text:  Our former acquaintance Mr Bristles whose name shone in white paint above the entrance door was evidently strongly impressed with the dignity of his position; and as in the pauses of conversation he placed the pen he was using transversely in his mouth and turned over the pages of various books on the table before him it will be seen that he presided not at a feast of substantial meat and drink but at one of those regular "feasts and flows" which the great Mr Pitskiver was in the habit of alluding to in describing the intellectual treats of which he was so prodigious a glutton