—-Mr. B.'s library is decorated with a string of human ears, the
clippings of his slaves in "the Indies." (Nurse.)
12th.-—Mr. B. whipped a little black boy to death, and is so haunted
by remorse, that he can't sleep without wax-candles burning all round
him. (Mrs. Coffinkey's sister-in-law.)
14th.-—Mr. Barnes's income is five hundred thousand pounds, and he
does not live at the rate of two hundred pounds. (Col. Brownlow.)
l5th.-—He has turned off all his gardeners, and the place will be
desolation. (H. S. H.)
16th.-—He did turn off one gardener's boy for staring at him when he
was being wheeled about in his bath-chair. (Alfred Richards.)
17th.-—He threw a stone, which cut the boy's head open, and he lies
at the hospital in a dangerous state. (Emma.)
18th.-—Mr. Barnes was crossed in love when he was a young man by one
Miss Anne Thorpe, and has never been the same man since, but has
hated all society. (Query: Is this a version of being a misanthrope?)
19th.-—He is a most unhappy man, who has sacrificed all family
affections and all humanity to gold, and whose conscience will not
let him rest. He is worn to a shadow, and is at war with mankind.
In fine, he is a lesson to weak human nature. (Mrs. Rigby.)
22nd.-—All his toilet apparatus is of "virgin gold;" he lets nothing
else touch him.
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