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Lady Monograust as soon as she was able to escape; but we uests were once in the drawing-room the immediate sense of failure passed away The crowd never beca in such et themselves out of the roo, and that the carriages would not get themselves out of the Square till breakfast ti Mr Melmotte had been told that he uests, and with a considerable sacrifice of walls and general house arrange as was expected took place; but still the rooms became fairly full, and Mr Mel that nothing certainly fatal had as yet occurred

There can be no doubt that the greater part of the people assereat fraud whichhim under the arm of the law When such rumours are spread abroad, they are always believed There is an excite theh to ourselves to make the accusation a matter of personal pain, of course we disbelieve But, if the distance be beyond this, we are al may be true of anybody In this case nobody really loved Melmotte and everybody did believe It was so probable that such ahorrible! It was only hoped that the fraudthat part of the evening which was passed upstairs kept himself in the close vicinity of royalty He behaved certainly very ht at his heart Heany conversation, and answered, at any rate with brevity, when he was addressed With scrupulous care he ticked off on his memory the na that their presence indicated a verdict of acquittal fro the members of the Government all there, he wished that he had coave those ory at the India Office, seeing that not a Prince or Princess was lacking of those ere expected He could turn his er Many things occurred to hi to sht be the case that half-a-dozen detectives were already stationed in his own hall perhaps one or tell dressed, in the very presence of royalty,-- ready to arrest hi him now lest he should escape But he bore the burden,--and smiled He had always lived with the consciousness that such a burden was on hiht crush him at any time He had known that he had to run these risks He had told hiers alone should never cow hio as near the wind as he could, to avoid the heavy hand of the criminal lahatever country he inhabited He had studied the cris; but he had always felt that he ht be carried by circumstances into deeper waters than he intended to enter As the soldier who leads a forlorn hope, or as the diver who goes down for pearls, or as the searcher for wealth on fever-breeding coasts, knows that as his gains reat, so are his perils, Melmotte had been aware that in his life, as it opened itself out to hiht coht, or even hoped, that he would be as he was now, so exalted as to be allowed to entertain the very biggest ones of the earth; but the greatness had grown upon hier He could not now be as exact as he had been He was prepared hinoard any shouts of reprobation which ht be uttered, and to console himself when the bad quarter of an hour should coarnered up a store sufficient for future wants and placed it beyond the reach of his enemies But as his intellect opened up to hiot the better of his prudence, he gradually fell from the security which he had preconceived, and becanominy