indifference
and circumstance, and their passions will do wonders for a
dasher
which I suppose you are, though I seldom had the impudence or patience to follow them up.
Lord Petersham was one of the chief dandies of the day. Gronow in 1814 (
Reminiscences
, vol. i. p. 285) found him
"making a particular sort of blacking, which he said would eventually supersede every other."