Newcome casually, she ordered him to
marry her, and he obeyed; as he obeyed her in everything else which she
chose to order through life. Meeting Colonel Newcome on the steps of her
house, she orders him to come to her evening party; and though he has not
been to an evening party for five-and-thirty years--though he has not
been to bed the night before--though he has no mufti-coat except one sent
him out by Messrs. Stultz to India in the year 1821--he never once thinks
of disobeying Mrs. Newcome's order, but is actually at her door at five
minutes past ten, having arrayed himself to the wonderment of Clive, and
left the boy to talk with his friend and fellow-passenger, Mr. Binnie,
who has just arrived from Portsmouth, who has dined with him, and who, by
previous arrangement, has taken up his quarters at the same hotel.
This Stultz coat, a blue swallow-tail, with yellow buttons, now wearing a
tinge of their native copper, a very high velvet collar on a level with
the tips of the Captain's ears, with a high waist, indicated by two
lapelles, and a pair of buttons high up in the wearer's back, a white
waistcoat and scarlet under-waistcoat, and a pair of the never-failing
duck trousers, complete Thomas Newcome's costume, along with the white
hat in which we have seen him in the morning, and which was one of two
dozen purchased by him some years since at public outcry, Burrumtollah.
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