Does he come on your books at all ?" "I should say!" exclaimed Herlton fervently.

"The delectable P.
nourishes expectations of a barony or viscounty at an early date.

Most of his life has been spent in streets and squares, with occasional migrations to the esplanades of fashionable watering-places or the gravelled walks of country house gardens.

Now that noblesse is about to impose its obligations on him, quite a new catalogue of wants has sprung into his mind.

There are things that a plain esquire may leave undone without causing scandalised remark, but a fiercer light beats on a baron.
Trigger-pulling is one of the obligations.