When called upon at his office he was never seen to be doing anything, and he always had a cigar in his mouth.

These gentlemen found out too that he never entered his office till half-past twelve, perhaps not having also learned that he was generally there till nearly seven.

No doubt during the time that he remained there he read a great many newspapers, and wrote a great many private notes,--on official paper! But there may be a question whether even these employments did not help to make Mounser Green the valuable man he was.
"What a lounge for Jack Slade," said young Hoffmann.
"I'll tell you who it won't be a lounge for, Green," said Archibald Currie, the clerk who held the second authority among them.

"What will Bell Trefoil think of going to Patagonia ?" "That's all off," said Mounser Green.
"I don't think so," said Charley Glossop, one of the numerous younger sons of Lord Glossop.

"She was staying only the other day down at the Paragon's place in Rufford, and they went together to my cousin Rufford's house.