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The er even desirable She, too, was beginning to disbelieve in the Melmotte wealth, and did quite disbelieve that that wealth would cohter It was iive such offence as had now been committed 'It is out of the question,' she said 'That, like everything else with us, has been a wretched failure You can go, if you please Felix is under no obligation to the froet anybody to take her now You can't go alone, you know,' Lady Carbury added But Hetta said that she did not at all object to going alone as far as that It was only just over Oxford Street

So she went out and made her way into Grosvenor Square She had heard, but at the tiration of the Mel, as she approached the house, that there was a confusion there of carts and work the bell at the door, which ide open Within the hall the pilasters and trophies, the wreaths and the banners, which three or four days since had been built up with sopulled down and hauled away And a He was now a ht in the House Nothing, at any rate, should prevent that It ht be but for a short time;--but it should be written in the history of his life that he had sat in the British House of Commons as member for Westminster At the present moment he was careful to show himself everywhere It was now noon, and he had already been into the City At thisjust propitiated that man by a payment which would hardly have been made so soon but for the necessity which these wretched stories had entailed upon hi up his credit for the possession of money Hetta timidly asked one of the workhter?' said Mel his hat 'She is not living here at present'

'Oh,--I remember now,' said Hetta

'May I be allowed to tell her as asking after her?' At the present hter