{"speaker": "Lady Carbury", "text": "DEAR FRIEND,-- I have taken care that you shall have the early sheets of my two new volumes to-morrow, or Saturday at latest, so that you may, if so minded, give a poor struggler like myself a lift in your next week's paper. Do give a poor struggler a lift. You and I have so much in common, and I have ventured to flatter myself that we are really friends! I do not flatter you when I say, that not only would aid from you help me more than from any other quarter, but also that praise from you would gratify my vanity more than any other praise. I almost think you will like my \"Criminal Queens.\" The sketch of Semiramis is at any rate spirited, though I had to twist it about a little to bring her in guilty. Cleopatra, of course, I have taken from Shakespeare. What a wench she was! I could not quite make Julia a queen; but it was impossible to pass over so piquant a character. You will recognise in the two or three ladies of the empire how faithfully I have studied my Gibbon. Poor dear old Belisarius! I have done the best I could with Joanna, but I could not bring myself to care for her. In our days she would simply have gone to Broadmore. I hope you will not think that I have been too strong in my delineations of Henry VIII. and his sinful but unfortunate Howard. I don't care a bit about Anne Boleyne. I am afraid that I have been tempted into too great length about the Italian Catherine; but in truth she has been my favourite. What a woman! What a devil! Pity that a second Dante could not have constructed for her a special hell. How one traces the effect of her training in the life of our Scotch Mary. I trust you will go with me in my view as to the Queen of Scots. Guilty! guilty always! Adultery, murder, treason, and all the rest of it. But recommended to mercy because she was royal. A queen bred, born and married, and with such other queens around her, how could she have escaped to be guilty? Marie Antoinette I have not quite acquitted. It would be uninteresting;--perhaps untrue. I have accused her lovingly, and have kissed when I scourged. I trust the British public will not be angry because I do not whitewash Caroline, especially as I go along with them altogether in abusing her husband. But I must not take up your time by sending you another book, though it gratifies me to think that I am writing what none but yourself will read. Do it yourself, like a dear man, and, as you are great, be merciful. Or rather, as you are a friend, be loving. Yours gratefully and faithfully, MATILDA CARBURY. After all how few women there are who can raise themselves above the quagmire of what we call love, and make themselves anything but playthings for men. Of almost all these royal and luxurious sinners it was the chief sin that in some phase of their lives they consented to be playthings without being wives. I have striven so hard to be proper; but when girls read everything, why should not an old woman write anything?", "pos": 7409}
{"speaker": "Lady Carbury", "text": "Mr. Broune, how foolish, how wrong, how mistaken! Is it not so? Surely you do not wish to put an end to the friendship between us!", "pos": 13549}
{"speaker": "Mr. Broune", "text": "Put an end to our friendship, Lady Carbury! Oh, certainly not that.", "pos": 13682}
{"speaker": "Lady Carbury", "text": "Then why risk it by such an act? Think of my son and of my daughter,--both grown up. Think of the past troubles of my life;--so much suffered and so little deserved. No one knows them so well as you do. Think of my name, that has been so often slandered but never disgraced! Say that you are sorry, and it shall be forgotten.", "pos": 13752}
{"speaker": "Mr. Broune", "text": "You know that for worlds I would not offend you,", "pos": 14368}
{"speaker": "Mr. Broune", "text": "Confound them all, no amount of experience enables a man to know them.", "pos": 15004}
{"speaker": "Lady Carbury", "text": "DEAR MR. BOOKER,-- I have told Mr. Leadham--[Mr. Leadham was senior partner in the enterprising firm of publishers known as Messrs. Leadham and Loiter]--to send you an early copy of my \"Criminal Queens.\" I have already settled with my friend Mr. Broune that I am to do your \"New Tale of a Tub\" in the \"Breakfast Table.\" Indeed, I am about it now, and am taking great pains with it. If there is anything you wish to have specially said as to your view of the Protestantism of the time, let me know. I should like you to say a word as to the accuracy of my historical details, which I know you can safely do. Don't put it off, as the sale does so much depend on early notices. I am only getting a royalty, which does not commence till the first four hundred are sold. Yours sincerely, MATILDA CARBURY.", "pos": 16939}
{"speaker": "Mr. Booker", "text": "Bad; of course it is bad. Who doubts that? How many very bad things are there that we do! But if we were to attempt to reform all our bad ways at once, we should never do any good thing. I am not strong enough to put the world straight, and I doubt if you are.", "pos": 19476}
{"speaker": "Lady Carbury", "text": "Do tell me who wrote the review on Fitzgerald Barker's last poem. Only I know you won't. I remember nothing done so well. I should think the poor wretch will hardly hold his head up again before the autumn. But it was fully deserved. I have no patience with the pretensions of would-be poets who contrive by toadying and underground influences to get their volumes placed on every drawing-room table. I know no one to whom the world has been so good-natured in this way as to Fitzgerald Barker, but I have heard of no one who has extended the good nature to the length of reading his poetry. Is it not singular how some men continue to obtain the reputation of popular authorship without adding a word to the literature of their country worthy of note? It is accomplished by unflagging assiduity in the system of puffing. To puff and to get one's self puffed have become different branches of a new profession. Alas, me! I wish I might find a class open in which lessons could be taken by such a poor tyro as myself. Much as I hate the thing from my very soul, and much as I admire the consistency with which the \"Pulpit\" has opposed it, I myself am so much in want of support for my own little efforts, and am struggling so hard honestly to make for myself a remunerative career, that I think, were the opportunity offered to me, I should pocket my honour, lay aside the high feeling which tells me that praise should be bought neither by money nor friendship, and descend among the low things, in order that I might one day have the pride of feeling that I had succeeded by my own work in providing for the needs of my children. But I have not as yet commenced the descent downwards; and therefore I am still bold enough to tell you that I shall look, not with concern but with a deep interest, to anything which may appear in the \"Pulpit\" respecting my \"Criminal Queens.\" I venture to think that the book,--though I wrote it myself,--has an importance of its own which will secure for it some notice. That my inaccuracy will be laid bare and presumption scourged I do not in the least doubt, but I think your reviewer will be able to certify that the sketches are life-like and the portraits well considered. You will not hear me told, at any rate, that I had better sit at home and darn my stockings, as you said the other day of that poor unfortunate Mrs. Effington Stubbs. I have not seen you for the last three weeks. I have a few friends every Tuesday evening;--pray come next week or the week following. And pray believe that no amount of editorial or critical severity shall make me receive you otherwise than with a smile.", "pos": 24397}
{"speaker": "Lady Carbury", "text": "My dear boy, pray leave your tobacco below when you come in here.", "pos": 49577}
{"speaker": "Sir Felix", "text": "What affectation it is, mother. Some women swear they like smoke, others say they hate it like the devil. It depends altogether on whether they wish to flatter or snub a fellow.", "pos": 49657}
{"speaker": "Lady Carbury", "text": "You don't suppose that I wish to snub you?", "pos": 49910}
{"speaker": "Sir Felix", "text": "Upon my word I don't know. I wonder whether you can let me have twenty pounds?", "pos": 49955}
{"speaker": "Lady Carbury", "text": "My dear Felix!", "pos": 50036}
{"speaker": "Sir Felix", "text": "Just so, mother;--but how about the twenty pounds?", "pos": 50053}
{"speaker": "Lady Carbury", "text": "What is it for, Felix?", "pos": 50175}
{"speaker": "Sir Felix", "text": "Well;--to tell the truth, to carry on the game for the nonce till something is settled. A fellow can't live without some money in his pocket. I do with as little as most fellows. I pay for nothing that I can help. I even get my hair cut on credit, and as long as it was possible I had a brougham, to save cabs.", "pos": 50200}
{"speaker": "Lady Carbury", "text": "What is to be the end of it, Felix?", "pos": 50513}
{"speaker": "Sir Felix", "text": "I never could see the end of anything, mother. I never could nurse a horse when the hounds were going well in order to be in at the finish. I never could pass a dish that I liked in favour of those that were to follow. What's the use?", "pos": 50551}
{"speaker": "Lady Carbury", "text": "Have you been at the Melmottes' to-day?", "pos": 50885}
{"speaker": "Sir Felix", "text": "I have just come away.", "pos": 51232}
{"speaker": "Lady Carbury", "text": "And what do you think of her?", "pos": 51257}
{"speaker": "Sir Felix", "text": "To tell the truth, mother, I have thought very little about her. She is not pretty, she is not plain; she is not clever, she is not stupid; she is neither saint nor sinner.", "pos": 51289}
{"speaker": "Lady Carbury", "text": "The more likely to make a good wife.", "pos": 51464}
{"speaker": "Sir Felix", "text": "Perhaps so. I am at any rate quite willing to believe that as wife she would be 'good enough for me.'", "pos": 51503}
{"speaker": "Lady Carbury", "text": "What does the mother say?", "pos": 51607}
{"speaker": "Sir Felix", "text": "The mother is a caution. I cannot help speculating whether, if I marry the daughter, I shall ever find out where the mother came from. Dolly Longestaffe says that somebody says that she was a Bohemian Jewess; but I think she's too fat for that.", "pos": 51635}
{"speaker": "Lady Carbury", "text": "What does it matter, Felix?", "pos": 51882}
{"speaker": "Sir Felix", "text": "Not in the least.", "pos": 51912}
{"speaker": "Lady Carbury", "text": "Is she civil to you?", "pos": 51932}
{"speaker": "Sir Felix", "text": "Yes, civil enough.", "pos": 51955}
{"speaker": "Lady Carbury", "text": "And the father?", "pos": 51976}
{"speaker": "Sir Felix", "text": "Well, he does not turn me out, or anything of that sort. Of course there are half-a-dozen after her, and I think the old fellow is bewildered among them all. He's thinking more of getting dukes to dine with him than of his daughter's lovers. Any fellow might pick her up who happened to hit her fancy.", "pos": 51994}
{"speaker": "Lady Carbury", "text": "And why not you?", "pos": 52298}
{"speaker": "Sir Felix", "text": "Why not, mother? I am doing my best, and it's no good flogging a willing horse. Can you let me have the money?", "pos": 52317}
{"speaker": "Lady Carbury", "text": "Oh, Felix, I think you hardly know how poor we are. You have still got your hunters down at the place!", "pos": 52430}
{"speaker": "Sir Felix", "text": "I have got two horses, if you mean that; and I haven't paid a shilling for their keep since the season began. Look here, mother; this is a risky sort of game, I grant, but I am playing it by your advice. If I can marry Miss Melmotte, I suppose all will be right. But I don't think the way to get her would be to throw up everything and let all the world know that I haven't got a copper. To do that kind of thing a man must live a little up to the mark. I've brought my hunting down to a minimum, but if I gave it up altogether there would be lots of fellows to tell them in Grosvenor Square why I had done so.", "pos": 52535}
{"speaker": "Sir Felix", "text": "Going to dine here, Dolly?", "pos": 56164}
{"speaker": "Dolly Longestaffe", "text": "I suppose I shall, because it's such a lot of trouble to go anywhere else. I'm engaged somewhere, I know; but I'm not up to getting home and dressing. By George! I don't know how fellows do that kind of thing. I can't.", "pos": 56209}
{"speaker": "Sir Felix", "text": "Going to hunt to-morrow?", "pos": 56430}
{"speaker": "Dolly Longestaffe", "text": "Well, yes; but I don't suppose I shall. I was going to hunt every day last week, but my fellow never would get me up in time. I can't tell why it is that things are done in such a beastly way. Why shouldn't fellows begin to hunt at two or three, so that a fellow needn't get up in the middle of the night?", "pos": 56457}
{"speaker": "Sir Felix", "text": "Because one can't ride by moonlight, Dolly.", "pos": 56765}
{"speaker": "Dolly Longestaffe", "text": "It isn't moonlight at three. At any rate I can't get myself to Euston Square by nine. I don't think that fellow of mine likes getting up himself. He says he comes in and wakes me, but I never remember it.", "pos": 56811}
{"speaker": "Sir Felix", "text": "How many horses have you got at Leighton, Dolly?", "pos": 57018}
{"speaker": "Dolly Longestaffe", "text": "How many? There were five, but I think that fellow down there sold one; but then I think he bought another. I know he did something.", "pos": 57069}
{"speaker": "Sir Felix", "text": "Who rides them?", "pos": 57204}
{"speaker": "Dolly Longestaffe", "text": "He does, I suppose. That is, of course, I ride them myself, only I so seldom get down. Somebody told me that Grasslough was riding two of them last week. I don't think I ever told him he might. I think he tipped that fellow of mine; and I call that a low kind of thing to do. I'd ask him, only I know he'd say that I had lent them. Perhaps I did when I was tight, you know.", "pos": 57222}
{"speaker": "Sir Felix", "text": "You and Grasslough were never pals.", "pos": 57598}
{"speaker": "Dolly Longestaffe", "text": "I don't like him a bit. He gives himself airs because he is a lord, and is devilish ill-natured. I don't know why he should want to ride my horses.", "pos": 57636}
{"speaker": "Sir Felix", "text": "To save his own.", "pos": 57786}
{"speaker": "Dolly Longestaffe", "text": "He isn't hard up. Why doesn't he have his own horses? I'll tell you what, Carbury, I've made up my mind to one thing, and, by Jove, I'll stick to it. I never will lend a horse again to anybody. If fellows want horses let them buy them.", "pos": 57805}
{"speaker": "Sir Felix", "text": "But some fellows haven't got any money, Dolly.", "pos": 58043}
{"speaker": "Dolly Longestaffe", "text": "Then they ought to go tick. I don't think I've paid for any of mine I've bought this season. There was somebody here yesterday--", "pos": 58092}
{"speaker": "Sir Felix", "text": "What! here at the club?", "pos": 58223}
{"speaker": "Dolly Longestaffe", "text": "Yes; followed me here to say he wanted to be paid for something! It was horses, I think, because of the fellow's trousers.", "pos": 58249}
{"speaker": "Sir Felix", "text": "What did you say?", "pos": 58374}
{"speaker": "Dolly Longestaffe", "text": "Me! Oh, I didn't say anything.", "pos": 58394}
{"speaker": "Sir Felix", "text": "And how did it end?", "pos": 58427}
{"speaker": "Dolly Longestaffe", "text": "When he'd done talking I offered him a cigar, and while he was biting off the end I went up-stairs. I suppose he went away when he was tired of waiting.", "pos": 58449}
{"speaker": "Sir Felix", "text": "I'll tell you what, Dolly; I wish you'd let me ride two of yours for a couple of days,--that is, of course, if you don't want them yourself. You ain't tight now, at any rate.", "pos": 58604}
{"speaker": "Dolly Longestaffe", "text": "No; I ain't tight,", "pos": 58781}
{"speaker": "Sir Felix", "text": "I mean that I wouldn't like to borrow your horses without your remembering all about it. Nobody knows as well as you do how awfully done up I am. I shall pull through at last, but it's an awful squeeze in the meantime. There's nobody I'd ask such a favour of except you.", "pos": 58844}
{"speaker": "Dolly Longestaffe", "text": "Well, you may have them;--that is, for two days. I don't know whether that fellow of mine will believe you. He wouldn't believe Grasslough, and told him so. But Grasslough took them out of the stables. That's what somebody told me.", "pos": 59117}
{"speaker": "Sir Felix", "text": "You could write a line to your groom.", "pos": 59351}
{"speaker": "Dolly Longestaffe", "text": "Oh, my dear fellow, that is such a bore; I don't think I could do that. My fellow will believe you, because you and I have been pals. I think I'll have a little drop of curaçoa before dinner. Come along and try it. It'll give us an appetite.", "pos": 59391}
{"speaker": "Sir Felix", "text": "I'm going to hunt to-morrow, and I shall play no more. A man must go to bed at some time.", "pos": 61311}
