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'He's taken up the running with the girl, said Lord Grasslough. 'What he'll do now, nobody knows. If I was at it, I'd have the money down in hard cash before I went into the church. He was there at the party yesterday, talking to the girl all the night; a sort of thing he never did before.
Of course cheating isn't very nice: and it isn't very nice for a fellow to play when he knows he can't pay; but I don't know that it's worse than getting drunk like Dolly Longestaffe, or quarrelling with everybody as Grasslough does, or trying to marry some poor devil of a girl merely because she's got money. I believe in living in glass houses, but I don't believe in throwing stones.
Fisker, with smiling good humour, arranged the little bits of paper before him and looked round upon the company. 'This won't do, you know, said Nidderdale. 'Mr Fisker must have his money before he leaves. You've got it, Carbury. 'Of course he has, said Grasslough. 'As it happens, I have not, said Sir Felix, 'but what if I had?
But the question demanded an answer of some kind. 'Yes, said he; 'a fellow attacked me in the street, coming behind me when I had a girl with me. He didn't get much the best of it though. 'Oh; didn't he? said Grasslough. 'I think, upon the whole, you know, you're right about going abroad. 'What business is it of yours? asked the baronet.
'No horrid nonsense about closing, said Grasslough, 'and no infernal old fogies wearing out the carpets and paying for nothing. 'Not a vestige of propriety, or any beastly rules to be kept! That's what I liked, said Nidderdale. 'It's an old story, said Mr Lupton, 'that if you put a man into Paradise he'll make it too hot to hold him. That's what you've done here.
She had always carried herself with a certain high demeanour, and had been able to maintain it. All that was now gone from her, and she knew it. Though the thing was as yet but a few days old she understood that others understood that she had degraded herself. 'What's all this about? Lord Grasslough had said to her, seeing her come into a room behind Madame Melmotte.
'That's Longestaffe, said Felix, 'and I'll change that of course. Then out of his pocket-book he extracted other minute documents bearing that M.G. which was so little esteemed among them, and so made up the sum. 'You seem to have £150 from Grasslough, £145 from Nidderdale, and £322 10s from Grendall, said the baronet. Then Sir Felix got up as though he had paid his score.
He knew that Longestaffe owed him over £300, and he knew also that he had received more than that in ready money and cheques from Lord Grasslough and the other player. Dolly Longestaffe's money, too, would certainly be paid, though Dolly did complain of the importunity of his tradesmen. As he walked up St. James's Street, looking for a cab, he presumed himself to be worth over £700.
Nine hours afterwards the same two men, with two others of whom young Lord Grasslough, Dolly Longestaffe's peculiar aversion, was one were just rising from a card-table in one of the upstairs rooms of the club. For it was understood that, though the Beargarden was not to be open before three o'clock in the afternoon, the accommodation denied during the day was to be given freely during the night.
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