What is this I hear about dressing? asks our host. Dine in your frock, my good friend, and welcome, if your dress-coat is in the country strapon without harness
It is at present at an uncles, Mr. Bayham said, with great gravity, and I take your hospitality as you offer it, Colonel Newcome, cordially and frankly
Honest Mr. Binnie made his appearance a short time before the appointed hour for receiving the guests, arrayed in a tight little pair of trousers, and white silk stockings and pumps, his bald head shining like a billiard-ball, his jolly gills rosy with good-humour. He was bent on pleasure. Hey, lads! says he; but well make a night of it. We havent had a night since the farewell dinner off Plymouth
And a jolly night it was, James, ejaculates the Colonel.