{"speaker": "Lord Grasslough", "text": "I don't see it at all. It's an understood thing that when a man has won as much as you have he should stay.", "pos": 61441}
{"speaker": "Sir Felix", "text": "Stay how long? That's nonsense; there must be an end of everything, and there's an end of this for me to-night.", "pos": 61575}
{"speaker": "Lord Grasslough", "text": "Oh, if you choose,", "pos": 61727}
{"speaker": "Sir Felix", "text": "I do choose. Good night, Dolly; we'll settle this next time we meet. I've got it all entered.", "pos": 61767}
{"speaker": "lawyer", "text": "You are willing to trust your only child to him,", "pos": 72086}
{"speaker": "Marchioness of Auld Reekie", "text": "It's to cost sixty thousand pounds,", "pos": 75469}
{"speaker": "Countess of Mid-Lothian", "text": "And worse spent money never was wasted,", "pos": 75710}
{"speaker": "Marchioness of Auld Reekie", "text": "By all accounts it was as badly come by,", "pos": 75771}
{"speaker": "Duchess", "text": "Of course they are vulgar, so much so as to be no longer distasteful because of the absurdity of the thing. I dare say he hasn't been very honest. When men make so much money, I don't know how they can have been honest. Of course it's done for a purpose. It's all very well saying that it isn't right, but what are we to do about Alfred's children? Miles is to have £500 a-year. And then he is always about the house. And between you and me they have got up those bills of Alfred's, and have said they can lie in their safe till it suits your uncle to pay them.", "pos": 77966}
{"speaker": "Lord Buntingford", "text": "They will lie there a long time,", "pos": 78555}
{"speaker": "Duchess", "text": "Of course they expect something in return; do dance with the girl once.", "pos": 78613}
{"speaker": "Melmotte", "text": "Come and have a glass of champagne, Alfred,", "pos": 80387}
{"speaker": "Hetta Carbury", "text": "It is the first great ball I ever was at in London,", "pos": 81367}
{"speaker": "Paul Montague", "text": "And how do you like it?", "pos": 81458}
{"speaker": "Hetta Carbury", "text": "Not at all. How should I like it? I know nobody here. I don't understand how it is that at these parties people do know each other, or whether they all go dancing about without knowing.", "pos": 81484}
{"speaker": "Paul Montague", "text": "Just that; I suppose when they are used to it they get introduced backwards and forwards, and then they can know each other as fast as they like. If you would wish to dance why won't you dance with me?", "pos": 81672}
{"speaker": "Hetta Carbury", "text": "I have danced with you,--twice already.", "pos": 81876}
{"speaker": "Paul Montague", "text": "Is there any law against dancing three times?", "pos": 81918}
{"speaker": "Hetta", "text": "But I don't especially want to dance. I think I'll go and console poor mamma, who has got nobody to speak to her.", "pos": 81966}
{"speaker": "Sir Felix", "text": "How well you dance,", "pos": 84388}
{"speaker": "Marie", "text": "Do I? I was never told so. But nobody ever told me anything about myself.", "pos": 84465}
{"speaker": "Sir Felix", "text": "I should like to tell you everything about yourself, from the beginning to the end.", "pos": 84631}
{"speaker": "Marie", "text": "Ah,--but you don't know.", "pos": 84717}
{"speaker": "Sir Felix", "text": "I would find out. I think I could make some good guesses. I'll tell you what you would like best in all the world.", "pos": 84744}
{"speaker": "Marie", "text": "What is that?", "pos": 84861}
{"speaker": "Sir Felix", "text": "Somebody that liked you best in all the world.", "pos": 84877}
{"speaker": "Marie", "text": "Ah,--yes; if one knew who?", "pos": 84926}
{"speaker": "Sir Felix", "text": "How can you know, Miss Melmotte, but by believing?", "pos": 84955}
{"speaker": "Marie", "text": "That is not the way to know. If a girl told me that she liked me better than any other girl, I should not know it, just because she said so. I should have to find it out.", "pos": 85008}
{"speaker": "Sir Felix", "text": "And if a gentleman told you so?", "pos": 85181}
{"speaker": "Marie", "text": "I shouldn't believe him a bit, and I should not care to find out. But I should like to have some girl for a friend whom I could love, oh, ten times better than myself.", "pos": 85215}
{"speaker": "Sir Felix", "text": "So should I.", "pos": 85385}
{"speaker": "Marie", "text": "Have you no particular friend?", "pos": 85400}
{"speaker": "Sir Felix", "text": "I mean a girl whom I could love,--oh, ten times better than myself.", "pos": 85433}
{"speaker": "Marie", "text": "Now you are laughing at me, Sir Felix,", "pos": 85503}
{"speaker": "Paul Montague", "text": "I wonder whether that will come to anything?", "pos": 85564}
{"speaker": "Hetta", "text": "You mean Felix and Miss Melmotte. I hate to think of such things, Mr. Montague.", "pos": 85772}
{"speaker": "Paul Montague", "text": "It would be a magnificent chance for him.", "pos": 85854}
{"speaker": "Hetta", "text": "To marry a girl, the daughter of vulgar people, just because she will have a great deal of money? He can't care for her really,--because she is rich.", "pos": 85898}
{"speaker": "Paul Montague", "text": "But he wants money so dreadfully! It seems to me that there is no other condition of things under which Felix can face the world, but by being the husband of an heiress.", "pos": 86050}
{"speaker": "Hetta", "text": "What a dreadful thing to say!", "pos": 86222}
{"speaker": "Paul Montague", "text": "But isn't it true? He has beggared himself.", "pos": 86254}
{"speaker": "Hetta", "text": "Oh, Mr. Montague.", "pos": 86300}
{"speaker": "Paul Montague", "text": "And he will beggar you and your mother.", "pos": 86320}
{"speaker": "Hetta", "text": "I don't care about myself.", "pos": 86362}
{"speaker": "Paul Montague", "text": "Others do though.", "pos": 86391}
{"speaker": "Hetta", "text": "I did not think you would have spoken so harshly of Felix.", "pos": 86527}
{"speaker": "Paul Montague", "text": "I don't speak harshly of him, Miss Carbury. I haven't said that it was his own fault. He seems to be one of those who have been born to spend money; and as this girl will have plenty of money to spend, I think it would be a good thing if he were to marry her. If Felix had £20,000 a year, everybody would think him the finest fellow in the world.", "pos": 86588}
{"speaker": "Lady Carbury", "text": "You here?", "pos": 87297}
{"speaker": "Mr. Alf", "text": "Why not? Melmotte and I are brother adventurers.", "pos": 87319}
{"speaker": "Lady Carbury", "text": "I should have thought you would find so little here to amuse you.", "pos": 87370}
{"speaker": "Mr. Alf", "text": "I have found you; and, in addition to that, duchesses and their daughters without number. They expect Prince George!", "pos": 87438}
{"speaker": "Lady Carbury", "text": "Do they?", "pos": 87557}
{"speaker": "Mr. Alf", "text": "And Legge Wilson from the India Office is here already. I spoke to him in some jewelled bower as I made my way here, not five minutes since. It's quite a success. Don't you think it very nice, Lady Carbury?", "pos": 87568}
{"speaker": "Lady Carbury", "text": "I don't know whether you are joking or in earnest.", "pos": 87777}
{"speaker": "Mr. Alf", "text": "I never joke. I say it is very nice. These people are spending thousands upon thousands to gratify you and me and others, and all they want in return is a little countenance.", "pos": 87830}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Do you mean to give it then?", "pos": 88006}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I am giving it them.", "pos": 88037}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Ah;--but the countenance of the 'Evening Pulpit.' Do you mean to give them that?", "pos": 88060}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Well; it is not in our line exactly to give a catalogue of names and to record ladies' dresses. Perhaps it may be better for our host himself that he should be kept out of the newspapers.", "pos": 88143}
{"speaker": "Lady Carbury", "text": "Are you going to be very severe upon poor me, Mr. Alf?", "pos": 88333}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "We are never severe upon anybody, Lady Carbury. Here's the Prince. What will they do with him now they've caught him! Oh, they're going to make him dance with the heiress. Poor heiress!", "pos": 88419}
{"speaker": "Lady Carbury", "text": "Poor Prince!", "pos": 88607}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Not at all. She's a nice little girl enough, and he'll have nothing to trouble him. But how is she, poor thing, to talk to royal blood?", "pos": 88641}
{"speaker": "Melmotte", "text": "Bless my soul;--his Royal Highness come and gone!", "pos": 91498}
{"speaker": "Miles Grendall", "text": "You and my father were so fast at your whist that it was impossible to get you away,", "pos": 91570}
{"speaker": "Melmotte", "text": "Have another rubber, Alfred?", "pos": 91999}
{"speaker": "Lord Alfred", "text": "Damn that kind of nonsense,", "pos": 92251}
{"speaker": "Madame Melmotte", "text": "Marie had behaved well, but had certainly preferred 'Sir Carbury' to any other of the young men.", "pos": 92553}
{"speaker": "Sir Felix", "text": "You know who it is, likes you better than any one else in the world.", "pos": 93481}
{"speaker": "Marie", "text": "Nobody does;--don't, Sir Felix.", "pos": 93568}
{"speaker": "Sir Felix", "text": "I do. It's weary work,", "pos": 93602}
{"speaker": "mother", "text": "What must it have been to me then, who had nothing to do?", "pos": 94063}
{"speaker": "Sir Felix", "text": "It's the having something to do that makes me call it weary work. By-the-bye, now I think of it, I'll run down to the club before I go home.", "pos": 94140}
{"speaker": "mother", "text": "It is two o'clock, Felix,", "pos": 94354}
{"speaker": "Sir Felix", "text": "I'm afraid it is, but you see I'm hungry. You had supper, perhaps; I had none.", "pos": 94399}
{"speaker": "mother", "text": "Are you going down to the club for supper at this time in the morning?", "pos": 94480}
{"speaker": "Sir Felix", "text": "I must go to bed hungry if I don't. Good night.", "pos": 94553}
{"speaker": "mother", "text": "Do you think he gambles?", "pos": 95576}
{"speaker": "Hetta", "text": "He has got no money, mamma.", "pos": 95603}
{"speaker": "mother", "text": "I fear that might not hinder him. And he has money with him, though, for him and such friends as he has, it is not much. If he gambles everything is lost.", "pos": 95633}
{"speaker": "Hetta", "text": "I suppose they all do play,--more or less.", "pos": 95790}
{"speaker": "mother", "text": "I have not known that he played. I am wearied too, out of all heart, by his want of consideration to me. It is not that he will not obey me. A mother perhaps should not expect obedience from a grown-up son. But my word is nothing to him. He has no respect for me. He would as soon do what is wrong before me as before the merest stranger.", "pos": 95835}
{"speaker": "Hetta", "text": "He has been so long his own master, mamma.", "pos": 96176}
{"speaker": "mother", "text": "Yes,--his own master! And yet I must provide for him as though he were but a child. Hetta, you spent the whole evening talking to Paul Montague.", "pos": 96221}
{"speaker": "Hetta", "text": "No, mamma;--that is unjust.", "pos": 96368}
{"speaker": "mother", "text": "He was always with you.", "pos": 96398}
{"speaker": "Hetta", "text": "I knew nobody else. I could not tell him not to speak to me. I danced with him twice. If you did not want me to speak to Paul you should not have taken me there.", "pos": 96424}
{"speaker": "mother", "text": "I don't wish to prevent your speaking to him. You know what I want. I think I am the unhappiest woman in all London,", "pos": 96673}
{"speaker": "Hetta", "text": "Is it my fault, mamma?", "pos": 96885}
{"speaker": "mother", "text": "You could save me from much if you would. I work like a horse, and I never spend a shilling that I can help. I want nothing for myself,--nothing for myself. Nobody has suffered as I have. But Felix never thinks of me for a moment.", "pos": 96910}
{"speaker": "Hetta", "text": "I think of you, mamma.", "pos": 97143}
{"speaker": "mother", "text": "If you did you would accept your cousin's offer. What right have you to refuse him? I believe it is all because of that young man.", "pos": 97168}
{"speaker": "Hetta", "text": "No, mamma; it is not because of that young man. I like my cousin very much;--but that is all. Good night, mamma.", "pos": 97301}
{"speaker": "Miles Grendall", "text": "I suppose you'll be here to-morrow,--that is to-night,", "pos": 99991}
{"speaker": "Sir Felix", "text": "Certainly,--only one thing,", "pos": 100060}
{"speaker": "Miles Grendall", "text": "What one thing?", "pos": 100106}
{"speaker": "Sir Felix", "text": "I think these things should be squared before we play any more!", "pos": 100124}
{"speaker": "Lord Grasslough", "text": "What do you mean by that? Do you mean to hint anything?", "pos": 100190}
{"speaker": "Sir Felix", "text": "I never hint anything, my Grassy. I believe when people play cards, it's intended to be ready-money, that's all. But I'm not going to stand on P's and Q's with you. I'll give you your revenge to-night.", "pos": 100275}
{"speaker": "Miles Grendall", "text": "That's all right,", "pos": 100493}
{"speaker": "Sir Felix", "text": "I was speaking to Lord Grasslough. He is an old friend, and we know each other. You have been rather rough to-night, Mr. Grendall.", "pos": 100525}
{"speaker": "Grendall", "text": "Rough;--what the devil do you mean by that?", "pos": 100672}
{"speaker": "Sir Felix", "text": "And I think it will be as well that our account should be settled before we begin again.", "pos": 100718}
{"speaker": "Grendall", "text": "A settlement once a week is the kind of thing I'm used to,", "pos": 100809}
{"speaker": "Lady Carbury", "text": "Dear cousin Roger, that Carbury Hall was very dull.", "pos": 110657}
{"speaker": "Roger Carbury", "text": "I've got to tell you something, Paul.", "pos": 114144}
{"speaker": "Paul Montague", "text": "Anything serious?", "pos": 114184}
{"speaker": "Roger Carbury", "text": "Very serious to me. I may say so serious that nothing in my own life can approach it in importance. I have offered my hand in marriage to my cousin Henrietta,", "pos": 114204}
{"speaker": "Paul Montague", "text": "Miss Carbury?", "pos": 114759}
{"speaker": "Roger Carbury", "text": "Yes; to Henrietta Carbury. She has not accepted it. She has refused me twice. But I still have hopes of success. Perhaps I have no right to hope, but I do. I tell it you just as it is. Everything in life to me depends upon it. I think I may count upon your sympathy.", "pos": 114775}
{"speaker": "Paul Montague", "text": "Why did you not tell me before? I also loved Henrietta Carbury. No;--he had not said a word to her. He had intended to consult Roger Carbury himself,--should have done so in a day or two,--perhaps on that very day had not Roger spoken to him.", "pos": 115044}
{"speaker": "Roger Carbury", "text": "You have neither of you a shilling in the world, and now you know what my feelings are you must abandon it.", "pos": 115757}
{"speaker": "Paul Montague", "text": "I have a right to speak to Miss Carbury. I do not suppose that Miss Carbury cared a straw about me. I had not the least reason to think that she did. It was altogether impossible. That chance was all the world to me. As to money,--I would not admit that I was a pauper, and, moreover, I might earn an income as well as other men. Had Carbury told him that the young lady had shown the slightest intention to receive his, Carbury's, addresses, he, Paul, would at once have disappeared from the scene.", "pos": 115908}
{"speaker": "Roger Carbury", "text": "God bless you, old fellow,", "pos": 116874}
{"speaker": "Paul Montague", "text": "If she won't take you, there is no reason why I shouldn't try.", "pos": 122229}
{"speaker": "Roger Carbury", "text": "Where is he now, Lady Carbury;--at this moment?", "pos": 128995}
{"speaker": "Lady Carbury", "text": "I think he's out with the Baron.", "pos": 129045}
{"speaker": "Roger Carbury", "text": "How does he manage it? Whose horses does he ride? Who pays for them?", "pos": 129200}
{"speaker": "Lady Carbury", "text": "Don't be angry with me, Roger. What can I do to prevent it?", "pos": 129271}
{"speaker": "Roger Carbury", "text": "I think you should refuse to have anything to do with him while he continues in such courses.", "pos": 129333}
{"speaker": "Lady Carbury", "text": "My own son!", "pos": 129429}
{"speaker": "Roger Carbury", "text": "Yes;--exactly. But what is to be the end of it? Is he to be allowed to ruin you, and Hetta? It can't go on long.", "pos": 129443}
{"speaker": "Lady Carbury", "text": "You wouldn't have me throw him over.", "pos": 129558}
{"speaker": "Roger Carbury", "text": "I think he is throwing you over. And then it is so thoroughly dishonest,--so ungentlemanlike! I don't understand how it goes on from day to day. I suppose you don't supply him with ready money.", "pos": 129597}
