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In theacted in the room below Melmotte after he reached the roo that nothing would overcome her wicked obstinacy He e to expostulate with hier was over The Great Financier again arranged the papers, just as they had been laid out before,--as though he thought that the girl n them there And then he went on to explain to Croll what he had wanted to have done,--how necessary it was that the thing should be done, and how terribly cruel it was to him that in such a crisis of his life he should be hampered, impeded,--he did not venture to his clerk to say ruined,--by the ill-conditioned obstinacy of a girl! He explained very fully how absolutely the property was his own, how totally the girl ithout any right to withhold it from him! How s! In all this Croll fully agreed Then Melhtest scruple in writing Marie's signature to the papers hi for her The property was his own property, and he was justified in doing with it as he pleased Of course he would have no scruple in writing his daughter's naain assented,--after a fashion, not by any nified his accordance with his employer's first propositions But he did not, at any rate, hint any disapprobation of the step which Melmotte proposed to take Then Melmotte went a step farther, and explained that the only difficulty in reference to such a transaction would be that the signature of his daughter would be required to be corroborated by that of a witness before he could use it Then he again looked up at Croll;--but on this occasion Croll did not move a muscle of his face There certainly was no assent Melmotte continued to look at him; but then came upon the old clerk's countenance a stern look which a dissent And yet Croll had been conversant with sos in his time, and Melmotte kneell the extent of Croll's experience Then Melame is pretty well over' 'You had better return to the city now,' he said aloud 'I shall follow you in half an hour It is quite possible that I hter withI shall do so In that case I shall want you to be ready' Croll again sain assented, and went his way