arry her daughter and have done with her; get her carriage and be
at home and asleep in bed; whilst a timid mamma has still her girl in
the nursery, or is beseeching the servants in the cloakroom to look for
her shawls, with which some one else has whisked away an hour ago. What
a man has to do in society is to assert himself. Is there a good place
at table? Take it. At the Treasury or the Home Office? Ask for it. Do
you want to go to a party to which you are not invited? Ask to be asked.
Ask A., ask B., ask Mrs. C., ask everybody you know: you will be thought
a bore; but you will have your way. What matters if you are considered
obtrusive, provided that you obtrude? By pushing steadily, nine hundred
and ninety-nine people in a thousand will yield to you. Only command
persons, and you may be pretty sure that a good number will obey. How
well your money will have been laid out, O gentle reader, who purchase
this; and, taking the maxim to heart, follow it through life! You may
be sure of success. If your neighbour's foot obstructs you, stamp on it;
and do you suppose he won't take it away?

The proofs of the correctness of the above remarks I show in various
members of the Newcome family. Here was a vulgar little woman, not
clever nor pretty, especially; meeting Mr. Newcome casually, she ordered
him to marry her, and he obeyed; as he obeyed her in everything else
which she chose to order through life. Meeting Colonel Newcome on the
steps of her house, she orders him to come to her evening party;
and though he has not been to an evening party for five-and-thirty
years--though he has not been to bed the night before--though he has
no mufti-coat except one sent him out by Messrs. Stultz to India in the
year 1821--he never once thinks of disobeying Mrs. Newcome's order, but
is actually at her door at five minutes past ten, having arrayed himself
to the wonderment of Clive, and left the boy to talk with his friend and
fellow-passenger, Mr. Binnie, who has just arrived from Portsmouth, who
has dined with him, and who, by previous arrangement, has taken up his
quarters at the same hotel.

This Stultz coat, a blue swallow-tail, with yellow buttons, now wearing
a tinge of their native copper, a very high velvet collar on a level
with the tips of the Captain's ears, with a high waist, indicated by two
lapelles, and a pair of buttons high up in the wearer's back, a white
waistcoat and scarlet under-waistcoat, and a pair of the never