The other Judsons are too fast a lot for him: though what's the harm of a man taking a glass or two of brandy-and-water of an evening with his friends is more than _I_ can find out," added mine host, musingly.
It was to William Judson the dissenter, who kept himself to himself, that I determined to present myself in the first instance.

As a dissenter, he would be likely to have more respect for the memory of the Nonconformist and Wesleyan Haygarths, and to have preserved any traditions relating to them with more fidelity than the Anglican and frivolous members of the Judson family.

As an individual who kept himself to himself, he would be unlikely to communicate my business to his kindred.
I lost no time in presenting myself at the house of business in Ferrygate, and after giving the servant George Sheldon's card, and announcing myself as concerned in a matter of business relating to the Haygarth family, I was at once ushered into a prim counting-house, where a dapper little old gentleman in spotless broadcloth, and a cambric cravat and shirt frill which were soft and snowy as the plumage of the swan, received me with old-fashioned courtesy.

I was delighted to find him seventy-five years of age at the most moderate computation, and I should have been all the better pleased if he had been older.

I very quickly discovered that in Mr.Judson the linen draper I had to deal with a very different person from the Rev.Jonah Goodge.