Why, what was there to do?
Firstly, to go to a local printer in some out-of-the-way part of the town and get him to print a few cards with the high-sounding name.

That, of course, is done 'while you wait.' Beyond that there was the purchase of a good second-hand uniform, fur coat, and a beard and a wig from a costumier's.
"No, no, the execution was not difficult; it was the planning of it all, the daring that was so fine.

Schwarz, of course, was a foreigner; he had only been in England a little over a fortnight.

Vassall's broken English misled him; probably he did not know the junior partner very intimately.
I have no doubt that but for his uncle's absurd British prejudice and suspicions against the Russian Prince, Schwarz would not have been so ready to believe in the latter's roguery.

As I said, it would be a great boon if English tradesmen studied Gotha more; but it was clever, wasn't it?
I couldn't have done it much better myself." That last sentence was so characteristic.