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Marie Melmotte was hardly satisfied with the note which she received fro With a volubility of French eloquence, Didon declared that she would be turned out of the house if either Monsieur or Mada Marie told her that Madame would certainly never dismiss her 'Well, perhaps not Madame,' said Didon, who knew too much about Madame to be dismissed; 'but Monsieur!' Marie declared that by no possibility could Monsieur know anything about it In that house nobody ever told anything to Monsieur He was regarded as the general ene auns from behind rocks and trees It is not a pleasant condition for a master of a house; but in this house the master at any rate kneas placed It never occurred to hiht run away But ould run aith her without money? And there could be no th He was not the irl, and then bestow his wealth on the Lothario who had injured hiht make hiher that he rose without such assistance, the less need had he of his daughter's aid Lord Alfred was certainly very useful to him Lord Alfred had whispered into his ear that by certain conduct and by certain uses of his ht be lishested Melmotte Lord Alfred had explained that it was not necessary that he should have been born in England, or even that he should have an English naet into Parliament, and then spend a little money on the proper side,--by which Lord Alfred meant the Conservative side,--and be munificent in his entertainments, and the baronetcy would be al what honours ht not be achieved in the present days by money scattered with a liberal hand In these conversations, Mel h they were unlimited,--and Lord Alfred believed him

Marie was dissatisfied with her letter,--not because it described her father as 'cutting up rough' To her who had known her father all her life that was a matter of course But there was no word of love in the note An ih Didon would be delightful to her She was quite capable of loving, and she did love the young man She had, no doubt, consented to accept the addresses of others whom she did not love,--but this she had done at the moment almost of her first introduction to theAs days went on she ceased to be a child, and her courage greithin her She beca was produced in great part by the conterand people and grand na No to the Nidderdales on account of any awe of thee herself to be obliged to obey her father, though she was drifting away even froation Had her mind been as it was nohen Lord Nidderdale first caht indeed have loved him, who, as a man, was infinitely better than Sir Felix, and who, had he thought it to be necessary, would have put so But at that ti her to be a child, had hardly spoken to her And she, child though she was, had resented such usage But a few ed all this, and now she was a child no longer She was in love with Sir Felix, and had told her love Whatever difficulties there ht be, she intended to be true If necessary, she would run away Sir Felix was her idol, and she abandoned herself to its worship But she desired that her idol should be of flesh and blood, and not of wood She was at first half-inclined to be angry; but as she sat with his letter in her hand, she remembered that he did not know Didon as well as she did, and that he ht be afraid to trust his raptures to such custody She could write to hi no such fear, she could write warmly