You may perhaps start some doubts, (or conscientious qualms may arise) how these appearances are to be supported in the infancy of business, without any great personal property to sanction or justify the attempt; in such diffidence you perfectly display, not only your pusillanimity, but want of knowledge and experience; for certainly out of the above description of females, who will constantly pay court to your consequence, and by a _thousand modes_ solicit your attention, surely some one of the _best possessions_ may be obtained, whose _fortune_, and advantage of family connection, may answer your most sanguine expectations: but should _fate_ conspire against you in both _business and marriage_, you will have the consolation of having made _a bold push_, and failing in the attempt, you only become a fashionable adventurer, and gratefully pay your creditors _nothing in the pound_. Having gone through a chain of circumstances and instructions, necessary for the support of your _public_ appearance, it will be naturally expected I shall revert to the modes of behaviour that are to constitute your _private_ character, in the professional transactions that you conclude will daily occur. First, let it be your constant observance to be equally reserved and difficult of access—whenever your opinion is required, even in your own shop, appear there with tedious reluctance, as if privacies of the utmost consequence prevented your earlier attendance; this will not only add to your medical weight, but raise your reputation for _good breeding_ and intercourse with the polite world; for it is universally known, none but the inferior orders are introduced to each other without ceremony; it would be therefore highly ridiculous in you to practise a mode of behaviour in use only with the lowest classes of mankind. Never leave home without letting your horse be held long enough at the door to be observed by the surrounding neighbours; the most trifling indication of business is a point in your favour, and ought by no means to be omitted. By the invariable good effect of which rule, no messenger whatever should arrive from the country for medicines, but he must be detained _as long as possible_; his preparations should never be ready when called for; on the contrary, his horse should be hung or held at the door for half an hour at least; a double advantage is derived from this necessary caution—the horse at the door will prove a striking object to the public, and the messenger will assure the family you attend, that, nothing but your great hurry occasioned the delay in his return.