He was not particularly proud of his uncle, but nevertheless Timothy Crinkett was his uncle.

Didn't Mr.
Caldigate think that something ought to be done for Timothy Crinkett?
'Yes, I do,' said Caldigate, finding himself compelled to say something at the moment, and feeling that he could say so much with positive truth.
Then Bollum continued his story, showing that he knew all the circumstances of Polyeuka.

'It was hard on them, wasn't it, Mr.
Caldigate ?' 'I think it was.' 'Every rap they had among them, Mr.Caldigate! You left them as bare as the palm of my hand!' 'It was not my doing.

I simply made him an offer, which every one at the time believed to be liberal.' 'Just so.

We grants all that.