Immense deference was shown to the Henry Spikers, male and female; which Agnes told me was on account of Mr.
Henry Spiker being solicitor to something Or to Somebody, I forget what or which, remotely connected with the Treasury.
I found Uriah Heep among the company, in a suit of black, and in deep humility.

He told me, when I shook hands with him, that he was proud to be noticed by me, and that he really felt obliged to me for my condescension.

I could have wished he had been less obliged to me, for he hovered about me in his gratitude all the rest of the evening; and whenever I said a word to Agnes, was sure, with his shadowless eyes and cadaverous face, to be looking gauntly down upon us from behind.
There were other guests--all iced for the occasion, as it struck me, like the wine.

But there was one who attracted my attention before he came in, on account of my hearing him announced as Mr.Traddles! My mind flew back to Salem House; and could it be Tommy, I thought, who used to draw the skeletons! I looked for Mr.Traddles with unusual interest.

He was a sober, steady-looking young man of retiring manners, with a comic head of hair, and eyes that were rather wide open; and he got into an obscure corner so soon, that I had some difficulty in making him out.