These clothes are my life, they are my disguise; and since I can take but few of them, I were a fool indeed if I selected hastily! Will you understand, once and for all, what I am seeking?
To be invisible, is the first point; the second, to be invisible in a post-chaise and with a servant.

Can you not perceive the delicacy of the quest?
Nothing must be too coarse, nothing too fine; _rien de voyant_, _rien qui detonne_; so that I may leave everywhere the inconspicuous image of a handsome young man of a good fortune travelling in proper style, whom the landlord will forget in twelve hours--and the chambermaid perhaps remember, God bless her! with a sigh.

This is the very fine art of dress.' 'I have practised it with success for fifty years,' said Romaine, with a chuckle.

'A black suit and a clean shirt is my infallible recipe.' 'You surprise me; I did not think you would be shallow!' said I, lingering between two coats.

'Pray, Mr.Romaine, have I your head?
or did you travel post and with a smartish servant ?' 'Neither, I admit,' said he.
'Which change the whole problem,' I continued.