The Way We Live Now

ome money in her hands when she first took it, she had made it pretty and pleasant, and was still proud to feel that in spite of the hardness of her position

f editors and critics. Here she was rarely disturbed by her daughter, and admitted no visitors except editors and critics. But her son was controlled by no household laws, and would break in upon her p

pray leave your tobacco be

into the fire-place. 'Some women swear they like smoke, others say they hate it like

pose that I wi

. I wonder whether you can

ear F

- but how about

it for,

live without some money in his pocket. I do with as little as most fellows. I pay for nothing that I ca

be the end o

order to be in at the finish. I never could pass a dish that I liked in favour of those that were to follow. Wh

re drinking tea, and idle men playing whist at the clubs - at which young idle men are sometimes allowed to flirt,

just com

do you thi

ut her. She is not pretty, she is not plain; she is not cl

kely to make

te willing to believe that as wif

s the mot

er, I shall ever find out where the mother came from. Dolly Longestaffe says that

s it matt

n the

civil

civil

the f

and I think the old fellow is bewildered among them all. He's thinking more of getting dukes to dine

hy not

and it's no good flogging a willing

w how poor we are. You have still

If I can marry Miss Melmotte, I suppose all will be right. But I don't think the way to get her would be to throw up everything and let all the world know that I haven't got a copper. To do that kind of

manded was forthcoming, though at the time it could be but ill afforded, and the youth went away apparently with a light heart, ha

before which hour the promoters of the Beargarden thought it improbable that they and their fellows would want a club. There were to be no morning papers taken, no library, no morning-room. Dining-rooms, billiard-rooms, and card-rooms would suffice for the Beargarden. Everything was to be provided by a purveyor, so that the club should be cheated only by one man. Everything was to be luxurious, but the luxuries were to be achieved at first cost. It had been a happy thought, and the club was said to prosper. Herr Vossner, the purveyor, was a jewel, and so carried on affairs that there was no trouble about anything. He would assist even in smoothing little difficulties as to the settling of card accounts, and had behaved with the greatest tenderness to the drawers of cheques whose bankers had harshly declared them

teps with a cigar in his mouth, and gazing vacantly at the dull b

e. I'm engaged somewhere, I know; but I'm not up to getting home and dres

o hunt t

would get me up in time. I can't tell why it is that things are done in such a beastly way. Why should

n't ride by moo

on Square by nine. I don't think that fellow of mine likes getting u

have you got at

fellow down there sold one; but then I thin

rides

riding two of them last week. I don't think I ever told him he might. I think he tipped that fellow of mine; and I call that

sslough were

cause he is a lord, and is devilish ill-natured.

ve his

ury, I've made up my mind to one thing, and, by Jove, I'll stick to it. I never

s haven't got an

I've paid for any of mine I've bought this

ere at t

o be paid for something! It was horses, I

did yo

didn't sa

w did i

while he was biting off the end went upstairs. I

f yours for a couple of days - that is, of course, if you

said Dolly, with me

Nobody knows as well as you do how awfully done up I am. I shall pull through at last, but

ellow of mine will believe you. He wouldn't believe Grasslough, and told him s

ite a line to

w will believe you, because you and I have been pals. I think I'll have a little

ering, there had been to-night, various devils and broils and hot toasts having been brought up from time to time first for one and then for another. But there had been no cessation of gambling since the cards had first been opened about ten o'clock. At four in the morning Dolly Longestaffe was certainly in a condition to lend his horses and to remember nothing about it. He was quite affectionate with Lord Grasslough, as he was also with his other companions - affection being the normal state of his mind when in that condition. He was by no means helplessly drunk, and was, perhaps, hardly more

h. 'It's an understood thing that when a man

k. 'That's nonsense; there must be an end of every

hoose,' said

; we'll settle this next time w

gestaffe's money, too, would certainly be paid, though Dolly did complain of the importunity of his tradesmen. As he walked up St. James's Street, looking for a cab, he presumed himself to be worth over ￡700. When begging for a small sum from Lady Carbury, he had said that he could not carry on the game without some ready money, and had considered himself fortunate in fleecing his mother as he had done. Now he was in the possession of wealth -

ail with which his mother had spoken of her poverty when he demanded assistance from her. Now he could give her back the ￡20. But it occurred to him sharply, with an amount of carefulness quite new to him, that it would be foolish to do so. How soon might he want i

Buckinghamshire, riding two of Dolly Longestaffe's horses for the

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