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I mean no kind of disrespect to the grandee of Armata or to his, by this classical quotation.

At the conclusion of this laughable adventure, Morven, the father, joined us, and resumed the subject of costume, but upon a very different principle, saying to me gravely, and as if he was not quite pleased—"I sent for this young man as an agreeable companion, to shew you the face of the country and its fashions, to which I am now quite unequal; but you must think for yourself on many subjects where his youth and inexperience would lead you far astray: the matter which he has been treating as a mere jest, is of great moment, so much so, that I am anxious to hear how it is considered with you, where wisdom seems to station every thing in its appointed place."

Flattered not a little by this just remark, and