He never ate anything else, but he drank a great deal of tea, of which he was very fond.

Three servants provided by the merchant were running to and fro about him.

One of them was in a swallow-tail, the second looked like a workman, and the third like a verger.

There was also a very lively boy of sixteen.

Besides the servants there was present, holding a jug, a reverend, grey-headed monk, who was a little too fat.