Got a wife and family.
Very respectable people, the Selby's." "Well, that's all right," said Harry, "if it's business.

But if a woman looked at me as I've seen her at Selby, I should understand it.

And it's talked about, I can tell you." Jealousy had no doubt sharpened this young gentleman's observation.
Laura could not have treated him with more lofty condescension if she had been the Queen of Sheba, on a royal visit to the great republic.

And he resented it, and was "huffy" when he was with her, and ran her errands, and brought her gossip, and bragged of his intimacy with the lovely creature among the fellows at Newspaper Row.
Laura's life was rushing on now in the full stream of intrigue and fashionable dissipation.

She was conspicuous at the balls of the fastest set, and was suspected of being present at those doubtful suppers that began late and ended early.