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'You could sell half the nuin with ten shares;--that's £1,000 Well;--I have got the money, but I don't want to draw out so et the 50 per cent, down?'

'Melmotte does all that himself'

'You could explain, you know, that you are a little short in your own pay it to be a delicatehis clai

'Of course it's private; but if you would pay h they are public'

'I don't think we could ether, Carbury'

'You can't help me?'

'Not in that way'

'Then, when the deuce will you pay me what you owe me?' Sir Felix was driven to this plain expression of his demand by the impassibility of his debtor Here was a man who did not pay his debts of honour, who did not even propose any arrange the up privatebaronet very sick Miles Grendall s the question, and he therefore made no answer 'Do you kno much you owe me?' continued the baronet, determined to persist now that he had commenced the attack There was a little crowd of other men in the room, and the conversation about the shares had been commenced in an undertone These two last questions Sir Felix had asked in a whisper, but his countenance showed plainly that he was speaking in anger

'Of course I know,' said Miles

'Well?'

'I' to talk about it here?'

'No This is a public roo his voice

'Will any fellow coa fro Sir Felix to take what revenge he pleased For a ht that he would expose the transaction to the whole roo that Miles Grendall was a ht; but not the less were the gaestaffe was there, and with him the two lords, and Sir Felix, and Miles Grendall of course, and, I regret to say, a ue Sir Felix had doubtedthe party What was the use of playing with a eneral consent to be liberated froation to pay? But then if he did not play with hian hist, but soon laid that aside and devoted themselves to loo The least respected man in that confraternity was Grendall, and yet it was in coave up the nobler gah 'It'sto do now and then; one can always bet,' said Dolly shortly afterwards 'I hate loo,' said Sir Felix in answer to a third application 'I like whist best,' said Nidderdale, 'but I'll play anything anybody likes,--pitch and toss if you please' But Miles Grendall had his way, and loo was the game