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The subject was introduced by a reference which Brehgert had made to his own affairs. His loss would be, at any rate, double that which Mr Longestaffe would have to bear; but he spoke of it in an easy way, as though it did not sit very near his heart. 'Of course there's a difference between me and you, he said.
'Your son will not join you in selling the other place? 'I have not directly asked him; but he never does do anything that I wish. I suppose you would not take Pickering Park on a lease for my life. 'I think not, Mr Longestaffe. My wife would not like the uncertainty. Then Mr Longestaffe took his leave with a feeling of outraged aristocratic pride.
And the people she did receive were antipathetic to Miss Longestaffe. She did not even know who they were, whence they came, or what was their nature. They seemed to be as little akin to her as would have been the shopkeepers in the small town near Caversham. She would sit through long evenings almost speechless, trying to fathom the depth of the vulgarity of her associates.
Finsbury delighted for a while to talk of the great Financier, and even Chelsea thought that he had been done to death by ungenerous tongues. It was, however, Marylebone alone that spoke of a monument. Mr Longestaffe came back to his house, taking formal possession of it a few days after the verdict. Of course he was alone.
I'm sure that Mr Whitstable, who is to be your brother-in-law, will never condescend to speak to him. Now if there was anybody whom Georgiana Longestaffe had despised from her youth upwards it was George Whitstable.
And Mr Melmotte had bought Mr Longestaffe's estate at Pickering on terms very favourable to the Longestaffes. It had been suggested to Mr Longestaffe by Mr Melmotte that he had better qualify for his seat at the Board by taking shares in the Company to the amount of perhaps two or three thousand pounds, and Mr Longestaffe had of course consented.
All minor debts were to be paid at once; an arrangement to which Mr Longestaffe cordially agreed, as it included a sum of £300 due to him for the rent of his house in Bruton Street.
But the evidence must be suppressed, and with the view of suppressing it he took the little bag and all the papers down with him to the study. Then he ate his breakfast, and suppressed the evidence by the aid of his gas lamp. When this was accomplished he hesitated as to the manner in which he would pass his day. He had now given up all idea of raising the money for Longestaffe.
Good night. Then he jumped out of the brougham, called a cab, and had himself driven to the Beargarden. He declared to himself that the men there would think it mean of him if he did not give them their revenge. He had renewed his play on the preceding night, and had again won. Dolly Longestaffe owed him now a considerable sum of money, and Lord Grasslough was also in his debt.
It was known to the servants that Mr Longestaffe was the owner of the house, and he was therefore, as having authority there, shown into the room where the body of Melmotte was lying on a sofa. The two lawyers and Dolly of course followed, as did also Lord Nidderdale, who had now joined them from the lobby above.
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