The man asked whither he should drive?
and poor Newcome hardly knew where he was or whither he should go.

"Drive! a--oh--ah--damme, drive me anywhere away from this place!" was all he could say; and very likely the cabman thought he was a disappointed debtor who had asked in vain to renew a bill.

In fact, Thomas Newcome had overdrawn his little account.

There was no such balance of affection in that bank of his brothers, as the simple creature had expected to find there.
When he was gone, Sir Brian went back to his parlour, where sate young Barnes perusing the paper.

"My revered uncle seems to have brought back a quantity of cayenne pepper from India, sir," he said to his father.
"He seems a very kind-hearted simple man," the Baronet said "eccentric, but he has been more than thirty years away from home.