George,’ said Dolly, as he filled another pipe
and ordered more brandy and water, ’I think
everything is going to come to an end. I do indeed.
I never heard of such a thing before as a man being
done in this way. And then Vossner has gone off,
and it seems everybody is to pay just what he says
they owed him. And now one can’t even get
up a game of cards. I feel as though there were
no good in hoping that things would ever come right
again.’
The opinion of the club was a good deal divided as to the matter in dispute between Lord Nidderdale and Dolly Longestaffe. It was admitted by some to be ‘very fishy.’ If Melmotte were so great a man why didn’t he...