Lady Pomona and I reside there.' 'Your son will not join you in selling the other place ?' 'I have not directly asked him; but he never does do anything that I wish.

I suppose you would not take Pickering Park on a lease for my life.' 'I think not, Mr Longestaffe.

My wife would not like the uncertainty.' Then Mr Longestaffe took his leave with a feeling of outraged aristocratic pride.

His own lawyer would almost have done as much for him, and he need not have invited his own lawyer as a guest to Caversham,--and certainly not his own lawyer's wife and daughter.

He had indeed succeeded in borrowing a few thousand pounds from the great man at a rate of interest which the great man's head clerk was to arrange, and this had been effected simply on the security of the lease of a house in town.