The clerk then felt the lowliness of his position; he longed for epaulettes, crosses, titles. All that would please her—he gathered that from her spendthrift habits.
The prestige of his outlandish voracity, of his immense capacity as a spendthrift, of his unprecedented hospitality went beyond the borders of the swamp and attractedthe best-qualified gluttons from all along the coast.
And a year later when Edwin took his wife and two girls for a week-long trip to the World's Fair in St. Louis; the Judge considered the trip an extravagant waste of money and further proof of Edwin's spendthrift habits.