He spent few evenings with his family.

There was so genuine a passion in his heart for Mrs.Dillingham, that he went into few excesses which compromised a fair degree of truthfulness to her; but he was in the theaters, in the resorts of fast men, among the clubs, and always late in his bed.

Phipps had a hard time in looking after and waiting upon him, but had a kind of sympathetic enjoyment in it all, because he knew there was more or less of wickedness connected with it.
Mr.Belcher's nights began to tell upon his days.

It became hard for him to rise at his old hours; so, after a while, he received the calls of his brokers in bed.

From nine to ten, Mr.Belcher, in his embroidered dressing-gown, with his breakfast at his side, gave his orders for the operations of the day.