Vietnam or Thailand ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
Updated: June 28, 2025
If I could do anything for you, I would. But I will not meddle about Mr Brehgert. I shouldn't dare to do so. I don't think you know how angry your papa can be. 'I'm not going to let papa be a bugbear to frighten me. What can he do? I don't suppose he'll beat me. And I'd rather he would than shut me up here. As for you, mamma, I don't think you care for me a bit.
'Mamma, she said, 'as you and papa take it so much to heart, I have broken off everything with Mr Brehgert. 'Of course it must be broken off, said Lady Pomona. This was very ungracious, so much so that Georgey almost flounced out of the room. 'Have you heard from the man? asked her ladyship. 'I have written to him, and he has answered me; and it is all settled.
Perhaps Lady Monogram, when she illustrated her position by an allusion to a butcher and a hair-dresser, had been unaware that Mr Brehgert had some resemblance to the form which men in that trade are supposed to bear. Let us at least hope that she was so.
He did not think that Marie would disclaim the signatures, even though she had refused to sign the deeds, when she should understand that her father had written her name; nor did he think that his clerk would be urgent against him, as the forgery of Croll's name could not injure Croll. But Brehgert, should he discover what had been done, would certainly not permit him to escape.
'Papa, I wrote to mamma this morning, and Mr Brehgert was to come to you to-morrow. 'Do you mean that you are engaged to marry him? 'Yes, papa. 'What Mr Brehgert is he? 'He is a merchant. 'You can't mean the fat Jew whom I've met with Mr Melmotte; a man old enough to be your father! The poor girl's condition now was certainly lamentable.
He was stout; fat all over rather than corpulent, and had that look of command in his face which has become common to master-butchers, probably by long intercourse with sheep and oxen. But Mr Brehgert was considered to be a very good man of business, and was now regarded as being, in a commercial point of view, the leading member of the great financial firm of which he was the second partner.
Georgiana frowned, and made no soft little attempt at the name as ladies in such circumstances are wont to do. 'Mrs Brehgert' he alluded of course to the mother of his children 'used to call me Ezzy.
Mr Brehgert, therefore, had been allowed to come and go as he pleased, and on that morning he had pleased to come. They were sitting alone in some back room, and Brehgert was pressing for an early day. 'I don't think we need talk of that yet, Mr Brehgert, she said. 'You might as well get over the difficulty and call me Ezekiel at once, he remarked.
'Then there were two fools together, said Georgiana, who at this moment was very unhappy. 'Mr Whitstable is an excellent young man, and I am sure he will make your sister happy; but as for Mr Brehgert, I can't bear to have his name mentioned in my hearing. 'Then, mamma, it had better not be mentioned.
'Miss Longestaffe, she said, 'has left me and gone to her father. 'Oh, indeed. 'Yes, said Lady Monogram, bowing her head, and then attending to other persons as they arrived. Nor did she condescend to speak another word to Mr Brehgert, or to introduce him even to her husband. He stood for about ten minutes inside the drawing-room, leaning against the wall, and then he departed.
Word Of The Day
Others Looking