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It certainly was not Fisker's fault that she should still be in the dark as to her own destiny, for he had asked her often enough, and had pressed his suit with all his eloquence. But Marie had now been wooed so often that she felt the importance of the step which was suggested to her.
It would have astonished those who had known her six months since could they now have seen how excellent a woman of business she had become, and how capable she was of making the fullest use of Mr Fisker's services.
'Miss Melmotte, you do not know the glorious west. Your past experiences have been drawn from this effete and stone-cold country in which passion is no longer allowed to sway. On those golden shores which the Pacific washes man is still true, and woman is still tender. 'Perhaps I'd better wait and see, Mr Fisker. But this was not Mr Fisker's view of the case.
'You haven't sold any shares; have you? This question Sir Felix asked Lord Nidderdale at the club. Nidderdale was constant in his attendance at the Board, and Felix was not a little afraid that he might be jockied also by him. 'Not a share. 'Nor got any profits? 'Not a shilling of any kind. As far as money is concerned my only transaction has been my part of the expense of Fisker's dinner.
But these things did not arrange themselves till late in the winter, long after Mr Fisker's departure for California. That, however, was protracted till a day much later than he anticipated before he had become intimate with Madame Melmotte and Marie. Madame Melmotte's affairs occupied him for a while almost exclusively.
Fisker had made three or four remarks previous to this, and had appealed both to Paul Montague and to Croll, who were present. He had invited also the attendance of Sir Felix Carbury, Lord Nidderdale, and Mr Longestaffe, who were all Directors; but none of them had come. Sir Felix had paid no attention to Fisker's letter. Lord Nidderdale had written a short but characteristic reply.
Does not every one know that a director of a company need not direct unless he pleases? Lord Alfred, therefore, did not even condescend to answer Fisker's letter; but he advised his son to run up to town.
'But if I don't like it when I get to Frisco, as you call it, all the ropes in California shan't make me do it. Well yes; you may give me a kiss I suppose now if you care about it. And so, or rather so far, Mr Fisker and Marie Melmotte became engaged to each other as man and wife. After that Mr Fisker's remaining business in England went very smoothly with him.
Mr Fisker's arms were waved gracefully about. His head was turned now this way and now that, but never towards his plate. It was very well done. But there was more faith in one ponderous word from Mr Melmotte's mouth than in all the American's oratory.
It was distinctly understood that they were both to go to New York under Mr Fisker's guidance as soon as things should be sufficiently settled to allow of their departure; and Madame Melmotte was told, about the middle of August, that their places had been taken for the 3rd of September. But nothing more was told her.
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