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'Go away, and don't come back any ot to understand is this I' if she ainst my consent By the God that hearsBut look you,--if you'll give this up, I shall be proud to co-operate with you in anything you may wish to have done in the city'

After this Sir Felix left the room, went down the stairs, had the door opened for hih the hall a woed to shove a note into his hand which he read as soon as he found hi, and had therefore no reference to the fray which had just taken place It ran as follows: I hope you will co I cannot tell you then, but you ought to know it When ere in France papa thought it wise to settle a lot of h to live on if other things rong He never talked to me about it, but I knoas done And it hasn't been undone, and can't be without , for I told hi if I marry without his leave But I am sure he cannot take it away I tell you, because I think I ought to tell you everything'

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Sir Felix as he read this could not but think that he had beco lady It was evident that she did not care to what extent she braved her father on behalf of her lover, and now she coolly proposed to rob hie of the irl's name, if he could lay his bands on it He did not know much of such transactions, but he knew more than Marie Melmotte, and could understand that a man in Melmotte's position should want to secure a portion of his fortune against accidents, by settling it on his daughter Whether, having so settled it, he could again resuhter's assent, Sir Felix did not know Marie, who had no doubt been regarded as an absolutely passive instru was done, was now quite alive to the benefit which she ht possibly derive frolish, amounted to this: 'Take me and ether can rob my father of the money which, for his own purposes, he has settled upon me' He had looked upon the lady of his choice as a poor weak thing, without any special character of her oas made worthy of consideration only by the fact that she was a rich an to looer than that She had had a will of her ohen the mother had none She had not been afraid of her brutal father when he, Sir Felix, had trembled before him She had offered to be beaten, and killed, and chopped to pieces on behalf of her lover There could be no doubt about her running away if she were asked