Staying in the house with Mr. Royle is rather like being with Colonel Newcome in the flesh.
"Olivia in India"
O. Douglas
He had still other moods, in which he saw an old man with a grey moustache, like Colonel Newcome, meeting a beautiful white-haired lady; the man had never married, and he had not seen this lady for fifty years.
"April Hopes"
William Dean Howells Last Updated: February 27, 2009
This wonderful little sketch, however-the related history of a man who is an utter rascal both in family and commercial relations, but preserves his reputation intact and does not even experience any deathbed repentance-is rather an unconscious study for a character in a novel-a sketch of a bourgeois Barnes Newcome-than anything more.
"The English Novel"
George Saintsbury