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'You can say so if you please Sir Dah he meant to break his neck every winter, is one of the best shots going, and is supposed to understand a yacht as well as any other gentleman out And I'm rather afraid that before he was hters, and to be a little too free behind the scenes If that makes a man like a hair-dresser, well, there he is'

'How proud you are of his vices'

'He's very good-natured, my dear, and as he does not interfere with me, I don't interfere with hiood-natured'

'He's an excellent e fortune'

'And has five or six grown-up children, who, no doubt, will be a comfort'

'If I don't mind them, why need you? You have none at all, and you find it lonely enough'

'Not at all lonely I have everything that I desire How hard you are trying to be ill-natured, Georgiana'

'Why did you say that he was a--butcher?'

'I said nothing of the kind I didn't even say that he was like a butcher What I did say was this,--that I don't feel inclined to risk my own reputation on the appearance of new people at o in for what you call fashion Some people can dare to ask anybody they meet in the streets I can't I've my own line, and I mean to follow it It's hard work, I can tell you; and it would be harder still if I wasn't particular If you like Mr Brehgert to co, when the roo him to dinner, I--won't--do--it' So the ert for the Tuesday evening, and the two ladies were again friends

Perhaps Lady Monogram, when she illustrated her position by an allusion to a butcher and a hair-dresser, had been unaware that Mr Brehgert had some resemblance to the form which men in that trade are supposed to bear Let us at least hope that she was so He was a fat, greasy ree, about fifty, with hair dyed black, and beard and moustache dyed a dark purple colour The charht black eyes, which were, however, set too near together in his face for the general delight of Christians He was stout;--fat all over rather than corpulent,--and had that look of command in his face which has beco intercourse with sheep and oxen But Mr Brehgert was considered to be a very good , in a coreat financial firm of which he was the second partner Mr Todd's day was nearly done He walked about constantly between Loe, and the Bank, and talked much to merchants; he had an opinion too of his own on particular cases; but the business had alert was now supposed to be thein a luxurious villa at Fulhararown up before long, varying frohteen, who had just been placed at a desk in the office, to the youngest girl of twelve, as at school at Brighton He was amade up his iana Longestaffe to fill that situation He had met her at the Melmottes', had entertained her, with Madame Melmotte and Marie, at Beaudesert, as he called his villa, had then proposed in the square, and two days after had received an assenting answer in Bruton Street