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'I believe, my lord, he's one of the domestics from Mr Melmotte's in Bruton Street, said the footman, who was no doubt fully acquainted with all the circumstances of Lord Nidderdale's engagement. The son, who was still smoking, looked at his father as though in doubt. 'You'd better go and see, said the Marquis.
On this evening he joined his table with Nidderdale's, at the young lord's instigation. 'What made you so savage at old Melmotte to-day? said the young lord. 'I didn't mean to be savage, but I think that as we call ourselves Directors we ought to know something about it. 'I suppose we ought. I don't know, you know. I'll tell you what I've been thinking.
'Nidderdale's in it quite as thick as I am. 'Nidderdale has a settled property which neither he nor his father can destroy. But don't you be such a fool as to argue with me. You won't get anything by it. If you'll write that letter here now 'What; to Marie? 'No; not to Marie at all; but to me. It need never be known to her. If you'll do that I'll stick to you and make a man of you.
She had been humble in vain, for Lady Monogram had not even answered her note. 'She never really cared for anybody but herself, Georgiana said in her wretched solitude. Then, too, she had found that Lord Nidderdale's manner to her had been quite changed. She was not a fool, and could read these signs with sufficient accuracy.
Nidderdale's father, and Nidderdale himself, were, in the present condition of things, content with a very much less stringent bargain than that which they had endeavoured at first to exact.
She loved dancing with all her heart if she could only dance in a manner pleasant to herself. She had been warned especially as to some men, that she should not dance with them. She had been almost thrown into Lord Nidderdale's arms, and had been prepared to take him at her father's bidding.
Melmotte had been found dead on Friday morning, and late on the evening of the same day Madame Melmotte and Marie were removed to lodgings far away from the scene of the tragedy, up at Hampstead. Herr Croll had known of the place, and at Lord Nidderdale's instance had busied himself in the matter, and had seen that the rooms were made instantly ready for the widow of his late employer.
Fifteen thousand a year was to be settled on Marie and on her eldest son, and twenty thousand pounds were to be paid into Nidderdale's hands six months after the marriage. Melmotte gave his reasons for not paying this sum at once. Nidderdale would be more likely to be quiet, if he were kept waiting for that short time. Melmotte was to purchase and furnish for them a house in town.
The Marquis thought that his son had better not go to Bruton Street. 'What's the use? What good can you do? She'll only be falling into your arms, and that's what you've got to avoid, at any rate, till you know how things are. But Nidderdale's better feelings would not allow him to submit to this advice.
Nidderdale's unwonted eloquence was received in good part by the assembled legislators. "Taking it altogether," said the Duke, "I know of no assembly in any country in which good-humour prevails so generally, in which the members behave to each other so well, in which rules are so universally followed, or in which the president is so thoroughly sustained by the feeling of the members."
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