Here, too, must Transit
and myself take a farewell of merry Cheltenham, ever on the wing for
novelty: our sketches have been brief, but full of genuine character;
nor can they, as I hope, be considered in any instance as violating our
established rule--of being true to nature, without offending the ear of
chastity, or exciting aught but
15 "A. word to the wise," &c. Get honest "Tom Whipcord" to
take you by his hand on Valentine's night to the "noctes"
muster of the _Sporting Annals_ gents. You will know me by a
brace of "bleeding hearts" in my plaited neckerchief, and a
blue bunch of ribbons in my sinister side, as big as the
Herald newspaper, the gifts of my lady-love.
~282~~the approving smile of the lovers of mirth, and the patrons of
life's merriments. We had intended to have drawn aside the curtain of
the theatre and the castle, and have shown forth to the gaze of the
public the unhallowed mysteries which are sometimes performed there; but
reflection whispered, that morality might find more cause to blush at
the recital than her attendants would benefit by the exposure; and is is
lamentably true, that some persons would cheerfully forfeit all claim
to respectability of character for the honour of appearing in print,
depicted in their true colours, as systematic and profligate seducers.
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