text:  Naturally grave serious contemplative if his angry stars have endowed him with enormous wealth he carries into the pursuit of trifles the same solemnity and perseverance which had he been more fortunately situated would have been employed in a professional career--he carries a certain degree of gravity into his follies and his vices; as Pope no less keen an observer than finished a poet observed he "Judicious sups and greatly daring dines"-- devotes himself to an eternal round of puerile follies with a pompous self-importance that would be ludicrous were it exhibited in the discharge of the noblest and most sacred duties