thy black coat has no more plaits, nor buttons, nor fancy in Moncler Baby Pas Cher it than thy neighbor’s; thy hat was made on the very block on which Lord Addlepate’s was cast, who has just entered the Club before thee. You and he yawn together out of the same omnibus-box every night; you fancy yourselves men of pleasure; you fancy yourselves men of fashion; you fancy yourselves men of taste; in fancy, in taste, in opinion, in philosophy, the newspaper legislates for you; it is there you get your jokes and your thoughts, and your facts and your wisdom — poor Pall Mall dullards. Stupid slaves of the press, on that ground which you at present occupy, there were men of wit and pleasure and fashion, some five-and-twenty lustres ago.
We are at Button’s — the well-known sign of the “Turk’s Head.” The crowd of periwigged heads at the windows — the swearing chairmen round the steps (the blazoned and coronalled panels of whose vehicles denote Goedkope Deportivo Voetbalshirts the lofty rank of their owners) — the throng of Camisetas Rusia Baratas embroidered beaux entering or departing, and rendering the air fragrant with the Goedkope Spanje Voetbalshirts odors of pulvillio and pomander, proclaim the celebrated resort of London’s Wit and Fashion. It is the corner of Regent Street. Carlton House has not yet been taken down.
A stately gentleman in crimson velvet and gold is sipping chocolate at one of the tables, in earnest converse with a friend whose suit is likewise embroidered, but stained by time, or Rakousko Dres Děti wine mayhap, or wear. A little Guadalajara Koszulka deformed gentleman in iron-gray is reading the Morning Chronicle newspaper by the fire, while a divine, with a broad brogue and a shovel hat and cassock, is talking freely Pumas Koszulka with a gentleman, whose star and ribbon, as well as the unmistakable beauty of his Phidian countenance, proclaims him to be a member of Britain’s aristocracy.
Two ragged youths, the one tall, gaunt, clumsy Camisetas Orlando Pirates Baratas and scrofulous, the other with Goedkope Sevilla Voetbalshirts a wild, careless, beautiful look, evidently indicating Race, are gazing in at the window, not merely at the crowd in the celebrated Club, but at Timothy the waiter,
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