The workings of his temptations were such as they could understand.

If he had been hot-tempered he had also been generous, or I should rather say careless and lavish with his money.

And now that he was cheated and impoverished by his partner's delinquency, they thought it no wonder that he drank long and deep in the solitary evenings which he passed at home.

It was not that he was without invitations.

Every one came forward to testify their respect for him by asking him to their houses.