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Your affectionate daughter, GEORGIANA LONGESTAFFE

Mr Longestaffe did condescend to read the letter He, though he had rebuked his hter with stern severity, was also to some extent afraid of her At a sudden burst he could stand upon his authority, and assunity; but not the less did he dread the wearing toil of continued dohter liked a row in the house If not, there surely would not be so hly hated them He had not any very lively interest in life He did not read much; he did not talk ; he did not gamble, and he did not care for the farm To stand about the door and hall and public rooed and hear other men talk politics or scandal, hat he liked better than anything else in the world But he was quite willing to give this up for the good of his fa listless days at Cavershahter would allow it By assuether unserviceable to higing his coachrander men than himself, he had run hie, and he had thought that this was the way to get it A separate property had come to his son fronified by the world into double its ae of this had for a ti the burdens on the fae, would have consented to sell the Sussex property in order that the Suffolk property ht be relieved But Dolly was now in debt hih in other respects the s with his father He would not consent to the sale of the Sussex property unless half of the proceeds were to be at once handed to hi hi it, found the troubles of the world very hard upon hi this Melmotte was very hard and tyrannical Melmotte, when at Caversham, had looked into his affairs, and had told him very plainly that with such an establishment in the country he was not entitled to keep a house in town Mr Longestaffe had then said soiana,--and Mr Melestion