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Excerpt from Flower O' the Vine: Romantic Ballads and Sospiri Di Roma
In accordance with a courtly usage that is founded in common sense (as is the rule with courtly usages, though Democrats rail to the contrary) letters of intro duction are held to be a necessary portion of the equip ment of a gentleman who is about to set forth upon his travels in foreign lands. For the most part, to be sure, the traueller may go happily enough without such credentials and on his own merits maize for himself -supposing him to be truly gentle, and of a cordial quality - all the friends whom he desires by the way. But now and again - as in the case of some ill-bred fellow guestioning suddenly his antecedents - his letters will be useful to prove shortly to strangers that in his own country he is a person of condition and still more often will he find pleasure in exhibiting them, in proof of his worthiness, to those who frankly have given him their confident friendship without ashing for other evi dence of his merit than himself.
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