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O, cousin, you know him -- the fine gentleman they talk of so much in town. -- Wycherly's Dancing Master.
By the bright days of my youth, there is something truly delightful in the quick motion of four post-horses. In France, where one's steeds are none of the swiftest, the pleasures of travelling are not quite so great as in England; still, however, to a man who is tired of one scene -- panting for another -- in love with excitement, and not yet wearied of its pursuit -- the turnpike road is more grateful than the easiest chair ever invented, and the little prison we entitle a carriage, more cheerful than the state-rooms of Devonshire House.