A Filial Tribute to the Memory of William Allen Hayes, of South Berwick ...
A Filial Tribute to the Memory of William Allen Hayes, of South Berwick ...
John L John Lord Hayes
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It is quite an error to suppose, as I used to thiilk, that he started in life as a raw country boy. I can remember him when he was but a young man hardly over thirty years old. There never was a trace of rusticity in his dress, manners, or language. He never did a coarse thing, or uttered a vulgar word, or even an oath, and all of us remem- ber how scrupulously nice he was in his personal habits. The white-topped, and also the tasselled Hessian boots, which I remember, showed that his dress as ...a young man verged at least on elegance. In the earlier days he imported every year his suits of clothes from London or Liverpool, where he had a measure. In his blue coat with bright buttons, his exquisitely plaited shirt, his white double neckcloths of two cravats, — the second one to make the bows, — he was admitted to be the best-dressed lawyer at court, where it was the custom always to wear full dress suits. This was enhanced by his remarkable personal beauty, — his soft hair, high white forehead, and fair, clear complexion and good height ; a beauty of which he was absolutely unconscious, for he had not a trace of personal vanity, — a trait which 1 am happy Digitized by Google to say has been inherited by those of his children who have a right to vanity on this ground.
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