I do not mean to say he is not a vain man, but merely that a portion only of that, which appears so to us, is vanity, and that the rest and by far the greater portion too, is local or provincial peculiarity.
This explanation is due to the Americans, who have been grossly misrepresented, and to the English, who have been egregiously deceived, by persons attempting to delineate character, who were utterly incapable of perceiving those minute lights and shades, without which, a portrait becomes a contemptible daub, or at most a mere caricature.
"A droll scene that at the house o' represen_tatives_ last night," said Mr.Slick when we next met, "warn't it?
A sort o' rookery, like that at the Shropshire Squire's, where I spent the juicy day.

What a darned cau-cau-cawin' they keep, don't they?
These members are jist like the rooks, too, fond of old houses, old woods, old trees, and old harnts.
And they are jist as proud, too, as they be.

Cuss 'em, they won't visit a new man, or new plantation.

They are too aristocratic for that.

They have a circle of their own.