With such a propriety he, therefore, inseparably connected every notion of worldly prosperity and honour.

Thus, though far from a bad man, he was forced into being something of a hypocrite.
Every year he had grown more starch and more saintly.

He was conscience-keeper to the whole town; and it is astonishing how many persons hardly dared to make a will or subscribe to a charity without his advice.

As he was a shrewd man of this world, as well as an accredited guide to the next, his advice was precisely of a nature to reconcile the Conscience and the Interest; and he was a kind of negotiator in the reciprocal diplomacy of earth and heaven.

But our banker was really a charitable man, and a benevolent man, and a sincere believer.