We spend all our evenings in pious devotion to billiards, with a rubber or two, or a little lansquenet towards the small hours.

Don't forget your engagement to-morrow; good-bye." They had a very pleasant evening at Heatherly.

Sir David's guests at this time consisted of a Major Foljambe, an elderly man who had seen a good deal of service in India; a Mr.Harker, who had been in the church, and had left it in disgust as alike unsuited to his tastes and capacity; Mr.
Windus Carr, a prosperous West-end solicitor, who had inherited a first-rate practice from his father, and who devoted his talents to the enjoyment of life, leaving his clients to the care of his partner, a steady-going stout gentleman, with a bald head, and an inexhaustible capacity for business; and last, but by no means least, John Saltram, who possessed more influence over David Forster than any one else in the world..