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'What we ought to do, said Dolly, who was pervaded by a sense of his own good fortune in regard to Squercum, 'is to get some fellow like Vossner, and make him tell us how much he wants to steal above his regular pay. Then we could subscribe that among us. I really think that might be done.
Dolly, when questioned by Squercum, quite admitted his propensity to be 'tight'. He had no reticence, no feeling of disgrace on such matters. But he had signed no letter when he was tight. 'Never did such a thing in my life, and nothing could make me, said Dolly. 'I'm never tight except at the club, and the letter couldn't have been there. I'll be drawn and quartered if I ever signed it.
There were some who, no doubt, would have liked to crush a man who was at once so clever, and so pestilential. But he had not as yet been crushed, and had become quite in vogue with elder sons. Some three years since his name had been mentioned to Dolly by a friend who had for years been at war with his father, and Squercum had been quite a comfort to Dolly.
'And I think I understand you now that you do not intend to insist on the signature as being genuine. 'I say nothing about it, Mr Squercum. I think you'll find it very hard to prove that it's not genuine. 'My client's oath, Mr Bideawhile. 'I'm afraid your client is not always very clear as to what he does. 'I don't know what you mean by that, Mr Bideawhile.
When he had been in that waiting-room for two hours, it occurred to him that he only wanted his own, and that he would not remain there to be starved for any Mr Melmotte in Europe. It occurred to him also that that thorn in his side, Squercum, would certainly get a finger into the pie to his infinite annoyance. Then he walked forth, and attempted to see Grendall for the fourth time.
Squercum's my coach, and I mean to stick pretty close to him. Then it came to pass that the triumphant project as to the trustees fell to the ground, although Squercum himself advised that the difficulty might be lessened if three gentlemen could be selected who lived well before the world and yet had nothing to lose. Whereupon Dolly suggested Miles Grendall.
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