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Updated: June 28, 2025
She would write one letter to-night; but there was a question in her mind whether the letter should be written to her mother telling her the horrid truth, or to Mr Brehgert begging that the match should be broken off. I think she would have decided on the latter had it not been that so many people had already heard of the match. The Monograms knew it, and had of course talked far and wide.
'I am sure. continued Brehgert, 'that I behaved like an honest man; and I didn't quite like that the matter should be passed over as if I was in any way ashamed of myself. 'Perhaps on so delicate a subject the less said the soonest mended.
I don't suppose there's anybody in London understands it better than you do, Georgiana, and therefore it's absurd my pretending to teach you. I go pretty well everywhere, as you are aware; and I shouldn't know Mr Brehgert if I were to see him. 'You'll meet him at the Melmottes', and, in spite of all you said once, you're glad enough to go there. 'Quite true, my dear.
But he assumed something more than his normal dignity as he asserted that his daughter had never mentioned the fact. 'It was so, said Brehgert 'No doubt; and Mr Longestaffe assumed a great deal of dignity. 'Yes; it was so. I had promised your daughter when she was good enough to listen to the proposition which I made to her, that I would maintain a second house when we should be married.
But Brehgert isn't one of Melmotte's set. They tell me that Brehgert isn't a bad fellow. A vulgar cad, and all that, but nothing wrong about him. 'He's a Jew, and he's seventy years old, and makes up horribly. 'What does it matter to you if he's eighty? You are determined, then, you won't go? But Lady Monogram had by no means determined that she wouldn't go.
It might be that her father had been so decided in his objection as to induce Mr Brehgert to abandon his intention, and if this were so, there could be no reason why she should endure the misery of having the Jew thrown in her face. Among them all they had made her think that she would never become Mrs Brehgert.
He would have given much, very much, to have been sufficiently master of himself to have assented without hesitation; but then the weight within was so very heavy! Having left the papers and the bag with Mr Brehgert, he walked westwards to the House of Commons.
'We have a few friends corning to-night, Mr Longestaffe, and I hope you'll come in and see Georgiana. Mr Longestaffe hummed and hawed and muttered something, as old gentlemen always do when they are asked to go out to parties after dinner. 'Mr Brehgert will be here, continued Lady Monogram with a peculiar smile. 'Mr who? The name was not at first familiar to Mr Longestaffe.
I hope papa won't refuse his consent. It can do no good. I am not going to remain as I am now all my life, and there is no use waiting any longer. It was papa who made me go to the Melmottes, who are not nearly so well placed as Mr Brehgert. Everybody knows that Madame Melmotte is a Jewess, and nobody knows what Mr Melmotte is.
And now when they deserted her in her real difficulty, when they first told her to live at Caversham all the summer, and then sent her up to the Melmottes, and after that forbade her marriage with Mr Brehgert, it seemed to her that they were unnatural parents who gave her a stone when she wanted bread, a serpent when she asked for a fish. She had no friend left.
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