"A failure! Of course he's a failure, whether rich or poor;--a miserable imposition, a hollow vulgar fraud from beginning to end,--too insignificant for you and me to talk of, were it not that his position is a sign of the degeneracy of the age. What are we coming to when such as he is an honoured guest at our tables?"
"At just a table here and there," suggested his friend.

"A failure! Of course he's a failure - a hollow vulgar fraud from beginning to end. What are we coming to when such as he is an honoured guest at our tables? 