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Don't it Mr Scruby?" "It wants something of a man to manage any of them as far as my experience goes," said Mr Scruby. "Of course it do; and there ain't one in London knows so much about it as you do, Mr Scruby. I will say that for you. But the long and the short of it is this; business is business, and money is money." "Money is money, certainly," said Mr Scruby.
To Mr Scruby was still due some trifle on the cost of the last election; but even if this were paid, Mr Scruby would make no heavy advance towards the expense of the next election.
Then Mr Scruby turned to some papers on his right hand, as though the interview had been long enough. Vavasor looked at him angrily, opening his wound at him and cursing him inwardly. Mr Scruby went on with his paper, by no means regarding either the wound or the unspoken curses. Thereupon Vavasor got up and went away without any word of farewell.
Who's a going to law with the governor, I should like to know? not I; not if he didn't pay me them ninety-two pounds thirteen and fourpence for the next five years." "Five years or fifteen would make no difference," said Scruby. "You couldn't do it." "And I ain't a going to try. That's not the ticket I've come here about, Mr Vavasor, this blessed Sunday morning. Going to law, indeed!
But Mr Scruby, I've got a family." "Not in the vale of Taunton, I hope," said George. "They is at the 'Handsome Man' in the Brompton Road, Mr Vavasor; and I always feels that I owes my first duty to them. If a man don't work for his family, what do he work for?" "Come, come, Grimes," said Mr Scruby. "What is it you're at? Out with it, and don't keep us here all day."
The clerks in the outer office were very civil to him, and undertook to promise him that he should not be kept waiting an instant. There were four gentlemen in the little parlour, they said, waiting to see Mr Scruby, but there they should remain till Mr Vavasor's interview was over.
"And I suppose Grimes thinks Sunday morning a particularly good time for business," said the attorney, laughing. "It's quiet, you know," said Grimes. "But it warn't me as named Sunday morning. It was Mr Vavasor here. But it is quiet; ain't it, Mr Scruby?" Mr Scruby acknowledged that it was quiet, especially looking out over the river, and then they proceeded to business.
"Well; if you ask me I should say you had," said George. "I know I paid Mr Scruby three hundred pounds on your account." "And I got every shilling of it, Mr Vavasor. I'm not a going to deny the money, Mr Vavasor. You'll never find me doing that. I'm as round as your hat, and as square as your elbow, I am. Mr Scruby knows me; don't you, Mr Scruby?" "Perhaps I know you too well, Grimes."
He would even go away and leave the anxious candidate while he was in the middle of some discussion as to his plans. It was easy to see that Mr Scruby no longer regarded him as a successful man, and the day of the poll showed very plainly how right Mr Scruby had been. George Vavasor was rejected, but he still had his five hundred pounds in his pocket.
It was true that the election would not take place till the summer; but there were preliminary expenses which needed ready money. Metropolitan voters, as Mr Scruby often declared, required to be kept in good humour, so that Mr Scruby wanted the present payment of some five hundred pounds, and a well-grounded assurance that he would be put in full funds by the beginning of next June.
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