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Roger Carbury said well that it was very iree in their opinions as to the expedience of fortune-hunting by e It was impossible that they should ever understand each other To Lady Carbury the prospect of a union between her son and Miss Melmotte was one of unmixed joy and triumph Could it have been possible that Marie Melmotte should be rich and her father be a man dooht perhaps be a doubt about it

The wealth even in that case would certainly carry the day, against the disgrace, and Lady Carbury would find reasons why poor Marie should not be punished for her father's sins even while enjoying the money which those sins had produced But how different were the existing facts? Mr Mel duchesses in Grosvenor Square People said that Mr Melantic swindler,--as one who in the dishonest and successful pursuit of wealth had stopped at nothing People said of hi premeditated and deeply-laid schemes for the ruin of those who had trusted him, that he had sed up the property of all who had come in contact with him, that he was fed with the blood of s and children;--but as all this to Lady Carbury?

If the duchesses condoned it all, did it become her to be prudish? People also said that Melet a fall,--that akeep his head up But he ive Marie her fortune And then Felix wanted a fortune so badly;--was so exactly the young ht to marry a fortune! To Lady Carbury there was no second way of looking at the er Carbury also there was no second way of looking at it That condonation of antecedents which, in the hurry of the world, is often vouchsafed to success, that growing feeling which induces people to assert to theeneral verdict, and that they may shake hands homsoever the world shakes hands with, had never reached hi of pitch will defile still prevailed with hiraced to enter the house of such a one as Augustus Mele, or all the money in the city, could alter his notions or induce him to modify his conduct But he knew that it would be useless for him to explain this to Lady Carbury He trusted, however, that one of the faht to appreciate the difference between honour and dishonour Henrietta Carbury had, he thought, a higher turn of mind than her mother, and had as yet been kept free froutters as to be dirt all over Nothing short of the prolonged sufferings of half a life could cleanse him