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If old Vavasor were to die to-morrow, Vavasor Hall would go just as he might choose to leave it. George may be a ruined man for aught I know " "There's no doubt about that, I believe," said Grindley. "Perhaps not, Grindems; but he can't have lost Vavasor Hall because he has never as yet had an interest in it. He's the natural heir, and will probably get it some day."
"Yes; or against a brick wall either, if your horse didn't know any better," said George. "Had you again, Grindems," said Maxwell. Whereupon Mr Grindley trotted on, round the corner by the church, and into the field in which the hounds were assembled. The fire had become too hot for him, and he thought it best to escape.
"And yet you'll be here the next meet," said Grindley, who had sneaked back to his old companions in weariness of spirit. "Grindems, you know a sight too much," said Maxwell; "you do indeed. An ordinary fellow has no chance with you."
"Oh no, of course not; where should we all be?" said Vavasor. "It's you and me, Grindems," said Maxwell. "D parliament, and now let's have a rubber." They played till three and Mr Calder Jones lost a good deal of money, a good deal of money in a little way, for they never played above ten-shilling points, and no bet was made for more than a pound or two.
"Had you there, Grindems," said Maxwell. "No, he didn't," said Grindley. "He didn't have me at all." "Your horses, Grindley, are always up to all the work they have to do," said George; "and I don't know what any man wants more than that." "Had you again, Grindems," said Maxwell. "I can ride against him any day," said Grindley.
"All the same," said Calder Jones, "isn't it rather odd he should come in here?" "We've asked him often enough," said Maxwell; "not because we like him, but because we want him so often to make up a rubber. I don't like George Vavasor, and I don't know who does; but I like him better than dummy. And I'd sooner play whist with men I don't like, Grindems, than I'd not play at all."
"You're wrong there, Grindems," said Maxwell, making use of a playful nickname which he had invented for his friend. "He made a pot of money at the wine business, and had he stuck to it he would have been a rich man." "He's lost it all since then, and that place in the north into the bargain." "Wrong again, Grindems, my boy.
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