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He had quarrelled with one man for saying that Melmotte was a rogue, and had confidentially told his most intimate friends that in spite of a little vulgarity of manner, Melmotte at bottom was a very good fellow. How was he now to back out of his intimacy with the Melmottes generally? He was engaged to marry the girl, and there was nothing of which he could accuse her.
That might be told in a very few words 'Everything is over! But it had to be told. 'I want to call upon Miss Melmotte, if you'll let me, she said to her mother at breakfast. 'Why should you want to see Miss Melmotte? I thought you hated the Melmottes? 'I don't hate them, mamma. I certainly don't hate her. I have a message to take to her, from Felix. 'A message from Felix.
Late in the evening Marie Melmotte was waltzing with Felix Carbury, and Henrietta Carbury was then standing by talking to one Mr Paul Montague. Lady Carbury was also there. She was not well inclined either to balls or to such people as the Melmottes; nor was Henrietta.
He was so good, so noble, so generous, so devoted, that it almost seemed to her that she could not be justified in refusing him. And she had gone entirely over to his side in regard to the Melmottes. Her mother had talked to her of the charm of Mr Melmotte's money, till her very heart had been sickened.
'For myself. he said, putting out his hand and making a slight vain effort to get hold of hers, 'I have only one wish in the world; and that is, to travel the same road with you. I do not say that you ought to wish it too; but you ought to know that I am sincere. When I spoke of the Melmottes did you believe that I was thinking of myself? 'Oh no; how should I?
He was a man who always asked for what he wanted; and having made up his mind that he wanted a second wife, had asked Miss Georgiana Longestaffe to fill that situation. He had met her at the Melmottes', had entertained her, with Madame Melmotte and Marie, at Beaudesert, as he called his villa, had then proposed in the square, and two days after had received an assenting answer in Bruton Street.
'She knows me, Sir Damask. 'Oh yes; she knows you. That's a matter of course. We're delighted to see you, Miss Longestaffe I am, always. Wish we could have had you at Ascot. But . Then he looked as though he had again explained everything. 'I've told her that you don't want me to go to the Melmottes, said Lady Monogram. 'Well, no; not just to go there. Stay and have lunch, Miss Longestaffe.
'Certainly; why not? She is at, home now, I think. 'I will wait till to-morrow, when I call to see Felix. I should like her to know that I am coming. Paul Montague was in town the other day. He was here, I suppose? 'Yes; he called. 'Was that all you saw of him? 'He was at the Melmottes' ball. Felix got a card for him; and we were there. Has he gone down to Carbury? 'No; not to Carbury.
To such a miserable depth of humility had the younger Miss Longestaffe been brought by her ill-considered intimacy with the Melmottes! Georgiana, when she looked back on this miserable episode in her life, always attributed her grief to the scandalous breach of compact of which her father had been guilty.
Now the reason why Lady Monogram had changed her mind as to inviting her old friend, and thus threw open her hospitality for three whole days to the poor young lady who had disgraced herself by staying with the Melmottes, was as follows.
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