human
I suppose he is very rich,
gpt
I dare say he has put by something. But this election will cost him ú10,000;--and if he goes on as he is doing now, he had better allow another ú10,000 for action for libel. They've already declared that they will indict the paper.
human
Do you believe about the Austrian Insurance Company?
gpt
I don't believe the 'Evening Pulpit' can prove it,--and I'm sure that they can't attempt to prove it without an expense of three or four thousand pounds. That's a game in which nobody wins but the lawyers. I wonder at Alf. I should have thought that he would have known how to get all said that he wanted to have said without running with his head into the lion's mouth. He has been so clever up to this! God knows he has been bitter enough, but he has always sailed within the wind.
human
Evening Pulpit,