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'Your host is a wonderful fellow, by George! said Lord Nidderdale. 'No one seems to know which way he'll turn up at last. 'There's nothing like being a robber, if you can only rob enough, said Lord Grasslough, not exactly naming Melmotte, but very clearly alluding to him. There was a vacancy for a member of parliament at Westminster, and Melmotte was about to come forward as a candidate.
Sir Felix did not quite know what in such circumstances it would be best for him to do. Reprobate as he was himself, this work of villainy was new to him and seemed to be very terrible. What steps ought he to take? He was quite sure of his facts, and yet he feared that Nidderdale and Grasslough and Longestaffe would not believe him.
He does not often scold me. I don't know what he'll say when we tell him about this. 'But I suppose he intends that you shall be married? 'He wanted me to marry Lord Nidderdale and Lord Grasslough, but I hated them both. I think he wants me to marry Lord Nidderdale again now. He hasn't said so, but mamma tells me. But I never will, never! 'I hope not, Marie. 'You needn't be a bit afraid.
Miles Grendall would be the man to tell him, because, with all his faults, Miles did understand things. But he could not ask Miles. He and Nidderdale were good friends; but Nidderdale wanted the girl for himself. Grasslough would be sure to tell Nidderdale. Dolly would be altogether useless. He thought that, perhaps, Herr Vossner would be the man to help him.
The ready-money transactions had not lasted long through the night. Grasslough was the chief loser, and the figures and scraps of paper which had been passed over to Carbury, when counted up, amounted to nearly £2,000. His lordship contested the fact bitterly, but contested it in vain.
'I don't see it at all, said Lord Grasslough. 'It's an understood thing that when a man has won as much as you have he should stay. 'Stay how long? said Sir Felix, with an angry look. 'That's nonsense; there must be an end of everything, and there's an end of this for me to-night. 'Oh, if you choose, said his lordship. 'I do choose. Good night, Dolly; we'll settle this next time we meet.
Lord Grasslough, who had not many good gifts, was, at least, not suspicious, and repudiated the idea. 'We'll keep an eye on him, Miles Grendall had said. 'You may do as you like, but I'm not going to watch any one, Grasslough had replied. Miles 'had watched, and had watched in vain, and it may as well be said at once that Sir Felix, with all his faults, was not as yet a blackleg.
'I think Carbury ought to have paid it, said Grasslough. 'Grassy, my boy, said the baronet, 'your attempts at thinking are never worth much. Why was I to suppose that a stranger would be playing among us? Had you a lot of ready money with you to pay if you had lost it? I don't always walk about with six hundred pounds in my pocket; nor do you!
This went on for an hour, during which Grendall still won, and won heavily from Paul Montague. 'I never saw a fellow have such a run of luck in my life, said Grasslough. 'You've had two trumps dealt to you every hand almost since we began! 'Ever so many hands I haven't played at all, said Miles. 'You've always won when I've played, said Dolly. 'I've been looed every time.
Grasslough and Nidderdale when they lose always pay with Miles's I.O.U.'s. 'So should I, if I had them. 'It'll come to that soon that there won't be any other stuff going, and they really ain't worth anything. I don't see what's the use of playing when this rubbish is shoved about the table. As for Grendall himself, he has no feeling about it. 'Not the least, I should say.
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