A shabby-genteel man may have no occupation, or he may be a corn agent, or a coal agent, or a wine merchant, or a collector of debts, or a broker's assistant, or a broken-down attorney.

He may be a clerk of the lowest description, or a contributor to the press of the same grade.

Whether our readers have noticed these men, in their walks, as often as we have, we know not; this we know--that the miserably poor man (no matter whether he owes his distresses to his own conduct, or that of others) who feels his poverty and vainly strives to conceal it, is one of the most pitiable objects in human nature.

Such objects, with few exceptions, are shabby-genteel people..