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But to intermeddle , and not very creditably , and out of the most disinterested motives of benevolence and expediency , and then to fail ! All this was nothing short of degrading . He dined that night at his club , to which Drake had been elected , and lay in wait for him . Drake , however , did not appear , and at ten o'clock Fielding went round to his rooms . Drake was living in chambers on the Embankment , a little to the west of Hungerford Bridge . As he was shown into the room , Fielding could not help noticing the plainness of its furniture and adornment . The chairs were covered with a cheap red cretonne ; there was an armchair or two with the high seat and long elbows , which seemed to have gone astray from a Peckham drawing-room ; an ormolu clock under a glass shade ornamented the overmantel , and in the way of literature there was one book in the room -- Prescott 's _ Conquest of Peru _ -- and a copy of the _ Times _ .