{"speaker": "Lady Carbury", "text": "He has had a little.", "pos": 129793}
{"speaker": "Roger Carbury", "text": "I can understand that you should provide him with bed and food, but not that you should pander to his vices by giving him money. The kind of life that he is leading requires a large income of itself. I understand the thing, and know that with all I have in the world I could not do it myself.", "pos": 129839}
{"speaker": "Lady Carbury", "text": "You are so different.", "pos": 130200}
{"speaker": "Roger Carbury", "text": "I am older of course,--very much older. But he is not so young that he should not begin to comprehend. Has he any money beyond what you give him?", "pos": 130224}
{"speaker": "Lady Carbury", "text": "I think he has been playing.", "pos": 130479}
{"speaker": "Roger Carbury", "text": "That is the way to lose money,--not to get it,", "pos": 130510}
{"speaker": "Lady Carbury", "text": "I suppose somebody wins,--sometimes.", "pos": 130571}
{"speaker": "Roger Carbury", "text": "They who win are the sharpers. They who lose are the dupes. I would sooner that he were a fool than a knave.", "pos": 130610}
{"speaker": "Lady Carbury", "text": "O Roger, you are so severe!", "pos": 130721}
{"speaker": "Roger Carbury", "text": "You say he plays. How would he pay, were he to lose?", "pos": 130751}
{"speaker": "Lady Carbury", "text": "I know nothing about it. I don't even know that he does play; but I have reason to think that during the last week he has had money at his command. Indeed I have seen it. He comes home at all manner of hours and sleeps late. Yesterday I went into his room about ten and did not wake him. There were notes and gold lying on his table;--ever so much.", "pos": 130806}
{"speaker": "Roger Carbury", "text": "Why did you not take them?", "pos": 131157}
{"speaker": "Lady Carbury", "text": "What; rob my own boy?", "pos": 131186}
{"speaker": "Roger Carbury", "text": "When you tell me that you are absolutely in want of money to pay your own bills, and that he has not hesitated to take yours from you! Why does he not repay you what he has borrowed?", "pos": 131210}
{"speaker": "Lady Carbury", "text": "Ah, indeed;--why not? He ought to if he has it. And there were papers there;--I. O. U.'s, signed by other men.", "pos": 131395}
{"speaker": "Roger Carbury", "text": "You looked at them.", "pos": 131508}
{"speaker": "Lady Carbury", "text": "I saw as much as that. It is not that I am curious, but one does feel about one's own son. I think he has bought another horse. A groom came here and said something about it to the servants.", "pos": 131530}
{"speaker": "Roger Carbury", "text": "Oh dear;--oh dear!", "pos": 131723}
{"speaker": "Lady Carbury", "text": "If you could only induce him to stop the gambling! Of course it is very bad whether he wins or loses,--though I am sure that Felix would do nothing unfair. Nobody ever said that of him. If he has won money, it would be a great comfort if he would let me have some of it,--for, to tell the truth, I hardly know how to turn. I am sure nobody can say that I spend it on myself.", "pos": 131744}
{"speaker": "Roger Carbury", "text": "If he be a man he would sooner break stones than live on you. Young men who gamble all night, and hunt all day are not easily found. Can I see Henrietta to-morrow?", "pos": 132752}
{"speaker": "Lady Carbury", "text": "Certainly;--why not? She is at home now, I think.", "pos": 133458}
{"speaker": "Roger Carbury", "text": "I will wait till to-morrow,--when I call to see Felix. I should like her to know that I am coming. Paul Montague was in town the other day. He was here, I suppose?", "pos": 133510}
{"speaker": "Lady Carbury", "text": "Yes;--he called.", "pos": 133676}
{"speaker": "Roger Carbury", "text": "Was that all you saw of him?", "pos": 133695}
{"speaker": "Lady Carbury", "text": "He was at the Melmottes' ball. Felix got a card for him;--and we were there. Has he gone down to Carbury?", "pos": 133726}
{"speaker": "Roger Carbury", "text": "No;--not to Carbury. I think he had some business about his partners at Liverpool. There is another case of a young man without anything to do. Not that Paul is at all like Sir Felix.", "pos": 133834}
{"speaker": "Lady Carbury", "text": "Don't be too hard upon poor Felix,", "pos": 134108}
{"speaker": "Sir Felix", "text": "What the Devil's the use of it?", "pos": 134427}
{"speaker": "Lady Carbury", "text": "If you speak to me in that way, Felix, I must leave the room.", "pos": 134501}
{"speaker": "Sir Felix", "text": "But what is the use of his coming to me? I know what he has got to say just as if it were said. It's all very well preaching sermons to good people, but nothing ever was got by preaching to people who ain't good.", "pos": 134565}
{"speaker": "Lady Carbury", "text": "Why shouldn't you be good?", "pos": 134780}
{"speaker": "Sir Felix", "text": "I shall do very well, mother, if that fellow will leave me alone. I can play my hand better than he can play it for me. If you'll go now I'll get up.", "pos": 134809}
{"speaker": "Roger Carbury", "text": "I was going to your mother's house on purpose to see you,", "pos": 136077}
{"speaker": "Sir Felix", "text": "Were you indeed? I am so sorry. I have an engagement out here with a fellow which I must keep. I could meet you at any other time, you know.", "pos": 136149}
{"speaker": "Roger Carbury", "text": "You can come back for ten minutes,", "pos": 136292}
{"speaker": "Sir Felix", "text": "Well;--not conveniently at this moment.", "pos": 136364}
{"speaker": "Roger Carbury", "text": "You must manage it. I am here at your mother's request, and can't afford to remain in town day after day looking for you. I go down to Carbury this afternoon. Your friend can wait. Come along.", "pos": 136406}
{"speaker": "Roger Carbury", "text": "Your mother tells me, that you still keep hunters.", "pos": 137198}
{"speaker": "Sir Felix", "text": "I don't know what she calls hunters. I have one that I didn't part with when the others went.", "pos": 137265}
{"speaker": "Roger Carbury", "text": "You have only one horse?", "pos": 137361}
{"speaker": "Sir Felix", "text": "Well;--if you want to be exact, I have a hack as well as the horse I ride.", "pos": 137388}
{"speaker": "Roger Carbury", "text": "And another up here in town?", "pos": 137465}
{"speaker": "Sir Felix", "text": "Who told you that? No; I haven't. At least there is one staying at some stables which has been sent for me to look at.", "pos": 137496}
{"speaker": "Roger Carbury", "text": "Who pays for all these horses?", "pos": 137617}
{"speaker": "Sir Felix", "text": "At any rate I shall not ask you to pay for them.", "pos": 137650}
{"speaker": "Roger Carbury", "text": "No;--you would be afraid to do that. But you have no scruple in asking your mother, though you should force her to come to me or to other friends for assistance. You have squandered every shilling of your own, and now you are ruining her.", "pos": 137701}
{"speaker": "Sir Felix", "text": "That isn't true. I have money of my own.", "pos": 137942}
{"speaker": "Roger Carbury", "text": "Where did you get it?", "pos": 137985}
{"speaker": "Sir Felix", "text": "This is all very well, Roger; but I don't know that you have any right to ask me these questions. I have money. If I buy a horse I can pay for it. If I keep one or two I can pay for them. Of course I owe a lot of money, but other people owe me money too. I'm all right, and you needn't frighten yourself.", "pos": 138009}
{"speaker": "Roger Carbury", "text": "Then why do you beg her last shilling from your mother, and when you have money not pay it back to her?", "pos": 138316}
{"speaker": "Sir Felix", "text": "She can have the twenty pounds, if you mean that.", "pos": 138422}
{"speaker": "Roger Carbury", "text": "I mean that, and a good deal more than that. I suppose you have been gambling.", "pos": 138474}
{"speaker": "Sir Felix", "text": "I don't know that I am bound to answer your questions, and I won't do it. If you have nothing else to say, I'll go about my own business.", "pos": 138555}
{"speaker": "Roger Carbury", "text": "I have something else to say, and I mean to say it.", "pos": 138695}
{"speaker": "Sir Felix", "text": "I am not going to be kept here against my will,", "pos": 138846}
{"speaker": "Roger Carbury", "text": "You have to listen to me, so you may as well sit still. Do you wish to be looked upon as a blackguard by all the world?", "pos": 138908}
{"speaker": "Sir Felix", "text": "Oh,--go on.", "pos": 139030}
{"speaker": "Roger Carbury", "text": "That is what it will be. You have spent every shilling of your own,--and because your mother is affectionate and weak, you are now spending all that she has, and are bringing her and your sister to beggary.", "pos": 139044}
{"speaker": "Sir Felix", "text": "I don't ask them to pay anything for me.", "pos": 139253}
{"speaker": "Roger Carbury", "text": "Not when you borrow her money?", "pos": 139296}
{"speaker": "Sir Felix", "text": "There is the £20. Take it and give it her. When I asked her for it, I did not think she would make such a row about such a trifle. Now, have you done?", "pos": 139329}
{"speaker": "Roger Carbury", "text": "Not quite. Do you purpose that your mother should keep you and clothe you for the rest of your life?", "pos": 139610}
{"speaker": "Sir Felix", "text": "I hope to be able to keep her before long, and to do it much better than it has ever been done before. The truth is, Roger, you know nothing about it. If you'll leave me to myself, you'll find that I shall do very well.", "pos": 139713}
{"speaker": "Roger Carbury", "text": "I don't know any young man who ever did worse, or one who had less moral conception of what is right and wrong.", "pos": 139935}
{"speaker": "Sir Felix", "text": "Very well. That's your idea. I differ from you. People can't all think alike, you know. Now, if you please, I'll go.", "pos": 140049}
{"speaker": "Roger Carbury", "text": "You will ruin your sister, and break your mother's heart,", "pos": 140958}
{"speaker": "Lady Carbury", "text": "I knew he would give it me back, if he had it,", "pos": 141285}
{"speaker": "Roger Carbury", "text": "Why did he not bring it to you of his own accord?", "pos": 141344}
{"speaker": "Lady Carbury", "text": "I suppose he did not like to talk about it. Has he said that he got it by--playing?", "pos": 141396}
{"speaker": "Roger Carbury", "text": "No,--he did not speak a word of truth while he was here. You may take it for granted that he did get it by gambling. How else should he have it? And you may take it for granted also that he will lose all that he has got. He talked in the wildest way,--saying that he would soon have a home for you and Hetta.", "pos": 141482}
{"speaker": "Lady Carbury", "text": "Did he;--dear boy!", "pos": 141793}
{"speaker": "Roger Carbury", "text": "Had he any meaning?", "pos": 141814}
{"speaker": "Lady Carbury", "text": "Oh; yes. And it is quite on the cards that it should be so. You have heard of Miss Melmotte.", "pos": 141836}
{"speaker": "Roger Carbury", "text": "I have heard of the great French swindler who has come over here, and who is buying his way into society.", "pos": 141931}
{"speaker": "Lady Carbury", "text": "Everybody visits them now, Roger.", "pos": 142039}
{"speaker": "Roger Carbury", "text": "More shame for everybody. Who knows anything about him,--except that he left Paris with the reputation of a specially prosperous rogue? But what of him?", "pos": 142075}
{"speaker": "Lady Carbury", "text": "Some people think that Felix will marry his only child. Felix is handsome; isn't he? What young man is there nearly so handsome? They say she'll have half a million of money.", "pos": 142230}
{"speaker": "Roger Carbury", "text": "That's his game;--is it?", "pos": 142407}
{"speaker": "Lady Carbury", "text": "Don't you think he is right?", "pos": 142434}
{"speaker": "Roger Carbury", "text": "No; I think he's wrong. But we shall hardly agree with each other about that. Can I see Henrietta for a few minutes?", "pos": 142465}
{"speaker": "Hetta", "text": "Have you seen Felix?", "pos": 145662}
{"speaker": "Roger Carbury", "text": "Yes. I caught him in the street.", "pos": 145735}
{"speaker": "Hetta", "text": "We are so unhappy about him.", "pos": 145770}
{"speaker": "Roger Carbury", "text": "I cannot say but that you have reason. I think, you know, that your mother indulges him foolishly.", "pos": 145801}
{"speaker": "Hetta", "text": "Poor mamma! She worships the very ground he treads on.", "pos": 145902}
{"speaker": "Roger Carbury", "text": "Even a mother should not throw her worship away like that. The fact is that your brother will ruin you both if this goes on.", "pos": 145959}
{"speaker": "Hetta", "text": "What can mamma do?", "pos": 146086}
{"speaker": "Roger Carbury", "text": "Leave London, and then refuse to pay a shilling on his behalf.", "pos": 146107}
{"speaker": "Hetta", "text": "What would Felix do in the country?", "pos": 146172}
{"speaker": "Roger Carbury", "text": "If he did nothing, how much better would that be than what he does in town? You would not like him to become a professional gambler.", "pos": 146210}
{"speaker": "Hetta", "text": "Oh, Mr. Carbury; you do not mean that he does that!", "pos": 146345}
{"speaker": "Roger Carbury", "text": "It seems cruel to say such things to you,--but in a matter of such importance one is bound to speak the truth. I have no influence over your mother; but you may have some. She asks my advice, but has not the slightest idea of listening to it. I don't blame her for that; but I am anxious for the sake of--, for the sake of the family.", "pos": 146399}
{"speaker": "Hetta", "text": "I am sure you are.", "pos": 146736}
{"speaker": "Roger Carbury", "text": "Especially for your sake. You will never throw him over.", "pos": 146757}
{"speaker": "Hetta", "text": "You would not ask me to throw him over.", "pos": 146816}
{"speaker": "Roger Carbury", "text": "But he may drag you into the mud. For his sake you have already been taken into the house of that man Melmotte.", "pos": 146858}
{"speaker": "Hetta", "text": "I do not think that I shall be injured by anything of that kind,", "pos": 146972}
{"speaker": "Roger Carbury", "text": "Pardon me if I seem to interfere.", "pos": 147075}
{"speaker": "Hetta", "text": "Oh, no;--it is no interference from you.", "pos": 147111}
{"speaker": "Roger Carbury", "text": "Pardon me then if I am rough. To me it seems that an injury is done to you if you are made to go to the house of such a one as this man. Why does your mother seek his society? Not because she likes him; not because she has any sympathy with him or his family;--but simply because there is a rich daughter.", "pos": 147154}
{"speaker": "Hetta", "text": "Everybody goes there, Mr. Carbury.", "pos": 147462}
{"speaker": "Roger Carbury", "text": "Yes,--that is the excuse which everybody makes. Is that sufficient reason for you to go to a man's house? Is there not another place to which we are told that a great many are going, simply because the road has become thronged and fashionable? Have you no feeling that you ought to choose your friends for certain reasons of your own? I admit there is one reason here. They have a great deal of money, and it is thought possible that he may get some of it by falsely swearing to a girl that he loves her. After what you have heard, are the Melmottes people with whom you would wish to be connected?", "pos": 147499}
{"speaker": "Hetta", "text": "I don't know.", "pos": 148100}
{"speaker": "Roger Carbury", "text": "I do. I know very well. They are absolutely disgraceful. A social connection with the first crossing-sweeper would be less objectionable.", "pos": 148116}
{"speaker": "Roger Carbury", "text": "Felix, has already descended so far that I cannot pretend to be anxious as to what houses he may frequent. But I should be sorry to think that you should often be seen at Mr. Melmotte's.", "pos": 148812}
{"speaker": "Hetta", "text": "I think, Mr. Carbury, that mamma will take care that I am not taken where I ought not to be taken.", "pos": 149017}
{"speaker": "Roger Carbury", "text": "I wish you to have some opinion of your own as to what is proper for you.", "pos": 149118}
{"speaker": "Hetta", "text": "I hope I have. I am sorry you should think that I have not.", "pos": 149194}
{"speaker": "Roger Carbury", "text": "I am old-fashioned, Hetta.", "pos": 149256}
{"speaker": "Hetta", "text": "And we belong to a newer and worse sort of world. I dare say it is so. You have been always very kind, but I almost doubt whether you can change us now. I have sometimes thought that you and mamma were hardly fit for each other.", "pos": 149285}
{"speaker": "Roger Carbury", "text": "I have thought that you and I were,--or possibly might be fit for each other.", "pos": 149516}
{"speaker": "Hetta", "text": "Oh,--as for me, I shall always take mamma's side. If mamma chooses to go to the Melmottes I shall certainly go with her. If that is contamination, I suppose I must be contaminated. I don't see why I'm to consider myself better than any one else.", "pos": 149596}
{"speaker": "Roger Carbury", "text": "I have always thought that you were better than any one else.", "pos": 149844}
