May his shadow never be less." The health was drunk solemnly.

Clarence felt his cheeks tingle and in his excitement drank his own health with the others.

Yet he was disappointed that there was not more joviality; he wondered if men always drank together so stiffly.

And it occurred to him that it would be expensive.

Nevertheless, he had his purse all ready ostentatiously in his hand; in fact, the paying for it out of his own money was not the least manly and independent pleasure he had promised himself.