There were, in the last place, a few good followers, neither rich nor poor, famous, nor yet remarkably successful, with whom he was friendly on the score of good-fellowship.

These were the kind of men with whom he would converse longest and most seriously.

He loved to go out and have a good time once in a while--to go to the races, the theatres, the sporting entertainments at some of the clubs.

He kept a horse and neat trap, had his wife and two children, who were well established in a neat house on the North Side near Lincoln Park, and was altogether a very acceptable individual of our great American upper class--the first grade below the luxuriously rich.
Hurstwood liked Drouet.

The latter's genial nature and dressy appearance pleased him.