{"speaker": "Hetta", "text": "That was before I went to the Melmottes. I am sure you have altered your opinion now. Indeed, you have told me so. I am afraid, Mr. Carbury, you must go your way, and we must go ours.", "pos": 149908}
{"speaker": "Roger Carbury", "text": "For myself. I have only one wish in the world; and that is, to travel the same road with you. I do not say that you ought to wish it too; but you ought to know that I am sincere. When I spoke of the Melmottes, did you believe that I was thinking of myself?", "pos": 150508}
{"speaker": "Hetta", "text": "Oh no;--how should I?", "pos": 150852}
{"speaker": "Roger Carbury", "text": "I was speaking to you then as to a cousin who might regard me as an elder brother. No contact with legions of Melmottes could make you other to me than the woman on whom my heart has settled. Even were you in truth disgraced,--could disgrace touch one so pure as you,--it would be the same. I love you so well that I have already taken you for better or for worse. I cannot change. My nature is too stubborn for such changes. Have you a word to say to comfort me? Do you understand how much I am in need of comfort?", "pos": 150875}
{"speaker": "Hetta", "text": "You can do very well without comfort from me.", "pos": 151453}
{"speaker": "Roger Carbury", "text": "No, indeed. I shall live, no doubt; but I shall not do very well. As it is, I am not doing at all well. I am becoming sour and moody, and ill at ease with my friends. I would have you believe me, at any rate, when I say I love you.", "pos": 151501}
{"speaker": "Hetta", "text": "I suppose you mean something.", "pos": 151735}
{"speaker": "Roger Carbury", "text": "I mean a great deal, dear. I mean all that a man can mean. That is it. You hardly understand that I am serious to the extent of ecstatic joy on the one side, and utter indifference to the world on the other. I shall never give it up till I learn that you are to be married to some one else.", "pos": 151767}
{"speaker": "Hetta", "text": "What can I say, Mr. Carbury?", "pos": 152060}
{"speaker": "Roger Carbury", "text": "That you will love me.", "pos": 152091}
{"speaker": "Hetta", "text": "But if I don't?", "pos": 152116}
{"speaker": "Roger Carbury", "text": "Say that you will try.", "pos": 152134}
{"speaker": "Hetta", "text": "No; I will not say that. Love should come without a struggle. I don't know how one person is to try to love another in that way. I like you very much; but being married is such a terrible thing.", "pos": 152159}
{"speaker": "Roger Carbury", "text": "It would not be terrible to me, dear.", "pos": 152356}
{"speaker": "Hetta", "text": "Yes;--when you found that I was too young for your tastes.", "pos": 152396}
{"speaker": "Roger Carbury", "text": "I shall persevere, you know. Will you assure me of this,--that if you promise your hand to another man, you will let me know at once?", "pos": 152457}
{"speaker": "Hetta", "text": "I suppose I may promise that,", "pos": 152593}
{"speaker": "Roger Carbury", "text": "There is no one as yet?", "pos": 152663}
{"speaker": "Hetta", "text": "There is no one. But, Mr. Carbury, you have no right to question me. I don't think it generous. I allow you to say things that nobody else could say because you are a cousin and because mamma trusts you so much. No one but mamma has a right to ask me whether I care for any one.", "pos": 152689}
{"speaker": "Roger Carbury", "text": "Are you angry with me?", "pos": 152970}
{"speaker": "Hetta", "text": "No.", "pos": 152995}
{"speaker": "Roger Carbury", "text": "If I have offended you it is because I love you so dearly.", "pos": 153001}
{"speaker": "Hetta", "text": "I am not offended, but I don't like to be questioned by a gentleman. I don't think any girl would like it. I am not to tell everybody all that happens.", "pos": 153062}
{"speaker": "Roger Carbury", "text": "Perhaps when you reflect how much of my happiness depends upon it you will forgive me. Good-bye now. When I walk about the old shrubberies at Carbury where we used to be together, I am always asking myself what chance there is of your walking there as the mistress.", "pos": 153216}
{"speaker": "Hetta", "text": "There is no chance.", "pos": 153560}
{"speaker": "Roger Carbury", "text": "I am, of course, prepared to hear you say so. Well; good-bye, and may God bless you.", "pos": 153582}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "You have been a guest in his house. Then, I guess, the thing's about as good as done.", "pos": 157303}
{"speaker": "Paul Montague", "text": "But I didn't even speak to him,", "pos": 158059}
{"speaker": "Mr. Fisker", "text": "In commercial affairs that matters nothing. It quite justifies you in introducing me. We are not going to ask your friend to do us a favour. We don't want to borrow money.", "pos": 158104}
{"speaker": "Paul Montague", "text": "I thought you did.", "pos": 158278}
{"speaker": "Mr. Fisker", "text": "If he'll go in for the thing he'd be one of us, and there would be no borrowing then. He'll join us if he's as clever as they say, because he'll see his way to making a couple of million of dollars out of it. If he'd take the trouble to run over and show himself in San Francisco, he'd make double that. The moneyed men would go in with him at once, because they know that he understands the game and has got the pluck. A man who has done what he has by financing in Europe,--by George! there's no limit to what he might do with us. We're a bigger people than any of you and have more room. We go after bigger things, and don't stand shilly-shally on the brink as you do. But Melmotte pretty nigh beats the best among us. Anyway he should come and try his luck, and he couldn't have a bigger thing or a safer thing than this. He'd see it immediately if I could talk to him for half an hour.", "pos": 158299}
{"speaker": "Paul Montague", "text": "Mr. Fisker, as we are partners, I think I ought to let you know that many people speak very badly of Mr. Melmotte's honesty.", "pos": 159192}
{"speaker": "Mr. Fisker", "text": "There is always a want of charity, when a man is successful.", "pos": 159439}
{"speaker": "Paul Montague", "text": "If you could realise all the money it wouldn't make a mile of the railway,", "pos": 161669}
{"speaker": "Paul Montague", "text": "What has become of the mill?", "pos": 163613}
{"speaker": "Mr. Fisker", "text": "We have put an agent into it.", "pos": 163654}
{"speaker": "Paul Montague", "text": "Is not that dangerous? What check have you on him?", "pos": 163686}
{"speaker": "Mr. Fisker", "text": "He pays us a fixed sum, sir. But, my word! when there is such a thing as this on hand a trumpery mill like that is not worth speaking of.", "pos": 163739}
{"speaker": "Paul Montague", "text": "You haven't sold it?", "pos": 163879}
{"speaker": "Mr. Fisker", "text": "Well;--no. But we've arranged a price for a sale.", "pos": 163902}
{"speaker": "Paul Montague", "text": "You haven't taken the money for it?", "pos": 163954}
{"speaker": "Mr. Fisker", "text": "Well;--yes; we have. We've raised money on it, you know. You see you weren't there, and so the two resident partners acted for the firm. But Mr. Montague, you'd better go with us. You had indeed.", "pos": 163992}
{"speaker": "Paul Montague", "text": "And about my own income?", "pos": 164190}
{"speaker": "Mr. Fisker", "text": "That's a flea-bite. When we've got a little ahead with this it won't matter, sir, whether you spend twenty thousand or forty thousand dollars a year. We've got the concession from the United States Government through the territories, and we're in correspondence with the President of the Mexican Republic. I've no doubt we've an office open already in Mexico and another at Vera Cruz.", "pos": 164217}
{"speaker": "Paul Montague", "text": "Where's the money to come from?", "pos": 164604}
{"speaker": "Mr. Fisker", "text": "Money to come from, sir? Where do you suppose the money comes from in all these undertakings? If we can float the shares, the money'll come in quick enough. We hold three million dollars of the stock ourselves.", "pos": 164638}
{"speaker": "Paul Montague", "text": "Six hundred thousand pounds!", "pos": 164851}
{"speaker": "Mr. Fisker", "text": "We take them at par, of course,--and as we sell we shall pay for them. But of course we shall only sell at a premium. If we can run them up even to 110, there would be three hundred thousand dollars. But we'll do better than that. I must try and see Melmotte at once. You had better write a letter now.", "pos": 164897}
{"speaker": "Paul Montague", "text": "I don't know the man.", "pos": 165202}
{"speaker": "Mr. Fisker", "text": "Never mind. Look here--I'll write it, and you can sign it.", "pos": 165226}
{"speaker": "Paul Montague", "text": "But I have never said that I would superintend the interests,", "pos": 166366}
{"speaker": "Mr. Fisker", "text": "You can say so now. It binds you to nothing. You regular John Bull Englishmen are so full of scruples that you lose as much of life as should serve to make an additional fortune.", "pos": 166445}
{"speaker": "Melmotte", "text": "I don't seem to remember, the gentleman who has done me the honour of writing to me about you.", "pos": 169536}
{"speaker": "Mr. Fisker", "text": "I dare say not, Mr. Melmotte. When I'm at home in San Francisco, I make acquaintance with a great many gents whom I don't remember afterwards. My partner I think told me that he went to your house with his friend, Sir Felix Carbury.", "pos": 169644}
{"speaker": "Melmotte", "text": "I know a young man called Sir Felix Carbury.", "pos": 169879}
{"speaker": "Mr. Fisker", "text": "That's it. I could have got any amount of introductions to you if I had thought this would not have sufficed. Our account here in London is kept with the City and West End Joint Stock. But I have only just arrived, and as my chief object in coming to London is to see you, and as I met my partner, Mr. Montague, in Liverpool, I took a note from him and came on straight.", "pos": 169926}
{"speaker": "Melmotte", "text": "And what can I do for you, Mr. Fisker?", "pos": 170321}
{"speaker": "Melmotte", "text": "You seem to think you couldn't get it taken up in your own country,", "pos": 171190}
{"speaker": "Mr. Fisker", "text": "There's not a doubt about getting it all taken up there. Our folk, sir, are quick enough at the game; but you don't want me to teach you, Mr. Melmotte, that nothing encourages this kind of thing like competition. When they hear at St. Louis and Chicago that the thing is alive in London, they'll be alive there. And it's the same here, sir. When they know that the stock is running like wildfire in America, they'll make it run here too.", "pos": 171275}
{"speaker": "Melmotte", "text": "How far have you got?", "pos": 171715}
{"speaker": "Mr. Fisker", "text": "What we've gone to work upon is a concession for making the line from the United States Congress. We're to have the land for nothing, of course, and a grant of one thousand acres round every station, the stations to be twenty-five miles apart.", "pos": 171739}
{"speaker": "Melmotte", "text": "And the land is to be made over to you,--when?", "pos": 171985}
{"speaker": "Mr. Fisker", "text": "When we have made the line up to the station.", "pos": 172034}
{"speaker": "Melmotte", "text": "And what do you want me to do, Mr. Fisker?", "pos": 172329}
{"speaker": "Mr. Fisker", "text": "I want to have your name there,", "pos": 172374}
{"speaker": "Melmotte", "text": "Who are to be your directors here, Mr. Fisker?", "pos": 172605}
{"speaker": "Mr. Fisker", "text": "We should ask you to choose them, sir. Mr. Paul Montague should be one, and perhaps his friend Sir Felix Carbury might be another. We could get probably one of the Directors of the City and West End. But we would leave it all to you,--as also the amount of stock you would like to take yourself. If you gave yourself to it, heart and soul, Mr. Melmotte, it would be the finest thing that there has been out for a long time. There would be such a mass of stock!", "pos": 172654}
{"speaker": "Melmotte", "text": "You have to back that with a certain amount of paid-up capital?", "pos": 173117}
{"speaker": "Mr. Fisker", "text": "We take care, sir, in the West not to cripple commerce too closely by old-fashioned bandages. Look at what we've done already, sir, by having our limbs pretty free. Look at our line, sir, right across the continent, from San Francisco to New York. Look at--", "pos": 173183}
{"speaker": "Melmotte", "text": "Never mind that, Mr. Fisker. People wanted to go from New York to San Francisco, and I don't know that they do want to go to Vera Cruz. But I will look at it, and you shall hear from me.", "pos": 173443}
{"speaker": "Mr. Fisker", "text": "My dear fellow, what's the use of your flurrying yourself? In a thing of this kind, when it has once been set agoing, there is nothing else to do. You may have to work your fingers off before you can make it move, and then fail. But all that has been done for you. If you go there on the Thursdays that's quite as much as you need do. You don't suppose that such a man as Melmotte would put up with any real interference.", "pos": 176407}
{"speaker": "Paul Montague", "text": "Fortune! what fortune had either of us? a few beggarly thousands of dollars not worth talking of, and barely sufficient to enable a man to look at an enterprise. And now where are you? Look here, sir;--there's more to be got out of the smashing up of such an affair as this, if it should smash up, than could be made by years of hard work out of such fortunes as yours and mine in the regular way of trade. When and how was I to have helped myself? The money had been raised and spent before this man came here at all. It's all very well to say that he had no right to do it; but he had done it. I couldn't even have gone to law with him without going over to California, and then I should have got no redress.", "pos": 177142}
{"speaker": "Lord Nidderdale", "text": "Oh! bother, let's have some game that Christians play.", "pos": 188149}
{"speaker": "Mr. Fisker", "text": "I think that most of them came from you, Sir Felix,", "pos": 191342}
{"speaker": "Sir Felix", "text": "I dare say they did, but they are all good against these other fellows. That's Longestaffe, and I'll change that of course. You seem to have £150 from Grasslough, £145 from Nidderdale, and £322 10s. from Grendall,", "pos": 191443}
{"speaker": "Lord Nidderdale", "text": "This won't do, you know. Mr. Fisker must have his money before he leaves. You've got it, Carbury.", "pos": 192156}
{"speaker": "Lord Grasslough", "text": "Of course he has,", "pos": 192275}
{"speaker": "Sir Felix", "text": "As it happens I have not, but what if I had?", "pos": 192312}
{"speaker": "Lord Nidderdale", "text": "Mr. Fisker starts for New York immediately. I suppose we can muster £600 among us. Ring the bell for Vossner. I think Carbury ought to pay the money as he lost it, and we didn't expect to have our I.O.U.'s brought up in this way.", "pos": 192378}
{"speaker": "Sir Felix", "text": "Lord Nidderdale. I have already said that I have not got the money about me. Why should I have it more than you, especially as I knew I had I.O.U.'s more than sufficient to meet anything I could lose when I sat down?", "pos": 192634}
{"speaker": "Lord Nidderdale", "text": "Mr. Fisker must have his money at any rate,", "pos": 192871}
{"speaker": "Mr. Fisker", "text": "It doesn't matter one straw, my lord. Let it be sent to me to Frisco, in a bill, my lord.", "pos": 192963}
{"speaker": "Lord Nidderdale", "text": "If you must go this very minute I'll meet you at the train with the money,", "pos": 193201}
{"speaker": "Miles Grendall", "text": "I suppose I'd better send you a bill over to America,", "pos": 193943}
{"speaker": "Mr. Fisker", "text": "Just so. My partner, Montague, will tell you the address. One cheer for the South Central Pacific and Mexican Railway,", "pos": 194107}
{"speaker": "Lord Nidderdale", "text": "Vossner must get the money. Let's have him up again.", "pos": 195094}
{"speaker": "Miles Grendall", "text": "I don't think it's my fault. Of course no one thought he was to be called upon in this sort of way.", "pos": 195168}
{"speaker": "Carbury", "text": "Why shouldn't you be called upon? You acknowledge that you owe the money.", "pos": 195284}
{"speaker": "Lord Grasslough", "text": "I think Carbury ought to have paid it,", "pos": 195376}
{"speaker": "Sir Felix", "text": "Grassy, my boy, your attempts at thinking are never worth much. Why was I to suppose that a stranger would be playing among us? Had you a lot of ready money with you to pay if you had lost it? I don't always walk about with six hundred pounds in my pocket;--nor do you!", "pos": 195434}
{"speaker": "Lord Nidderdale", "text": "It's no good jawing, let's get the money.", "pos": 195726}
{"speaker": "Lord Nidderdale", "text": "It'll only be a trifle over £100 each,", "pos": 196811}
{"speaker": "Paul Montague", "text": "Won't Mr. Grendall pay it?", "pos": 196881}
{"speaker": "Lord Nidderdale", "text": "Oh, dear no. How the devil should he?", "pos": 196910}
