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Alderman anil the Earl are in every respect so well charac-
terized that they explain themselves. The Alderman, with
an air of business, counts his money like a man used to this
employment; and the Earl, full of his titles and the greatness
of his birth, which he lets you sec goes as high js William
the Conqueror, is in an attitude which shews him full of
pride; you think yon hear him say me, my Arms, .«y Titles,
my Family, my Ancestors :—every thing about him carries
marks of distinction ; his very crutches, the humbling con-
sequence or" his LifirLiiiriiis, i-.n; de;ck<.u with an earl's coro-
net; these in.! Mai ties :sc i:.t;-;xLiicetl here as the usual conse-
quence of that irregularity of living, but too frequent
among the great. The two persons who are betrothed, on
their parts arc by no means attentive to one another: the
one looks at himself in the glass, is taking snuff, and think-
ing of nothing.—The other is playing negligently with a
ring, and seems to hear with indifference the conversation
of a kind of a lawyer, who attend; the execution of the
marriage articles. Another lawyer is exclaiming with ad-
miration on [lit bfiiiity i>; ;>. building seen at a distance, and
upon which the Earl has spent his whole fortune, and has
not sufficient to finish the same. A number of idle foot-
men, who are about the court of this building, finish the re-
presentation of the ruinous pugoiintsy in which the Earl ie
THE SECOND PICTURE.
THAT indifference between vl.j parties which preceded
Marriage a la Mode, has not been wanting to follow it. We
unite ourselves by contract, and we live separately by incli-
nation. Tired and fatigued one of another, such husbands
terized that they explain themselves. The Alderman, with
an air of business, counts his money like a man used to this
employment; and the Earl, full of his titles and the greatness
of his birth, which he lets you sec goes as high js William
the Conqueror, is in an attitude which shews him full of
pride; you think yon hear him say me, my Arms, .«y Titles,
my Family, my Ancestors :—every thing about him carries
marks of distinction ; his very crutches, the humbling con-
sequence or" his LifirLiiiriiis, i-.n; de;ck<.u with an earl's coro-
net; these in.! Mai ties :sc i:.t;-;xLiicetl here as the usual conse-
quence of that irregularity of living, but too frequent
among the great. The two persons who are betrothed, on
their parts arc by no means attentive to one another: the
one looks at himself in the glass, is taking snuff, and think-
ing of nothing.—The other is playing negligently with a
ring, and seems to hear with indifference the conversation
of a kind of a lawyer, who attend; the execution of the
marriage articles. Another lawyer is exclaiming with ad-
miration on [lit bfiiiity i>; ;>. building seen at a distance, and
upon which the Earl has spent his whole fortune, and has
not sufficient to finish the same. A number of idle foot-
men, who are about the court of this building, finish the re-
presentation of the ruinous pugoiintsy in which the Earl ie
THE SECOND PICTURE.
THAT indifference between vl.j parties which preceded
Marriage a la Mode, has not been wanting to follow it. We
unite ourselves by contract, and we live separately by incli-
nation. Tired and fatigued one of another, such husbands