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Updated: June 26, 2025
The indignation in Georgiana's mind approached almost to virtue as she thought of her father's falseness. She would not have left town at all but for that promise. She would not have contaminated herself with the Melmottes but for that promise.
He had been lately talked of in London as the favourite in regard to Marie Melmotte. Georgiana Longestaffe had a grudge of her own against Lord Nidderdale, and was on that account somewhat well inclined towards Sir Felix's prospects. Soon after the Melmottes' arrival she contrived to say a word to Marie respecting Sir Felix.
'Have you been at the Melmottes' to-day? It was now five o'clock on a winter afternoon, the hour at which ladies are drinking tea, and idle men playing whist at the clubs, at which young idle men are sometimes allowed to flirt, and at which, as Lady Carbury thought, her son might have been paying his court to Marie Melmotte the great heiress. 'I have just come away.
Her mother was dull, and her father pompous and often cross; but they were in the right set, miles removed from the Brehgerts and Melmottes, until her father himself had suggested to her that she should go to the house in Grosvenor Square.
Her mind, also, was full of the Melmottes, and she wished to explain to her stern, unbending cousin all the good that might come to her and hers by an alliance with the heiress. 'I can understand, Roger, she said, taking his arm, 'that you should not like those people. 'What people? 'The Melmottes. 'I don't dislike them. How should I dislike people that I never saw?
He never says a word to me about money. 'I meant about the Melmottes. 'No; not to me. Felix hardly ever speaks to me about anything. 'I wonder whether she has accepted him. 'I think she very nearly did accept him in London. 'I can't quite sympathise with your mother in all her feelings about this marriage, because I do not think that I recognise as she does the necessity of money.
The Melmottes knew it, and she was aware that Lord Nidderdale had heard it. It was already so far known that it was sure to be public before the end of the season.
'I haven't the slightest idea what papa's income is; but if we're to live at all, I don't know how we are to make a change. 'It's always been like this ever since I can remember, said Georgiana, 'and I don't mean to worry about it any more. I suppose it's just the same with other people, only one doesn't know it. 'But, my dears when we are obliged to have such people as these Melmottes!
'I shan't run away with George Whitstable; you may be sure of that. I'll tell you what I shall do, I will write papa a letter. I suppose he'll condescend to read it. If he won't take me up to town himself, he must send me up to the Primeros. What makes me most angry in the whole thing is that we should have condescended to be civil to the Melmottes down in the country.
But I can't stay longer with Julia, who doesn't make herself nice, and I do not at all want to go back to the Melmottes. I fancy that there is something wrong between papa and Mr Melmotte. Send the carriage to meet me by the 2.30 train from London, and pray, mamma, don't scold when you see me, or have hysterics, or anything of that sort.
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