He allowed the schemer with something to vend to humbug him, and he was pounced upon by troops of aristocratic and “society” people, whose impecunious pretentiosity is ever forcing them to hunt down every creature from whom they think money may be wrung.

Especially if you have already prepared him with a thorough hand-spanking or hairbrushing, he will soon be jumping at the thin, intense pain of the stripes across his nether cheeks.

Refusing a self-centered preparation before justification, they set their spiritual clocks to the moment of God's indwelling and the saint's remanations.

The Ethiopian eunuch.