It is scarcely necessary to say that the stockbroker trusted his new acquaintance only so far as it was absolutely necessary to trust him; or that the Captain and the stockbroker thoroughly understood each other without affecting to do so.

For Horatio Paget the sun of prosperity arose in unaccustomed splendour.

He was able to pay for his lodgings, and was an eminently respectable person in the eyes of his landlord.

He enjoyed the daily use of a neatly-appointed brougham, in which only the most practised eye could discover the taint of the livery stable.

He dined sumptuously at fashionable restaurants, and wore the freshest of lavender gloves, the most delicate of waxen heath-blossoms or creamy-tinted exotics in the button-hole of his faultless coat.
While the chief flourished, the subaltern was comparatively idle.