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Turner, he was the finest equestrian in London and describes how the mob would gather every morning round his door to see him descend, insolent from his toilet, and mount and ride away. Indeed, he surpassed us all in all the exercises of the body. There was no great harm in this, perhaps. Even the handwriting of Mr. Brummell was not unknown in the albums.

Then he renewed his labors at the courthouse of the older county from which Brummell was formed in 1750, and through many fragmentary, evil-odored and unindexed volumes indefatigably pursued the family's fortune back to the immigration of its American progenitor in 1619, and, by the happiest fatality, upon the same Bona Nova which enabled the first American Musgrave to grace the Colony of Virginia with his presence.

Since the day of Mr. Brummell and King George, the noble art of self-adornment had fallen partially desuete. Great fops like Bulwer and le jeune Cupidon had come upon the town, but never had they formed a school. Dress, therefore, had become simpler, wardrobes smaller, fashions apt to linger.

The other one is Lord Foley they call him No. 11, on account of his thin legs." "There is Mr. Brummell, sir," said I. "Yes, he'll come to us presently. That young man has certainly a future before him. Do you observe the way in which he looks round the room from under his drooping eyelids, as though it were a condescension that he should have entered it?

A bon mot attributed to him gave rise to the belief that Solomon caused the downfall and disappearance of Brummell; for on some friends of the prince of dandies observing that if he had remained in London something might have been done for him by his old associates, Alvanley replied, "He has done quite right to be off: it was Solomon's judgment."

The dictum of Brummell was thus enunciated: "A gentleman never malts, he ports." A gentleman should always express his preference for some one sort of wine over others; because, as there is always a natural preference for one kind, if you say that you are indifferent, you show that you are not accustomed to drink wines.

It was characteristic of Colonel Musgrave that he went about answering the question without delay. The Stapletons for "Stapylton" was a happy innovation of Roger Stapylton's dead wife the colonel knew to have been farmers in Brummell County, and Brummell Courthouse is within an hour's ride, by rail, of Lichfield. So he set about his labor of love. And in it he excelled himself.

Nor were the roses wanting in my cheeks; and to all this was added a permanency in my looks that no sort of fatigue could impair. She was fond of relating an anecdote of a flattering impertinence on the part of Beau Brummell, who, meeting her at a ball, coolly took the earrings out of her ears, telling her that she should not wear such things, as they hid the fine turn of her cheek, and the set of head upon her neck.

No poet nor cook nor sculptor, ever bore that title more worthily than he. And really, outside his art, Mr. Brummell had a personality of almost Balzacian insignificance. There have been dandies, like D'Orsay, who were nearly painters; painters, like Mr. Whistler, who wished to be dandies; dandies, like Disraeli, who afterwards followed some less arduous calling. I fancy Mr.

Then, when all is settled, the social style with which he asks you to take a "cutlet" with him at the "Clarendon," not to go home are only to be equalled by the admirable tact on the ground the studiously elegant salute to the adverse party, half a la Napoleon, and half Beau Brummell the politely offered snuff-box the coquetting raillery about 10 paces or 12 are certainly the beau ideal of the stoicism which preludes sending your friend out of the world like a gentleman.

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