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'Why should he not? Is a girl to be debarred fro loved because she has money? Of course she looks to be married, and why should she not have Felix if she likes him best? Cannot you sympathise with race to the name and to the family?'

'We had better not talk about the family, Lady Carbury'

'But I think so et me to say that I think the fahter of Mr Melutter To me, in my old-fashioned way, all his money, if he has it, can e, people at any rate should know so of this ive her her fortune when she married'

'Yes; it all comes to that Men say openly that he is an adventurer and a swindler No one pretends to think that he is a gentle all who speak of him that he amasses his money not by honest trade, but by unknown tricks as does a card-sharper He is one ould not admit into our kitchens, much less to our tables, on the score of his ownmoney, we not only put up with him, but settle upon his carcase as so many birds of prey'

'Do you irl, even if they love each other?'

He shook his head in disgust, feeling sure that any idea of love on the part of the young arded him, but also his mother He could not quite declare this, and yet he desired that she should understand that he thought so 'I have nothing one on in London I should have said nothing It is no affair of hbourhood, at such a house as Caversha here in order that he may be near to his prey, and when I a, I can only say what I think Your son would be welcome to my house, because he is your son and my cousin, little as I approve his mode of life; but I could have wished that he had chosen some other place for the work that he has on hand'