His income, as he observed to his widowed sister and solitary companion almost daily in their privacy, was respectable.

The descent from an altitude of fifty to five per cent.

cannot but be felt.

Nevertheless it was a comforting midnight bolster reflection for a man, turning over to the other side between a dream and a wink, that he was making no bad debts, and one must pay to be addressed as esquire.

Once an esquire, you are off the ground in England and on the ladder.