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'You oughtn't to begrudge me one run of luck, when I've lost so much, said Miles, who, since he began, had destroyed paper counters of his own making, supposed to represent considerably above £1,000, and had also, which was of infinitely greater concern to him, received an amount of ready money which was quite a godsend to him. 'What's the good of talking about it? said Nidderdale.
'Heard what? 'I believe he doesn't know! said Lord Grasslough. 'By Jove, Nidderdale, you're in a mess like some others. 'What's up now? 'Only fancy that they shouldn't have known down at the House! Vossner has bolted! 'Bolted! exclaimed Nidderdale, dropping the spoon with which he was just going to eat his soup. 'Bolted, repeated Grasslough.
'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.
"It is just what I am not going to do." "I saw it all in the papers." "I dare say; and yet it isn't true. I shouldn't wonder if they ask you." At this moment a waiter handed a large official letter to Lord Nidderdale, saying that the messenger who had brought it was waiting for an answer in the hall.
'That's Longestaffe, said Felix, 'and I'll change that of course. Then out of his pocket-book he extracted other minute documents bearing that M.G. which was so little esteemed among them, and so made up the sum. 'You seem to have £150 from Grasslough, £145 from Nidderdale, and £322 10s from Grendall, said the baronet. Then Sir Felix got up as though he had paid his score.
He had promised his daughter to Lord Nidderdale, and as he rose in the world had lowered the price which he offered for this marriage, not so much in the absolute amount of fortune to be ultimately given, as in the manner of giving it.
'Carbury, and Grasslough, and Dolly Longestaffe are there waiting, he said. But Paul declined. He was too full of his troubles for play. 'Poor Miles isn't there, if you're afraid of that, said Nidderdale. 'Miles Grendall wouldn't hinder me, said Montague. 'Nor me either. Of course it's a confounded shame. I know that as well as anybody.
How could he be justified in whispering suspicions to the man who was known to be at any rate one of the competitors for Marie Melmotte's hand? 'You can speak out to me, you know, said Nidderdale, nodding his head. 'I've got nothing to speak. People say that he is about the richest man alive. 'He lives as though he were. 'I don't see why it shouldn't be all true.
That evening Madame Melmotte told her husband that Marie was now willing to marry Lord Nidderdale; but she did not say anything as to the crossing-sweeper or the black footman, nor did she allude to Marie's threat of the sort of life she would lead her husband.
In my time, if any man stretched a rule too far the House would not put up with it." "That's just it," said Nidderdale. "The House puts up with anything now. There is a great deal of good feeling no doubt, but there's no earnestness about anything. I think you are more earnest than we; but then you are such horrid bores.
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