Then there are such relics of grandeur as you see upon my person, though they begin to look as frail and worn as a waiting-woman's virtue.

In this bag, too, I retain the means for preserving that niceness and elegance of person which made me, though I say it, as well groomed a man as ever set foot in St.James's Park.

Here are French scissors, eyebrow brush, toothpick case, patch-box, powder-bag, comb, puff, and my pair of red-heeled shoes.

What could a man wish for more?
These, with a dry throat, a cheerful heart, and a ready hand, are my whole stock in trade.' Reuben and I could not forbear from laughing at the curious inventory of articles which Sir Gervas had saved from the wreck of his fortunes.

He upon seeing our mirth was so tickled at his own misfortunes, that he laughed in a high treble key until the whole house resounded with his merriment.