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That's flat. Dolly was intent on going to his father at once, on going to Melmotte at once, on going to Bideawhile's at once, and making there 'no end of a row, but Squercum stopped him. 'We'll just ferret this thing out quietly, said Squercum, who perhaps thought that there would be high honour in discovering the peccadillos of so great a man as Mr Melmotte.
And it must be owned on Dolly's behalf that his manner on this occasion was qualified to convince. 'Yes, he said to Squercum; 'it's easy saying that I'm lack-a-daisical. But I know when I'm lack-a-daisical and when I'm not. Awake or asleep, drunk or sober, I never signed that letter. And Mr Squercum believed him.
Slow and Bideawhile have been the family lawyers for a century. Dolly made some remark as to the old family advisers which was by no means pleasing to the father's ears, and went his way. The father knew his boy, and knew that his boy would go to Squercum. All he could himself do was to press Mr Melmotte for the money with what importunity he could assume.
'Bideawhile shouldn't have asked you to agree to anything in my absence, said Squercum indignantly. 'It was a very unprofessional thing on his part, and so I shall take an opportunity of telling him. 'It was you told me to go. 'Well; yes. I wanted you to see what they were at in that room; but I told you to look on and say nothing. 'I didn't speak half-a-dozen words.
He seldom or never came to his office on a Saturday, and many among his enemies said that he was a Jew. What evil will not a rival say to stop the flow of grist to the mill of the hated one? But this report Squercum rather liked, and assisted.
Squercum suggested that they had better wait till they found what pickings there might be out of the Melmotte estate. He had made inquiries too about that, and had been assured that there must be property, but property so involved and tied up as to make it impossible to lay hands upon it suddenly.
'Excuse me, Mr Squercum, but that's between Mr Longestaffe and us. 'Just so; but as Mr Longestaffe and you have jeopardised my client's property it is natural that I should make a few remarks. I think you'd have made a few remarks yourself, Mr Bideawhile, if the case had been reversed. I shall bring the matter before the Lord Mayor, you know. To this Mr Bideawhile said not a word.
I particularly bargained for that. It you're there, there won't be any more compromising. Squercum made one or two further remarks to his client, not at all flattering to Dolly's vanity, which might have caused offence had not there been such perfectly good feeling between the attorney and the young man. As it was, Dolly replied to everything that was said with increased flattery.
The world at large, in spite of the terrible falling-off at the Emperor of China's dinner, in spite of all the rumours, in spite of the ruinous depreciation of the Mexican Railway stock, and of the undoubted fact that Dolly Longestaffe had not received his money, was inclined to think that Melmotte would 'pull through. Mr Squercum all this time was in a perfect fever of hard work and anxiety.
In this he merely said that he would lose no time in settling matters as to the purchase of Pickering. Slow and Bideawhile were of course anxious that things should be settled. They wanted no prosecution for forgery. To make themselves clear in the matter, and their client, and if possible to take some wind out of the sails of the odious Squercum; this would suit them best.
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