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'We have to reraphs which had contained simply demands for the money, 'that the title-deeds were delivered to you on receipt by us of authority to that effect fro that the purchase-money was to be paid to us by you We are infored by you We do not state this as a fact But the information, whether true or untrue, forces upon us the necessity of de that you should at once pay to us the purchase-money,--£80,000,--or else return to us the title-deeds of the estate'

This letter, which was signed Slow and Bideawhile, declared positively that the title-deeds had been given up on authority received by theestaffes,--father and son Now the accusation brought against Melmotte, as far as he could as yet understand it, was that he had forged the signature to the young Mr Longestaffe's letter Messrs Slow and Bideawhile were therefore on his side As to the simple debt, he cared little co about London ed large su at his solitary dinner this evening,--for both his wife and daughter had declined to join hiht to him that he had been elected for West not much less than a thousand votes

It was very much to be member for Westminster So un the world without a shilling and without a friend,--almost without education! Much as he lovedof money, and much as he had made and reat to hiutter, without father orever done for him, he was now a member of the British Parlianorant as he was he understood the nitude of the achievement, and dismayed as he was as to his present position, still at this moment he enjoyed keenly a certain aery,--of course he had co, for he had been cheating and forging and stealing all his life Of course he was in danger of almost immediate detection and punishment He hardly hoped that the evil day would be very er protracted, and yet he enjoyed his triuht be, they could hardly prevent his taking his seat in the House of Commons Then if they sent him to penal servitude for life, they would have to say that they had so treated the member for Westminster!