Those which he did enjoy of the good things of the world would, if known to John Eames, have made him appear fabulously rich in the eyes of that brother clerk.

His lodgings in Mount Street were elegant in their belongings.

During three months of the season in London he called himself the master of a very neat hack.

He was always well dressed, though never overdressed.

At his clubs he could live on equal terms with men having ten times his income.