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On the Monday he went to the house in Bruton Street, at lunch time Melmotte and the two Grendalls had just come over from their work in the square, and the financier was full of the priest's visit to hiestaffe, as to be sent for by her friend Lady Monogram that afternoon,--and, after they had sat down, Marie caot up and shook hands with her,-- of course as though nothing had happened Marie, putting a brave face upon it, struggling hard in thean ordinary word or two Her position was uncoirl who has run aith her lover and has been brought back again by her friends, must for a time find it difficult to appear in society with ease But when a girl has run aithout her lover,--has run away expecting her lover to go with her, and has then been brought back, her lover not having stirred, her state of ood, and she ate her lunch even though she sat next to Lord Nidderdale

Mel lord 'Did you ever hear anything like that, Nidderdale?' he said, speaking of the priest's visit

'Mad as a hatter,' said Lord Alfred

'I don't know much about his madness I shouldn't wonder if he had been sent by the Archbishop of Westminster Why don't we have an Archbishop of Westot one? I shall have to see to that when I'm in the House I suppose there is a bishop, isn't there, Alfred?' Alfred shook his head 'There's a Dean, I know, for I called on hiht all those parsons were Conservatives It didn't occur to me that the fellow had come from the Archbishop, or I would have beenelse,' said Lord Alfred

'You should have seen hiood as a play to you'

'I suppose you didn't ask him to the dinner, sir'

'D---- the dinner, I'ain, Alfred Those felloill never get along if they are not looked after Come, Miles Ladies, I shall expect you to be ready at exactly a quarter before eight His Iht precisely, and I must be there to receive hiuests in the drawing-room' The ladies went upstairs, and Lord Nidderdale followed the that she couldn't keep her dear friend Lady Monogra for her Then there fell upon Madaether, a duty which she found a great difficulty in perforet up and go out of the rooarded herself, the troubles of these troublous ti alrandeur,--and probably no belief in her husband's achieve Marieaway But she did not kno to get out of her chair She expressed in fluent French her abhorrence of the Eht be allowed to re She liked Nidderdale better than any one else who came there, and wondered at Marie's preference for Sir Felix Lord Nidderdale assured her that nothing was so easy as kings and ehed and shook her head, and wished again that she rees plucking up her courage, declared that though kings and eht an Eood fun Then Madae, rose froht for the door 'Ma Mada her handkerchief up to her face, declared that she was being absolutely destroyed by a toothache 'Ifor her,' said Marie, hurrying to the door But Lord Nidderdale was too quick for her, and stood with his back to it 'That's a shame,' said Marie