’There is, I fear, no doubt that he had committed forgery.  It was the dread of detection as to that which drove him to destroy himself.’

’I call it dam clumsy from beginning to end;—­dam clumsy.  I took him to be a different man, and I feel more than half ashamed of myself because I trusted such a fellow.  That chap Cohenlupe has got off with a lot of swag.  Only think of Melmotte allowing Cohenlupe to get the better of him!’

‘I suppose the thing will be broken up now at San Francisco,’ suggested Paul.

’Bu’st up at Frisco!  Not if I know it.  Why should it be bu’st up?  D’you think we’re all going to smash there because a fool like...