a picture.
Holmes replied that he knew what was good when he saw it, and he saw
it now. He swore that a lady in blue silk was a Kneller, and a stout
gentleman with a wig ought to be a Reynolds. Barrymore had apparently
been coaching Sir Henry in the names of the portraits, for he was able
to say that the gentleman with a telescope was Rear-Admiral Baskerville,
who served under Rodney in the West Indies, and that another with a
blue coat & a roll of paper was Sir William Baskerville, who was
Chairman of Committees of the House of Commons under Pitt. Holmes asked
after a Cavalier with black velvet & lace. That, said Sir Henry, was the
cause of all the mischief, the wicked Hugo.
I gazed with interest & some surprise upon the portrait, and Holmes
remarked that he seemed a quiet, meek-mannered man, though perhaps
