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    scarce for the most part , and are the only things in the place that don ' t much like to be looked at . To say the

    truth , they are little worth the trouble , they look so squinty atid surly . But here in Italy they are as bright as your ladyship's eyes in their best

    manner , or as the plate at your ladyship's table , when honest Jack Stivers had the polishing of it : and they wink and play with one another like spring kids .

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    MR STIVERS TO LADY C . I can ' t deal and won't deal with master . He wants materials ; and I am to be on the look out—the key-weeve , as the

    Frenchmen call it . And what the d ^ vil ! ( Go d forgive me !) do you think he calls materials ? Why , scrap * of paper , to be brought to him everv nierht

    with " my view , " as he , calls it , *« of things and event * . " He said to me , " Stivers ! I contemplate a very considerable work . Every man differs from every other man . " —Here he

    ( opened first one great volume sand then another , and after i reading a little , proceeded off-Ihand—" Not only in his own i view of society , but in his i recital of events . " Again he [ paused , threw his spectacles up

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    to his forehead and looked at me . I said nothing : he went on . " Remarks , I see , do not make much impression on you ; but you have very considerable versatility and originality . What you collect for me , and

    what you express m your own manner , I shall put into proper form , contracting your eccentricities and rounding your periods . I myself shall point out many things to your inexperience ; as you must remember I did in the square of the Carousel , near the Thuilleries

    the first time you attended me to that royal residence . " Now , my lady , you may be curious to hear what it was he pointed out to me : and as I never balked you , I will not balk you now . The story is worth a pound note .

    We saw upon the ironrailing some posts with gilt cocks upon 'em . Master pulled the string , and stopped the carriage , and said to me , " Stivers ! did you ever hear a cock-and-bull story ? "

    " Yes , sir / ' said I , but for the love of mercy don't let ' s have one now . Many and many a one have I gone through under my Lord G . ; enough to last any man for life .

    For the love of God , sir , let the carriage go on , or this wind will blow us over th , e rail " . " Do you mind a little dust ?" saidmaster .

    " Sir , " said I , " they say a bushel of March dust is worth

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    9 i High and Low Life in Italy .

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Aug. 1, 1837, page 94, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1834/page/22/