The things we do!

Nay, I fear Hobson must have carried an account of the transaction
to Mrs. Hobson and the circle in Bryanstone Square; for Sam Newcome, now
entered at Cambridge, called the Baronet "Barnes" quite familiarly; asked
after Clara and Ethel; and requested a small loan of Barnes.
Of course the story did not get wind at Bays's; of course Tom Eaves did
not know all about it, and say that Sir Barnes had been beaten
black-and-blue. Having been treated very ill by the committee in a
complaint which he made about the Club cookery, Sir Barnes Newcome never
came to Bays's, and at the end of the year took off his name from the
lists of the Club.
Sir Barnes, though a little taken aback in the morning, and not ready
with an impromptu reply to the Colonel and his cane, could not allow the
occurrence to pass without a protest; and indited a letter which Thomas
Newcome kept along with some others previously quoted by the compiler of
the present memoirs.
It is as follows:--

Belgrave St.


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