The incumbent of Lady Whittlesea's chapel seldom rose before eleven.

For, to tell the truth, no French abbot of Louis XV.

was more lazy and luxurious, and effeminate, than our polite bachelor preacher.
One of Colonel Newcome's fellow-passengers from India was Mr.James Binnie of the Civil Service, a jolly young bachelor of two- or three-and-forty, who, having spent half of his past life in Bengal, was bent upon enjoying the remainder in Britain or in Europe, if a residence at home should prove agreeable to him.

The Nabob of books and tradition is a personage no longer to be found among us.

He is neither as wealthy nor as wicked as the jaundiced monster of romances and comedies, who purchases the estates of broken-down English gentlemen, with rupees tortured out of bleeding rajahs, who smokes a hookah in public, and in private carries about a guilty conscience, diamonds of untold value, and a diseased liver; who has a vulgar wife, with a retinue of black servants whom she maltreats, and a gentle son and daughter with good impulses and an imperfect education, desirous to amend their own and their parents' lives, and thoroughly ashamed of the follies of the old people.