Chapman had provided generously, both of wines and cigars, which might have seemed strange to one of his Dogtown acquaintances.

He had, however, so modified his ideas as to what constituted strict morality as to believe it would be nothing against a man in the other world that he had drank a glass of wine and smoked a cigar in this.
The young gentlemen were conducting themselves in a manner not recognized in the rules of propriety.

Indeed, they had smoked so many of Chapman's cigars, and uncorked so many bottles of his wine, and drank the health of the family such a number of times, that they were fast losing their wits.

When, then, Bowles made his appearance in the room, to see if there was anything he could do for the gentlemen, he found them talking so strangely of his mistress, and making so free with her personal appearance, that he considered it an indignity he was bound to defend by putting on the severest look he was capable of.
"Say, Charles," said one of the young men, addressing a comrade as he raised his glass, "who did you get your card through?
What sort of a family is it, anyhow ?" "Got mine through Gusher.

He's a kind of a spoon, you know.