text:  He affects a patronizing air at small tea-parties and is wonderfully run after by wretched un-idea'd girls that is by ten girls in twelve; he is eternally striving to get upon the "staff " or anyhow to shirk his regimental duty; he is a whelp towards the men under his command and has a grand idea of spurs steel scabbards and flogging; to his superiors he is a spaniel to his brother officers an intolerable ass; he makes the mess-room a perfect hell with his vanity puppyism and senseless bibble-babble