It has very likely occupied him the best part of his lifetime to add one five-pound note to another, money most literally earned in the sweat of his brow; and at last he lends it to a man like Frank, who has the wit to drive a carriage and ride a thoroughbred.

With the strange inconsistency so characteristic of human nature, a half-educated, working farmer of this sort will sneer in his rude way at the pretensions of such a man, and at the same time bow down before him.
Frank knew this instinctively, and, as soon as ever he began to get on, set up a blood-horse and a turn-out.

By dint of such vulgar show and his own plausible tongue he persuaded more than one such old fellow to advance him money.

Mayhap these confiding persons, like a certain Shallow, J.P., have since earnestly besought him in vain to return them five hundred of their thousand.

In like manner one or two elderly ladies--cunning as magpies in their own conceit--let him have a few spare hundreds.