If perceptibly or imperceptibly there is a touch of ostentation in him, blame it not; it is so innocent, so good and childlike.

He is still fonder of jingling publicly, and spreading on the table, your big purse of opulences than his own.

Abrupt too he is, cares little for big-wigs and garnitures; perhaps laughs more than the real fun he has would order; but of arrogance there is no vestige, of insincerity or of ill-nature none.

These must have been pleasant evenings in Regent Street, when the circle chanced to be well adjusted there.

At other times, Philistines would enter, what we call bores, dullards, Children of Darkness; and then,--except in a hunt of dullards, and a _bore-baiting_, which might be permissible,--the evening was dark.