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You don't suppose that such a man as Melmotte would put up with any real interference. Paul endeavoured to assert himself, declaring that as one of the managers he meant to take a part in the management; that his fortune, such as it was, had been embarked in the matter, and was as important to him as was Mr Melmotte's fortune to Mr Melmotte. But Fisker got the better of him and put him down.
Roger had all the advantage of Carbury Manor at his back, whereas he had nothing but his share in the doubtful business of Fisker, Montague, and Montague, in a wretched little town 250 miles further off than San Francisco! But if with all this, Roger could not prevail, why should he not try? What Roger said about want of money was mere nonsense.
This had taken some considerable time. Then a cup of tea was prepared and swallowed; after which Nidderdale, with Montague, started off to meet Fisker at the railway station. 'It'll only be a trifle over £100 each, said Nidderdale, in the cab. 'Won't Mr Grendall pay it? 'Oh, dear no. How the devil should he? 'Then he shouldn't play. 'That'd be hard, on him, poor fellow.
But we must go back a little. Paul Montague had received a telegram from his partner, Hamilton K. Fisker, sent on shore at Queenstown from one of the New York liners, requesting him to meet Fisker at Liverpool immediately. With this request he had felt himself bound to comply.
I couldn't even have gone to law with him without going over to California, and then I should have got no redress. Through it all he disliked Fisker, and yet Fisker had one great merit which certainly recommended itself warmly to Montague's appreciation.
Mr Fisker made an allusion to poker as a desirable pastime, but Lord Nidderdale, remembering his poetry, shook his head. 'Oh! bother, he said, 'let's have some game that Christians play. Mr Fisker declared himself ready for any game, irrespective of religious prejudices.
'Upon my word, continued Fisker, 'it's astonishing to me that Melmotte should have put up with this kind of thing. I suppose you understand something of business, Mr Croll? 'It vas not my department, Mr Fisker, said the German. 'Nor anybody else's either, said the domineering American.
'One cheer for the South Central Pacific and Mexican Railway, he, said as he went out of the room. Not one there had liked Fisker. His manners were not as their manners; his waistcoat not as their waistcoats. He smoked his cigar after a fashion different from theirs, and spat upon the carpet.
Obeying, no doubt, some inscrutable law of commerce, the grand enterprise, 'perhaps the grandest when you consider the amount of territory manipulated, which has ever opened itself before the eyes of a great commercial people, as Mr Fisker with his peculiar eloquence observed through his nose, about this time, to a meeting of shareholders at San Francisco, had swung itself across from California to London, turning itself to the centre of the commercial world as the needle turns to the pole, till Mr Fisker almost regretted the deed which himself had done.
It will be less dull for me, and I shall prefer company just at present for many reasons. We shall start on the first of September. As this was said about the middle of August there was still some remnant of comfort for poor Mrs Pipkin. A fortnight gained was something; and as Mr Fisker had come to England on business, and as business is always uncertain, there might possibly be further delay.
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