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. 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. You don't know anything against my uncle, do you, Sir Thomas? |