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'Why didn't he go, Lord Nidderdale? She asked the question with an altered tone and an altered face. 'If you really know, you might as well tell me. 'No, Marie; that's just what I ought not to do. But he ought to tell you. Do you really in your heart believe that he means to come back to you? 'I don't know, she said, sobbing. 'I do love him; I do indeed. I know that you are good-natured.
Popplecourt, Nidderdale, and Gerald Palliser were there also, very obedient, and upon the whole efficient. Tregear was intractable, occasional, and untrustworthy. He was the cause of much trouble to Mr. Dobbes. He would entertain a most heterodox and injurious idea that, as he had come to Crummie-Toddie for amusement, he was not bound to do anything that did not amuse him.
Such a marriage would or would not be sanctioned in accordance with great pecuniary arrangements. The young Lord Nidderdale, the eldest son of the Marquis of Auld Reekie, had offered to take the girl and make her Marchioness in the process of time for half a million down. Melmotte had not objected to the sum, so it was said, but had proposed to tie it up.
Nobody, I take it, knows very much about him. When his companion had left him, Nidderdale sat down, thinking of it all. It occurred to him that he would 'be coming a cropper rather, were he to marry Melmotte's daughter for her money, and then find that she had got none. A little later in the evening he invited Montague to go up to the card-room.
Silverbridge brought his brother and Frank Tregear, having refused a most piteous petition on the subject from Major Tifto. With Popplecourt of course came Reginald Dobbes, who was, in truth, to manage everything, and Lord Nidderdale, whose wife had generously permitted him this recreation.
'I shall move an amendment, said Paul, determined that he would not be altogether silenced. 'There is nobody to second it, said Mr Cohenlupe. 'How do you know till I've made it? asked the rebel. 'I shall ask Lord Nidderdale to second it, and when he has heard it I think that he will not refuse. 'Oh, gracious me! why me? No; don't ask me. I've got to go away. I have indeed.
The younger about a year since had become the wife of Lord Nidderdale, a middle-aged young man who had been long about town, a cousin of the late Duchess, the heir to a marquisate, and a Member of Parliament. The marriage had not been considered to be very brilliant; but the husband was himself good-natured and pleasant, and Lady Cantrip was fond of him.
Grasslough looked at the man he addressed as one does look when one expects an answer. Mr Lupton, with whom Grasslough was dining, also sat expectant. Dolly and Nidderdale were both silent. It was the fear of this that had kept Sir Felix away from the club. Grasslough, as he had told himself, was just the fellow to ask such a question, ill-natured, insolent, and obtrusive.
He was at once clever enough to perceive that any idea which he might have had of prosecuting Sir Felix must be abandoned. 'Well, my Lord, and how are you? said he with his pleasantest smile. Nidderdale declared himself to be as fresh as paint. 'You don't look down in the mouth, my Lord.
It was, too, almost understood that the young people were to have Pickering Park for themselves, except for a week or so at the end of July. It was absolutely given out in the papers that Pickering was to be theirs. It was said on all sides that Nidderdale was doing very well for himself.
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