——Leave we then the breeches in the taylor’s hands, with my father
standing over him with his cane, reading him as he sat at work a
lecture upon the _latus clavus_, and pointing to the precise part of
the waistband, where he was determined to have it sewed on.——
Leave we my mother—(truest of all the _Poco-curante_’s of her
sex!)—careless about it, as about every thing else in the world which
concerned her;—that is,—indifferent whether it was done this way or
that,——provided it was but done at all.——