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I was not a little surprised to find this man an especial favourite with the innkeepers and proprietors on the road, and was fain to attribute the dislike I had to the man to prejudice, or want of FLUNKIES. 129 knowledge of what should constitute a respectable and desirable servant. Indeed, his natural bearing, made up of impu- dence, ignorance, and swagger, would convey an impression to the unthinking that he was a person of considerable im- portance. Passing over the next, who was, or had bee...n, a gentleman's coachman, or flunkie, and had acquired his position, as our younger sons of nobility and others do in the army, by purchase; I come to the third, whom I found to come a little nearer to what I had pictured to myself ought to be the conductor of a public conveyance, loaded with visitors to a fashionable watering-place. As the up and down coaches met midway, and the men exchanged seats and way-bills, the other man had told him who I was, con- sequently there needed no introduction.
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