I would like to load textures, and then have them be used by multiple objects. Would this work?

class Sprite
{
    GLuint* mTextures; // do I need this to also be a reference?

    Sprite( GLuint* textures ) // do I need this to also be a reference?
    {
        mTextures = textures;
    }

    void Draw( textureNumber )
    {
        glBindTexture( GL_TEXTURE_2D, mTextures[ textureNumber ] );
        // drawing code
    }
};

// normally these variables would be inputed, but I did this for simplicity.
const int NUMBER_OF_TEXTURES = 40;
const int WHICH_TEXTURE = 10;

void main()
{
    std::vector<GLuint> the_textures;
    the_textures.resize( NUMBER_OF_TEXTURES );

    glGenTextures( NUMBER_OF_TEXTURES, &the_textures[0] );

    // texture loading code

    Sprite the_sprite( &the_textures[0] );
    the_sprite.Draw( WHICH_TEXTURE );
}

And is there a different way I should do this, even if it would work?

Thanks.