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'And I think that I know ht But as I don't intend to give way to you, perhaps the less we speak together about it the better You can't be in earnest in the threat you s coentle as you are hostile to iving Montague the possibility of a reply, he escaped into an inner room which had the word 'Private' painted on the door, and which was supposed to belong to the chairman individually He shut the door behind him, and then, after a few moments, put out his head and beckoned to Sir Felix Carbury Nidderdale was gone Lord Alfred with his son were already on the stairs Cohenlupe was engaged with Mel himself without support and alone, slowly made his way out into the court

Sir Felix had coest to the Chair paid his thousand pounds he should like to have a few shares to go on with He was, indeed, at the present otiated, or lost at cards, all the IOU's which were in any degree serviceable He still had a pocketbook full of those issued by Miles Grendall; but it was now an understood thing at the Beargarden that no one was to be called upon to take theeht Beyond this, also, he had lately been forced to issue a little paper hiely of his shares in the railway His case certainly was hard He had actually paid a thousand pounds down in hard cash, a coarded as stupendous It was almost incredible to himself that he should have paid any one a thousand pounds, but he had done it withcarried Dolly junior with him all the way into the city,--in the belief that he would thus put hi income He understood that as a director he would be always entitled to buy shares at par, and, as a matter of course, always able to sell thee from ten to fifteen and twenty per cent, profit He would have nothing to do but to buy and sell daily He was told that Lord Alfred was allowed to do it to a s it to an enor,--he hardly knehat,--out of Melmotte's hands Melmotte certainly did not seem to shun him, and therefore there could be no difficulty about the shares As to danger,--who could think of danger in reference to ustus Melmotte?