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'My son is very anxious to have the payestaffe, absolutely holding Mel!' said Mel an air of uni were of no real moment 'Haven't they been estaffe, 'unlessabout it, but I cannot just rees all o clean out of my head I'm afraid he's in Grosvenor Square at this ! Wasn't there so about a e, of course,--but that only made three payments necessary instead of two'

'But there was so occasioned by the ee I know there was But you shan't be inconvenienced, Mr Longestaffe'

'It's ot a lawyer of his own'

'I never knew a young hing 'Oh, yes;--there were three payments to be ee I will speak to Mr Smith myself to-morrow--and you may tell your son that he really need not trouble his lawyer He will only be losing his money, for lawyers are expensive What! you won't co after a fashion said what he had to say, declined to go to the Board A painful rumour had reached him the day before, which had been communicated to him in a very quiet way by a very old friend,--by a member of a private firard as the wisest andhad been already ed to its full value by its nener 'Mind, I know nothing,' said the banker 'The report has reached me, and if it be true, it shows that Mr Melmotte must be much pressed for ot your price But it seems to be rather a quick transaction I suppose you have, or he wouldn't have the title-deeds' Mr Longestaffe thanked his friend, and acknowledged that there had been so remiss on his part Therefore, as he ard, he was low in spirits But nevertheless he had been reassured by Melmotte's manner