She rose and walked restlessly up and down the room, working herself up into a veritable fever.
Mr.Manley, having dealt with the letters which had come by the five-o'clock post, read half a dozen chapters of the last published novel of Artzybachev with the pleasure he never failed to draw from the works of that author.

Then he dressed and set forth, in a very cheerful spirit, to dine with Helena Truslove.

His cheerful expectations were wholly fulfilled.

She had divined that he was endowed, not only with a romantic spirit, but with a hearty and discriminating appetite, and was careful to give him good food and wine and plenty of both.

With his coffee he smoked one of Lord Loudwater's favourite cigars.