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Lord Nidderdale had half consented to renew his suit to Marie Melmotte He had at any rate half promised to call at Mel As far as that proiven it was broken, for on the Sunday he was not seen in Bruton Street Though not , he did feel that on this occasion there was need for thought His father's property was not very large His father and his grandfather had both been extravagantto the fa, since he had commenced life, that he was to marry an heiress In such faenerally understood that ht by an heiress It has becoeniture, and is als Rank squanders ilding its splendour The arrangeenerally, is well understood, and was quite approved of by the oldup the property, which his son's future e would renew as a matter of course Nidderdale himself had never dissented, had entertained no fanciful theory opposed to this view, had never alar towards ht to 'have his fling' before he devoted hiration of the fa and ht probably be foolish to oppose so natural a desire He had regarded all the circuent eyes But there arose so, and the father had at last found hi were carried on er it must be done with internecine war between himself and his heir Nidderdale, whose sense and teht He assured his father that he had no intention of 'cutting up rough,' declared that he was ready for the heiress as soon as the heiress should be put in his way, and set himself honestly about the task ied at Auld Reekie Castle during the last winter, and the reader knows the result

But the affair had assu in flying at wealth which was reputed to be almost unlimited, but which was not absolutely fixed A couple of hundred thousand pounds down reater ease But here there had been a prospect of endless ht not improbably make the Auld Reekie fa the most wealthy of the nobility The old man had fallen into the temptation, and abnormal difficulties had been the result Some of these the reader knows Latterly two difficulties had culentlereeable stories were afloat, not only as to the way in which the money had been made, but even as to its very existence