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'Is there anything wrong, Mel up to hi in French

'What do you call wrong?'

'I don't know;--but I seeht you were used to that kind of feeling by this ti'

'Don't be a fool There is always so There is alwayscan be carried on as smoothly as the life of an old maid with £400 a year paid quarterly in advance'

'Shall we have to ain?' she asked

'How aet plenty to eat and drink wherever you go Does that girl mean to marry Lord Nidderdale?' Madame Melmotte shook her head 'What a poor creature you must be when you can't talk her out of a fancy for such a reprobate as young Carbury If she throwsher within an inch of her life if she disobeys me You tell her that I say so'

'Then heme,' said Marie, when so'Papa does not know ' No such atteht, for the father and husband did not again see his wife or daughter

Early the next day a report was current that Mr Alf had been returned The numbers had not as yet been counted, or the booksnewspapers, including the 'Breakfast-Table,' repeated this report,--but each gave it as the general opinion on the ht o'clock in the evening The Conservative papers did not scruple to say that the presu to a sudden declension in the confidence originally felt in Mr Melmotte The 'Breakfast-Table,' which had supported Mr Melave no reason, and expressed more doubt on the result than the other papers 'We know not how such an opinion forms itself,' the writer said,--'but it see as yet is really known, or can be knoe express no opinion of our own upon the ain went into the City, and found that things seerooves The Mexican Railway shares were low, and Mr Cohenlupe was depressed in spirits and unhappy;--but nothing dreadful had occurred or see dreadful did occur, the railway shares would probably recover, or nearly recover, their position In the course of the day, Melmotte received a letter from Messrs Slow and Bideawhile, which, of itself, certainly contained no comfort;--but there was comfort to be drawn even from that letter, by reason of what it did not contain The letter was unfriendly in its tone and peremptory It had co which had hitherto prevailed in the intercourse between these tell-known Conservative gentleustus Melery; no question of criht beyond the not unnatural desire of Mr Longestaffe and Mr Longestaffe's son to be paid for the property at Pickering which Mr Melmotte had purchased