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P.S. I have had a baddish fall, my horse partly rolling over me; but I am getting rapidly well. 9 St. Mark's Crescent, N.W. April 18, 1869. There is nothing I like better than writing a little account of it, and trying to make it clear to the meanest capacity. The "Croll" question is awfully difficult.
Melmotte had never required from him service that was actually fraudulent, had at any rate never required it by spoken words. Mr Croll had not been over-scrupulous, and had occasionally been very useful to Mr Melmotte. But there must be a limit to all things; and why should any man sacrifice himself beneath the ruins of a falling house, when convinced that nothing he can do can prevent the fall?
And then he went on to explain to Croll what he had wanted to have done, how necessary it was that the thing should be done, and how terribly cruel it was to him that in such a crisis of his life he should be hampered, impeded, he did not venture to his clerk to say ruined, by the ill-conditioned obstinacy of a girl!
But Melmotte made no further attempt upon his daughter. As soon as Croll was gone he searched among various papers in his desk and drawers, and having found two signatures, those of his daughter and of this German clerk, set to work tracing them with some thin tissue paper. He commenced his present operation by bolting his door and pulling down the blinds.
Wallace, on the other hand, seems more disposed to accept them, and, after considering Sir William's objections and those of Mr. Croll, puts the probable date of the beginning of the Cambrian deposits at only twenty-four million years ago.
Then he rang his bell and desired that Croll might be shown up into his room. The three or four minutes which intervened seemed to him to be very long. He had absolutely forgotten in his anxiety that the lather was still upon his face. But he could not smother his anxiety. He was fighting with it at every turn, but he could not conquer it.
'Upon my word, continued Fisker, 'it's astonishing to me that Melmotte should have put up with this kind of thing. I suppose you understand something of business, Mr Croll? 'It vas not my department, Mr Fisker, said the German. 'Nor anybody else's either, said the domineering American.
But she could not comprehend why Marie should claim all the money as her own. She declared herself to be quite willing to divide the spoil, and suggested such an arrangement both to Marie and to Croll. Of Fisker she was afraid, thinking that the iniquity of giving all the money to Marie originated with him, in order that he might obtain it by marrying the girl.
Is it true they are going to have him before the Lord Mayor about the Pickering title-deeds? Croll declared that he knew nothing about the matter, and settled himself down to his work. In little more than two hours he was followed by Melmotte, who thus reached the City late in the afternoon.
There was no longer a hope, no longer a chance that Croll should be ignorant of what had been done. 'Well, Croll, he said with an attempt at a smile, 'what brings you here so early? He was pale as death, and let him struggle as he would, could not restrain himself from trembling. 'Herr Brehgert vas vid me last night, said Croll. 'Eh! 'And he thought I had better bring these back to you.
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