[T]hey entertained themselves … with a recitation by plump little stage-stricken Ensign Puddock, who, in thpite of hith lithp, gave rather spirited imitations of some of the players— …

A white-bearded man in a Greek kiton, looking the very image of a philosopher, asked Are they three-part souls as Plato described?

Blind and partially sighted people.

No sign was over his door; in fact—as with old banks and mercantile houses—advertising in any shape was scorned, and it would have been felt as beneath his dignity to paint up, for the benefit of strangers, the name of an establishment whose trade came solely by connection based on personal respect.