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Up to this period of his life Sir Felix Carbury had probably felt but little of the punishs He had spent all his fortune; he had lost his commission in the army; he had incurred the contempt of everybody that had known him; he had forfeited the friendship of those ere his natural friends, and had attached to him none others in their place; he had pretty nearly ruined his e, he had always contrived 'to carry on the gaaenerally after the fashion considered to be appropriate to young men about town He had kept up till now But now there sees When he was lying in bed in his mother's house he counted up all his wealth He had a few pounds in ready money, he still had a little roll of Mr Miles Grendall's notes of hand, a perhaps to a couple of hundred pounds,--and Mr Melmotte owed him £600 But where was he to turn, and as he to do with himself? Gradually he learned the whole story of the journey to Liverpool,--how Marie had gone there and had been sent back by the police, how Marie's money had been repaid to Mr Melmotte by Mr Broune, and how his failure to make the journey to Liverpool had becoo to Melmotte's house He was ashamed even to show hi ale had broken down, and seeether beyond hope, now that he had to depend on her household for all his coer able to treat her with absolute scorn,--nor was she willing to yield as she had yielded

One thing only was clear to him He must realize his possessions With this vierote both to Miles Grendall and to Mel out of town,--probably for some time, and he must really ask for a cheque for the amount due He went on to remark that he could hardly suppose that a nephew of the Duke of Albury was unable to pay debts of honour to the amount of £200;--but that if such was the case he would have no alternative but to apply to the Duke himself The reader need hardly be told that to this letter Mr Grendall vouchsafed no anshatever In his letter to Mr Melmotte he confined himself to one matter of business in hand He er, or to his seat at the board He simply reminded Mr Melmotte that there was a suht be sent to hiether unsatisfactory, though it was not exactly what Sir Felix had wished A clerk from Mr Melmotte's office called at the house in Welbeck Street, and handed to Felix railway scrip in the South Central Pacific and Mexican Railway to the a on a full receipt for the money before he parted with the scrip The clerk went on to explain, on behalf of his employer, that the money had been left in Mr Mel these shares Sir Felix, as glad to get anything, signed the receipt and took the scrip This took place on the day after the balloting at Westminster, when the result was not yet known,--and when the shares in the railere very low indeed Sir Felix had asked as to the value of the shares at the time The clerk professed himself unable to quote the price,--but there were the shares if Sir Felix liked to take the off into the City found that they ht perhaps be worth about half the money due to him The broker to who Yes;--the scrip had been very high; but there was a panic TheySir Felix cursed the Great Financier aloud, and left the scrip for sale That was the first time that he had been out of the house before dark since his little accident