One of the party had a watch about the size and shape of a reasonable Ribstone pippin, jammed into his waistcoat-pocket, which he carefully compared with the clocks at St.
Clement's and the New Church, the illuminated clock at Exeter 'Change, the clock of St.Martin's Church, and the clock of the Horse Guards.
When they at last arrived in St.James's Park, the member of the party who had the best-made boots on, hired a second chair expressly for his feet, and flung himself on this two-pennyworth of sylvan luxury with an air which levelled all distinctions between Brookes's and Snooks's, Crockford's and Bagnigge Wells.
We may smile at such people, but they can never excite our anger.

They are usually on the best terms with themselves, and it follows almost as a matter of course, in good humour with every one about them.

Besides, they are always the faint reflection of higher lights; and, if they do display a little occasional foolery in their own proper persons, it is surely more tolerable than precocious puppyism in the Quadrant, whiskered dandyism in Regent-street and Pall-mall, or gallantry in its dotage anywhere..