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If you went to his uncle the duke, I suppose you could get it. Or Buntingford might put it right for you. Perhaps he might win, you know, some day, and then he'd make it square. He'd be fair enough if he had it. Poor Miles! They found Fisker wonderfully brilliant with bright rugs, and greatcoats with silk linings. 'We've brought you the tin, said Nidderdale, accosting him on the platform.
'I know nothing myself. He talked to me about his affairs once, but he was such a liar that not a word that he said was worth anything. I believed him then. How it will go, I can't say. 'That other thing is all over of course, suggested Dolly. Nidderdale intimated by a gesture of his head that the other thing was all over, and then returned to Marie.
This was unfortunate, because it recalled Tregear to the Duke's mind. "We saw very few people whom we knew," he said. "I've been shooting in Scotland with Silverbridge, and Gerald, and Reginald Dobbes, and Nidderdale, and that fellow Tregear, who is so thick with Silverbridge." "Indeed!" "I'm told that Lord Gerald is going to be the great shot of his day," said Lady Cantrip.
'I'm sure, Lord Nidderdale, you didn't expect to find me here. 'Lord bless you, I knew all about it, and came on purpose. It's a great institution; isn't it? 'It's an institution you mean to belong to, permanently. 'No, indeed. I did have thoughts about it as fellows do when they talk of going into the army or to the bar; but I couldn't pass. That fellow there is the happy man.
Dolly had been at the club before and had heard the story, but had gone at once to another club for his dinner when he found that there was not even a bottle of wine to be had. 'Here's a go, said Dolly. 'One thing atop of another! There'll be nothing left for anybody soon. Is that brandy you're drinking, Nidderdale? There was none here when I left.
Croll had alluded to the use of his own name, but did not on this occasion make any further revelation. Then Croll made a further statement to Lord Nidderdale, which I think he must have done in pure good-nature. 'Mylor, he said, whispering very gravely, 'de money of de yong lady is all her own. Then he nodded his head three times.
'Let it be sent to me to Frisco, in a bill, my lord. And so he got up to take his hat, greatly to the delight of Miles Grendall. But the two young lords would not agree to this. 'If you must go this very minute I'll meet you at the train with the money, said Nidderdale. Fisker begged that no such trouble should be taken. Of course he would wait ten minutes if they wished.
It was nothing to him what the girl thought of the marriage, if the marriage could now be brought about. He, too, had cause for vexation, if not for anger. If Marie had consented a fortnight since he might have so hurried affairs that Lord Nidderdale might by this time have been secured. Now there might be, must be, doubt, through the folly of his girl and the villainy of Sir Felix Carbury.
From the very commencement Fisker won, and quite a budget of little papers fell into his possession, many of which were passed to him from the hands of Sir Felix, bearing, however, a 'G' intended to stand for Grasslough, or an 'N' for Nidderdale, or a wonderful hieroglyphic which was known at the Beargarden to mean D. L., or Dolly Longestaffe, the fabricator of which was not present on the occasion.
Nidderdale himself had never dissented, had entertained no fanciful theory opposed to this view, had never alarmed his father by any liaison tending towards matrimony with any undowered beauty; but had claimed his right to 'have his fling' before he devoted himself to the reintegration of the family property.
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