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Mr Brehgert had twice proposed that he should, in the usual way, go to Mr Longestaffe, who had been backwards and forwards in London, and was there at the present moment. Of course it was proper that Mr Brehgert should see her father, but, as she had told him, she preferred that he should postpone his visit for a day or two. She was now agonized by many doubts.
'I must at any rate ask mamma about it, said Georgiana. Mr Brehgert, with the customary good-humour of his people, was satisfied with the answer, and went away promising that he would meet his love at the great Melmotte reception. Then she sat silent, thinking how she should declare the matter to her family.
'I think Mr Brehgert ought to have his watch and chain back, said Sophia. 'Certainly he ought, said Lady Pomona. 'Georgiana, it must be sent back. It really must, or I shall tell your papa.
Mr Todd's day was nearly done. He walked about constantly between Lombard Street, the Exchange, and the Bank, and talked much to merchants; he had an opinion too of his own on particular cases; but the business had almost got beyond him, and Mr Brehgert was now supposed to be the moving spirit of the firm.
How could she tell parents such as these that she was engaged to marry a man who at the present moment went to synagogue on a Saturday and carried out every other filthy abomination common to the despised people? That Mr Brehgert was a fat, greasy man of fifty, conspicuous for hair-dye, was in itself distressing: but this minor distress was swallowed up in the greater.
And although she was quite prepared to call her father the most irrational, the most prejudiced, and most ill-natured of men, yet she was displeased that Mr Brehgert should take such a liberty with him. But the passage in Mr Brehgert's letter which was most distasteful to her was that which told her of the loss which he might probably incur through his connection with Melmotte.
This, too, was in the early days of the arrangement of the Melmotte affairs, when Mr Longestaffe's heart had been softened by that arrangement with reference to the rent. Mr Brehgert came, and there arose a somewhat singular conversation between the two gentlemen as they sat together over a bottle of Mr Longestaffe's old port wine.
And he knew that it was possible that other things might be adduced; but would it not be better to face it all than surrender his money and become a pauper, seeing, as he did very clearly, that even by such surrender he could not cleanse his character? But he had given those forged documents into the hands of Mr Brehgert!
'You've been at it from the beginning and ought to know. When I wanted to ask Brehgert, you swore that you couldn't squeeze a place. 'Can't say anything about it, said Lord Alfred, with his eyes fixed upon his plate. 'I'll be d if I don't find out, said Melmotte. 'There's either some horrible blunder, or else there's been imposition. I don't see quite clearly. Where's Sir Gregory Gribe?
It's cut and come again, you know, if the stuff is really there. But I mustn't stop talking here. I suppose I shall find Brehgert in Cuthbert's Court. 'I should say so, Mr Melmotte. Mr Brehgert never leaves much before six. Then Mr Melmotte took his hat and gloves, and the stick that he usually carried, and went out with his face carefully dressed in its usually jaunty air.
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