a matter of detail to be arranged privately, rather from this consideration than with any idea that there might be a difficulty in finding adequate persons.  But even the leading members of the Beargarden hesitated when the proposition was submitted to them with all its honours and all its responsibilities.  Lord Nidderdale declared from the beginning that he would have nothing to do with it,—­pleading his poverty openly.  Beauchamp Beauclerk was of opinion that he himself did not frequent the club often enough.  Mr Lupton professed his inability as a man of business.  Lord Grasslough pleaded his father.  The club from the first had been sure of Dolly Longestaffe’s services;—­for were not Dolly’s pecuniary affairs now in process of satisfactory arrangement, and was it not known by all men that his courage...