He ate and drank now and then mechanically, now and then with the keenest appetite.

Afterwards he smoked a cigar, drank coffee, and sipped a liqueur with the appreciation of a connoisseur.

A fellow passenger passed him an evening paper, which he glanced through with apparent interest.

Before he reached his journey's end he had ordered and drunk another liqueur.

He tipped the steward handsomely.