Excerpt from Tales of Fashionable Life, Vol. 4 of 6: Containing Vivian
The Absentee is not intended as a censure upon those, whose duties, and employments, and supe rior talents, lead them to the capital; but to warn the thoughtless and the unoccupied from seeking distinction by frivolous imitation of fashion and ruinous waste of fortune.
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