human
Melmotte's at Pickering? asked the attorney. Then Dolly informed him how the tradesmen of the great financier had already half knocked down the house. Squercum still listened, and promised to look to it. He did ask what authority Dolly had given for the surrender of the title-deeds. Dolly declared that he had given authority for the sale, but none for the surrender. His father, some time since, had put before him, for his signature, a letter, prepared in Mr. Bideawhile's office, which Dolly said that he had refused even to read, and certainly had not signed. Squercum again said that he'd look to it, and bowed Dolly out of his room.
gpt
They've got him to sign something when he was tight, said Squercum to himself, knowing something of the habits of his client.
human
I wonder whether his father did it, or old Bideawhile, or Melmotte himself? Mr. Squercum was inclined to think that Bideawhile would not have done it, that Melmotte could have had no opportunity, and that the father must have been the practitioner.
gpt
It's not the trick of a pompous old fool either,