He never was well dressed; but he took the hugest pains to adorn his big person, and passed many hours daily in that occupation.

His valet made a fortune out of his wardrobe: his toilet-table was covered with as many pomatums and essences as ever were employed by an old beauty: he had tried, in order to give himself a waist, every girth, stay, and waistband then invented.

Like most fat men, he would have his clothes made too tight, and took care they should be of the most brilliant colours and youthful cut.

When dressed at length, in the afternoon, he would issue forth to take a drive with nobody in the Park; and then would come back in order to dress again and go and dine with nobody at the Piazza Coffee-House.
He was as vain as a girl; and perhaps his extreme shyness was one of the results of his extreme vanity.

If Miss Rebecca can get the better of him, and at her first entrance into life, she is a young person of no ordinary cleverness.
The first move showed considerable skill.