"_Snobs_," and its antithesis, "_nobs_," arose among the internal fractions of shoemakers perhaps ten years later. Possibly enough, the terms may have existed much earlier; but they were then first made known, picturesquely and effectively, by a trial at some assizes which happened to fix the public attention.] [NOTE 5. "_False echoes_"--yes, false! for the words ascribed to Napoleon, as breathed to the memory of Desaix, never were uttered at all.--They stand in the same category of theatrical inventions as the cry of the foundering _Vengeur_, as the vaunt of General Cambronne at Waterloo, "_La Garde meurt, mais ne se rend pas_," as the repartees of Talleyrand.] [NOTE 6. "_Privileged few_." The general impression was, that this splendid costume belonged of right to the mail-coachmen as their professional dress. But that was an error. To the guard it _did_ belong, as a matter of course, and was essential as an official warrant, and a means of instant identification for his person, in the discharge of his important public duties. But the coachman, and especially if his place in the series did not connect him immediately with London and the General Post-Office, obtained the scarlet coat only as an honorary distinction after long or special service.] [NOTE 7. "_Households_."--Roe-deer do not congregate in herds like the fallow or the red deer, but by separate families, parents, and children; which feature of approximation to the sanctity of human hearths, added to their comparatively miniature and graceful proportions, conciliate to them an interest of a peculiarly tender character, if less dignified by the grandeurs of savage and forest life.] [NOTE 8.