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Augustus Melreater in every direction,--to despise ht alnize it as a fact that he o to the wall It can hardly be said of hiah of its own accord A s and keep them within the limits which he had himself planned for thenitude to which his aher than his own iination So it had now been with Mr Mels which he was achieving were beyond his conteht land Fisker was, perhaps, not a ht He had never read a book He had never written a line worth reading He had never said a prayer He cared nothing for huully, was perhaps ignorant of his own father and th of his own audacity But, such as he was, he had sufficed to give the necessary iustus Melreatness When Mr Melmotte took his offices in Abchurch Lane, he was undoubtedly a great reat as when the South Central Pacific and Mexican Railway had become not only an established fact, but a fact established in Abchurch Lane The great company indeed had an office of its ohere the Board was held; but everything was really , no doubt, sorand enterprise,--'perhaps the grandest when you consider the amount of territory manipulated, which has ever opened itself before the eyes of a great commercial people,' as Mr Fisker with his peculiar eloquence observed through his nose, about this ti itself across fro itself to the centre of the commercial world as the needle turns to the pole, till Mr Fisker alretted the deed which himself had done And Melmotte was not only the head, but the body also, and the feet of it all The shares seemed to be all in Melmotte's pocket, so that he could distribute them as he would; and it seeain and sold again, they came back to Melmotte's pocket Men were contented to buy their shares and to pay their money, sie portion of his winnings at cards,--with coant,--and had brought his savings to the great arden into his till, and had told Sir Felix that the shares were his Sir Felix had been not only contented, but supre,--and Lord Alfred Grendall He could realize a perennial inco It was only after the reflection of a day or two that he found that he had as yet got nothing to sell It was not only Sir Felix that was ads after this fashion Sir Felix was but one a hundreds In the meantime the bills in Grosvenor Square were no doubt paid with punctuality,--and these bills must have been stupendous The very servants were as tall, as gorgeous, almost as numerous, as the servants of royalty,--and rees There were four coachht foothteen inches