{"speaker": "Paul Montague", "text": "Then he shouldn't play.", "pos": 196950}
{"speaker": "Lord Nidderdale", "text": "That 'd be hard on him, poor fellow. If you went to his uncle the duke, I suppose you could get it. Or Buntingford might put it right for you. Perhaps he might win, you know, some day, and then he'd make it square. He'd be fair enough if he had it. Poor Miles! We've brought you the tin,", "pos": 196976}
{"speaker": "Mr. Fisker", "text": "Upon my word, my lord, I'm sorry you have taken so much trouble about such a trifle.", "pos": 197408}
{"speaker": "Lord Nidderdale", "text": "A man should always have his money when he wins.", "pos": 197495}
{"speaker": "Mr. Fisker", "text": "We don't think anything about such little matters at Frisco, my lord.", "pos": 197546}
{"speaker": "Lord Nidderdale", "text": "You're fine fellows at Frisco, I dare say. Here we pay up,--when we can. Sometimes we can't, and then it is not pleasant. He's not half a bad fellow, but he's not a bit like an Englishman,", "pos": 197618}
{"speaker": "Lady Carbury", "text": "I've got it all in black and white, and can prove him to be wrong. It was in 1522 that the man first came to Paris, and he couldn't have been her lover before that. I got it all out of the 'Biographie Universelle.' I'll write to Mr. Alf myself,--a letter to be published, you know.", "pos": 202268}
{"speaker": "Mr. Leadham", "text": "Pray don't do anything of the kind, Lady Carbury.", "pos": 202607}
{"speaker": "Lady Carbury", "text": "I can prove that I'm right.", "pos": 202659}
{"speaker": "Mr. Leadham", "text": "And they can prove that you're wrong.", "pos": 202689}
{"speaker": "Lady Carbury", "text": "I've got all the facts,--and the figures.", "pos": 202729}
{"speaker": "Mr. Leadham", "text": "Never fight the newspapers, Lady Carbury. Who ever yet got any satisfaction by that kind of thing? It's their business, and you are not used to it.", "pos": 203017}
{"speaker": "Lady Carbury", "text": "And Mr. Alf is my particular friend! It does seem so hard,", "pos": 203167}
{"speaker": "Mr. Leadham", "text": "It won't do us the least harm, Lady Carbury.", "pos": 203281}
{"speaker": "Lady Carbury", "text": "It'll stop the sale?", "pos": 203328}
{"speaker": "Mr. Leadham", "text": "Not much. A book of that sort couldn't hope to go on very long, you know. The 'Breakfast Table' gave it an excellent lift, and came just at the right time. I rather like the notice in the 'Pulpit,' myself.", "pos": 203351}
{"speaker": "Lady Carbury", "text": "Like it!", "pos": 203559}
{"speaker": "Mr. Leadham", "text": "Anything is better than indifference, Lady Carbury. A great many people remember simply that the book has been noticed, but carry away nothing as to the purport of the review. It's a very good advertisement.", "pos": 203698}
{"speaker": "Lady Carbury", "text": "But to be told that I have got to learn the ABC of history,--after working as I have worked!", "pos": 203908}
{"speaker": "Mr. Leadham", "text": "That's a mere form of speech, Lady Carbury.", "pos": 204003}
{"speaker": "Lady Carbury", "text": "You think the book has done pretty well?", "pos": 204049}
{"speaker": "Mr. Leadham", "text": "Pretty well;--just about what we hoped, you know.", "pos": 204092}
{"speaker": "Lady Carbury", "text": "There'll be something coming to me, Mr. Leadham?", "pos": 204143}
{"speaker": "Mr. Booker", "text": "If I didn't, somebody else would,", "pos": 206798}
{"speaker": "Lady Carbury", "text": "I hope, you'll stay at home on Tuesday evening.", "pos": 211797}
{"speaker": "Sir Felix", "text": "All your people are coming! You know, mother, it is such an awful bore.", "pos": 211954}
{"speaker": "Lady Carbury", "text": "Madame Melmotte and her daughter will be here.", "pos": 212028}
{"speaker": "Sir Felix", "text": "One looks such a fool carrying on that kind of thing in one's own house. Everybody sees that it has been contrived. And it is such a pokey, stuffy little place!", "pos": 212077}
{"speaker": "Lady Carbury", "text": "Felix, I think you must be a fool. I have given over ever expecting that you would do anything to please me. I sacrifice everything for you and I do not even hope for a return. But when I am doing everything to advance your own interests, when I am working night and day to rescue you from ruin, I think you might at any rate help a little,--not for me of course, but for yourself.", "pos": 212278}
{"speaker": "Sir Felix", "text": "I don't know what you mean by working day and night. I don't want you to work day and night.", "pos": 212662}
{"speaker": "Lady Carbury", "text": "There is hardly a young man in London that is not thinking of this girl, and you have chances that none of them have. I am told they are going out of town at Whitsuntide, and that she's to meet Lord Nidderdale down in the country.", "pos": 212757}
{"speaker": "Sir Felix", "text": "She can't endure Nidderdale. She says so herself.", "pos": 212990}
{"speaker": "Lady Carbury", "text": "She will do as she is told,--unless she can be made to be downright in love with some one like yourself. Why not ask her at once on Tuesday?", "pos": 213042}
{"speaker": "Sir Felix", "text": "If I'm to do it at all I must do it after my own fashion. I'm not going to be driven.", "pos": 213185}
{"speaker": "Lady Carbury", "text": "Of course if you will not take the trouble to be here to see her when she comes to your own house, you cannot expect her to think that you really love her.", "pos": 213273}
{"speaker": "Sir Felix", "text": "Love her! what a bother there is about loving! Well;--I'll look in. What time do the animals come to feed?", "pos": 213431}
{"speaker": "Lady Carbury", "text": "There will be no feeding. Felix, you are so heartless and so cruel that I sometimes think I will make up my mind to let you go your own way and never to speak to you again. My friends will be here about ten;--I should say from ten till twelve. I think you should be here to receive her, not later than ten.", "pos": 213540}
{"speaker": "Sir Felix", "text": "If I can get my dinner out of my throat by that time, I will come.", "pos": 213849}
{"speaker": "Mr. Alf", "text": "I cannot stand this kind of thing. There's a regular system of touting got abroad, and I mean to trample it down.", "pos": 214839}
{"speaker": "Mr. Booker", "text": "If you're strong enough,", "pos": 214986}
{"speaker": "Mr. Alf", "text": "Well, I think I am. I'm strong enough, at any rate, to show that I'm not afraid to lead the way. I've the greatest possible regard for our friend here;--but her book is a bad book, a thoroughly rotten book, an unblushing compilation from half-a-dozen works of established reputation, in pilfering from which she has almost always managed to misapprehend her facts, and to muddle her dates. Then she writes to me and asks me to do the best I can for her. I have done the best I could.", "pos": 215030}
{"speaker": "Mr. Booker", "text": "What you say is all very right, only you want a different kind of world to live in.", "pos": 215628}
{"speaker": "Mr. Alf", "text": "Just so;--and therefore we must make it different. I wonder how our friend Broune felt when he saw that his critic had declared that the 'Criminal Queens' was the greatest historical work of modern days.", "pos": 215733}
{"speaker": "Mr. Booker", "text": "I didn't see the notice. There isn't much in the book, certainly, as far as I have looked at it. I should have said that violent censure or violent praise would be equally thrown away upon it. One doesn't want to break a butterfly on the wheel;--especially a friendly butterfly.", "pos": 215939}
{"speaker": "Mr. Alf", "text": "As to the friendship, it should be kept separate. That's my idea,", "pos": 216220}
{"speaker": "Lady Carbury", "text": "I'll never forget what you've done for me,--never!", "pos": 216315}
{"speaker": "Mr. Broune", "text": "Nothing more than my duty,", "pos": 216452}
{"speaker": "Lady Carbury", "text": "I hope you'll learn to know that a woman can really be grateful,", "pos": 216499}
{"speaker": "Lady Carbury", "text": "I am so glad that you have come to-night, Mr. Alf,", "pos": 217911}
{"speaker": "Mr. Alf", "text": "Am I not always glad to come, Lady Carbury?", "pos": 218033}
{"speaker": "Lady Carbury", "text": "You are very good. But I feared,--", "pos": 218079}
{"speaker": "Mr. Alf", "text": "Feared what, Lady Carbury?", "pos": 218116}
{"speaker": "Lady Carbury", "text": "That you might perhaps have felt that I should be unwilling to welcome you after,--well, after the compliments of last Thursday.", "pos": 218145}
{"speaker": "Mr. Alf", "text": "I never allow the two things to join themselves together. You see, Lady Carbury, I don't write all these things myself.", "pos": 218276}
{"speaker": "Lady Carbury", "text": "No indeed. What a bitter creature you would be if you did.", "pos": 218398}
{"speaker": "Mr. Alf", "text": "To tell the truth, I never write any of them. Of course we endeavour to get people whose judgments we can trust, and if, as in this case, it should unfortunately happen that the judgment of our critic should be hostile to the literary pretensions of a personal friend of my own, I can only lament the accident, and trust that my friend may have spirit enough to divide me as an individual from that Mr. Alf who has the misfortune to edit a newspaper.", "pos": 218459}
{"speaker": "Lady Carbury", "text": "It is because you have so trusted me that I am obliged to you,", "pos": 218912}
{"speaker": "Sir Felix", "text": "I love you better than anyone in the world,", "pos": 223459}
{"speaker": "Marie", "text": "Oh, Sir Felix, pray do not talk like that.", "pos": 223604}
{"speaker": "Sir Felix", "text": "You knew that before. Now I want you to say whether you will be my wife.", "pos": 223649}
{"speaker": "Marie", "text": "How can I answer that myself? Papa settles everything.", "pos": 223724}
{"speaker": "Sir Felix", "text": "May I go to papa?", "pos": 223781}
{"speaker": "Marie", "text": "You may if you like,", "pos": 223801}
{"speaker": "Hetta", "text": "I heard him leave the house before the Melmottes went,", "pos": 225057}
{"speaker": "Lady Carbury", "text": "He might have stayed to-night. Do you think he asked her?", "pos": 225186}
{"speaker": "Hetta", "text": "How can I say, mamma?", "pos": 225246}
{"speaker": "Lady Carbury", "text": "I should have thought you would have been anxious about your brother. I feel sure he did,--and that she accepted him.", "pos": 225270}
{"speaker": "Hetta", "text": "If so I hope he will be good to her. I hope he loves her.", "pos": 225390}
{"speaker": "Lady Carbury", "text": "Why shouldn't he love her as well as any one else? A girl need not be odious because she has money. There is nothing disagreeable about her.", "pos": 225450}
{"speaker": "Hetta", "text": "No,--nothing disagreeable. I do not know that she is especially attractive.", "pos": 225593}
{"speaker": "Lady Carbury", "text": "Who is? I don't see anybody specially attractive. It seems to me you are quite indifferent about Felix.", "pos": 225671}
{"speaker": "Hetta", "text": "Do not say that, mamma.", "pos": 225777}
{"speaker": "Lady Carbury", "text": "Yes you are. You don't understand all that he might be with this girl's fortune, and what he must be unless he gets money by marriage. He is eating us both up.", "pos": 225803}
{"speaker": "Hetta", "text": "I would not let him do that, mamma.", "pos": 225965}
{"speaker": "Lady Carbury", "text": "It's all very well to say that, but I have some heart. I love him. I could not see him starve. Think what he might be with £20,000 a-year!", "pos": 226003}
{"speaker": "Hetta", "text": "If he is to marry for that only, I cannot think that they will be happy.", "pos": 226144}
{"speaker": "Lady Carbury", "text": "You had better go to bed, Henrietta. You never say a word to comfort me in all my troubles.", "pos": 226219}
{"speaker": "Sir Felix", "text": "Mother, you up at this hour!", "pos": 229392}
{"speaker": "Lady Carbury", "text": "I could not go to bed till I had seen you.", "pos": 229620}
{"speaker": "Sir Felix", "text": "Why not? why should you want to see me? I'll go to bed now. There'll be plenty of time by-and-bye.", "pos": 229665}
{"speaker": "Lady Carbury", "text": "Is anything the matter, Felix?", "pos": 229766}
{"speaker": "Sir Felix", "text": "Matter;--what should be the matter? There's been a gentle row among the fellows at the club;--that's all. I had to tell Grasslough a bit of my mind, and he didn't like it. I didn't mean that he should.", "pos": 229799}
{"speaker": "Lady Carbury", "text": "There is not going to be any fighting, Felix?", "pos": 230003}
{"speaker": "Sir Felix", "text": "What, duelling; oh no,--nothing so exciting as that. Whether somebody may not have to kick somebody is more than I can say at present. You must let me go to bed now, for I am about used up.", "pos": 230051}
{"speaker": "Lady Carbury", "text": "What did Marie Melmotte say to you?", "pos": 230243}
{"speaker": "Sir Felix", "text": "Nothing particular.", "pos": 230281}
{"speaker": "Lady Carbury", "text": "And what did you say to her?", "pos": 230362}
{"speaker": "Sir Felix", "text": "Nothing particular. Good heavens, mother, do you think that a man is in a condition to talk about such stuff as that at eight o'clock in the morning, when he has been up all night?", "pos": 230393}
{"speaker": "Lady Carbury", "text": "If you knew all that I suffer on your behalf you would speak a word to me,", "pos": 230576}
{"speaker": "Sir Felix", "text": "I must go to the old fellow, of course.", "pos": 230829}
{"speaker": "Lady Carbury", "text": "She told you to go to her father?", "pos": 230871}
{"speaker": "Sir Felix", "text": "As far as I remember, that was about it. Of course, he means to settle it as he likes. I should say that it's ten to one against me.", "pos": 230907}
{"speaker": "Lady Carbury", "text": "Do you know, Felix, I think I shall go down to your cousin Roger for Whitsuntide.", "pos": 233937}
{"speaker": "Sir Felix", "text": "To Carbury Manor! I thought you found it so dull that you didn't mean to go there any more.", "pos": 234021}
{"speaker": "Lady Carbury", "text": "I never said so, Felix. And now I have a great object.", "pos": 234226}
{"speaker": "Sir Felix", "text": "What will Hetta do?", "pos": 234283}
{"speaker": "Lady Carbury", "text": "Go too--why shouldn't she?", "pos": 234305}
{"speaker": "Sir Felix", "text": "Oh; I didn't know. I thought that perhaps she mightn't like it.", "pos": 234334}
{"speaker": "Lady Carbury", "text": "I don't see why she shouldn't like it. Besides, everything can't give way to her.", "pos": 234400}
{"speaker": "Sir Felix", "text": "Has Roger asked you?", "pos": 234484}
{"speaker": "Lady Carbury", "text": "No; but I'm sure he'd be pleased to have us if I proposed that we should all go.", "pos": 234507}
{"speaker": "Sir Felix", "text": "Not me, mother!", "pos": 234590}
{"speaker": "Lady Carbury", "text": "Yes; you especially.", "pos": 234608}
{"speaker": "Sir Felix", "text": "Not if I know it, mother. What on earth should I do at Carbury Manor?", "pos": 234631}
{"speaker": "Lady Carbury", "text": "Madame Melmotte told me last night that they were all going down to Caversham to stay three or four days with the Longestaffes. She spoke of Lady Pomona as quite her particular friend.", "pos": 234703}
{"speaker": "Sir Felix", "text": "Oh--h! that explains it all.", "pos": 234890}
{"speaker": "Lady Carbury", "text": "Explains what, Felix?", "pos": 234921}
{"speaker": "Sir Felix", "text": "They say at the club that Melmotte has taken up old Longestaffe's affairs, and means to put them straight. There's an old property in Sussex as well as Caversham, and they say that Melmotte is to have that himself. There's some bother because Dolly, who would do anything for anybody else, won't join his father in selling. So the Melmottes are going to Caversham!", "pos": 235149}
{"speaker": "Lady Carbury", "text": "Madame Melmotte told me so.", "pos": 235516}
{"speaker": "Sir Felix", "text": "And the Longestaffes are the proudest people in England.", "pos": 235546}
{"speaker": "Lady Carbury", "text": "Of course we ought to be at Carbury Manor while they are there. What can be more natural? Everybody goes out of town at Whitsuntide; and why shouldn't we run down to the family place?", "pos": 235605}
{"speaker": "Sir Felix", "text": "All very natural if you can manage it, mother.", "pos": 235791}
{"speaker": "Lady Carbury", "text": "And you'll come?", "pos": 235840}
{"speaker": "Sir Felix", "text": "If Marie Melmotte goes, I'll be there at any rate for one day and night,", "pos": 235859}
{"speaker": "Melmotte", "text": "You have only a life interest, Mr. Longestaffe.", "pos": 237387}
{"speaker": "Mr. Longestaffe", "text": "No; only a life interest. That is customary with family estates in this country, Mr. Melmotte.", "pos": 237436}
{"speaker": "Melmotte", "text": "Just so. And therefore you can dispose of nothing else. Your son, of course, could join you, and then you could sell either one estate or the other.", "pos": 237533}
