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Dennis having ended his ift from Lady Coleville--and shook over it the cobweb lace so it should sparkle like a star through a thin cloud Then passingofa handkerchief discreetly perfu of Elsin Grey

In the light of later custoh I carried neither spy-glass nor the tatches sacred to all fops But if I loved dress, so did his Excellency, and John Hancock, not to name a thousand better men than I; and while I confess that I did and do dearly love to cut a respectable figure, frippery for its own sake was not a my vices; but I hold him a hind who, if he can afford it, dresses not to please others and do justice to the figure that a generous Creator has so patiently fashioned "To please others!" sang lish blood--and so, betwixt the sanguine tides, I was ht it a desire unworthy One thing did distressall entlemen bet, nor to back a well-heeled bird, nor to color itive affairs of the heart which English fashion countenanced--nay, on which fashion insisted--I had no part in theay world in consequence It was not merely lack of money, nor yet a certain fastidiousness ilish blood froh, God wot! It was, I think, all of these reasons that kept ue idea of a woman, somewhere in the world, who should be worth an unsullied love--worth farto her one day And so my pride refused to place me in debt to a woman whom I had never known

As for money, I had my salary when it was convenient for Sir Peter; I had a sed to Colonel Willett's secret uses It was understood that Sir Peter should find me in apparel; I had credit at Sir Peter's tailor, and at his hatter's and bootmaker's, too Twice a year ed to maintain a bed or two in the Albany hospital for our soldiers I ave more So, it is plain to see I had no money for those fashionable vices in the s at whist I felt that I had robbed some wretched creature on the Jersey, or dashed the cup fro in the city prison