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If you like Mr Brehgert to come here on Tuesday evening, when the rooms will be full, you can ask him; but as for having him to dinner, I won't do it. So the matter was at last settled. Miss Longestaffe did ask Mr Brehgert for the Tuesday evening, and the two ladies were again friends.
He had not been so drunk but that he knew all that happened, and could foresee pretty well what would happen. The summons to attend upon the Lord Mayor had been served upon him. There were some, among them Croll and Mr Brehgert, who absolutely knew that he had committed forgery. He had no money for the Longestaffes, and he was well aware what Squercum would do at once.
You can do it, and you shall do it. I will not have you see him again. I will see him. If you do not promise me to come, I will send for Lady Monogram and tell her that I will not permit you to meet Mr Brehgert at her house. I do wonder at her. A Jew! An old fat Jew! Mr Longestaffe, putting up both his hands, walked about the room in despair.
She was beginning to think that she herself must write to Mr Brehgert, only she did not know what to say to him. But on the Saturday morning she got a letter from Mr Brehgert. It was handed to her as she was sitting at breakfast with her sister, who at that moment was triumphant with a present of gooseberries which had been sent over from Toodlam.
'You can't regret Mr Brehgert! 'Why can't I regret him? I do regret him. I'd have him to-morrow if he came. Bad as it might be, it couldn't be so bad as Caversham. 'You couldn't have loved him, Georgiana. 'Loved him! Who thinks about love nowadays? I don't know any one who loves any one else. You won't tell me that Sophy is going to marry that idiot because she loves him.
Very many men started up with huge claims, asserting that they had been robbed, and in the confusion it was hard to ascertain who had been robbed, or who had simply been unsuccessful in their attempts to rob others. Some, no doubt, as was the case with poor Mr Brehgert, had speculated in dependence on Melmotte's sagacity, and had lost heavily without dishonesty.
Mr Todd is one of us, I suppose. 'Yes, said Georgiana boldly, 'and Mr Brehgert is a Jew. His name is Ezekiel Brehgert, and he is a Jew. You can say what you like about it. 'I don't say anything about it, my dear. 'And you can think anything you like. Things are changed since you and I were younger. 'Very much changed, it appears, said Lady Monogram.
It was only to the eyes of such a one as Herr Croll that the failure was perceptible. Melmotte did find Mr Brehgert. At this time Mr Brehgert had completed his correspondence with Miss Longestaffe, in which he had mentioned the probability of great losses from the anticipated commercial failure in Mr Melmotte's affairs.
Having assured himself that there was no longer any danger of the Brehgert alliance he had remained in London, thinking his presence to be necessary for the winding up of Melmotte's affairs, and leaving poor Lady Pomona to bear her daughter's ill humour. The family at Caversham consisted therefore of the three ladies, and was enlivened by daily visits from Toodlam.
'You have nothing to do with Adolphus. 'Nor will he have anything to do with me. If I don't marry what's to become of me? It isn't that Mr Brehgert is the sort of man I should choose. 'Do not mention his name to me. 'But what am I to do? You give up the house in town, and how am I to see people? It was you sent me to Mr Melmotte. 'I didn't send you to Mr Melmotte.
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