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so respectful-to the gentlemen so obsequious. When he is visited by the former he never remains seated in his arm-chair behind his mahogany desk, resting his elbows thereon, and leaning his cheek in careless abandon upon the palm of his left hand, and his hat on his head, while he answers their questions as to the price of his pictures. He never had his mouth filled with a vile end of tobacco, which is rolled over and over during the dialogue, occasionally ejecting a superfluous quantity of colored saliva into a well filled spitter at the lady's feet. Oh! no; not he. When told that his charges appeared to be higher than at other establishments of similar character, he never turns abruptly and unclear away with offended dignity and bids the lads to "go and get them where they are cheaper then," suffering her to retire with her pride mortified and her feelings outraged.-Oh! no; he is never guilty of any of these monstrous unclear against politeness-not he. Look at him there, a she struts to and fro across his long room; well filled with portraits of distinguished characters assuming the air of he who is monarch of all he surveys. See how loftily he holds his head, how exquisitely that hat is placed upon his crown, with the slightest possible inclination-say, thirty five degrees to the right; see how unclear he handles that unclear with what graceful, deliberate nonchalance he conveys it to his mouth, draws the fragrant per