The tutors toadied him.

The fellows in hall paid him great clumsy compliments.

The Dean never remarked his absence from Chapel, or heard any noise issuing from his rooms.

A number of respectable young fellows, (it is among the respectable, the Baker Street class, that Snobbishness flourishes, more than among any set of people in England)--a number of these clung to him like leeches.

There was no end now to Croesus's loans of money; and Buckram couldn't ride out with the hounds, but Snaily (a timid creature by nature) was in the field, and would take any leap at which his friend chose to ride.