He wore a dirty morning-gown, and slippers down at the heel, displaying his dirty stockings.

He came in yawning and squeezing his eves together.
"Why the h---- don't that slut of a waiter have my coffee ready ?" he said to his wife, who paid no more attention to him than to the lamp on the mantle, but, on the contrary, appeared to Hope to be a little more indifferent than before.
"I say, why the h----" Mr.Dinks began again, and had advanced so far when he suddenly saw his cousin.
"Hallo! what are you doing here ?" he said to her abruptly, and in the half-sycophantic, half-bullying tone that indicates the feeling of such a man toward a person to whom he is under immense obligation.

Alfred Dinks's real feeling was that Hope Wayne ought to give him a much larger allowance.
Hope was inexpressibly disgusted; but she found an excitement in encountering this boorishness, which served to stimulate her in the struggle going on in her own soul.

And she very soon understood how the sharp, sparkling, audacious Fanny Newt had become the inert, indifferent woman before her.

A clever villain might have developed her, through admiration and sympathy, into villainy; but a dull, heavy brute merely crushed her.