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'I suppose he is, but he is one of those men whose powers do not lie, I should say, chiefly in conversation. Though, indeed, there is no reason why he should not say the same of me, for if he said little, I said less. 'It didn't just come off, Lady Carbury suggested with her sweetest smile. 'But now I want to tell you something. I think I am justified in regarding you as a real friend.
I'm going all the way down to Caversham next week to see my sister married, though I hate the place and hate marriages, and if I was to be hung for it I couldn't say a word to the fellow who is going to be my brother-in-law. But I do agree about Carbury. It's very hard to be good-natured to him.
'You have neither of you a shilling in the world, said Roger; 'and now you know what my feelings are you must abandon it. Then Montague declared that he had a right to speak to Miss Carbury. He did not suppose that Miss Carbury cared a straw about him. He had not the least reason to think that she did. It was altogether impossible. But he had a right to his chance.
Perhaps she had been too quick; but there was the fact that with her own consent she had acceded to her mother's demand that the man should be rejected. The man had been rejected, and even Roger Carbury knew that it was so. After this it was, she thought, impossible that she should recall him. But they should all know that her heart was unchanged.
The money was very pleasant to him. The period would now soon arrive before which he understood himself to be pledged not to make a distinct offer to Henrietta Carbury; and when that period should have been passed, it would be delightful to him to know that he was possessed of property sufficient to enable him to give a wife a comfortable home.
'What is it all about? she asked, as soon as her friend was seated. There had been no time for him to explain anything at Madame Melmotte's reception, and Lady Carbury had as yet failed in learning any certain news of what was going on. 'I don't know what to make of it, said Mr Broune.
And he must have surely been much blinded by love, before convincing himself that he could trust his happiness to such keeping. 'You do me infinite honour. You pay me a great compliment, ejaculated Lady Carbury. 'Well? 'How am I to answer you at a moment? I expected nothing of this. As God is to be my judge it has come upon me like a dream.
'If a thing can be made great and beneficent, a boon to humanity, simply by creating a belief in it, does not a man become a benefactor to his race by creating that belief? 'At the expense of anything? rejoined Lady Carbury with energy. 'One cannot measure such men by the ordinary rule. 'I do not call it doing evil.
Lady Carbury, who had known the rock on which her son had been once wrecked, was very anxious that Sir Felix should at once make a proper use of the intimacy which he had effected in the house of this topping Croesus of the day. And now there must be a few words said about Henrietta Carbury.
As he lit a cigarette he bethought himself that Lady Carbury would not like him to smoke in her bedroom. Then he remembered other things. 'I'll be d if he shall live in my house, he said to himself. And there was no way out of it. It did not occur to the man that his offer could be refused.
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