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Look here, sir; there's more to be got out of the smashing-up of such an affair as this, if it should smash up, than could be made by years of hard work out of such fortunes as yours and mine in the regular way of trade. Paul Montague certainly did not love Mr Fisker personally, nor did he relish his commercial doctrines; but he allowed himself to be carried away by them.
'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.
In answer to this Paul asserted most strenuously that he would not return to San Francisco, and, perhaps too ingenuously, gave his partner to understand that he was altogether sick of the great railway, and would under no circumstances have anything more to do with it. Fisker shrugged his shoulders, and was not displeased at the proposed rupture.
If the flour-mill had frightened him, what must the present project have done! Fisker explained that he had come with two objects, first to ask the consent of the English partner to the proposed change in their business, and secondly to obtain the cooperation of English capitalists.
Mr Fisker proposes returning to New York. I shall remain here, superintending the British interests which may be involved. I have the honour to be, Dear Sir, Most faithfully yours. 'But I have never said that I would superintend the interests, said Montague. 'You can say so now. It binds you to nothing.
If brilliantly printed programmes might avail anything, with gorgeous maps, and beautiful little pictures of trains running into tunnels beneath snowy mountains and coming out of them on the margin of sunlit lakes, Mr Fisker had certainly done much. But Paul, when he saw all these pretty things, could not keep his mind from thinking whence had come the money to pay for them.
The letter written at Liverpool, but dated from the Langham Hotel, had been posted at the Euston Square Railway Station at the moment of Fisker's arrival. Fisker sent in his card, and was asked to wait. In the course of twenty minutes he was ushered into the great man's presence by no less a person than Miles Grendall.
Yours will never be heavy after I am gone. I do not start till the first of next month because that is the day fixed by our friend, Mr Fisker, and I shall remain here till then because my presence is convenient to Mrs Pipkin; but I need not trouble you to come to me again. Indeed it will be better that you should not. Good-bye.
References on all matters were to be made to Fisker, Montague, and Montague, and in one of the documents it was stated that a member of the firm had proceeded to London with the view of attending to British interests in the matter. Fisker had seemed to think that his young partner would express unbounded satisfaction at the greatness which was thus falling upon him.
These were our young friend Paul Montague, and our not much older friend Hamilton K. Fisker. Melmotte had died on the 18th of July, and tidings of the event had been at once sent by telegraph to San Francisco.
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