[The Newcomes by William Makepeace Thackeray]@TWC D-Link bookThe Newcomes CHAPTER VIII 8/34
He smoked one of those hookahs which the Prince brings, and it has made him very unwell indeed, Barnes.
How is Lady Anne? Is Lord Kew in London? Is your sister better for Brighton air? I see your cousin is appointed Secretary of Legation.
Have you good accounts of your aunt Lady Fanny ?" "Lady Fanny is as well as can be expected, and the baby is going on perfectly well, thank you," Barnes said drily; and his aunt, obstinately gracious with him, turned away to some other new comet. "It's interesting, isn't it, sir," says Barnes, turning to the Colonel, "to see such union in families? Whenever I come here, my aunt trots out all my relations; and I send a man round in the mornin to ask how they all are.
So Uncle Hobson is gone to bed sick with a hookah? I know there was a deuce of a row made when I smoked at Marblehead.
You are promised to us for Wednesday, please.
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