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he had exclaimed to Mr. Merton ; `` he wants both the property and the girl . There is nothing on earth that he does not want . The greater the impropriety in his craving , the stronger the craving . '' Then he picked up by degrees all the details of the midnight feud between Harry and Mountjoy , and set himself to work to undermine Augustus . But he had steadily carried out the plan for settling with the creditors , and , with the aid of Mr. Grey , had , as he thought , already concluded that business . Conjunction with Augustus had been necessary , but that had been obtained . It is not too much to say that , at the present moment of his life , the idea of doing some injury to Augustus was the one object which exercised Mr. Scarborough 's mind .