as someone who has now had the benefit of living for almost three days in a proper city , i am now qualified to reply , why , those quarters where people have a good deal of money , and a good deal of time , and nothing better to do with it than to sit around struggling with stubborn leather and coarse thread , being patiently instructed by a most respectful master cobbler , who is no doubt taking great pleasure in the thought of being paid twiceonce for his hours of instruction , and then again , the following week , for making a decent pair of shoes , after those wrought by his high-born pupils prove too uncomfortable to be worn for longer than it takes to flaunt them before the astonished eyes of their friends .