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There would be no need of any transaction in absolute cash. The shares could of course be paid for out of Mr Longestaffe's half of the purchase money for Pickering Park, and could remain for the present in Mr Melmotte's hands. To this also Mr Longestaffe had consented, not quite understanding why the scrip should not be made over to him at once.
'Old Cure tells me he doesn't believe a word of it, said the father. Cure was the family lawyer of the Marquises of Auld Reekie. 'There's some hitch about Dolly Longestaffe's money, sir, said the son. 'What's that to us if he has our money ready? I suppose it isn't always easy even for a man like that to get a couple of hundred thousand together.
People had gone to look at the house in Grosvenor Square, not knowing that he was still living in Mr Longestaffe's house in Bruton Street, and had come away with the impression that the desolation of ruin and crime was already plainly to be seen upon it. 'I wonder where he is, said Mr Lupton to Mr Beauchamp Beauclerk in one of the lobbies of the House.
This, too, was in the early days of the arrangement of the Melmotte affairs, when Mr Longestaffe's heart had been softened by that arrangement with reference to the rent. Mr Brehgert came, and there arose a somewhat singular conversation between the two gentlemen as they sat together over a bottle of Mr Longestaffe's old port wine.
Lady Monogram had meant that it should be so, and any father would have understood her tone. As she said afterwards to Sir Damask, she was not going to have that Jew there at her house as Georgiana Longestaffe's accepted lover without Mr Longestaffe's knowledge. 'My dear Georgiana, she said, 'I supposed your father knew all about it. 'I know nothing. Georgiana, I hate a mystery.
'They say he hasn't been in the City all day. I suppose he's in Longestaffe's house. That poor fellow has got it heavy all round. The man has got his place in the country and his house in town. There's Nidderdale. I wonder what he thinks about it all. 'This is awful; ain't it? said Nidderdale. 'It might have been worse, I should say, as far as you are concerned, replied Mr Lupton. 'Well, yes.
The property had been mortgaged, though not heavily, and Mr Melmotte had no doubt satisfied the mortgagee; but there was still a sum of £50,000 to come, of which Dolly was to have one half and the other was to be employed in paying off Mr Longestaffe's debts to tradesmen and debts to the bank.
There was nothing further that the four gentlemen could do, and they soon departed from the house; not, however, till Mr Bideawhile had given certain short injunctions to the butler concerning the property contained in Mr Longestaffe's town residence. 'They had come to see him, said Lord Nidderdale in a whisper. 'There was some appointment. He had told them to be all here at this hour.
This one he put bit by bit into his mouth, chewing the paper into a pulp till he swallowed it. When he had done this, and had re-locked his own drawers, he walked across to the other table, Mr Longestaffe's table, and pulled the handle of one of the drawers. It opened; and then, without touching the contents, he again closed it.
Mr Lupton professed his inability as a man of business. Lord Grasslough pleaded his father. The club from the first had been sure of Dolly Longestaffe's services; for were not Dolly's pecuniary affairs now in process of satisfactory arrangement, and was it not known by all men that his courage never failed him in regard to money? But even he declined.
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