I knew the taste of chocolate as by intuition almost, and could distinguish between the right Spanish and the French before I had been a week in my new position.

I had rings on all my fingers and watches in both my fobs, canes, trinkets, and snuffboxes of all sorts.

I had the finest natural taste for lace and china of any man I ever knew." To dress well, to wear a sword with a grace, to carry away his plunder with affected indifference, and to appear to be equally easy when he loses his last ducat, to be agreeable to women, and to look like a gentleman,--these are his accomplishments.

In one place he rises to the height of a grand professor in the art of gambling, and gives his lessons with almost a noble air.

"Play grandly, honourably.