{"speaker": "Mr. Longestaffe", "text": "There is no question of selling Caversham, sir. Lady Pomona and I reside there.", "pos": 237684}
{"speaker": "Melmotte", "text": "Your son will not join you in selling the other place?", "pos": 237766}
{"speaker": "Mr. Longestaffe", "text": "I have not directly asked him; but he never does do anything that I wish. I suppose you would not take Pickering Park on a lease for my life.", "pos": 237823}
{"speaker": "Melmotte", "text": "I think not, Mr. Longestaffe. My wife would not like the uncertainty.", "pos": 237967}
{"speaker": "Mr. Longestaffe", "text": "You have made Lord Alfred Grendall one! I'm sure I could do anything that he does,", "pos": 239120}
{"speaker": "Melmotte", "text": "the number of directors required was completed.", "pos": 239445}
{"speaker": "Lady Pomona", "text": "But Adolphus wants money as much as any one,", "pos": 242122}
{"speaker": "Sophia", "text": "What on earth are we to do with them?", "pos": 242647}
{"speaker": "Georgiana", "text": "I do think it's a shame of papa. I certainly shan't trouble myself to entertain them.", "pos": 242744}
{"speaker": "Lady Pomona", "text": "Of course you will leave them all on my hands,", "pos": 242871}
{"speaker": "Sophia", "text": "But what's the use of having them? I can understand going to a crush at their house in town when everybody else goes. One doesn't speak to them, and need not know them afterwards. As to the girl, I'm sure I shouldn't remember her if I were to see her.", "pos": 242946}
{"speaker": "Lady Pomona", "text": "It would be a fine thing if Adolphus would marry her,", "pos": 243216}
{"speaker": "Georgiana", "text": "Dolly will never marry anybody. The idea of his taking the trouble of asking a girl to have him! Besides, he won't come down to Caversham; cart-ropes wouldn't bring him. If that is to be the game, mamma, it is quite hopeless.", "pos": 243290}
{"speaker": "Sophia", "text": "Why should Dolly marry such a creature as that?", "pos": 243536}
{"speaker": "Lady Pomona", "text": "Because everybody wants money. I'm sure I don't know what your papa is to do, or how it is that there never is any money for anything. I don't spend it.", "pos": 243600}
{"speaker": "Sophia", "text": "I don't think that we do anything out of the way. I haven't the slightest idea what papa's income is; but if we're to live at all, I don't know how we are to make a change.", "pos": 243775}
{"speaker": "Georgiana", "text": "It's always been like this ever since I can remember, and I don't mean to worry about it any more. I suppose it's just the same with other people, only one doesn't know it.", "pos": 243965}
{"speaker": "Lady Pomona", "text": "But, my dears--when we are obliged to have such people as these Melmottes!", "pos": 244158}
{"speaker": "Georgiana", "text": "As for that, if we didn't have them somebody else would. I shan't trouble myself about them. I suppose it will only be for two days.", "pos": 244235}
{"speaker": "Lady Pomona", "text": "My dear, they're coming for a week!", "pos": 244370}
{"speaker": "Georgiana", "text": "Then papa must take them about the country, that's all. I never did hear of anything so absurd. What good can they do papa by being down there?", "pos": 244408}
{"speaker": "Lady Pomona", "text": "He is wonderfully rich,", "pos": 244554}
{"speaker": "Georgiana", "text": "But I don't suppose he'll give papa his money. Of course I don't pretend to understand, but I think there is more fuss about these things than they deserve. If papa hasn't got money to live at home, why doesn't he go abroad for a year? The Sydney Beauchamps did that, and the girls had quite a nice time of it in Florence. It was there that Clara Beauchamp met young Lord Liffey. I shouldn't at all mind that kind of thing, but I think it quite horrible to have these sort of people brought down upon us at Caversham. No one knows who they are, or where they came from, or what they'll turn to.", "pos": 244598}
{"speaker": "Lady Pomona", "text": "My dear Adolphus, this is so nice of you.", "pos": 248690}
{"speaker": "Dolly Longestaffe", "text": "I think it is rather nice,", "pos": 248753}
{"speaker": "Sophia", "text": "Oh Dolly, whoever would have thought of seeing you?", "pos": 248827}
{"speaker": "Lady Pomona", "text": "Give him some tea,", "pos": 248894}
{"speaker": "Dolly Longestaffe", "text": "I'd sooner have soda and brandy,", "pos": 249029}
{"speaker": "Lady Pomona", "text": "My darling boy!", "pos": 249076}
{"speaker": "Dolly Longestaffe", "text": "I didn't ask for it, and I don't expect to get it; indeed I don't want it. I only said I'd sooner have it than tea. Where's the governor?", "pos": 249094}
{"speaker": "Sophia", "text": "Papa went out in the brougham immediately after lunch,", "pos": 249378}
{"speaker": "Dolly Longestaffe", "text": "I'll wait a little for him,", "pos": 249456}
{"speaker": "Lady Pomona", "text": "Do stay and dine with us,", "pos": 249520}
{"speaker": "Dolly Longestaffe", "text": "I could not do that, because I've got to go and dine with some fellow.", "pos": 249566}
{"speaker": "Georgiana", "text": "Some fellow! I believe you don't know where you're going,", "pos": 249639}
{"speaker": "Dolly Longestaffe", "text": "My fellow knows. At least he's a fool if he don't.", "pos": 249715}
{"speaker": "Lady Pomona", "text": "Adolphus. I've got a plan and I want you to help me.", "pos": 249768}
{"speaker": "Dolly Longestaffe", "text": "I hope there isn't very much to do in it, mother.", "pos": 249859}
{"speaker": "Lady Pomona", "text": "We're all going to Caversham, just for Whitsuntide, and we particularly want you to come.", "pos": 249911}
{"speaker": "Dolly Longestaffe", "text": "By George! no; I couldn't do that.", "pos": 250003}
{"speaker": "Lady Pomona", "text": "You haven't heard half. Madame Melmotte and her daughter are coming.", "pos": 250040}
{"speaker": "Dolly Longestaffe", "text": "The d---- they are!", "pos": 250111}
{"speaker": "Sophia", "text": "Dolly! do remember where you are.", "pos": 250151}
{"speaker": "Dolly Longestaffe", "text": "Yes I will;--and I'll remember too where I won't be. I won't go to Caversham to meet old mother Melmotte.", "pos": 250202}
{"speaker": "Lady Pomona", "text": "My dear boy, do you know that Miss Melmotte will have twenty--thousand--a year the day she marries; and that in all probability her husband will some day be the richest man in Europe?", "pos": 250310}
{"speaker": "Dolly Longestaffe", "text": "Half the fellows in London are after her,", "pos": 250520}
{"speaker": "Lady Pomona", "text": "Why shouldn't you be one of them?", "pos": 250576}
{"speaker": "Georgiana", "text": "She isn't going to stay in the same house with half the fellows in London. If you've a mind to try it you'll have a chance which nobody else can have just at present.", "pos": 250612}
{"speaker": "Dolly Longestaffe", "text": "But I haven't any mind to try it. Good gracious me;--oh dear! it isn't at all in my way, mother.", "pos": 250804}
{"speaker": "Georgiana", "text": "I knew he wouldn't,", "pos": 250903}
{"speaker": "Lady Pomona", "text": "It would put everything so straight,", "pos": 250941}
{"speaker": "Dolly Longestaffe", "text": "They'll have to remain crooked if nothing else will put them straight. There's the governor. I heard his voice. Now for a row.", "pos": 250998}
{"speaker": "Lady Pomona", "text": "My dear, here's Adolphus come to see us. We want him to stay and dine, but he's engaged.", "pos": 251166}
{"speaker": "Sophia", "text": "Though he doesn't know where,", "pos": 251335}
{"speaker": "Dolly Longestaffe", "text": "My fellow knows;--he keeps a book. I've got a letter, sir, ever so long, from those fellows in Lincoln's Inn. They want me to come and see you about selling something; so I've come. It's an awful bore, because I don't understand anything about it. Perhaps there isn't anything to be sold. If so I can go away again, you know.", "pos": 251380}
{"speaker": "Mr. Longestaffe", "text": "You'd better come with me into the study. We needn't disturb your mother and sisters about business.", "pos": 251708}
{"speaker": "Mr. Longestaffe", "text": "My dear, we shall not return from Caversham to London this year.", "pos": 252642}
{"speaker": "Sophia", "text": "Papa!", "pos": 252912}
{"speaker": "Lady Pomona", "text": "My dear, you don't mean it,", "pos": 252937}
{"speaker": "Georgiana", "text": "Of course papa doesn't mean it,", "pos": 252985}
{"speaker": "Mr. Longestaffe", "text": "I mean it accurately and certainly. We go to Caversham in about ten days, and we shall not return from Caversham to London this year.", "pos": 253054}
{"speaker": "Lady Pomona", "text": "Our ball is fixed,", "pos": 253214}
{"speaker": "Mr. Longestaffe", "text": "Then it must be unfixed.", "pos": 253253}
{"speaker": "Sophia", "text": "He can't really mean it,", "pos": 253569}
{"speaker": "Lady Pomona", "text": "He does,", "pos": 253609}
{"speaker": "Georgiana", "text": "He must unmean it again;--that's all. Dolly has said something to him very rough, and he resents it upon us. Why did he bring us up at all if he means to take us down before the season has begun?", "pos": 253662}
{"speaker": "Lady Pomona", "text": "I wonder what Adolphus has said to him. Your papa is always hard upon Adolphus.", "pos": 253878}
{"speaker": "Georgiana", "text": "Dolly can take care of himself, and always does do so. Dolly does not care for us.", "pos": 253960}
{"speaker": "Sophia", "text": "Not a bit,", "pos": 254063}
{"speaker": "Georgiana", "text": "I'll tell you what you must do, mamma. You mustn't stir from this at all. You must give up going to Caversham altogether, unless he promises to bring us back. I won't stir,--unless he has me carried out of the house.", "pos": 254089}
{"speaker": "Lady Pomona", "text": "My dear, I couldn't say that to him.", "pos": 254308}
{"speaker": "Georgiana", "text": "Then I will. To go and be buried down in that place for a whole year with no one near us but the rusty old bishop and Mr. Carbury, who is rustier still. I won't stand it. There are some sort of things that one ought not to stand. If you go down I shall stay up with the Primeros. Mrs. Primero would have me I know.", "pos": 254347}
{"speaker": "Lady Pomona", "text": "That's ill-natured, Georgiana. She is not a friend of mine.", "pos": 254885}
{"speaker": "Georgiana", "text": "But you're going to have her down at Caversham. I can't think what made you dream of going to Caversham just now, knowing as you do how hard papa is to manage.", "pos": 254947}
{"speaker": "Lady Pomona", "text": "Everybody has taken to going out of town at Whitsuntide, my dear.", "pos": 255109}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "No, mamma; everybody has not. People understand too well the trouble of getting up and down for that. The Primeros aren't going down. I never heard of such a thing in all my life. What does he expect is to become of us? If he wants to save money why doesn't he shut Caversham up altogether and go abroad? Caversham costs a great deal more than is spent in London, and it's the dullest house, I think, in all England.", "pos": 255176}
{"speaker": "Mr. Longestaffe", "text": "You had better remember that what you have to do in town must be done this week,", "pos": 256916}
{"speaker": "Hetta", "text": "I don't think it quite nice, mamma; that's all. Of course if you have made up your mind to go, I must go with you.", "pos": 257138}
{"speaker": "Lady Carbury", "text": "What on earth can be more natural than that you should go to your own cousin's house?", "pos": 257255}
{"speaker": "Hetta", "text": "You know what I mean, mamma.", "pos": 257343}
{"speaker": "Lady Carbury", "text": "It's done now, my dear, and I don't think there is anything at all in what you say.", "pos": 257374}
{"speaker": "Lady Carbury", "text": "MY DEAR ROGER. We know how kind you are and how sincere, and that if what I am going to propose doesn't suit you'll say so at once. I have been working very hard,--too hard indeed, and I feel that nothing will do me so much real good as getting into the country for a day or two. Would you take us for a part of Whitsun week? We would come down on the 20th May and stay over the Sunday if you would keep us. Felix says he would run down though he would not trouble you for so long a time as we talk of staying. I'm sure you must have been glad to hear of his being put upon that Great American Railway Board as a Director. It opens a new sphere of life to him, and will enable him to prove that he can make himself useful. I think it was a great confidence to place in one so young. Of course you will say so at once if my little proposal interferes with any of your plans, but you have been so very very kind to us that I have no scruple in making it. Henrietta joins with me in kind love.", "pos": 258084}
{"speaker": "Roger Carbury", "text": "New sphere of life! The only proper sphere for them all would be Newgate!", "pos": 260842}
{"speaker": "Roger Carbury", "text": "It is always best to be open and true. Since you were kind enough to say that you would come to me, Lady Carbury has proposed to visit me just at the same time and to bring her daughter. After what has passed between us I need hardly say that I could not make you both welcome here together. It is not pleasant to me to have to ask you to postpone your visit, but I think you will not accuse me of a want of hospitality towards you.", "pos": 261964}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Fill un oop;--eh, eh; sooner said than doone, squoire. Where be the stoof to come from?", "pos": 263729}
{"speaker": "Lady Carbury", "text": "This is so kind of you,", "pos": 275079}
{"speaker": "Roger Carbury", "text": "The kindness is on your part,", "pos": 275183}
{"speaker": "Lady Carbury", "text": "I felt so much before I dared to ask you to take us. But I did so long to get into the country, and I do so love Carbury. And--and--", "pos": 275227}
{"speaker": "Roger Carbury", "text": "Where should a Carbury go to escape from London smoke, but to the old house? I am afraid Henrietta will find it dull.", "pos": 275362}
{"speaker": "Hetta", "text": "Oh no. You ought to remember that I am never dull in the country.", "pos": 275482}
{"speaker": "Roger Carbury", "text": "The bishop and Mrs. Yeld are coming here to dine to-morrow,--and the Hepworths.", "pos": 275572}
{"speaker": "Lady Carbury", "text": "I shall be so glad to meet the bishop once more,", "pos": 275654}
{"speaker": "Roger Carbury", "text": "I think everybody must be glad to meet him, he is such a dear, good fellow, and his wife is just as good. And there is another gentleman coming whom you have never seen.", "pos": 275724}
{"speaker": "Lady Carbury", "text": "A new neighbour?", "pos": 275896}
{"speaker": "Roger Carbury", "text": "Yes,--a new neighbour;--Father John Barham, who has come to Beccles as priest. He has got a little cottage about a mile from here, in this parish, and does duty both at Beccles and Bungay. I used to know something of his family.", "pos": 275915}
{"speaker": "Lady Carbury", "text": "He is a gentleman then?", "pos": 276146}
{"speaker": "Roger Carbury", "text": "Certainly he is a gentleman. He took his degree at Oxford, and then became what we call a pervert, and what I suppose they call a convert. He has not got a shilling in the world beyond what they pay him as a priest, which I take it amounts to about as much as the wages of a day labourer. He told me the other day that he was absolutely forced to buy second-hand clothes.", "pos": 276172}
{"speaker": "Lady Carbury", "text": "How shocking!", "pos": 276546}
{"speaker": "Roger Carbury", "text": "He didn't seem to be at all shocked at telling it. We have got to be quite friends.", "pos": 276603}
{"speaker": "Lady Carbury", "text": "Will the bishop like to meet him?", "pos": 276689}
{"speaker": "Roger Carbury", "text": "Why should not the bishop like to meet him? I've told the bishop all about him, and the bishop particularly wishes to know him. He won't hurt the bishop. But you and Hetta will find it very dull.", "pos": 276725}
{"speaker": "Hetta", "text": "I shan't find it dull, Mr. Carbury,", "pos": 276923}
{"speaker": "Lady Carbury", "text": "It was to escape from the eternal parties that we came down here,", "pos": 276977}
{"speaker": "Roger Carbury", "text": "I have asked the Longestaffes for Monday,", "pos": 277429}
{"speaker": "Lady Carbury", "text": "I know they are to have guests. The Melmottes are coming to them.", "pos": 277958}
{"speaker": "Roger Carbury", "text": "The Melmottes coming to Caversham!", "pos": 278274}
{"speaker": "Lady Carbury", "text": "Oh yes,--Madame Melmotte told me. I take it they are very intimate.", "pos": 278535}
{"speaker": "Roger Carbury", "text": "Mr. Longestaffe ask the Melmottes to visit him at Caversham!", "pos": 278605}
{"speaker": "Lady Carbury", "text": "Why not?", "pos": 278668}
{"speaker": "Roger Carbury", "text": "I should almost as soon have believed that I myself might have been induced to ask them here.", "pos": 278679}
{"speaker": "Lady Carbury", "text": "I fancy, Roger, that Mr. Longestaffe does want a little pecuniary assistance.", "pos": 278775}
