He no longer cared to enjoy the hospitality of Horatio Paget.

In Omega-street the household expenses were shared by the two men.

It was a kind of club upon a small scale; and there was no degradation in breaking bread with the elegant Horatio.
To Omega-street Valentine returned this afternoon, there to eat a frugal meal and spend a meditative evening, uncheered by one glimmer of that radiance which more fortunate men know as the light of home..