11.This modest position was envied by all the toadies; Norbert kept his father's young secretary in countenance by speaking to him, or mentioning him by name once or twice in the evening.
12.Mr. and Mrs. Pocket had a toady neighbor; a widow lady of that highly sympathetic nature that she agreed with everybody, blessed everybody, and shed smiles and tears on everybody, according to circumstances.
13.Brummell owed his ascendency to some curious combination of wit, of taste, of insolence, of independence--for he was never a toady--which it were too heavy-handed to call a philosophy of life, but served the purpose.