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I felt it to be kind and proper , however , to express the hope that he had reached the end of his adversity , and to assure him that I would do anything I could in the world to help him . `` Tom Wesley , I believe you would . '' Before the close of that day Mrs. Wesley , who is a lady that does not allow any species of vegetation to accumulate under her feet , had secured a furnished room for our kinsman in a street branching off from Clinton Place , and at a moderate additional expense contracted to have him served with breakfast on the premises . Previous to this I had dined down town , returning home in the evening to a rather heavy tea , which was really my wife 's dinner -- Sheridan and Ulysses -LRB- such were the heroic names under which the two little Wesleys were staggering -RRB- had their principal meal at midday . It was , of course , not desirable that the colonel should share this meal with them and Mrs. Wesley in my absence . So we decided to have a six o'clock dinner ; a temporary disarrangement of our domestic machinery , for my cousin Flagg would doubtless find some acceptable employment before long , and leave the household free to slip back into its regular grooves . An outline of the physical aspects of the exotic kinsman who had so unexpectedly added himself to the figures at our happy fireside seems not out of place here .