{"speaker": "Roger Carbury", "text": "And he condescends to get it in this way! I suppose it will make no difference soon whom one knows, and whom one doesn't. Things aren't as they were, of course, and never will be again. Perhaps it's all for the better;--I won't say it isn't. But I should have thought that such a man as Mr. Longestaffe might have kept such another man as Mr. Melmotte out of his wife's drawing-room. I don't approve of them in London, you know; but I think they are very much worse in the country.", "pos": 278855}
{"speaker": "Lady Carbury", "text": "I can understand, Roger,", "pos": 280977}
{"speaker": "Roger Carbury", "text": "What people?", "pos": 281071}
{"speaker": "Lady Carbury", "text": "The Melmottes.", "pos": 281086}
{"speaker": "Roger Carbury", "text": "I don't dislike them. How should I dislike people that I never saw? I dislike those who seek their society simply because they have the reputation of being rich.", "pos": 281103}
{"speaker": "Lady Carbury", "text": "Meaning me.", "pos": 281267}
{"speaker": "Roger Carbury", "text": "No; not meaning you. I don't dislike you, as you know very well, though I do dislike the fact that you should run after these people. I was thinking of the Longestaffes then.", "pos": 281281}
{"speaker": "Lady Carbury", "text": "Do you suppose, my friend, that I run after them for my own gratification? Do you think that I go to their house because I find pleasure in their magnificence; or that I follow them down here for any good that they will do me?", "pos": 281458}
{"speaker": "Roger Carbury", "text": "I would not follow them at all.", "pos": 281687}
{"speaker": "Lady Carbury", "text": "I will go back if you bid me, but I must first explain what I mean. You know my son's condition,--better, I fear, than he does himself. What is he to do? The only chance for a young man in his position is that he should marry a girl with money. He is good-looking; you can't deny that.", "pos": 281721}
{"speaker": "Roger Carbury", "text": "Nature has done enough for him.", "pos": 282058}
{"speaker": "Lady Carbury", "text": "We must take him as he is. He was put into the army very young, and was very young when he came into possession of his own small fortune. He might have done better; but how many young men placed in such temptations do well? As it is, he has nothing left.", "pos": 282092}
{"speaker": "Roger Carbury", "text": "I fear not.", "pos": 282349}
{"speaker": "Lady Carbury", "text": "And therefore is it not imperative that he should marry a girl with money?", "pos": 282363}
{"speaker": "Roger Carbury", "text": "I call that stealing a girl's money, Lady Carbury.", "pos": 282440}
{"speaker": "Lady Carbury", "text": "Oh, Roger, how hard you are!", "pos": 282493}
{"speaker": "Roger Carbury", "text": "A man must be hard or soft,--which is best?", "pos": 282524}
{"speaker": "Lady Carbury", "text": "With women I think that a little softness has the most effect. I want to make you understand this about the Melmottes. It stands to reason that the girl will not marry Felix unless she loves him.", "pos": 282570}
{"speaker": "Roger Carbury", "text": "But does he love her?", "pos": 282768}
{"speaker": "Lady Carbury", "text": "Why should he not? Is a girl to be debarred from being loved because she has money? Of course she looks to be married, and why should she not have Felix if she likes him best? Cannot you sympathize with my anxiety so to place him that he shall not be a disgrace to the name and to the family?", "pos": 282792}
{"speaker": "Roger Carbury", "text": "We had better not talk about the family, Lady Carbury.", "pos": 283087}
{"speaker": "Lady Carbury", "text": "But I think so much about it.", "pos": 283144}
{"speaker": "Roger Carbury", "text": "You will never get me to say that I think the family will be benefited by a marriage with the daughter of Mr. Melmotte. I look upon him as dirt in the gutter. To me, in my old-fashioned way, all his money, if he has it, can make no difference. When there is a question of marriage people at any rate should know something of each other. Who knows anything of this man? Who can be sure that she is his daughter? Yes; it all comes to that. Men say openly that he is an adventurer and a swindler. No one pretends to think that he is a gentleman. There is a consciousness among all who speak of him that he amasses his money not by honest trade, but by unknown tricks,--as does a card sharper. He is one whom we would not admit into our kitchens, much less to our tables, on the score of his own merits. But because he has learned the art of making money, we not only put up with him, but settle upon his carcase as so many birds of prey.", "pos": 283176}
{"speaker": "Lady Carbury", "text": "Do you mean that Felix should not marry the girl, even if they love each other?", "pos": 284165}
{"speaker": "Roger Carbury", "text": "I have nothing more to say about it. Had it gone on in London I should have said nothing. It is no affair of mine. When I am told that the girl is in the neighbourhood, at such a house as Caversham, and that Felix is coming here in order that he may be near to his prey, and when I am asked to be a party to the thing, I can only say what I think. Your son would be welcome to my house, because he is your son and my cousin, little as I approve his mode of life; but I could have wished that he had chosen some other place for the work that he has on hand.", "pos": 284514}
{"speaker": "Lady Carbury", "text": "If you wish it, Roger, we will return to London. I shall find it hard to explain to Hetta;--but we will go.", "pos": 285089}
{"speaker": "Roger Carbury", "text": "No; I certainly do not wish that.", "pos": 285199}
{"speaker": "Lady Carbury", "text": "But you have said such hard things! How are we to stay? You speak of Felix as though he were all bad.", "pos": 285235}
{"speaker": "Lady Carbury", "text": "I am grieved, Roger, that we should have troubled you with our visit, but I think that we had better go. You are very harsh, and it crushes me.", "pos": 285942}
{"speaker": "Roger Carbury", "text": "I have not meant to be harsh.", "pos": 286088}
{"speaker": "Lady Carbury", "text": "You say that Felix is seeking for his--prey, and that he is to be brought here to be near--his prey. What can be more harsh than that? At any rate, you should remember that I am his mother.", "pos": 286120}
{"speaker": "Roger Carbury", "text": "If I have hurt you, I regret it much.", "pos": 286485}
{"speaker": "Lady Carbury", "text": "Of course you have hurt me. I think I will go in now. How very hard the world is! I came here thinking to find peace and sunshine, and there has come a storm at once.", "pos": 286525}
{"speaker": "Roger Carbury", "text": "You asked me about the Melmottes, and I was obliged to speak. You cannot think that I meant to offend you. If I have been over hot with you, let me beg your pardon.", "pos": 286694}
{"speaker": "Lady Carbury", "text": "I think I will go to my room now. My head aches so that I can hardly stand.", "pos": 287141}
{"speaker": "Hetta", "text": "Mr. Carbury, mamma is so unhappy!", "pos": 289713}
{"speaker": "Roger Carbury", "text": "I fear that I have offended her.", "pos": 289761}
{"speaker": "Hetta", "text": "It is not that, but that you should be so,--so angry about Felix.", "pos": 289796}
{"speaker": "Roger Carbury", "text": "I am vexed with myself that I have vexed her,--more vexed than I can tell you.", "pos": 289864}
{"speaker": "Hetta", "text": "She knows how good you are.", "pos": 289945}
{"speaker": "Roger Carbury", "text": "No, I'm not. I was very bad just now. She was so offended with me that she talked of going back to London. I should be wretched indeed if you and she were to leave my house in anger.", "pos": 289975}
{"speaker": "Hetta", "text": "I do not think she will do that.", "pos": 290235}
{"speaker": "Roger Carbury", "text": "And you?", "pos": 290270}
{"speaker": "Hetta", "text": "I am not angry. I should never dare to be angry with you. I only wish that Felix would be better. They say that young men have to be bad, and that they do get to be better as they grow older. He is something in the city now, a director they call him, and mamma thinks that the work will be of service to him. I don't see why he should not try at any rate.", "pos": 290281}
{"speaker": "Roger Carbury", "text": "Dear Hetta, I only wish he were like you.", "pos": 290743}
{"speaker": "Hetta", "text": "Girls are so different, you know.", "pos": 290787}
{"speaker": "Roger Carbury", "text": "I think I was rough to you, talking about Felix, and I beg your pardon.", "pos": 290978}
{"speaker": "Lady Carbury", "text": "You were energetic, that was all.", "pos": 291064}
{"speaker": "Roger Carbury", "text": "A gentleman should never be rough to a lady, and a man should never be rough to his own guests. I hope you will forgive me.", "pos": 291100}
{"speaker": "Lady Carbury", "text": "She knows how to use her triumph. I should like to go,", "pos": 293014}
{"speaker": "Roger Carbury", "text": "I certainly shall not go, but there will be no difficulty whatever in sending you over. You must answer at once, because their servant is waiting.", "pos": 293082}
{"speaker": "Lady Carbury", "text": "Monday will be best, --that is, if nobody is coming here.", "pos": 293245}
{"speaker": "Roger Carbury", "text": "There will be nobody here.", "pos": 293317}
{"speaker": "Lady Carbury", "text": "I suppose I had better say that I, and Hetta,--and Felix will accept their invitation.", "pos": 293346}
{"speaker": "Roger Carbury", "text": "I can make no suggestion,", "pos": 293435}
{"speaker": "Lady Carbury", "text": "That will be best. It is very good of you to let us go, and to send us.", "pos": 293783}
{"speaker": "Roger Carbury", "text": "Of course you will do here just as you please,", "pos": 293903}
{"speaker": "Lady Carbury", "text": "I'm afraid you'll find it tiresome driving about our lanes,", "pos": 295174}
{"speaker": "Lady Carbury", "text": "I am afraid, my dear, we shall have a bad time of it here,", "pos": 296163}
{"speaker": "Hetta", "text": "Why so, mamma?", "pos": 296243}
{"speaker": "Lady Carbury", "text": "It will be so dull. Your cousin is the best friend in all the world, and would make as good a husband as could be picked out of all the gentlemen of England; but in his present mood with me he is not a comfortable host. What nonsense he did talk about the Melmottes!", "pos": 296260}
{"speaker": "Hetta", "text": "I don't suppose, mamma, that Mr. and Mrs. Melmotte can be nice people.", "pos": 296529}
{"speaker": "Lady Carbury", "text": "Why shouldn't they be as nice as anybody else? Pray, Henrietta, don't let us have any of that nonsense from you. When it comes from the superhuman virtue of poor dear Roger it has to be borne, but I beg that you will not copy him.", "pos": 296602}
{"speaker": "Hetta", "text": "Mamma, I think that is unkind.", "pos": 296835}
{"speaker": "Lady Carbury", "text": "And I shall think it very unkind if you take upon yourself to abuse people who are able and willing to set poor Felix on his legs. A word from you might undo all that we are doing.", "pos": 296868}
{"speaker": "Hetta", "text": "What word?", "pos": 297051}
{"speaker": "Lady Carbury", "text": "What word? Any word! If you have any influence with your brother you should use it in inducing him to hurry this on. I am sure the girl is willing enough. She did refer him to her father.", "pos": 297064}
{"speaker": "Hetta", "text": "Then why does he not go to Mr. Melmotte?", "pos": 297254}
{"speaker": "Lady Carbury", "text": "I suppose he is delicate about it on the score of money. If Roger could only let it be understood that Felix is the heir to this place, and that some day he will be Sir Felix Carbury of Carbury, I don't think there would be any difficulty even with old Melmotte.", "pos": 297297}
{"speaker": "Hetta", "text": "How could he do that, mamma?", "pos": 297562}
{"speaker": "Lady Carbury", "text": "If your cousin were to die as he is now, it would be so. Your brother would be his heir.", "pos": 297593}
{"speaker": "Hetta", "text": "You should not think of such a thing, mamma.", "pos": 297684}
{"speaker": "Lady Carbury", "text": "Why do you dare to tell me what I am to think? Am I not to think of my own son? Is he not to be dearer to me than any one? And what I say, is so. If Roger were to die to-morrow he would be Sir Felix Carbury of Carbury.", "pos": 297731}
{"speaker": "Hetta", "text": "But, mamma, he will live and have a family. Why should he not?", "pos": 297952}
{"speaker": "Lady Carbury", "text": "You say he is so old that you will not look at him.", "pos": 298017}
{"speaker": "Hetta", "text": "I never said so. When we were joking, I said he was old. You know I did not mean that he was too old to get married. Men a great deal older get married every day.", "pos": 298071}
{"speaker": "Lady Carbury", "text": "If you don't accept him he will never marry. He is a man of that kind,--so stiff and stubborn and old-fashioned that nothing will change him. He will go on boodying over it, till he will become an old misanthrope. If you would take him I would be quite contented. You are my child as well as Felix. But if you mean to be obstinate I do wish that the Melmottes should be made to understand that the property and title and name of the place will all go together. It will be so, and why should not Felix have the advantage?", "pos": 298236}
{"speaker": "Hetta", "text": "Who is to say it?", "pos": 298759}
{"speaker": "Lady Carbury", "text": "Ah;--that's where it is. Roger is so violent and prejudiced that one cannot get him to speak rationally.", "pos": 298779}
{"speaker": "Hetta", "text": "Oh, mamma;--you wouldn't suggest it to him;--that this place is to go to--Felix, when he--is dead!", "pos": 298886}
{"speaker": "Lady Carbury", "text": "It would not kill him a day sooner.", "pos": 298987}
{"speaker": "Hetta", "text": "You would not dare to do it, mamma.", "pos": 299025}
{"speaker": "Lady Carbury", "text": "I would dare to do anything for my children. But you need not look like that, Henrietta. I am not going to say anything to him of the kind. He is not quick enough to understand of what infinite service he might be to us without in any way hurting himself.", "pos": 299063}
{"speaker": "Lady Carbury", "text": "You are to dine at Caversham on Monday. Come on Saturday if you can. She is there.", "pos": 299902}
{"speaker": "Roger Carbury", "text": "I have the most thorough respect for your religion, but it would not suit me.", "pos": 309855}
{"speaker": "Bishop of Elmham", "text": "Yes, indeed. I think Suffolk is a very nice county; and as we are only a mile or two from Norfolk, I'll say as much for Norfolk too. 'It's an ill bird that fouls its own nest.'", "pos": 311539}
{"speaker": "Lady Carbury", "text": "I like a county in which there is something left of county feeling. Staffordshire and Warwickshire, Cheshire and Lancashire have become great towns, and have lost all local distinctions.", "pos": 311737}
{"speaker": "Bishop of Elmham", "text": "We still keep our name and reputation. Silly Suffolk!", "pos": 311947}
{"speaker": "Lady Carbury", "text": "But that was never deserved.", "pos": 312022}
{"speaker": "Bishop of Elmham", "text": "As much, perhaps, as other general epithets. I think we are a sleepy people. We've got no coal, you see, and no iron. We have no beautiful scenery, like the lake country,--no rivers great for fishing, like Scotland,--no hunting grounds, like the shires.", "pos": 312053}
{"speaker": "Lady Carbury", "text": "Partridges!", "pos": 312309}
{"speaker": "Bishop of Elmham", "text": "Yes; we have partridges, fine churches, and the herring fishery. We shall do very well if too much is not expected of us. We can't increase and multiply as they do in the great cities.", "pos": 312365}
{"speaker": "Lady Carbury", "text": "I like this part of England so much the best for that very reason. What is the use of a crowded population?", "pos": 312552}
{"speaker": "Bishop of Elmham", "text": "The earth has to be peopled, Lady Carbury.", "pos": 312662}
{"speaker": "Lady Carbury", "text": "Oh, yes. The world must be peopled; but for myself I like the country better than the town.", "pos": 312707}
{"speaker": "Roger Carbury", "text": "So do I, and I like Suffolk. The people are hearty, and radicalism is not quite so rampant as it is elsewhere. The poor people touch their hats, and the rich people think of the poor. There is something left among us of old English habits.", "pos": 312941}
{"speaker": "Lady Carbury", "text": "That is so nice,", "pos": 313197}
{"speaker": "Bishop of Elmham", "text": "Something left of old English ignorance. All the same I dare say we're improving, like the rest of the world. What beautiful flowers you have here, Mr. Carbury! At any rate, we can grow flowers in Suffolk.", "pos": 313235}
{"speaker": "Mr. Barham", "text": "our people", "pos": 315444}
{"speaker": "Mr. Hepworth", "text": "But the Irish always drink,", "pos": 315848}
{"speaker": "the priest", "text": "Not so much as the English, I think. And you are not to suppose that we are all Irish. Of my flock the greater proportion are English.", "pos": 315897}
