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But even the leading members of the Beargarden hesitated when the proposition was submitted to them with all its honours and all its responsibilities. Lord Nidderdale declared from the beginning that he would have nothing to do with it, pleading his poverty openly. Beauchamp Beauclerk was of opinion that he himself did not frequent the club often enough.
And then, even into the Beargarden there had filtered, through the outer world, a feeling that people were not now bound to be so punctilious in the paying of money as they were a few years since. No doubt it suited Melmotte to make use of the money, and therefore, as he had succeeded in getting the property into his hands, he did make use of it. But it would be forthcoming sooner or later!
He also was made free of the Beargarden, as an honorary member, and he also spent a good deal of money. But there is this comfort in great affairs, that whatever you spend on yourself can be no more than a trifle.
He is one of the Beargarden set, and of course he knows all about it." "Did he say how much?" "How is he to pay anything? Of all things that men do this is the worst.
And now she had engaged herself, behind his back, to the younger son of a little county squire! But his anger against Mrs. Finn was hotter than his anger against any one in his own family. Major Tifto Major Tifto had lately become a member of the Beargarden Club, under the auspices of his friend Lord Silverbridge.
I should not turn up my nose at the House of Commons because some constituency might send them an illiterate shoemaker; but I might probably find the illiterate shoemaker an unprofitable companion for my private hours." "I don't think there will be any shoemakers at the Beargarden." "Even if there were I would go and dine with you.
He knew that she was bruised, and if it might be possible he would pour oil into her wounds, even though she would not recognise the hand which relieved her. They slept one night in town, where they encountered Silverbridge soon after his retreat from the Beargarden. "I cannot quite make up my mind, sir, about that fellow Tifto," he said to his father.
When Sir Felix Carbury declared to his friends at the Beargarden that he intended to devote the next few months of his life to foreign travel, and that it was his purpose to take with him a Protestant divine, as was much the habit with young men of rank and fortune some years since, he was not altogether lying.
But this letter she had unfortunately addressed to the Beargarden, as he had written to her from that club; and partly through his own fault, and partly through the demoralization of that once perfect establishment, the letter never reached his hands. When, therefore, he returned to London he was justified in supposing that she had refused even to notice his appeal.
Of course there was sorrow and trouble at the Beargarden; but still the institution had become so absolutely necessary to its members that it had been reopened under a new management.
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