When he did get it, it came rancid with sarcasm.
"A cablegram--think of it, ladies and gents, he's expecting a cablegram! He's expecting a cablegram--this duffer, this scrub, this bilk! From his father--eh?
Yes--without a doubt.

A dollar or two a word--oh, that's nothing--they don't mind a little thing like that--this kind's fathers don't.

Now his father is--er--well, I reckon his father--" "My father is an English earl!" The crowd fell back aghast-aghast at the sublimity of the young loafer's "cheek." Then they burst into a laugh that made the windows rattle.
Tracy was too angry to realize that he had done a foolish thing.

He said: "Stand aside, please.

I--" "Wait a minute, your lordship," said Marsh, bowing low, "where is your lordship going ?" "For the cablegram.