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'Your father will not hear of it He dislikes them especially'

'And I dislike the Melmottes I dislike the Primeros of course, but they are not so bad as the Mele for yourself; Georgiana'

'It is that,--or staying here?'

'I think so, my dear'

'If papa chooses I don't knohy I austing!'

'She seemed to be very quiet'

'Pooh, mamma! Quiet! She was quiet here because she was afraid of us She isn't yet used to be with people like us She'll get over that if I'htfully vulgar! She utters Did you not see it, mamma? She could not even open her mouth, she was so ashamed of herself I shouldn't wonder if they turned out to be so quite horrid Theyso dreadful to look at as he is?'

'Everybody goes to thee has been there over and over again, and so has Lady Auld Reekie Everybody goes to their house'

'But everybody doesn't go and live with them Oh, mamma,--to have to sit down to breakfast every day for ten weeks with that man and that woman!'

'Perhaps they'll let you have your breakfast upstairs'

'But to have to go out with the into the room after her! Only think of it!'

'But you are so anxious to be in London, my dear'

'Of course I am anxious What other chance have I, mamma? And, oh dear, I am so tired of it! Pleasure, indeed! Papa talks of pleasure If papa had to work half as hard as I do, I wonder what he'd think of it I suppose I must do it I knoill make me so ill that I shall almost die under it Horrid, horrid people! And papa to propose it, who has always been so proud of everything,--who used to think so iana,' said the anxious o and stay with people like that Why, entleman compared with Mr Melmotte, and his wife is a fine lady coo If papa chooses me to be seen with such people it is notone's self after that I don't believe in the least that any decent irl in such a house, and you and papa must not be surprised if I take soe Papa has altered his ideas; and so, I suppose, I had better alter mine'