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He wrote a timid letter to Mr Melmotte, which had no result; and then, on the next Friday, again went into the City and there encountered perturbation of spirit and sheer loss of time, as the reader has already learned. Squercum was a thorn in the side of all the Bideawhiles.
Then, as he walked slowly across the park, thinking so intently on matters as hardly to observe whether he himself were observed or no, he asked himself whether it still might not be best for him to keep the money which was settled on his daughter, to tell the Longestaffes that he could make no payment, and to face the worst that Mr Squercum could do to him, for he knew already how busy Mr Squercum was in the matter.
'No; Squercum isn't aristocratic, and Fetter Lane is a good deal lower than Lincoln's Inn. Nevertheless Squercum may know what he's about. It was Squercum who was first down upon Melmotte in this matter, and if it wasn't for Squercum we shouldn't know as much about it as we do at present. Squercum's name was odious to the elder Longestaffe.
With unhesitating resolution, nothing awed by his father, Dolly had gone to his attorney, Mr Squercum, immediately after that Friday on which Mr Longestaffe first took his seat at the Railway Board. Dolly was possessed of fine qualities, but it must be owned that veneration was not one of them. 'I don't know why Mr Melmotte is to be different from anybody else, he had said to his father.
'If I was a sharp fellow like you, you know, said Dolly, 'of course I should get along better; but I ain't, you know. It was then settled that they should meet each other, and also meet Mr Longestaffe senior, Bideawhile, and Melmotte, at twelve o'clock on Friday morning in Bruton Street. Squercum was by no means satisfied.
Mr Squercum's name was odious to Mr Longestaffe. 'I beg you'll do nothing of the kind. It will be very foolish if you do; perhaps ruinous. 'Then he'd better pay up, like anybody else, said Dolly as he left the room. The father knew the son, and was quite sure that Squercum would have his finger in the pie unless the money were paid quickly.
'I should like to see him hung of, course; but I'd sooner have the money. Squercum says 'Adolphus, we don't want to know here what Mr Squercum says. 'I don't know why what Mr Squercum says shouldn't be as good as what Mr Bideawhile says. Of course Squercum doesn't sound very aristocratic. 'Quite as much so as Bideawhile, no doubt, said the lawyer laughing.
It had grown to be a rule in the house that anything done quickly must be done badly. They never were in a hurry for money, and they expected their clients never to be in a hurry for work. Squercum was the very opposite to this.
The young gentleman's signature is never very plain, and this one is about as like any other as that other would be like the last. 'Would you let me look at it again, Mr Bideawhile? Then the letter which had been very often inspected during the last ten days was handed to Mr Squercum. 'It's a stiff resemblance; such as he never could have written had he tried it ever so.
'Won't he rob you, old fellow? suggested Nidderdale, 'Of course he will; but he won't let any one else do it. One has to be plucked, but it's everything to have it done on a system. If he'll only let me have ten shillings out of every sovereign I think I can get along. Let us hope that Mr Squercum was merciful, and that Dolly was enabled to live in accordance with his virtuous resolutions.
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