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'Nobody can ever say that I interfered in any family. But really, Julia, when you tell me that Sir Damask cannot receive Mr Brehgert, it does sound odd. As for City people, you know as well as I do, that that kind of thing is all over now. City people are just as good as West End people. 'A great deal better, I dare say. I'm not arguing about that.
You can't do it this week, nor yet before this day week. 'It isn't eighty thousand pounds. I've renewed the mortgage, and that makes it only fifty. If I can manage the half of that which goes to the son, I can put the father off. 'You must raise what you can on the whole property. 'I've done that already, said Melmotte hoarsely. 'And where's the money gone? 'Brehgert has had £40,000.
She thought that she might at any rate make good her claim to the house in London; and that as there were other difficulties on his side, he would yield to her on this point. But as yet she hardly knew Mr Brehgert. He did not lose a day in sending to her a second letter. He took her letter with him to his office in the city, and there he answered it without a moment's delay. No. 7, St.
Lovers with all the glories and all the graces are supposed to be plentiful as blackberries by girls of nineteen, but have been proved to be rare hothouse fruits by girls of twenty-nine. Brehgert was rich, would live in London, and would be a husband. People did such odd things now and 'lived them down, that she could see no reason why she should not do this and live this down.
Again he had aided his own ruin by his own carelessness. One seems inclined to think sometimes that any fool might do an honest business. But fraud requires a man to be alive and wide awake at every turn! Melmotte had desired to have the documents back in his own hands, and now he had them. Did it matter much that Brehgert and Croll both knew the crime which he had committed?
There was no longer a hope, no longer a chance that Croll should be ignorant of what had been done. 'Well, Croll, he said with an attempt at a smile, 'what brings you here so early? He was pale as death, and let him struggle as he would, could not restrain himself from trembling. 'Herr Brehgert vas vid me last night, said Croll. 'Eh! 'And he thought I had better bring these back to you.
But I don't know why I'm to let that stand in my way when so very little is done to make me happy. Of course you will write to me again, and I hope you will say something satisfactory about the house in London. Yours always sincerely, It probably never occurred to Georgey that Mr Brehgert would under any circumstances be anxious to go back from his engagement.
When the little conversation took place between Lady Monogram and Miss Longestaffe, as recorded in the last chapter, Mr Melmotte was in all his glory, and tickets for the entertainment were very precious. Gradually their value subsided. Lady Monogram had paid very dear for hers, especially as the reception of Mr Brehgert must be considered. But high prices were then being paid.
'How proud you are of his vices. 'He's very good-natured, my dear, and as he does not interfere with me, I don't interfere with him. I hope you'll do as well. I dare say Mr Brehgert is good-natured. 'He's an excellent man of business, and is making a very large fortune. 'And has five or six grown-up children, who, no doubt, will be a comfort. 'If I don't mind them, why need you?
And now he had put these forgeries without any guard into Brehgert's hands. He would tell Brehgert in the morning that he had changed his mind. He would see Brehgert before any action could have been taken on the documents, and Brehgert would no doubt restore them to him.
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