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Updated: June 4, 2025
He was a very tall man, with a rain-sodden, bell-crowned hat crushed low upon his brows, and wrapped in a long, many-caged overcoat, the skirts of which were woefully mired and torn. All at once he laughed, very softly and musically. "So, you would have killed me, would you, Charmian shot me like a dog?" His tone was soft as his laugh and equally musical, and yet neither was good to hear.
"Why, no, Ancient; you see, he happened to be wearing a bell-crowned hat and a long coat." "A 'at an' coat!" said the old man in a disappointed tone "a 'at, Peter?" "Yes," I nodded. "To be sure, the Scripters say as 'e goeth up an' down like a ravening lion seekin' whom 'e may devour." "Yes," said I, "but more often, I think, like a fine gentleman!"
It was very strange nothing like it ever happened in those mild little books with marbled backs, and with pictures in them of men with swallow-tailed coats and bell-crowned hats, and pantaloons that are short in the legs, and women with the waists of their dresses under their arms, and no hoops on. Nothing like it in any of the Sunday-school books.
As for the men, those who aspire to European garments seem to have no perception of the relation subsisting between the various parts of a gentleman's costume. To the wearer of a coat, for instance, pantaloons are by no means indispensable; and a bell-crowned hat and a girdle are full dress.
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