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He was not given to disliking people strongly, except at the moments in which they offended him. He regarded her simply as the means by which a portion of Mr Melmotte's wealth might be conveyed to his uses. In regard to feminine beauty he had his own ideas, and his own inclinations. He was by no means indifferent to such attraction. But Marie Melmotte, from that point of view, was nothing to him.
When the Speaker took his seat in the House, soon after four o'clock, there were a great many members present, and a general feeling prevailed that the world was more than ordinarily alive because of Melmotte and his failures.
At any rate he would declare to her as well as he could the ground on which he claimed a right to consider himself free, and would bear the consequences. Such was the resolve which he made on his journey up from Liverpool, and that trouble was also on his mind when he rose up to attack Mr Melmotte single-handed at the Board. When the Board was over, he also went down to the Beargarden.
But I've got so sick of this kind of life; and then that railway Board coming to an end, and the club smashing up, and 'Marie Melmotte marrying Fisker, suggested Dolly. 'That too, if you will. But I want a change, and a change I mean to have. I've seen this side of things, and now I'll have a look at the other.
'And couldn't you manage that I should have the shares before the twentieth of next month? 'I'll see about it. Perhaps I could let you have a few of my own. At any rate I won't see you short of money. The terms were enticing and the letter was of course written. Melmotte himself dictated the words, which were not romantic in their nature. The reader shall see the letter.
In these conversations, Melmotte would speak of his money and power of making money as though they were unlimited, and Lord Alfred believed him. Marie was dissatisfied with her letter, not because it described her father as 'cutting up rough. To her who had known her father all her life that was a matter of course. But there was no word of love in the note.
We're a pretty rough lot, I guess. Though, perhaps, what you lose in the look of the fruit, you'll make up in the flavour. This Fisker said in a somewhat plaintive tone, as though fearing that the manifest substantial advantages of Frisco would not suffice to atone for the loss of that fashion to which Miss Melmotte had been used. 'I hate swells, said Marie, flashing round upon him.
I've seen something of that already, Mr Fisker. You shouldn't put your foot out farther than you can draw it in again. 'You needn't fear me as to that, Miss Melmotte. I shouldn't be able to touch a dollar of your money. It would be such a triumph to go into Francisco as man and wife. 'I shouldn't think of being married till I had been there a while and looked about me. 'And seen the house!
'We have put up with a good deal, you know, and he has put up with as much as anybody. Miles was cowed at once, and went on dealing without manoeuvring a card on that hand. Marie Melmotte was hardly satisfied with the note which she received from Didon early on the Monday morning.
It was then that Mr Melmotte had offered him a seat at the Board of the Mexican railway. 'Of course he picked the lock, and stole the letter, said Dolly. 'It's as plain as a pikestaff. It's clear enough to hang any man. 'I am afraid that it falls short of evidence, however strong and just may be the suspicion induced, said the lawyer.