"You could have kept that seat for the rest of your life." "Better as it is," was the cheerful reply.

"I should have been heartily sick of the business by now." "There's no knowing.

So you marry Miss Mumbray?
An excellent choice, I have no doubt.

Hearty congratulations!--Oh, by-the-bye, Jacobs & Burrows have a capital Greuze--do look in if you are passing." Glazzard perceived clearly enough that the lawyer regarded this marriage just as Quarrier did, the _pisaller_ of a disappointed and embarrassed man.

There was no more interest in his career; he had sunk finally into the commonplace.
At three o'clock he was at home again, and without occupation.