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'Well,--eighty thousand It's impossible to suppose that such a hty thousand pounds'

'Why don't he do it then?' asked Dolly

All this was very unpleasant and made the club less social than it used to be in old days There was an atteame of cards; but Nidderdale would not play because he was offended with Dolly Longestaffe; and Miles Grendall ay in the country,--a fugitive fro at home with his countenance froue in these days never went to the club At the presentbeen sue,' said Dolly, as he filled another pipe and orderedto co before as a one off, and it seems everybody is to pay just what he says they owed hia that things would ever coood deal divided as to the estaffe It was adreat a aged the property before it was really his own? But theAs to the signature of the letter, Dolly was a man ould naturally be quite unable to say what he had and what he had not signed And then, even into the Beargarden there had filtered, through the outer world, a feeling that people were not now bound to be so punctilious in the paying of money as they were a few years since No doubt it suited Melmotte to make use of thethe property into his hands,--he didsooner or later! In this way of looking at the e The world at large, in spite of the terrible falling-off at the Emperor of China's dinner, in spite of all the rumours, in spite of the ruinous depreciation of the Mexican Railway stock, and of the undoubted fact that Dolly Longestaffe had not received his h'