[The Newcomes by William Makepeace Thackeray]@TWC D-Link bookThe Newcomes CHAPTER VI 23/26
"That is why I am so exhausted.
I am going to buy him a pair of gloves, number fourteen--and I want a tailor for him--not a young man's tailor.
Fogey's tailor rather.
I'd take my father's; but he has all his things made in the country--all--in the borough, you know--he's a public man." "Is Colonel Newcome, of the Bengal Cavalry, your uncle ?" asks Sir Thomas de Boots. "Yes; will you come and meet him at dinner next Wednesday week, Sir Thomas? and, Fogey, you come; you know you like a good dinner.
You don't know anything against my uncle, do you, Sir Thomas? Have I any Brahminical cousins? Need we be ashamed of him ?" "I tell you what, young man, if you were more like him it wouldn't hurt you.
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