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Ill- natured persons whispered that he was not on all occasions true to his party; and once when his master, the whip-in-chief, overborne with too much work, had been tempted to put himself to bed comfortably in his own house, instead of on his usual uneasy couch behind the Speaker's chair, Undy had greatly failed.
The shares at the present moment were greatly at a discount so much the better, for they could be bought at a cheaper rate; and they were sure to rise to some very respectable figure as soon as Undy should have played out with reference to them the parliamentary game which he had in view.
'Have you, or have you not, got an income on which you live? demanded Mr. Chaffanbrass. 'I have an income, said Undy, not, however, in a voice that betokened much self-confidence in the strength of his own answer. 'You have an income, have you? And now, Mr. Scott, will you tell us what profession you follow at this moment with the object of increasing your income?
Oh, Undy, Undy, the supply of cheek is not bad; it is all but unlimited; but yet it suffices thee not. 'Can there be positions in this modern West End world of mine, thought Undy to himself, 'in which cheek, unbounded cheek, will not suffice? Oh, Undy, they are rare; but still there are such, and this, unfortunately for thee, seemeth to be one of them.
As he went downstairs whistling with an affected ease, and a gaiety which, he by no means felt, Undy Scott leant back in his chair, and began to speculate whether his new purchase was worth the purchase-money. 'He's a sharp fellow; certainly, in some things, and may do well yet; but he's uncommonly green. That, however, will wear off.
'And he is spoken of everywhere as a monster for whom hanging is too good. 'Pshaw! that won't hang him. Yesterday he was a god; to-day he is a devil; to-morrow he'll be a man again; that's all. 'But you don't mean to tell me, Undy, that the consciousness of such crimes as those which M'Buffer has committed must not make a man wretched in this world, and probably in the next also?
Undy Scott, therefore, from time to time, received some ministerial bone, some Civil Service scrap of victuals thrown to him from the Government table, which, if it did not suffice to maintain him in all the comforts of a Treasury career, still preserved for him a connexion with the Elysium of public life; gave him, as it were, a link by which he could hang on round the outer corners of the State's temple, and there watch with advantage till the doors of Paradise should be re-opened to him.
There was an heiress, a 'doosed fine girl' as Undy insisted, laying peculiar strength on the word of emphasis, with L20,000, and there was Charley Tudor, a devilish decent fellow, without a rap. Why not bring them together? This would only be a mark of true friendship on the part of Undy; and on Alaric's part, it would be no more than one cousin would be bound to do for another.
On the next morning he again went to his office, and in the course of the morning a note was brought to him from Undy. It ran as follows: 'Is Val to have the shares? Let me have a line by the bearer. 'Yours ever, To this he replied by making an appointment to meet Undy before dinner at his own office.
Alaric was not addressed absolutely in these words; he would not probably have allowed the veil with which he still shrouded his dishonesty to be withdrawn with so rough a hand; but that which was said was in effect the same. In September he left town for a few weeks and went down to Scotland, still with Undy Scott.
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