Captain Legg is a gentleman, like Raff, though perhaps of a better degree.

He has robbed his family too, but of a great deal more, and has boldly dishonoured bills for thousands, where Raff has been boggling over the clumsy conveyance of a ten-pound note.

Legg is always at the best inn, with the finest waistcoats and moustaches, or tearing about in the flashest of britzkas, while poor Raff is tipsifying himself with spirits, and smoking cheap tobacco.

It is amazing to think that Legg, so often shown up, and known everywhere, is flourishing yet.

He would sink into utter ruin, but for the constant and ardent love of gentility that distinguishes the English Snob.