ned that in the fraternal embrace of these two
distinguished personages their moustaches, anointed with the new patent
adhesive Eukautherostickostecon, became actually so fastened together
(as the fellow said, like two clothes-brushes) that after a quarter of
an hour's vain struggle they had to be cut asunder. From that moment,
sir, the paste was done up; he sold it as harness stuff the week after,
and left the hair and beard line altogether."

As Cashel's dressing proceeded, Mr. Phillis continued to impose upon him
those various hints and suggestions respecting costume for which that
accomplished gentleman's gentleman was renowned.

"Excuse me, but you are not going to wear that coat, I hope. A morning
dress should always incline to what artists call 'neutral tints;' there
should also be nothing striking, nothing that would particularly catch
the eye, except in those peculiar cases where the wearer, adopting a
certain color, not usually seen, adheres strictly to it, Just as we
see my Lord Blenneville with his old coffee-colored cut-away, and Sir
Francis Heming with his light-blue frock; Colonel Mordaunt's Hessians
are the same kind of thing."

"This is all mere trifling," said Casbel, impatiently; "I don't intend
to dress like the show-figure in a tailor's shop, to be stared at."

"Exactly so, sir; that is what I have been saying: any notoriety is
to be avoided where a gentleman has a real position. Now, with a dark
frock, gray trousers, and this plain single-breasted vest, your costume
is correct."

If Cashel appeared to submit to these dictations with impatience, he
really received them as laws to which he was, in virtue of his station,
to be bound. He had taken Mr. Phillis exactly as he had engaged the
services of a celebrated French cook, as a person to whom a "department"
was to be intrusted; and feeling that he was about to enter on a world
whose habits of thinking and prejudices were all strange, he resolved
to accept of guidance, with the implicitness that he would have shown in
taking a pilot to navigate him through a newly visited channel. Between
the sense of submission, and a certain feeling of shame at the mock
importance of these considerations, Casbel exhibited many symptoms of
impatience, as Mr. Phillis continued his revelations on dress, and was
sincerely happy when that refined individual, having slowly surveyed
him, pronounced a faint, "Yes, very near it," and withdrew.

There was a half glimme