Here his splendors could be advertised.

Here he could find an expression for his wealth, by the side of which his establishment at Sevenoaks seemed too mean to be thought of without humiliation and disgust.

Here was a house that gratified his sensuous nature through and through, and appealed irresistibly to his egregious vanity.

He did not know that the grand and gaudy establishment bore the name of "Palgrave's Folly," and, probably, it would have made no difference with him if he had.

It suited him, and would, in his hands, become Belcher's Glory.
The sum demanded for the place, though very large, did not cover its original cost, and in this fact Mr.Belcher took great comfort.