It is my intention to visit your father's house and to see you if I can.

You need not, for the sake of my safety, object to this, because no one can know me.

The description of my dress, though somewhat undignified, I must give you.

In the first place, then, I am, to all outward appearance, as rude-looking a country lout as ever you looked upon.

My disguise consists, first, of a pair of brogues embroidered with clouts, or what is vulgarly denominated patches, out of the point of one of which--that of the right foot--nearly half my toe visibly projects.
The stockings are coarse Connemaras, with sufficient air-holes, both in feet and legs, to admit the pure atmosphere, and strengthen the muscular system.