Digital primer

'Two men
in livery' (puff), 'one out, can't be done for nothing' (puff). 'What a
profusion of plate, too!' (whiff)--'declare I never' (puff) 'saw such'
(whiff, puff) 'magnificence in the whole course of my' (whiff, puff)
'life.'
The cigar being then well under way, he sucked and puffed and whiffed in an
apparently vacant stupor, his legs crossed, and his eyes fixed on a
projecting coal between the lower bars, as if intent on watching the
alternations of flame and gas; though in reality he was running all the
circumstances through his mind, comparing them with his past experience,
and speculating on the probable result of the present adventure.
He had seen a good deal of service in the matrimonial wars, and was
entitled to as many bars as the most distinguished peninsular veteran. No
woman with money, or the reputation of it, ever wanted an offer while he
was in the way, for he would accommodate her at the second or third
interview: and always pressed for an immediate fulfilment, lest the 'cursed
lawyers' should interfere and interrupt their felicity.


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