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I sat on the back seat of the carriage, near a very nice young lady, about my dear Mary's age -- that is to say, seventeen and three-quarters; and opposite us sat the old Countess and her other grand-daughter -- handsome too, but ten years older. I recollect I had on that day my blue coat and brass buttons, nankeen trousers, a white sprig waist-coat, and one of Dando's silk hats, that had just come in in the year '22, and looked a great deal more glossy than the best beaver.
"And who was that hidjus manster" -- that was the way her Ladyship pronounced, -- "that ojous vulgar wretch, with the iron heels to his boots, and the big mouth, and the imitation goold neck-chain, who _steered_ at us so as we got into the carriage?"