. Lewis Arundel; or, The railroad of life . ruction. You have known him some years, I think,Mr. Arundel 1 Lewis rephed in the affirmative, and Leicester continued :— Dont you perceive that he is greatly altered 1 He stoopslike an old man, sir ; his eyes are getting weak,—its an evenchance whether he is shaved or not ; he looks upon brushes assupei-fluities, and eschews bears grease entirely, not to mention avery decided objection to the operations of the hair-cutter ;—thenthe clothes he wears,—where he contrives to get such thingsI cant conceive, unless they come out of Monmouth-street, andthe
. Lewis Arundel; or, The railroad of life . ruction. You have known him some years, I think,Mr. Arundel 1 Lewis rephed in the affirmative, and Leicester continued :— Dont you perceive that he is greatly altered 1 He stoopslike an old man, sir ; his eyes are getting weak,—its an evenchance whether he is shaved or not ; he looks upon brushes assupei-fluities, and eschews bears grease entirely, not to mention avery decided objection to the operations of the hair-cutter ;—thenthe clothes he wears,—where he contrives to get such thingsI cant conceive, unless they come out of Monmouth-street, andthen they would be better cut; but the worst of it is, he has noproper feeling about it,—perfectly callous ! He sighed, andthen resumed. It was last Saturday, I think,—pon my word,you will scarcely believe it, but its true, I do assure you : I hadgiven my horse to the groom, and was lounging by the Serpentine,with Egerton of the Guards, and HaiTy Vain, who is about thebest dressed man in London, a little after five oclock, and the. /, ^ OR, THE RAILROAD OF LIFE. 27 park fis full as it could hold, when, who should I sec, striding alonglike a postman among the swells, but ISIaster Richard Frere !And how do you suppose he was dressed? Well begin at thetop, and take him downwards : Imprimis, a shocking bad hat,set on the back of his head, after the fashion of the he peasantsin a pastoral chorus at the Opera House ; a seedy black coat, withimmense flaps, and a large octavo edition of St. Senanus, or someof them, sticking out of the pocket; a white choker villanouslytied, which looked as if he had slept in it the night before ; amost xwinl waistcoat, black-and-white plaid trowsers guiltless ofstraps, worsted stockings, and a clumsy species of shooting shoes ;and, because all this was not enough, he had a large umbrella,although the day was lovely, and a basket in his hand, with theneck of a black bottle peeping out of it, containing port wine,which it seems he was conveying
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