’No; Squercum isn’t aristocratic, and Fetter Lane is a good deal lower than Lincoln’s Inn.  Nevertheless Squercum may know what he’s about.  It was Squercum who was first down upon Melmotte in this matter, and if it wasn’t for Squercum we shouldn’t know as much about it as we do at present.’  Squercum’s name was odious to the elder Longestaffe.  He believed, probably without much reason, that all his family troubles came to him from Squercum, thinking that if his son would have left his affairs in the hands of the old Slows and the old Bideawhiles, money would never have been scarce with him, and that he would not have made this terrible blunder about the Pickering property.  And the sound of Squercum, as his son knew, was...