But he did not say so.

Nor would he have said it had there been a chance of his doing so with success.

He was a man from whom no very noble deed could be expected; but he was also one who would do no ignoble deed.
After that George Vavasor had become a stockbroker, and a stockbroker he was now.

In the first twelve months after his leaving the wine business,--the same being the first year after his breach with Alice,--he had gone back greatly in the estimation of men.

He had lived in open defiance of decency.