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Before Dolly had completed his buffoonery the butler had whispered to Mr Bideawhile that Mr Melmotte 'was no more. 'Dead! exclaimed Mr Bideawhile. Squercum put his hands into his trousers pockets and opened his mouth wide. 'Dead! muttered Mr Longestaffe senior. 'Dead! said Dolly. 'Who's dead? The butler shook his head.
The reference was certainly most indelicate, most deserving of censure; but Mr Longestaffe did not know how to pronounce his censure on the spur of the moment, and was moreover at the present time so very anxious for Brehgert's assistance in the arrangement of his affairs that, so to say, he could not afford to quarrel with the man.
He had condescended to ask Mr Melmotte to make him a director of the South Central Pacific and Mexican Railway, and he, Adolphus Longestaffe of Caversham, had had his request refused! Mr Longestaffe had condescended very low. 'You have made Lord Alfred Grendall one! he had said in a complaining tone. Then Mr Melmotte explained that Lord Alfred possessed peculiar aptitudes for the position.
They trooped down into the hall and into the carriage, Lady Pomona leading the way. Georgiana stalked along, passing her father at the front door without condescending to look at him. Not a word was spoken on the way to church, or on the way home. During the service Mr Longestaffe stood up in the corner of his pew, and repeated the responses in a loud voice.
In another part of Suffolk, not very far from Bungay, there was a lady whose friends had not managed her affairs as well as Ruby's friends had done for Ruby. Miss Georgiana Longestaffe in the early days of August was in a very miserable plight.
I hope that you will be more careful in locking it than you were when you left it before. 'The drawer was locked when I left it, said Mr Longestaffe. 'I make no deductions and draw no conclusions, but the drawer was locked. 'Then I should say it must have been locked when you returned to it. 'No, sir, I found it open.
There was an attempt that night to get up a game of cards; but Nidderdale would not play because he was offended with Dolly Longestaffe; and Miles Grendall was away in the country, a fugitive from the face of Melmotte, and Carbury was in hiding at home with his countenance from top to bottom supported by plasters, and Montague in these days never went to the club.
Mr Longestaffe returned home only on the eve of his eldest daughter's marriage, and with him came Dolly. Great trouble had been taken to teach him that duty absolutely required his presence at his sister's marriage, and he had at last consented to be there.
Latterly he had been intent on purchasing a noble son-in-law with this money, still trusting to the chapter of chances for his future escape from the Longestaffe and other difficulties.
It had none of the feeling which had hitherto prevailed in the intercourse between these two well-known Conservative gentlemen, Mr Adolphus Longestaffe and Mr Augustus Melmotte.
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