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 ¬ CHAPTER II. ¬The Author is provided "with the Dress of the Country. — With Reflections thereupon. ¬Morven soon advanced with his accustomed kindness to receive me, but my gay companion vehemently objected to alighting; saying, he could breathe no longer out of Swaloal, and from what I saw afterwards it was his proper ele- ment, as without being altogether what we should call a Dandy, he was a young man of the most decided fashion in all her higher circles. — It was indeed with the greatest difficulty I could resist being carried on by him in the night, without rest or refreshment, towards this renowned city, but I expressed so strong a desire to appear only in the dress of the country, that he reluctantly agreed to wait till the morning, and good-na- turedly underwent, as a kind of penance, what to me was the highest enjoyment — a quiet sup- per in a most delightful apartment, opening, on each side, to conservatories, fronting a rapid ¬stream ¬ /n