They telegraphed each other with wondering eyes.

Mrs.Chuff's stories about the naval nobility grew quite faint and kind little Mrs.Sackville became uneasy, and went upstairs to look at the children--not at that young monster, Nelson Collingwood, who was sleeping off the whisky-and-water--but at a couple of little ones who had made their appearance at dessert, and of whom she and Sackville were the happy parents.
The end of this and subsequent meetings with Mr.Maine was, that we proposed and got him elected as a member of the 'Sarcophagus Club.' It was not done without a deal of opposition--the secret having been whispered that the candidate was a coal-merchant.

You may be sure some of the proud people and most of the parvenus of the Club were ready to blackball him.

We combated this opposition successfully, however.
We pointed out to the parvenus that the Lambtons and the Stuarts sold coals: we mollified the proud by accounts of his good birth, good nature, and good behaviour; and Wagley went about on the day of election, describing with great eloquence, the action between the 'Pitchfork' and the 'Furibonde,' and the valour of Captain Maine, our friend's father.

There was a slight mistake in the narrative; but we carried our man, with only a trifling sprinkling of black beans in the boxes: Byles's, of course, who blackballs everybody: and Bung's, who looks down upon a coal-merchant, having himself lately retired from the wine-trade.
Some fortnight afterwards I saw Sackville Maine under the following circumstances:-- He was showing the Club to his family.