It mortified him, moreover, to think that Valentin lacked money; there was a painful grotesqueness in it.

It affected him as the ignorance of a companion, otherwise without reproach, touching some rudimentary branch of learning would have done.

There were things that one knew about as a matter of course, he would have said in such a case.

Just so, if one pretended to be easy in the world, one had money as a matter of course, one had made it! There was something almost ridiculously anomalous to Newman in the sight of lively pretensions unaccompanied by large investments in railroads; though I may add that he would not have maintained that such investments were in themselves a proper ground for pretensions.

"I will make you do something," he said to Valentin; "I will put you through.