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But the fugitives could not be brought back, and with some little delay, which made the marriage perhaps uncanonical but not illegal, Mr George Whitstable was made a happy man. It need only be added that in about a month's time Georgiana returned to Caversham as Mrs Batherbolt, and that she resided there with her husband in much connubial bliss for the next six months.
He had condescended to ask Mr Melmotte to make him a director of the South Central Pacific and Mexican Railway, and he, Adolphus Longestaffe of Caversham, had had his request refused! Mr Longestaffe had condescended very low. 'You have made Lord Alfred Grendall one! he had said in a complaining tone. Then Mr Melmotte explained that Lord Alfred possessed peculiar aptitudes for the position.
Moreover, this Abingdon Bridge was free to all persons, rich and poor alike, and no toll or pontage was demanded from those who would cross it. Within the memory of man there was a beautiful old bridge between Reading and Caversham. It was built of brick, and had ten arches, some constructed of stone.
Unless married from the Melmottes' house, she must go down to Caversham for the occasion, which would be intolerable. No, she must separate herself altogether from father and mother, and become one with the Melmottes and the Brehgerts, till she could live it down and make a position for herself. If the spending of money could do it, it should be done.
Life such as she was leading now would drive her mad. She had all the disadvantages of the Brehgert connection and none of the advantages. She could not comfort herself with thinking of the Brehgert wealth and the Brehgert houses, and yet she was living under the general ban of Caversham on account of her Brehgert associations.
His three young children the Duke of York, the Princess Elizabeth, and the Duke of Gloucester had been brought to see him, in charge of their guardian the Earl of Northumberland, and had spent a day or two with him at Caversham, to the unbounded delight of the country-people thereabouts.
The Longestaffe life had not been an easy, natural, or intellectual life; but the Melmotte life was hardly endurable even by a Longestaffe. She had, however, come prepared to suffer much, and was endowed with considerable power of endurance in pursuit of her own objects. Having willed to come, even to the Melmottes, in preference to remaining at Caversham, she fortified herself to suffer much.
"Strange!" he thought to himself, as he left the house; "any stranger entering that abode would imagine it the very shrine of domestic peace and simple happiness, and yet it is inhabited by a fiend." He went back to town. He dined alone in his dingy lodging, scarcely daring to show himself at his club Lord Caversham had spoken so plainly; and had, no doubt, spoken to others still more plainly.
His mother thought that, for him, the promise had been graciously made. Mr Adolphus Longestaffe, the squire of Caversham in Suffolk, and of Pickering Park in Sussex, was closeted on a certain morning for the best part of an hour with Mr Melmotte in Abchurch Lane, had there discussed all his private affairs, and was about to leave the room with a very dissatisfied air.
'They had neither of them a shilling of money, said Georgey through her tears. 'And your papa says this man was next door to a bankrupt. But it's all over? 'Yes, mamma. 'And now we must all remain here at Caversham till people forget it. It has been very hard upon George Whitstable, because of course everybody has known it through the county.
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