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During all these days Miss Melmotte was by no h she would not allow herself to doubt his sincerity She had not only assured hi affection in the presence of her father and mother, had not only offered to be chopped in pieces on his behalf, but had also written to hie su she was to ive herself and her fortune to her lover She felt that she had been very gracious to her lover, and that her lover was a little slow in acknowledging the favours conferred upon him But, nevertheless, she was true to her lover, and believed that he was true to her Didon had been hitherto faithful Marie had written various letters to Sir Felix and had received two or three very short notes in reply, containing hardly more than a word or two each But now she was told that a day was absolutely fixed for her s were to be got ready She was to be ust, and here they were, approaching the end of June 'You rees about Felix, why then I suppose they'll do But they'll never be of any use about Lord Nidderdale If you were to sew s by roaned, and scolded in English, French, and German, and wished that she were dead; she told Marie that she was a pig, and ass, and a toad, and a dog And, ended, as she always did end, by swearing that Mele this matter for me,' said Marie 'I knohat I'm about now, and I won't marry anybody just because it will suit papa' 'Que nous étions encore à Frankfort, ou New-York,' said the elder lady, re the humbler but less troubled times of her earlier life Marie did not care for Frankfort or New York; for Paris or for London;--but she did care for Sir Felix Carbury

While her father on Sundaybusiness in his own house with Paul Montague and the great coh it entleory Gribe was really in Grosvenor Square when his naardens; Didon was also there at some distance froside of her Marie had the key of the gardens for her own use; and had already learned that her neighbours in the square did notHer lover's letter to her father had of course been shown to her, and she had taxed hiht much of the letter as he ca been assured by Didon that the gate should be left unlocked, and that she would be there to close it after he had co to do, Marie;--it was indeed'