An attorney by his trade is at any rate as good as a brewer, and there are many attorneys who hold their heads high anywhere.

Grindley was a rich man,--or at any rate rich enough for the life he led.

I don't know much about his birth, but I believe it was as good as Maxwell's.

He was not ignorant, or a fool;--whereas I rather think Maxwell was a fool.

Grindley had made his own way in the world, but Maxwell would certainly not have made himself a banker if his father had not been a banker before him; nor could the bank have gone on and prospered had there not been partners there who were better men of business than our friend.