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She could not interest herself in Hetta's coming marriage, as that marriage was in direct opposition to one of her broken schemes. She had not ventured to confess so much to Mr Broune, but she had in truth written the first pages of the first chapter of a second novel. It was impossible now that she should even look at what she had written. All this made her very sad.
He has been a scoundrel. 'At any rate he has paid back the money, which chance put into his hands, to the only person entitled to receive it on the young lady's behalf. Good morning. Mr Melmotte did put out his hand in token of amity. Then Mr Broune departed and Melmotte tinkled his bell. As Nidderdale was shown in he crumpled up the cheque, and put it into his pocket.
I have been wounded in every joint, hurt in every nerve, tortured till I could hardly endure my punishment. At last I got my liberty, and to that I have looked for happiness. 'Has it made you happy? 'It has made me less wretched. And there is so much to be considered! I have a son and a daughter, Mr Broune. 'Your daughter I can love as my own.
But it has nothing to do with my present purpose. When I said that we were neither of us so young as we once were, I uttered what was a stupid platitude, a foolish truism. 'I do not think so, said Lady Carbury smiling. 'Or would have been, only that I intended something further. Mr Broune had got himself into a difficulty and hardly knew how to get out of it.
But it is more probable that Mr Broune saw, or thought that he saw, which way the wind sat, and that he supported the commercial hero because he felt that the hero would be supported by the country at large. But he knew his work too well to jeopardize his paper by such influences in any matter which might probably become interesting to the world of his readers.
Lady Carbury, finding that no immediate good results could be expected from this last introduction, tried another. 'Mr Melmotte, she said, whispering to him, 'I do so want to make you known to Mr Broune. Mr Broune I know you have never met before. A morning paper is a much heavier burden to an editor than one published in the afternoon.
It isn't a fortnight since we all thought him the greatest man in London. Mr Broune only smiled, not thinking it worth his while to declare that he had never held that opinion about the late idol of Abchurch Lane.
How would it affect Felix and her together, and Mr Broune as connected with her and Felix? If Felix should go to the dogs, then would Mr Broune not want her. Should Felix go to the stars instead of the dogs, and become one of the gilded ornaments of the metropolis, then would not he and she want Mr Broune. It was thus that she regarded the matter.
'Of course you must be married, continued Lady Carbury, 'and of course it is your duty to think of the way in which this may be best done. My income is becoming less and less every day. I already owe money to your cousin, and I owe money to Mr Broune. 'Money to Mr Broune! 'Yes, to Mr Broune. I had to pay a sum for Felix which Mr Broune told me ought to be paid. And I owe money to tradesmen.
On that night she did not make up her mind. But she could not convince herself, and when at last she went to her bed her mind was still vacillating. The next morning she met Hetta at breakfast, and with assumed nonchalance asked a question about the man who was perhaps about to be her husband. 'Do you like Mr Broune, Hetta? 'Yes; pretty well. I don't care very much about him.
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