The things we do!

B. Newcome Newcome."

"I think, sir, he doesn't make out a bad case," Mr. Pendennis remarked to
the Colonel, who showed him this majestic letter.
"It would be a good case if I believed a single word of it, Arthur,"
replied my friend, placidly twirling the old grey moustache. "If you were
to say so-and-so, and say that I had brought false charges against you, I
should cry mea culpa and apologise with all my heart. But as I have a
perfect conviction that every word this fellow says is a lie, what is the
use of arguing any more about the matter? I would not believe him if he
brought twenty as witnesses, and if he lied till he was black in the
other liars' face. Give me the walnuts. I wonder who Sir Barnes's
military friend was."
Barnes's military friend was our gallant acquaintance General Sir George
Tufto, K.C.B., who a short while afterwards talked over the quarrel with
the Colonel, and manfully told him that (in Sir George's opinion) he was
wrong.


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