They were effigies of all those members of the Stoics' Club who from time to time had come under the notice of a celebrated caricaturist in a celebrated society paper.

Whenever a Stoic appeared, he was at once cut out, framed, glassed, and hung alongside his fellows in this room.

And George moved from one to another till he came to the last.

It was himself.

He was represented in very perfectly cut clothes, with slightly crooked elbows, and race-glasses slung across him.