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Sir Felix as he walked down to his club felt that he had been checkmated,--and was at the same time full of wrath at the insolence of the man who had so easily beaten hiaht marry Marie Melmotte The father had told him so much himself, and he perfectly believed the truth of that oath which Marie had sworn He did not doubt but that she'd stick to hih She was in love with him, which was natural; and was a fool,--which was perhaps also natural But ro People told hi without their parents' consent, fathers were always constrained to forgive theht be the case with ordinary fathers But Melmotte was decidedly not an ordinary father He was,--so Sir Felix declared to hireatest brute ever created Sir Felix could not but remember that elevation of the eyebrows, and the brazen forehead, and the hard ainst Melmotte, and now he cursed and swore at the arden in a cab

But what should he do? Should he abandon Marie Melain, and drop the whole fa the Great Mexican Railway? Then an idea occurred to him Nidderdale had explained to him the result of his application for shares 'You see we haven't bought any and therefore can't sell any There seeovernor, and get hiet the money back, he'd do that and let me have the difference' On that Sunday afternoon Sir Felix thought over all this 'Why shouldn't he "go a thou," and get the difference?' He made a mental calculation £12 10s per £100! £125 for a thousand! and all paid in ready money As far as Sir Felix could understand, directly the one operation had been perfected the thousand pounds would be available for another As he looked into it with all his intelligence he thought that he began to perceive that that was the way in which the Melmottes of the world ot the entire thousand pounds But luck had been on the whole very good to hi at a bank in the city at which he had opened an account And he had very estaffe and Miles Grendall In fact if every nation as he reflected on the injustice hich he was kept out of his own,--he could go into the city and take up his shares to-morrow, and still have ready money at his command If he could do this, would not such conduct on his part be the best refutation of that charge of not having any fortune which Melainst hiestaffe;--and he entertained an idea that though it would be iht use his claiainst Miles in the city Miles was Secretary to the Board, and ht perhaps contrive that the money required for the shares should not be all ready ht that he ht possibly in this way use the indebtedness of Miles Grendall 'How I do hate a felloho does not pay up,' he said to hi for some friend to come in And he formed in his head Draconic lahich he would fain have executed upon men who lost money at play and did not pay 'How the deuce fellows can look one in the face, is what I can't understand,' he said to himself