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When he left the Longestaffes and Mr Bideawhile he went at once to his wife's room. 'Is she here? he asked. 'I will send for her. I have told her. 'You haven't frightened her? 'Why should I frighten her? It is not very easy to frighten her, Melmotte. She is changed since these young men have been so much about her. 'I shall frighten her if she does not do as I bid her.
At the present moment her hands were empty, and she was devoting herself to such a performance of the treaty as should make it impossible for her father to leave his part of it unfulfilled. For a few minutes Sir Felix sat on a garden chair making conversation to Lady Pomona and Madame Melmotte.
'About Melmotte, you mean? 'Yes, about Melmotte, continued Lupton. 'He has been arrested in his own house within the last half-hour on a charge of forgery. 'I wish he had, said Nidderdale, 'with all my heart. If you go in you'll find him sitting there as large as life. He has been talking to me as though everything were all right.
It may be observed here that Marie Melmotte was almost as great a curiosity as the Emperor himself, and was much noticed as the girl who had attempted to run away to New York, but had gone without her lover. Melmotte entertained some foolish idea that as the India Office was in Westminster, he had a peculiar right to demand an introduction on this occasion because of his candidature.
It was everything to Melmotte that he should understand the ways of the country which he had adopted; and when he did not understand, he was clever at hiding his ignorance. Now he was puzzled. He knew that Sir Felix was a baronet, and therefore presumed him to be the head of the family.
In all these things Madame Melmotte put herself into Fisker's hands with the most absolute confidence, and, indeed, with a confidence that was justified by its results. It was not by robbing an old woman that Fisker intended to make himself great.
'I remember her, and if Georgiana Longestaffe thinks I'm going there to make an acquaintance with Madame Melmotte she is very much mistaken.
'Mamma, where are you going? said Marie, also rising. Madame Melmotte, putting her handkerchief up to her face, declared that she was being absolutely destroyed by a toothache. 'I must see if I can't do something for her, said Marie, hurrying to the door. But Lord Nidderdale was too quick for her, and stood with his back to it. 'That's a shame, said Marie.
Melmotte undoubtedly was the man for Westminster. His thorough popularity was evinced by testimony which perhaps was never before given in favour of any candidate for any county or borough. In Westminster there must of course be a contest. A seat for Westminster is a thing not to be abandoned by either political party without a struggle.
The House of Commons, at its meeting, had heard the tidings in an exaggerated form. It was whispered about that Melmotte had been detected in forging the deed of conveyance of a large property, and that he had already been visited by policemen. By some it was believed that the Great Financier would lie in the hands of the Philistines while the Emperor of China was being fed at his house.
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