yourself"