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Mr Broune saw no reason why Lady Carbury should not take advantage of her tickets. These invitations were simply tickets to see the Emperor surrounded by the Princes. The young lady's elopement is 'no affair of yours, Mr Broune had said.
There's a cottage on the place, he says, that he would move to. Mr Broune shook his head. Mr Broune did not think that an offer so quixotically generous as this should be accepted. As to the German or French town, Mr Broune said that the plan was no doubt feasible, but he doubted whether the thing to be achieved was worth the terrible sacrifice demanded.
She told him of the two propositions which Roger had made: first, that she should fix her residence in some second-rate French or German town, and that Sir Felix should be made to go with her; and, secondly, that she should take possession of Carbury manor for six months. 'And where would Mr Carbury go? asked Mr Broune. 'He's so good that he doesn't care what he does with himself.
Lady Carbury was so beside herself with doubts, that she found it impossible to form any decision. It would be necessary that she should see Mr Broune. What to do with her son, how to bestow him, in what way to get rid of him so that in ridding herself of him she might not aid in destroying him, this was the great trouble of her life, the burden that was breaking her back.
'Lady Carbury, said Mr Broune, standing up a second time, 'we are neither of us so young as we used to be. 'No, indeed; and therefore it is that we can afford to ourselves the luxury of being friends. Nothing but age enables men and women to know each other intimately. This speech was a great impediment to Mr Broune's progress.
Circumstances have prevented its use in the intended manner, and, therefore, as Sir Felix's friend, I have called to return the money to you. Mr Broune did not like calling himself the friend of Sir Felix, but he did even that for the lady who had been good enough to him not to marry him. 'Oh, indeed, said Mr Melmotte, with a scowl on his face, which he would have repressed if he could.
For in those days the great editor, when in presence of Lady Carbury, differed very much from that Mr Broune who used to squeeze her hand and look into her eyes. His manner with her had become so different that she regarded him as quite another person. She hardly dared to contradict him, and found herself almost compelled to tell him what she really felt and thought.
Would not the world, or any part of it that was desirable, come to her drawing-room if she were the wife of Mr Broune? It all passed through her brain at once during that minute of silence which she allowed herself after the declaration was made to her. But other ideas and other feelings were present to her also.
If I stay in London I can live only in some miserable lodgings. I know you will laugh at me, and tell me that I am wrong; but my idea is that I shall follow Felix wherever he goes, so that I may be near him and help him when he needs help. Hetta doesn't want me. There is nobody else that I can do any good to. 'I want you, said Mr Broune, very quietly. 'Ah, that is so kind of you.
He told me that if Felix would desist, he would enable him to make a fortune in the city. 'That's bosh, said Broune with decision. 'Do you think it must be so; certainly? 'Yes, I do. Such an undertaking, if intended by Melmotte, would give me a worse opinion of him than I have ever held. 'He did make it. 'Then he did very wrong. He must have spoken with the purpose of deceiving.
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