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He did not know whom to be loudest in abusing, his father, the Bideawhiles, or Mr Melmotte. And then it was said that he had signed that letter! He was very open in his manner of talking about his misfortune at the club. His father was the most obstinate old fool that ever lived. As for the Bideawhiles, he would bring an action against them. Squercum had explained all that to him.
But Squercum had been very hard upon him; and in connexion with this accusation as to the Pickering property, there was another, which he would be forced to face also, respecting certain property in the East of London, with which the reader need not much trouble himself specially, but in reference to which it was stated that he had induced a foolish old gentleman to consent to accept railway shares in lieu of money.
You don't suppose that the company which has lent money to Melmotte on the title-deeds would have to lose it. Take the bill; and if it is dishonoured run your chance of what you'll get out of the property. There must be assets. 'Every rap will have been made over, said Mr Squercum.
'I suppose you give it up about the letter having been signed by my client, said Squercum to the elder of the two younger Bideawhiles. 'I give up nothing and I assert nothing, said the superior attorney. 'Whether the letter be genuine or not we had no reason to believe it to be otherwise.
How Mr Flatfleece went to law, and tried to sell the furniture, and threatened everybody, and at last singled out poor Dolly Longestaffe as his special victim; and how Dolly Longestaffe, by the aid of Mr Squercum, utterly confounded Mr Flatfleece, and brought that ingenious but unfortunate man, with his wife and small family, to absolute ruin, the reader will hardly expect to have told to him in detail in this chronicle.
And now they say the girl is going to be married to Fisker. I don't know how you and Nidderdale like that. I never went in for her myself. Squercum never seemed to see it. 'Poor dear! said Nidderdale. 'She's welcome for me, and I dare say she couldn't do better with herself. I was very fond of her; I'll be shot if I wasn't. 'And Carbury too, I suppose, said Dolly. 'No; I wasn't.
His father, some time since, had put before him, for his signature, a letter, prepared in Mr Bideawhile's office, which Dolly said that he had refused even to read, and certainly had not signed. Squercum again said that he'd look to it, and bowed Dolly out of his room. 'They've got him to sign something when he was tight, said Squercum to himself, knowing something of the habits of his client.
Squercum was quite sure that Melmotte was not a falling, but a fallen star, perhaps not giving sufficient credence to the recuperative powers of modern commerce.
Fearing his son, especially fearing Squercum, he had made up his mind to suggest that the little matter about Pickering Park should be settled. Miles assured him that the opportunity should be given him, but that at the present moment the chief secretary of the Russian Legation was with Mr Melmotte.
Mr Squercum replied that on his client's behalf he should open the matter before the Lord Mayor. But in this way two or three days had passed without any renewal of the accusation before the public, and Melmotte had in a certain degree recovered his position.
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