An uncle, whimsical rather than didactic, but none the less a moralist, fills the place of Rousseau's tutor, and later, when the boy appears in clothes "trimmed like those of your beau insects vulgarly called butterflies," this humorist so impresses him with the comparison of that "good and clever boy called Hercules" who was given a poisoned coat to wear, that Harry rips and rends the lacings of his suit and runs down to obey a summons "with half the trimmings hanging in fritters and tatters about him."
