Brummell's

Brummell's style was in fact simplicity, but simplicity of the most studied kind.

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Yet Brummell's pleasantry did not desert him even in Calais.

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Brummell's manner probably laughed off impertinences of this order; for, given without their colouring from nature, they would have justified an angry reply.

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All this was very solemn and astounding; but Brummell's presence of mind was not often astounded.

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Brummell's own account of this origin of his court connexions is, that when a boy at Eton he had been presented to the Prince, and that his subsequent intimacy grew out of the Prince's notice on that occasion.

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Brummell's dress was finished with perfect skill, but without the slightest attempt at exaggeration.

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The subtlety of Brummell's sneers, which made him so highly amusing to the first rank of society, made him an object of alarm if not of respect to others.

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The reports of Brummell's conduct on this important arrival, of the King's notice of him, and of the royal liberality in consequence, were of every shape and shade of invention.

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Brummell's connexion with the Prince, his former rank in the hussars, and his own agreeable manners, introduced him to the intercourse of the principal nobility.

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Here Brummell's knowledge of every body did him good service.

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