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The gold-lace and bright-coloured broad-cloth seemed to affect him as his rich plumage does the peacock. Every now and again he paused in his promenade, glanced down at his lacquered boots, examined the tournure of his limbs, or feasted his eyes upon the jewels that studded his delicate white fingers.
But how awkward that Juliet should be married and her husband a Bill Sykes in broad-cloth! Mrs. Glamorys herself gave 'At Homes', every Sunday afternoon, and so, on the morrow, after a sleepless night mitigated by perpended sonnets, the love-sick young tutor presented himself by invitation at the beautiful old house in Hampstead.
The men were clothed in drab broad-cloth, and wore large white hats; their garb altogether resembling that of the more respectable Society of Friends, in America.
And, O Bharata, at length at a beautiful place called Pramanakoti on the banks of the Ganga, he built a palace decorated with hangings of broad-cloth and other rich stuffs. And he built this palace for sporting in the water there, and filled it with all kinds of entertaining things and choice viands. Gay flags waved on the top of this mansion.
"An amusing sight, isn't it?" said Müller, as, having swum several times round the bath, we sat down for a few moments on one of the flights of steps leading down to the water. "It is a sight to disgust one for ever with human-kind," I replied. "And to fill one with the profoundest respect for one's tailor. After all, it's broad-cloth makes the man." "But these are not men they are caricatures."
The plain homespun jean coat gave way to the broad-cloth one; and the neat, Turkey-red striped Sunday frock of the belle yielded to the gaudy red calico one, and there was a sniff of aristocratic contempt in the upturned nose towards those who, from choice or necessity, continued in the old habits. Material wealth augmented rapidly, and with it came all of its assumptions.
'They make as good bread here as in France, and 'by night all cats are grey, and 'a hard case enough his, who hasn't broken his fast at two in the afternoon, and 'there's no stomach a hand's breadth bigger than another, and the same can be filled 'with straw or hay, as the saying is, and 'the little birds of the field have God for their purveyor and caterer, and 'four yards of Cuenca frieze keep one warmer than four of Segovia broad-cloth, and 'when we quit this world and are put underground the prince travels by as narrow a path as the journeyman, and 'the Pope's body does not take up more feet of earth than the sacristan's, for all that the one is higher than the other; for when we go to our graves we all pack ourselves up and make ourselves small, or rather they pack us up and make us small in spite of us, and then good night to us.
A supper-table, encircled by blanket and "jeans" coats by buckskin blouses and red-flannel shirts by men without coats at all was nothing strange to me; nor was it strange either to find these bizarre costumes interspersed among others of fashionable cut and finest cloth. Black broad-cloth frocks, and satin or velvet vests, were quite common.
Indeed, the "Broad-Cloth Mob," viewed in the light of the important consequences which followed it, was equal to a hundred anti-slavery meetings, or a dozen issues of the Liberator. It is a curious and remarkable circumstance that, on the very day of the Boston mob, there occurred one in Utica, N.Y., which was followed by somewhat similar results.
The young man appeared to be be rather friendless, than unknown. I could perceive that almost all of the company were acquainted with him; but that most of them especially the gentlemen in broad-cloth affected an air of superiority over him.
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