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"Are you going to bring up my own signature against me, when you know very well that I shouldn't have got a shilling at all for the next twelve months if I hadn't given it? Oh Mr Scruby!" That's what Mr Grimes' look said, and both Mr Scruby and Mr Vavasor understood it perfectly.
Certainly not less." "Then you had better keep two of them." "Well no! I don't see the use of that. You had better collect them through your own banker, and let me have a cheque on the 15th or 16th." "How cursed suspicious you are, Scruby." "No, I ain't. I'm not a bit suspicious. I don't deal in such articles; that's all!" "What doubt can there be about such bills as those?
In short, it would be well that he should borrow a thousand pounds from Alice, and as he did not wish that the family attorney of the Vavasors should be employed to raise it, he communicated to Mr Scruby as much of his plans as was necessary, feeling more hesitation in doing it than might have been expected from him.
Vavasor understood the lawyer, cursed him inwardly, and suggested to himself that some day he might murder Mr Scruby as well as John Grey, and perhaps also a few more of his enemies. Two days after the interview in which his own note of hand had been refused, he again called in Great Marlborough Street.
Mr Scruby knows that. Why I've been a getting of them up with a view to this very job ever since; why ever since they was a talking of the Chelsea districts. When Lord Robert was a coming in for the county on the religious dodge, he couldn't have worked them fellows anyhow, only for me. Mr Scruby knows that." "Let's take it all for granted, Mr Grimes," said Vavasor. "What comes next?"
Mr Scruby made an early request, a very early request, that a further sum of fifteen hundred pounds should be placed in his hands; and he did this in a tone which clearly signified that not a man would be sent about through the streets, or a poster put upon a wall, till this request had been conceded. Mr Scruby was in possession of two very distinct manners of address.
"Not on account, but in full of all demands." "Now Mr Scruby!" and the publican as he made this appeal looked at the attorney with an expression of countenance which was absolutely eloquent. "Are you going to put me off with such an excuse as that?" so the look spoke plainly enough.
I did not think that the demand would come so quick on me; but they know that I am not a man of capital, and therefore I cannot expect them to carry on the fight for me, unless they know that the money is sure. Scruby has been bitten two or three times by these metropolitan fellows, and he is determined that he will not be bitten again." Then he paused for Kate to speak.
"What matters that?" and Mr Scruby almost became eloquent as he explained the nature of a good parliamentary subject. "You should work it up, so as to be able to discuss it at all points. Get the figures by heart, and then, as nobody else will do so, nobody can put you down. Of course it won't be done. If it were done, that would be an end of it, and your bread would be taken out of your mouth.
You're not afraid of fourteen days, I dare say." "Fourteen days is neither here nor there," said Mr Scruby. "We can let our payments stand over as long as that, without doing any harm. I'll send one of my men down to Grimes, and tell him I can't see him, till, let me see," and he looked at one of the bills, "till the 15th." But this was not exactly what George Vavasor wanted.
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