He was very triumphant, for he looked at the matter solely from a business point of view, not at all from that of the country.

Also he was very tired, for he had aged much during the last few years, and suffered occasionally from heart attacks.

To keep himself up he drank a great deal of wine at dinner, first champagne and then the best part of a bottle of port.

This made him talkative, and he kept me sitting there to listen to him while he boasted, poor man, of how he had 'walked round' the officials who thought themselves so clever, but never saw some trap which he had set for them." "And what did you do ?" asked Godfrey.
"You know very well what I did.

I grew angry, I could not help it, and told him I thought it was shameful to make money wrongfully out of the country at such a time, especially when he did not want it at all.