The room in which he left me was like the suit that he wore--in that it was both plain and rich.
There were three or four chairs with arms; a table, with twisted legs, on which lay a great heap of papers and a pair of candlesticks: and there was a tall lightly-carved press, with locks, between the windows.
The walls were plain, with a few good engravings hung upon them.

I went up to examine one, and found it to be a new one, by Faithorne.
Now that I was drawing so near to the King, I found my apprehensions returning upon me, for half my success, I knew, if not all, turned upon the manner I first shewed to him.

I knew very well that I could bear myself with sufficient address; but sufficient address was not all that was needed: I must so act that His Majesty would remember me afterwards, and with pleasure.

Yet how was I to ensure this?
As I was so thinking to myself, Mr.Chiffinch came in again, having, with marvellous speed, changed his suit into one of brown velvet, with a great black periwig, from which his sharp face looked out like a ferret from a hole.
"I must ask your pardon, Mr.Mallock," he said, as I stood up to meet him, "again and again; but I have scarcely an hour to myself day or night.

Duty treads on the heels of duty all day long.