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Updated: September 11, 2025
'There's Brown, said Sir Orlando Drought, hurrying up to the commercial gentleman whose mistakes about finance Mr Melmotte on a previous occasion had been anxious to correct. 'He'll be able to tell us where he is. It was rumoured, you know, an hour ago, that he was off to the continent after Cohenlupe. But Mr Brown shook his head. Mr Brown didn't know anything.
In that room he never by any chance opened his mouth, except when called on to say that Mr Melmotte was right, and was considered by the chairman really to earn his money. Melmotte for a minute or two went on conversing with Cohenlupe, having perceived that Montague for the moment was cowed. Then Paul put both his hands upon the table, intending to rise and ask some perplexing question.
When men play such a game as you and I are concerned in, they ought to know better than to be afraid of every word that is spoken. 'Oh, dear; yes, said Cohenlupe apologetically.
But he felt very strongly, and he thought that his brother directors should feel as strongly, that it was necessary that they should know more than they did know. Lord Alfred had declared that he did not in the least agree with his brother director. 'If anybody don't understand, it's his own fault, said Mr Cohenlupe.
Of course there are some there who do not understand matters. 'I doubt if there be any one there who does understand this matter, said Paul. Melmotte affected to laugh. 'Well, well; I am not prepared to go quite so far as that. My friend Cohenlupe has had great experience in these affairs, and of course you are aware that he is in Parliament.
'Well, that was plucky! said Cohenlupe, taking his friend's arm in the lobby. 'I don't see any pluck in it. That old fool Brown didn't know what he was talking about, and I wanted to tell them so. They wouldn't let me do it, and there's an end of it. It seems to me to be a stupid sort of a place.
It was a nice little family party, the great chairman with his two aspiring sons-in-law, his two particular friends, the social friend, Lord Alfred, and the commercial friend Mr Cohenlupe, and Miles, who was Lord Alfred's son.
But I did not intend to speak of my own concerns. 'It looks very like it, said Cohenlupe. 'So far from it that I am prepared to risk the not improbable loss of everything I have in the world. I am determined to know what is being done with the shares, or to make it public to the world at large that I, one of the directors of the Company, do not in truth know anything about it.
The loss of fifty pounds or of a few hundreds may create personal wrath; but fifty thousand require equanimity. 'So Cohenlupe hasn't been seen in the City to-day, said Brehgert. 'He has gone, said Melmotte hoarsely. 'I think I once told you that Cohenlupe was not the man for large dealings. 'Yes, you did, said Melmotte. 'Well; it can't be helped; can it?
When a speaker is in possession of the floor, he is in possession even though he be somewhat dilatory in looking to his references, and whispering to his neighbour. And, when that speaker is a chairman, of course some additional latitude must be allowed to him. Montague understood this, and sat silent. It seemed that Melmotte had much to say to Cohenlupe, and Cohenlupe much to say to Melmotte.
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