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    spread the new fashion among the unfashionable , who get their knowledge of what is modish by their observation of what passes about them . As for the tailor ' s apprentice , ambitious of some day being a master himself , and sublimated by the scientific g lories of a Stultz , he , dreamy youth , spends the entire day at the West End in criticisms on coats , waistcoats , and trowsers . If

    he turns his head once to look after passing pairs of pantaloons , he twists it a thousand times . If there is a fault in coat or coatee he detects it with the malignancy of a Dennis in literature ; a beauty in cut or execution , on the contrary , lifts him into the third heaven of a tailor ' s rapture , pacifies hid bile , and sends him home at night full of the gaie science . Simpson , a

    smartish sort of clerk enough , having but one coat , is unnecessarily suspicious of it , and is oppressed with dread that thou gh it is ' the thing' on Mondays , there is a certain something of the seedy and seventy pounds per annum about it on Sundays , and , whenever he can do it unobserved , he keeps damping the whiteworn elbow , and tries to console himself with a couplet from a modern poet ;—

    ' All pride is littleness—but very low The pride which unpaid tailors can bestow ;'but it won ' t do . As if to mortify him , whom does he meet but Sam , the porter ' of our house / who eyes him from top to toe as though he recognised the suit more than the Simpson , which is particularly spiteful in Sam ; and Simpson , if he regards Sam ' s

    new superfine with something like envy , wonders how he can afford it;—a suspicion too , perhaps , crosses his mind , but he charitably hopes that Sam does not make improper perquisites , and walks on . To add to his misgivings , who but his junio * brother clerk , Alfred Augustus Atkinson , dashes by in a gig with * chestnut and a lady in a pink bonnet and chinchilla tippet ; and said Augustus deigns to give him only two inches of nod ,

    and no more . Simpson wonders still more how he does it ; but just as his temper darkens , the two Miss Dobbses , the handsome daughters of Deputy Dobbs , who reside opposite his countinghouse , meet him , know him , smile , incline their heads , and paas on . His heart and his eyes brighten , his coat is not shabby , or not remarkable , he holds up his head , damps his elbow no more ; Sam is honest enough no doubt ; and as for Augustus Atkinson , he

    perhaps has good friends who supply his extravagancies . There is but one visibly unhappy being in the streets , **—th # doctor ' s boy carrying a basket of pills and potions :- * -he , poor fellow , looks indescribable envy at other errand-boys enjoying themselves at pitch in the hole , * like gentlemen ; * wonders liofr ° ld people can be so perverse as to be ill on Sunday *; * nti wishes n < yw he had taken the place at the grocer ' s , though k w * i sixpence less per week . All the other boys enjoy themselves M

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Aug. 2, 1834, page 567, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2636/page/37/