‘By George!’ It depended chiefly upon him
whether such a man as Melmotte should or should not
be charged before the Lord Mayor. ‘Perhaps
I oughtn’t to have promised,’ he said to
Squercum, sitting in the lawyer’s office on
a high-legged stool with a cigar in his mouth.
He preferred Squercum to any other lawyer he had met
because Squercum’s room was untidy and homely,
because there was nothing awful about it, and because
he could sit in what position he pleased, and smoke
all the time.
‘Well; I don’t think you ought, if you ask me,’ said Squercum.
‘You weren’t there to be asked, old fellow.’
’Bideawhile shouldn’t have asked you to agree to anything in my absence,’ said Squercum indignantly. &rsquo...