They walked out, the Captain holding an arm of each of his dear young friends, and in a maudlin state of contentment.
He winked at one or two tradesmen's shops where, possibly, he owed a bill, as much as to say, "See the company I'm in--sure I'll pay you, my boy,"-- and they parted finally with Mr.Foker at a billiard-room, where the latter had a particular engagement with some gentlemen of Colonel Swallowtail's regiment.
Pen and the shabby Captain still walked the street together; the Captain, in his sly way, making inquiries about Mr.Foker's fortune and station in life.

Pen told him how Foker's father was a celebrated brewer, and his mother was Lady Agnes Milton, Lord Rosherville's daughter.

The Captain broke out into a strain of exaggerated compliment and panegyric about Mr.Foker, whose "native aristocracie," he said, "could be seen with the twinkling of an oi--and only served to adawrun other qualities which he possessed, a foin intellect and a generous heart,"-- in not one word of which speech did the Captain accurately believe.
Pen walked on, listening to his companion's prate, wondering, amused, and puzzled.

It had not as yet entered into the boy's head to disbelieve any statement that was made to him; and being of a candid nature himself, he took naturally for truth what other people told him.
Costigan had never had a better listener, and was highly flattered by the attentiveness and modest bearing of the young man.
So much pleased was he with the young gentleman, so artless, honest, and cheerful did Pen seem to be, that the Captain finally made him an invitation, which he very seldom accorded to young men, and asked Pen if he would do him the fever to enter his humble abode, which was near at hand, where the Captain would have the honour of inthrojuicing his young friend to his daughther, Miss Fotheringay?
Pen was so delightfully shocked at this invitation, and was so stricken down by the happiness thus suddenly offered to him, that he thought he should have dropped from the Captain's arm at first, and trembled lest the other should discover his emotion.

He gasped out a few incoherent words, indicative of the high gratification he should have in being presented to the lady for whose--for whose talents he had conceived such an admiration--such an extreme admiration; and followed the Captain, scarcely knowing whither that gentleman led him.