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'We are not asking for payment of a commercial debt, said Mr Bideawhile, 'but for the price of a considerable property which you have purchased. Mr Melmotte had suggested that the characteristics of the money were the same, let the sum in question have become due how it might. Then he offered to make the payment in two bills at three and six months' date, with proper interest allowed.
'Bideawhile shouldn't have asked you to agree to anything in my absence, said Squercum indignantly. 'It was a very unprofessional thing on his part, and so I shall take an opportunity of telling him. 'It was you told me to go. 'Well; yes. I wanted you to see what they were at in that room; but I told you to look on and say nothing. 'I didn't speak half-a-dozen words.
Mr Bideawhile got up from his large wooden-seated Windsor chair, and, with a soft smile, in which, however, was mingled some slight dash of the attorney's acuteness, put out his hand to his young client; not, indeed, as though he were going to shake hands with him, but as though the hand were some ripe fruit all but falling, which his visitor might take and pluck if he thought proper.
She spoke then, she said, of pecuniary rights, not of those other rights which her husband was determined, and was no doubt able, to ignore. She did not really know what those pecuniary rights might be, nor was she careful to learn their exact extent. She would thank Mr. Bideawhile to see that things were properly arranged. But of this her husband, and Mr.
He charged Slow and Bideawhile with having delivered up the title-deeds on the authority of a mere note, and that a note with a forged signature. He demanded that the note should be impounded. On the receipt by Mr Bideawhile of Melmotte's rather curt reply Mr Squercum was informed that Mr Melmotte had promised to pay the money at once, but that a day or two must be allowed.
A man who would permit intercourse in his house between a married lady and her lover would not scruple to deny that he had permitted it. Then came Mr. Bideawhile's answer, which was very short. Mr. Bideawhile said that nothing could be done about the child till Mr.
"I shall prefer," he said, "to make myself, on her behalf, what disbursements may be necessary. I will take care that she receives a proper sum quarterly through Mr. Bideawhile for her own clothes, and for those of our poor boy."
In this he merely said that he would lose no time in settling matters as to the purchase of Pickering. Slow and Bideawhile were of course anxious that things should be settled. They wanted no prosecution for forgery. To make themselves clear in the matter, and their client, and if possible to take some wind out of the sails of the odious Squercum; this would suit them best.
Both the father and the lawyer looked at Dolly. Dolly was in truth the accuser through the mouthpiece of his attorney Squercum. It was at Dolly's instance that these proceedings were being taken. 'I, on behalf of my client, said Mr Bideawhile, 'will consent to wait till Friday at noon. 'I presume, Adolphus, that you will say as much, said the elder Longestaffe.
The young gentleman's signature is never very plain, and this one is about as like any other as that other would be like the last. 'Would you let me look at it again, Mr Bideawhile? Then the letter which had been very often inspected during the last ten days was handed to Mr Squercum. 'It's a stiff resemblance; such as he never could have written had he tried it ever so.
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