He never called again.

And though it was the habit of Mr.Surtees' life to speak as little ill as possible of any one, he was not able to say any good of Mr.Morton.

Mr.Mainwaring, who would never have troubled himself though his parishioner had not entered a place of worship once in a twelvemonth, did say many severe things against his former landlord.

He hated people who were unsocial and averse to dining out, and who departed from the ways of living common among English country gentlemen.

Mr.Mainwaring was, upon the whole, prepared to take the other side.
Reginald Morton, though he was now nearly forty, was a young-looking, handsome man, with fair hair, cut short, and a light beard, which was always clipped.