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The arrangement made as to the Pickering estate would pay all his debts, would disembarrass his own property, and would still leave him a comfortable sum in hand. Squercum had told him that if he would stick to his terms he would surely get them. He had stuck to his terms and he had got them. And now the property was sold, and the title-deeds gone, and he had not received a penny!
Then Squercum whispered a word into the butler's ear, and the butler thereupon nodded his head. 'It's about what I expected, said Squercum. Then the butler whispered the word to Mr Longestaffe, and whispered it also to Mr Bideawhile, and they all knew that the millionaire had swallowed poison during the night.
'Am I mistaken in supposing that my name has been forged to a letter? 'I am sure you are mistaken if you think that Melmotte had anything to do with it. 'Squercum says 'Never mind Squercum. We all know what are the suspicions of a fellow of that kind. 'I'd believe Squercum a deuced sight sooner than Melmotte. 'Look here, Dolly.
They who knew the inner life of the little man declared that he kept a horse and hunted down in Essex on Saturday, doing a bit of gardening in the summer months; and they said also that he made up for this by working hard all Sunday. Such was Mr Squercum, a sign, in his way, that the old things are being changed.
He regarded Melmotte as a grand swindler, perhaps the grandest that the world had ever known, and he could conceive no greater honour than the detection, successful prosecution, and ultimate destroying of so great a man. To have hunted down Melmotte would make Squercum as great almost as Melmotte himself. But he felt himself to have been unfairly hampered by his own client.
I have come to say that, if you will undertake to stop proceedings which have been commenced in the City, I will have fifty thousand pounds, which is the amount due to these two gentlemen, ready for payment on Friday at noon. 'I have taken no proceedings as yet, said Bideawhile. 'It's Squercum, says Dolly.
Mr Slow had been gathered to his fathers, but of the Bideawhiles there were three in the business, a father and two sons, to whom Squercum was a pest and a musquito, a running sore and a skeleton in the cupboard. It was not only in reference to Mr Longestaffe's affairs that they knew Squercum. The Bideawhiles piqued themselves on the decorous and orderly transaction of their business.
Having paid his debts, and with still a large balance at his bankers, he assured his friend Nidderdale that he meant to turn over an entirely new leaf. 'I shall just make Squercum allow me so much a month, and I shall have all the bills and that kind of thing sent to him, and he will do everything, and pull me up if I'm getting wrong. I like Squercum.
And the sound of Squercum, as his son knew, was horrid to his ears. He hummed and hawed, and fumed and fretted about the room, shaking his head and frowning. His son looked at him as though quite astonished at his displeasure. 'There's nothing more to be done here, sir, I suppose, said Dolly putting on his hat. 'Nothing more, said Mr Bideawhile.
'I beg that he won't arrange my money with the banks, sir. You'd better tell him not. A cheque upon his bank which I can pay in to mine is about the best thing going. You'll be in the city to-morrow, and you'd better tell him. If you don't like, you know, I'll get Squercum to do it. Mr Squercum was a lawyer whom Dolly had employed of late years much to the annoyance of his parent.
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