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Two, three, four, and even five o'clock still found Sir Felix Carbury in bed on that fatal Thursday More than once or twice his ned to be fast asleep and entle words But his condition was one which only admits of short snatches of uneasy slumber From head to foot, he was sick and ill and sore, and could find no co by absolute quiescence to soothe the agony of his brows and to re as he lay there he would be safe from attack by the outer world, was all the solace within his reach Lady Carbury sent the page up to hiht him tea He asked for soda and brandy; but there was none to be had, and in his present condition he did not dare to hector about it till it was procured for him

The world surely was now all over to hireat heiress of the day, and had absolutely allowed the young lady to run aithout hiement had been such that she absolutely would start upon her long journey across the ocean before she could find out that he had failed to keep his appointment Melmotte's hostility would be incurred by the attempt, and hers by the failure Then he had lost all his money,--and hers He had induced his poora fund for hione He was so cowed that he was afraid even of his , but no details, of some row at the club,--but still with a conviction on his mind that he had e to enter the club again? When could he show hiain anywhere? All the world would know that Marie Melmotte had attempted to run off with him, and that at the last moment he had failed her What lie could he invent to cover his disgrace? And his clothes! All his things were at the club;--or he thought that they were, not being quite certain whether he had not made some attempt to carry them off to the Railway Station He had heard of suicide If ever it could be well that a man should cut his own throat, surely the time had come for hiathered the clothes around him and tried to sleep The death of Cato would hardly have for him persuasive charms