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Then, as he walked slowly across the park, thinking so intently on matters as hardly to observe whether he himself were observed or no, he asked himself whether it still might not be best for him to keep the money which was settled on his daughter, to tell the Longestaffes that he could make no payment, and to face the worst that Mr Squercum could do to him, for he knew already how busy Mr Squercum was in the matter.
But of those who, like the Longestaffes, were able to prove direct debts, the condition at last was not very sad. Our excellent friend Dolly got his money early in the day, and was able, under Mr Squercum's guidance, to start himself on a new career.
I didn't come down to see him, I can tell you. But when I heard that you were going to be here with the Longestaffes, I determined to come at once. I wonder whether you are glad to see me? 'I don't know, said Marie, who could not at once find that brilliancy of words with which her imagination supplied her readily enough in her solitude.
She had endeavoured to get up some mild excitement with the bishop, but the bishop had been too plain spoken and sincere for her. The Primeros had been odious; the Hepworths stupid; the Longestaffes, she had endeavoured to make up a little friendship with Lady Pomona, insufferably supercilious. She had declared to Henrietta 'that Carbury Hall was very dull.
'Found out! exclaimed Lady Monogram, stopping her maid in some arrangement which would not need to be continued in the event of her not going to the reception. 'What do you mean by found out? 'I don't know exactly. There are a dozen stories told. It's something about that place he bought of old Longestaffe. 'Are the Longestaffes mixed up in it?
Then she allowed her mind to lose itself in expatiating on the difference between John Crumb and Sir Felix Carbury. 'I half a mind to go back to-morrow morning, Felix said to his mother that Sunday evening after dinner. At that moment Roger was walking round the garden by himself, and Henrietta was in her own room. 'To-morrow morning, Felix! You are engaged to dine with the Longestaffes!
Would it not be better for her to say to them at once that there must be a division among them, an absolute breaking off of all old ties, so that it should be tacitly acknowledged that she, Georgiana, had gone out from among the Longestaffes altogether, and had become one with the Melmottes, Brehgerts, and Goldsheiners?
Melmotte thought that he might face this matter successfully if the matter came upon him single-handed; but in regard to the Longestaffes he considered that now, at this last moment, he had better pay for Pickering. The property from which he intended to raise the necessary funds was really his own. There could be no doubt about that.
Were he to resume this property it would more than enable him to pay all that was due to the Longestaffes. It would do that and tide him for a time over some other difficulties. Now in regard to the Longestaffes themselves, he certainly had no desire to depart from the rule which he had made for himself, on their behalf.
'Pig! said Melmotte, 'wicked, ungrateful pig. 'Ah, Ma'am-moiselle, said Croll, 'you should oblige your fader. 'Wretched, wicked girl' said Melmotte, collecting the papers together. Then he left the room, and followed by Croll descended to the study, whence the Longestaffes and Mr Bideawhile had long since taken their departure.
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