Then he would mortgage his land for money to pay his traveling expenses.

But it was so much easier to lend money to Plausaby, Esq., than it was to collect it.

Plausaby, Esq., was always just going to have the money; Plausaby, Esq., had ever ready so many excuses for past failure, and so many assurances of payment in the immediate future, that Charlton was kept hoping and waiting in agony from week to week.

He knew that he was losing ground in the matter of Westcott and Katy.

She was again grieving over Smith's possible suicide, was again longing for the cheerful rattle of flattery and nonsense which rendered the Privileged Infant so diverting even to those who hated him, much more to her who loved him.
Albert's position was the more embarrassing that he was obliged to spend a part of his time on his claim to maintain a residence.