CHAPTER XVIII.

How to introduce a young Girl into Society--I make the Daughter of a Relative a reigning Belle--First Offers of Marriage generally the Best--Wives should flirt with their Husbands--How to be fashionable--“Nobs” and “Swells”--The Prince of Wales’s Aphorism--The value of a pleasant Manner--How a Gentleman should dress--I might have made a Fortune--Commodore Vanderbilt gives me a straight “Tip,” 239