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It was clear enough now that Vavasor intended to bully him, and he made up his mind at once that if the quarrel were forced upon him it should find him ready to take his own part. "My difficulty in explaining it comes from consideration for you," he said. "Then I beg that your difficulty will cease, and that you will have no consideration for me.
"There is no help for it," he said, as he also prepared for action. The first thing he did was to open the door, and as he did so he became conscious that his mouth was full of blood from a sharp blow upon his face. Vavasor had struck him with his fist, and had cut his lip against his teeth. Then there came a scramble, and Grey was soon aware that he had his opponent in his hands.
Ever since he went to the same tailor as Vavasor his coats had been irreproachable; and why should not any youth pay just twice as much for his coats as his father does for his? His shirt-studs were simplicity itself single pearls; and he was very particular about both the quantity and the quality of the linen showing beyond his coat-cuffs.
"He looked at me like the devil himself making the hole in his face gape at me," the old squire had said to John Vavasor in describing the interview in which the grandson had tried to bully his grandfather into assenting to his own views about the mortgage. But in other respects George's face was not ugly, and might have been thought handsome by many women.
As he drew near to the door of Mr Vavasor's chamber he knew that the breathing came from thence. On the door there were words inscribed, which were just legible in the gloom "Signing Room. Mr Vavasor." How John Vavasor did hate those words! It seemed to him that they had been placed there with the express object of declaring his degradation aloud to the world.
"Of course I did; and why shouldn't I? Do you suppose no one can work by candle-light except a lawyer? I suppose you fellows were playing whist, and drinking hard. I'm uncommon glad I wasn't with you, for I shall be able to ride." "I bet you a pound," said Jones, "if there's a run, I see more of it than you." "I'll take that bet with Jones," said Grindley, "and Vavasor shall be the judge."
What Occurred in Suffolk Street, Pall Mall Mr Tombe had gained nothing for the cause by his crafty silence. George Vavasor felt perfectly certain, as he walked out from the little street which runs at the back of Doctors' Commons, that the money which he had been using had come, in some shape, through the hands of John Grey.
Miss Vavasor had made for herself a certain footing in society, though I am disposed to doubt her right to be considered as holding a place among the Upper Ten Thousand.
"Come out of that," he shouted, and made his way through the company as fast as he could. Vavasor drew back, and stood like a sentinel on guard. Hester resumed her seat at the piano. Blaney, fancying he had gained his point, and that, if he began before Mr. Raymount reached him, he would be allowed to end in peace, again got his mouth into position, and began to howl.
He had come thus to Tattersall's, and Vavasor had bought him cheap, thinking that he might make money of him, from his form and action. He had found nothing amiss with him, nor, indeed, had Bat Smithers. But his character went with him, and therefore Bat Smithers thought it well to be knowing.
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