text:  Acting on this principle the poor man must necessarily have a house in a professional neighbourhood which usually abuts upon a neighbourhood fashionable or exclusive; he must hire a carriage by the month and be for ever stepping in and out of it at his own door keeping it purposely bespattered with mud to show the extent of his visiting acquaintance; he must give dinners to people "who _may_ be useful " and be continually on the look-out for those lucky accidents which have made the fortunes and as a matter of course the _merit_ of so many professional men