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Then there ca complications in his affairs What had been so easy in reference to that letter which Dolly Longestaffe never would have signed, was less easy but still feasible in anothera audacity it had been done Then the rumours that were spread abroad,--which to Melmotte were serious indeed,--they naestaffe, the very thing that had been done Now if that, or the like of that, were brought actually hoot to say that he had done that thing, of what use then would be all that money? When that fear arose, then there arose also the question whether it ht not be well to use the ht be so used No doubt all danger in that Longestaffe affair ht off by pay property Neither would Dolly Longestaffe nor Squercum, of whom Mr Melmotte had already heard, concern himself in this matter if the ood as wasted by such a payment, if, as he firmly believed, no sufficient evidence could be produced to prove the thing which he had done

But the complications were so many! Perhaps in his admiration for the country of his adoption Mr Meles to the British aristocracy than do in truth belong to them He did in his heart believe that could he be known to all the world as the father-in-law of the eldest son of the Marquis of Auld Reekie he would becos in regard to such an affair as this He thought he could so use the family hich he would be connected as to force froain, if he could tide over this bad tilorious would it be to have a British Marquis for his son-in-law! Like ether to inquire when the pleasure to himself would come, or ould be its nature But he did believe that such a e would add a charot to hter without the positive assurance of absolute property, but he did think that the incoh it fell short of that which had been proiven proof to the Marquis's lawyer that his daughter was possessed of the property in question