There was no trace of the poor organist.

Poverty seemed rather a gold-edge to his tail-coat than a rebuke to it; just as, contrariwise, great wealth is, to the imagination, really set off by a careless costume.

One need not explain how the mind acts in such cases: the fact, as I have put it, is indisputable.

And let the young men of our generation mark the present chapter, that they may know the virtue residing in a tail-coat, and cling to it, whether buffeted by the waves, or burnt out by the fire, of evil angry fortune.

His tail-coat safe, the youthful Briton is always ready for any change in the mind of the moody Goddess.