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And now there appeared a paragraph in the 'Morning Breakfast Table,' and another appeared in the 'Evening Pulpit,' telling the world that Mr Melnificent Sussex property of Adolphus Longestaffe, Esq, of Cavershareed before, and who now had coreement in the presence of each other, had each considered that their affairs would be safe in the hands of so great a ht to tere, was to be divided between the no longer any delay as is the case when snificence of Mr Melestaffe lawyers Were I to buy a little property, soarden,--or you, O reader, unless you bewould be wanted, or security for the money more than sufficient, before we should be able to enter in upon our new home But money was the very breath of Melmotte's nostrils, and therefore his breath was taken forwas his, and before a as over a London builder had collected masons and carpenters by the dozen down at Chichester, and was at work upon the house to make it fit to be a residence for Madame Melmotte There were rumours that it was to be made ready for the Goodeek, and that the Mel that festival would rival the duke's

But there was still much to be done in London before the Goodeek should come round, in all of which Mr Melmotte was concerned, and of much of which Mr Melmotte was the very centre A e, and thus a seat was vacated It was considered to be indispensable to the country that Mr Melo into Parliament, and what constituency could such aas Westminster does all the essences of the metropolis? There was the popular eleislative eleal element, and the commercial element Melh popularity was evinced by testiiven in favour of any candidate for any county or borough In Westminster therenot to be abandoned by either political party without a struggle But, at the beginning of the affair, when each party had to seek the most suitable candidate which the country could supply, each party put its hand upon Melmotte And when the seat, and the battle for the seat, were suggested to Melreat enerally dwelt, and to decide whether he would enter Parlia in convincing himself that the conservative element in British Society stood the most in need of that fiscal assistance which it would be in his province to give; and on the next day every hoarding in London declared to the world that Melmotte was the conservative candidate for Westminster It is needless to say that his committee was made up of peers, bankers, and publicans, with all that absence of class prejudice for which the party has beco us Soainst him, for the sake of the party; but the odds were ten to one on Melmotte