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VGR(NP.782.033
8 Jun 1782:41, 42 (24)
From the Public Leger. It is not many years since a lady
who had a daughter, young, handsome, and entitled to a
pretty considerable fortune, permitted her to go with a very
sensible gentlewoman who was her intimate friend, to an
Assembly in a country village in which they lived, not many
miles distant from this metropolis. When they came there,
the gentlewoman saw a person of her acquaintance, under
thirty, of a very genteel appearance, whom she introduced to
the young lady under her care, and proposed him as a partner
to dance with her, adding that she knew him to be a
considerable Spanish merchant in the city. The fair one
absolutely refused her hand, and declared that she would
never demean herself to dance with one in trade. She
afterwards however, condescended to dance with a very well
dressed youth, of about four and twenty; who, when the
evening was pretty far advanced, handed her to her coach,
and who at parting put some papers into her hand, and
desired her interest with her Mamma that his Father might
serve the family: The papers plainly demonstrated that this
young beau was a tallow-chandler!
. . . [2 more paragraphs discussing the danger of respect
paid to clothes as a measure of a man.]
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