One thing only was clear to him.  He must realize his possessions.  With this view he wrote both to Miles Grendall and to Melmotte.  To the former he said he was going out of town,—­probably for some time, and he must really ask for a cheque for the amount due.  He went on to remark that he could hardly suppose that a nephew of the Duke of Albury was unable to pay debts of honour to the amount of L200;—­but that if such was the case he would have no alternative but to apply to the Duke himself.  The reader need hardly be told that to this letter Mr Grendall vouchsafed no answer whatever.  In his letter to Mr Melmotte he confined himself to one matter of business in hand.  He made no allusion whatever...