Sextus Parker still thought that things would come round.

Ferdinand,--he always now called his friend by his Christian name,--Ferdinand was beautifully, seraphically confident.
And Sexty, who had been in a manner magnetised by Ferdinand, was confident too--at certain periods of the day.

He was very confident when he had had his two or three glasses of sherry at luncheon, and he was often delightfully confident with his cigar and brandy-and-water at night.

But there were periods in the morning in which he would shake with fear and sweat with dismay.
But Lopez himself, having with his friend's assistance arranged his affairs comfortably for a month or two, had, as a first resolution, promised himself a fortnight's freedom from all carking cares.

His second resolution had been that at the end of the fortnight he would commence his operations on Mr.Wharton.Up to the last moment he had hoped,--had almost expected,--that a sum of money would have been paid to him.