Everything he did or said impressed you with being “loud.” Doubtless the reader has met with a man of this description.
It is marvellous what a number of captains are to be found in gambling houses, billiard saloons, and other places of public resort.
If you are in doubt about a man it is quite safe to put him down as a captain or a stockbroker.
But the captains are by far the most numerous, and in many instances the most doubtful.
Captain Draper had, of course, a stentorian voice, which doubtless had been acquired by his constantly giving the word of command to the gallant troop of which he was the head.
“Your friend will not refuse to take a glass of wine with me?” said Draper to Kempshead, in an easy off-hand manner.
“He will be most delighted to do so, I’ve no doubt.”
The three gentlemen moved towards the sideboard.
This was an important feature in the appointments of the room. Upon it rested a goodly array of bottles—and such bottles no one out of the gambling world ever saw in their life.
They were redolent not only of wines and spirits but of wickedness.