A ruined baronet of five-and-twenty, every hour of whose life since he had been left to go alone had been loaded with vice and folly,--whose egregious misconduct warranted his friends in regarding him as one incapable of knowing what principle is,--of what service could he be, that he should be made a Director? 
A ruined baronet of five-and-twenty, whose life had been loaded with vice and folly - of what use could he be? 