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Martin Dockerill like a regular Beau Brummel in new white flannels, parading the deck, making eyes at pretty Greaser girls. It's good to be going. Feb. 22, 1912: Geo. W's birthday. He'd have busted that no-lie proviso if he'd ever advertised an aero meet. Start of flight New Orleans to St. Louis.
Beau Brummel for the velocipede dates back to him may have walked forth to take the waters at Tunbridge Wells on a vehicle not far different, but built to his greater stature. There is also a trickle of drays and wagons across the park a mere leakage from the streets, as though the near-by traffic in the pressure had burst its pipes.
Behind these rode one with the light glinting on his silver conchos Mat Henshaw, the town Beau Brummel then the black Guss Reeve, and last of all "Ronicky" Joe on his pinto; "Ronicky" Joe, handy man at all things, and particularly guns.
Only, somehow, George IV. and Beau Brummel don't seem exactly relevant to Italian organ-grinders, now do they? 'I thought, said Edie, with hardly a touch of unintentional satire, 'that the best thing about anecdotes of that kind in a newspaper was their utter irrelevancy. But if Beau Brummel won't do, couldn't you manage to work in Guicciardini and the galleys?
Couldn't you manage to bring in something about Fox and Sheridan, or about George IV. and Beau Brummel? They always do, you know, in most of the papers. Ernest gazed at her in silent admiration. 'How clever of you, Edie, he said, 'to think of that! Why, of course there ought to be some anecdotes. They're the very breath of life to this sort of meaningless writing.
"Some people don't know when they are well off," said Beau Brummel. "This strikes me as being an ideal life. There are no tailors bills to pay we are ourselves nothing but memories, and a memory can clothe himself in the shadow of his former grandeur I clothe myself in the remembrance of my departed clothes, and as my memory is good I flatter myself I'm the best-dressed man here.
He actually drew up a set of written rules which some of the best-born and best-bred people follow slavishly. Even better known to us is George Bryan Brummel, commonly called "Beau Brummel," who by his friendship with George IV. then Prince Regent was an oracle at court on everything that related to dress and etiquette and the proper mode of living.
The member of the association who would bind a paper-box maiden to his conquering chariot scorned to employ Beau Brummel airs. They were not considered honourable methods of warfare.
There was Alcide Echauffourees, also a Zephyr, who had his nickname from the marvelous changes of costume with which he would pursue his erratic expedition, and deceive the very Arabs themselves into believing him a born Mussulman; a very handsome fellow, the Lauzun of his battalion, the Brummel of his Caserne; coquette with his kepi on one side of his graceful head, and his mustaches soft as a lady's hair; whose paradise was a score of dangerous intrigues, and whose seventh heaven was a duel with an infuriated husband; incorrigibly lazy, but with the Italian laziness, as of the panther who sleeps in the sun, and with such episodes of romance, mischief, love, and deviltry in his twenty-five years of existence as would leave behind them all the invention of Dumas, pere ou fils.
A pretty adventure it would be, nevertheless, to spend a week paying visits to those whom I loved about that time; and I can imagine a sort of Beau Brummel of the emotions going every year to Paris to spend a day with each of his mistresses. There were others about that time.
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