{"speaker": "Bishop of Elmham", "text": "It is astonishing how little we know of our neighbours. Of course I am aware that there are a certain number of persons of your persuasion round about us. Indeed, I could give the exact number in this diocese. But in my own immediate neighbourhood I could not put my hand upon any families which I know to be Roman Catholic.", "pos": 316053}
{"speaker": "the priest", "text": "It is not, my lord, because there are none.", "pos": 316399}
{"speaker": "Bishop of Elmham", "text": "Of course not. It is because, as I say, I do not know my neighbours.", "pos": 316445}
{"speaker": "Mr. Hepworth", "text": "I think, here in Suffolk, they must be chiefly the poor,", "pos": 316516}
{"speaker": "the priest", "text": "They were chiefly the poor who at first put their faith in our Saviour,", "pos": 316594}
{"speaker": "Bishop of Elmham", "text": "I think the analogy is hardly correctly drawn. We were speaking of those who are still attached to an old creed. Our Saviour was the teacher of a new religion. That the poor in the simplicity of their hearts should be the first to acknowledge the truth of a new religion is in accordance with our idea of human nature. But that an old faith should remain with the poor after it has been abandoned by the rich is not so easily intelligible.", "pos": 316685}
{"speaker": "Carbury", "text": "The Roman population still believed, when the patricians had learned to regard their gods as simply useful bugbears.", "pos": 317244}
{"speaker": "Bishop of Elmham", "text": "The patricians had not ostensibly abandoned their religion. The people clung to it thinking that their masters and rulers clung to it also.", "pos": 317379}
{"speaker": "the priest", "text": "The poor have ever been the salt of the earth, my lord,", "pos": 317521}
{"speaker": "Bishop of Elmham", "text": "That begs the whole question,", "pos": 317596}
{"speaker": "Bishop of Elmham", "text": "Your priest is a very zealous man, and I do not doubt but that he is an excellent gentleman; but he is perhaps a little indiscreet.", "pos": 318461}
{"speaker": "Roger Carbury", "text": "I like him because he is doing the best he can according to his lights; without any reference to his own worldly welfare.", "pos": 318642}
{"speaker": "Bishop of Elmham", "text": "That is all very grand, and I am perfectly willing to respect him. But I do not know that I should care to talk very freely in his company.", "pos": 318766}
{"speaker": "Roger Carbury", "text": "I am sure he would repeat nothing.", "pos": 318908}
{"speaker": "Bishop of Elmham", "text": "Perhaps not; but he would always be thinking that he was going to get the best of me.", "pos": 318945}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Yeld", "text": "I don't think it answers. Of course I don't want to be prejudiced; but Protestants are Protestants, and Roman Catholics are Roman Catholics.", "pos": 319033}
{"speaker": "Bishop of Elmham", "text": "You may say the same of Liberals and Conservatives, but you wouldn't have them decline to meet each other.", "pos": 319227}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Yeld", "text": "It isn't quite the same, my dear. After all religion is religion.", "pos": 319336}
{"speaker": "Bishop of Elmham", "text": "It ought to be,", "pos": 319404}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Yeld", "text": "Of course I don't mean to put myself up against you, my dear; but I don't know that I want to meet Mr. Barham again.", "pos": 319439}
{"speaker": "Bishop of Elmham", "text": "I don't know that I do, either, but if he comes in my way I hope I shall treat him civilly.", "pos": 319558}
{"speaker": "the mother", "text": "Oh, Felix, you have so terrified us!", "pos": 321854}
{"speaker": "Sir Felix", "text": "I can tell you I was terrified myself when I found that I had to come fifteen miles across the country with a pair of old jades who could hardly get up a trot.", "pos": 321912}
{"speaker": "Lady Carbury", "text": "But why didn't you come by the train you named?", "pos": 322074}
{"speaker": "the baronet", "text": "I couldn't get out of the city,", "pos": 322124}
{"speaker": "Roger Carbury", "text": "I suppose you were at the Board?", "pos": 322193}
{"speaker": "Roger Carbury", "text": "Miserable cub! You had better not keep your mother standing here. I will show you your room.", "pos": 322732}
{"speaker": "Sir Felix", "text": "All right, old fellow. I'm awfully sorry to disturb you all in this way. I think I'll just take a drop of brandy and soda before I go to bed, though.", "pos": 322884}
{"speaker": "Roger Carbury", "text": "I doubt whether we have soda-water in the house, and if we have, I don't know where to get it. I can give you some brandy if you will come with me.", "pos": 323085}
{"speaker": "Roger Carbury", "text": "He is born to be hung, and he'll deserve it.", "pos": 323757}
{"speaker": "cousin", "text": "Felix, take your cigar a little farther. You are filling the house with tobacco.", "pos": 324607}
{"speaker": "baronet", "text": "Oh heavens,--what a prejudice!", "pos": 324709}
{"speaker": "cousin", "text": "Let it be so, but still do as I ask you.", "pos": 324760}
{"speaker": "Sir Felix", "text": "How the deuce am I to get there?", "pos": 325108}
{"speaker": "cousin", "text": "Your cousin will lend you a horse.", "pos": 325143}
{"speaker": "Sir Felix", "text": "He's as cross as a bear with a sore head. He's a deal older than I am, and a cousin and all that, but I'm not going to put up with insolence. If it were anywhere else I should just go into the yard and ask if I could have a horse and saddle as a matter of course.", "pos": 325180}
{"speaker": "Roger Carbury", "text": "Roger has not a great establishment.", "pos": 325446}
{"speaker": "Sir Felix", "text": "I suppose he has a horse and saddle, and a man to get it ready. I don't want anything grand.", "pos": 325485}
{"speaker": "Roger Carbury", "text": "He is vexed because he sent twice to the station for you yesterday.", "pos": 325580}
{"speaker": "Sir Felix", "text": "I hate the kind of fellow who is always thinking of little grievances. Such a man expects you to go like clockwork, and because you are not wound up just as he is, he insults you. I shall ask him for a horse as I would any one else, and if he does not like it, he may lump it. Can I have a horse to ride over to Caversham this afternoon?", "pos": 325650}
{"speaker": "Roger Carbury", "text": "Our horses never go out on Sunday. You can have it. I'll give the order.", "pos": 326052}
{"speaker": "Roger Carbury", "text": "Soda and brandy! He'll die some day of delirium tremens in a hospital!", "pos": 327172}
{"speaker": "father", "text": "In God's name where do you expect the money is to come from?", "pos": 328197}
{"speaker": "Georgiana", "text": "There is a friend of yours going to dine here on Monday, Miss Melmotte. I think you know Sir Felix Carbury,", "pos": 329632}
{"speaker": "Marie", "text": "Oh yes, we know Sir Felix Carbury.", "pos": 329919}
{"speaker": "Georgiana", "text": "He is coming down to his cousin's. I suppose it is for your bright eyes, as Carbury Manor would hardly be just what he would like.", "pos": 329956}
{"speaker": "Marie", "text": "I don't think he is coming because of me,", "pos": 330089}
{"speaker": "Georgiana", "text": "We had heard, that he was a particular friend of yours.", "pos": 330698}
{"speaker": "Sir Felix", "text": "Beautiful garden, for myself I don't much care for gardens; but if one is to live in the country, this is the sort of thing that one would like.", "pos": 332821}
{"speaker": "Madame Melmotte", "text": "Delicious,", "pos": 332979}
{"speaker": "Lady Pomona", "text": "It isn't a pretty place; but the house is comfortable, and we make the best of it,", "pos": 333244}
{"speaker": "Sir Felix", "text": "Plenty of glass, I see. If one is to live in the country, I like that kind of thing. Carbury is a very poor place.", "pos": 333347}
{"speaker": "Lady Pomona", "text": "For a small place. I think Carbury is one of the nicest in the county. Of course it is not extensive.", "pos": 333716}
{"speaker": "Sir Felix", "text": "No, by Jove, you may say that, Lady Pomona. It's like a prison to me with that moat round it.", "pos": 333840}
{"speaker": "Sir Felix", "text": "You know why I have come down here?", "pos": 336493}
{"speaker": "Marie", "text": "To see your cousin.", "pos": 336540}
{"speaker": "Sir Felix", "text": "No, indeed. I'm not particularly fond of my cousin, who is a methodical stiff-necked old bachelor,--as cross as the mischief.", "pos": 336562}
{"speaker": "Marie", "text": "How disagreeable!", "pos": 336690}
{"speaker": "Sir Felix", "text": "Yes; he is disagreeable. I didn't come down to see him, I can tell you. But when I heard that you were going to be here with the Longestaffes, I determined to come at once. I wonder whether you are glad to see me?", "pos": 336710}
{"speaker": "Marie", "text": "I don't know,", "pos": 336926}
{"speaker": "Sir Felix", "text": "Do you remember what you said to me that evening at my mother's?", "pos": 337078}
{"speaker": "Marie", "text": "Did I say anything? I don't remember anything particular.", "pos": 337145}
{"speaker": "Sir Felix", "text": "Do you not? Then I fear you can't think very much of me. I thought you told me that you would love me.", "pos": 337205}
{"speaker": "Marie", "text": "Did I?", "pos": 337394}
{"speaker": "Sir Felix", "text": "Did you not?", "pos": 337403}
{"speaker": "Marie", "text": "I don't know what I said. Perhaps if I said that, I didn't mean it.", "pos": 337418}
{"speaker": "Sir Felix", "text": "Am I to believe that?", "pos": 337488}
{"speaker": "Marie", "text": "Perhaps you didn't mean it yourself.", "pos": 337512}
{"speaker": "Sir Felix", "text": "By George, I did. I was quite in earnest. There never was a fellow more in earnest than I was. I've come down here on purpose to say it again.", "pos": 337551}
{"speaker": "Marie", "text": "To say what?", "pos": 337696}
{"speaker": "Sir Felix", "text": "Whether you'll accept me?", "pos": 337711}
{"speaker": "Marie", "text": "I don't know whether you love me well enough. Do you really love me well enough?", "pos": 337739}
{"speaker": "Sir Felix", "text": "Of course I do. I'm bad at making pretty speeches, and all that, but you know I love you.", "pos": 338250}
{"speaker": "Marie", "text": "Do you?", "pos": 338342}
{"speaker": "Sir Felix", "text": "By George, yes. I always liked you from the first moment I saw you. I did indeed.", "pos": 338352}
{"speaker": "Marie", "text": "Then I will love you. I will with all my heart.", "pos": 338488}
{"speaker": "Sir Felix", "text": "There's a darling!", "pos": 338550}
{"speaker": "Marie", "text": "Shall I be your darling? Indeed I will. I may call you Felix now;--mayn't I?", "pos": 338571}
{"speaker": "Sir Felix", "text": "Rather.", "pos": 338650}
{"speaker": "Marie", "text": "Oh, Felix, I hope you will love me. I will so dote upon you. You know a great many men have asked me to love them.", "pos": 338660}
{"speaker": "Sir Felix", "text": "I suppose so.", "pos": 338777}
{"speaker": "Marie", "text": "But I have never, never cared for one of them in the least;--not in the least.", "pos": 338793}
{"speaker": "Sir Felix", "text": "You do care for me?", "pos": 338874}
{"speaker": "Marie", "text": "Oh yes.", "pos": 338896}
{"speaker": "Marie", "text": "Oh, Felix, no one ever did it before. Say that you will be good to me, Felix. I will be so good to you.", "pos": 339467}
{"speaker": "Sir Felix", "text": "Of course I will be good to you.", "pos": 339710}
{"speaker": "Marie", "text": "Men are not always good to their wives. Papa is often very cross to mamma.", "pos": 339745}
{"speaker": "Sir Felix", "text": "I suppose he can be cross?", "pos": 339822}
{"speaker": "Marie", "text": "Yes, he can. He does not often scold me. I don't know what he'll say when we tell him about this.", "pos": 339851}
{"speaker": "Sir Felix", "text": "But I suppose he intends that you shall be married?", "pos": 339951}
{"speaker": "Marie", "text": "He wanted me to marry Lord Nidderdale and Lord Grasslough, but I hated them both. I think he wants me to marry Lord Nidderdale again now. He hasn't said so, but mamma tells me. But I never will;--never!", "pos": 340005}
{"speaker": "Sir Felix", "text": "I hope not, Marie. You needn't be a bit afraid. I would not do it if they were to kill me. I hate him,--and I do so love you.", "pos": 340210}
{"speaker": "Marie", "text": "You will speak to papa; won't you?", "pos": 340433}
{"speaker": "Sir Felix", "text": "Will that be the best way?", "pos": 340470}
{"speaker": "Marie", "text": "I suppose so. How else?", "pos": 340499}
{"speaker": "Sir Felix", "text": "I don't know whether Madame Melmotte ought not--", "pos": 340525}
{"speaker": "Marie", "text": "Oh dear no. Nothing would induce her. She is more afraid of him than anybody;--more afraid of him than I am. I thought the gentleman always did that.", "pos": 340576}
{"speaker": "Sir Felix", "text": "Of course I'll do it. I'm not afraid of him. Why should I? He and I are very good friends, you know.", "pos": 340728}
{"speaker": "Marie", "text": "I'm glad of that.", "pos": 340849}
{"speaker": "Sir Felix", "text": "He made me a Director of one of his companies the other day.", "pos": 340869}
{"speaker": "Marie", "text": "Did he? Perhaps he'll like you for a son-in-law.", "pos": 340932}
{"speaker": "Sir Felix", "text": "There's no knowing;--is there?", "pos": 340983}
{"speaker": "Marie", "text": "I hope he will. I shall like you for papa's son-in-law. I hope it isn't wrong to say that. Oh, Felix, say that you love me.", "pos": 341016}
{"speaker": "Sir Felix", "text": "Of course I love you. It's no good speaking to him here. I suppose I had better go and see him in the city.", "pos": 341186}
{"speaker": "Marie", "text": "He is in a good humour now,", "pos": 341352}
{"speaker": "Sir Felix", "text": "But I couldn't get him alone. It wouldn't be the thing to do down here.", "pos": 341394}
{"speaker": "Marie", "text": "Wouldn't it?", "pos": 341468}
{"speaker": "Sir Felix", "text": "Not in the country,--in another person's house. Shall you tell Madame Melmotte?", "pos": 341483}
{"speaker": "Marie", "text": "Yes, I shall tell mamma; but she won't say anything to him. Mamma does not care much about me. But I'll tell you all that another time. Of course I shall tell you everything now. I never yet had anybody to tell anything to, but I shall never be tired of telling you.", "pos": 341565}
{"speaker": "Georgiana", "text": "That's going to be the lucky man,", "pos": 342680}
{"speaker": "Lady Pomona", "text": "In what way lucky?", "pos": 342760}
{"speaker": "Georgiana", "text": "He is going to get the heiress and all the money. What a fool Dolly has been!", "pos": 342781}
{"speaker": "Lady Pomona", "text": "I don't think it would have suited Dolly. After all, why should not Dolly marry a lady?", "pos": 342861}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "A friend will be somewhere near Sheepstone Birches between four and five o'clock on Sunday afternoon.", "pos": 343244}
{"speaker": "Ruby", "text": "I like your impudence, in calling yourself a friend.", "pos": 351866}
{"speaker": "Sir Felix", "text": "Ain't I a friend, Ruby?", "pos": 351933}
{"speaker": "Ruby", "text": "A pretty sort of friend, you! When you was going away, you was to be back at Carbury in a fortnight; and that is,--oh, ever so long ago now.", "pos": 351959}
{"speaker": "Sir Felix", "text": "But I wrote to you, Ruby.", "pos": 352102}
{"speaker": "Ruby", "text": "What's letters? And the postman to know all as in 'em for anything anybody knows, and grandfather to be almost sure to see 'em. I don't call letters no good at all, and I beg you won't write 'em any more.", "pos": 352130}
{"speaker": "Sir Felix", "text": "Did he see them?", "pos": 352337}
{"speaker": "Ruby", "text": "No thanks to you if he didn't. I don't know why you are come here, Sir Felix,--nor yet I don't know why I should come and meet you. It's all just folly like.", "pos": 352356}
{"speaker": "Sir Felix", "text": "Because I love you;--that's why I come; eh, Ruby? And you have come because you love me; eh, Ruby? Is not that about it?", "pos": 352516}
{"speaker": "Ruby", "text": "I suppose I am to be his wedded wife. I'll never be nothing unless I'm that,", "pos": 354364}
{"speaker": "Sir Felix", "text": "I have half a mind to go back to-morrow morning,", "pos": 354862}
{"speaker": "mother", "text": "To-morrow morning, Felix! You are engaged to dine with the Longestaffes!", "pos": 355069}
{"speaker": "Sir Felix", "text": "You could make any excuse you like about that.", "pos": 355144}
{"speaker": "mother", "text": "It would be the most uncourteous thing in the world. The Longestaffes you know are the leading people in this part of the country. No one knows what may happen. If you should ever be living at Carbury, how sad it would be that you should have quarrelled with them.", "pos": 355193}
{"speaker": "Sir Felix", "text": "You forget, mother, that Dolly Longestaffe is about the most intimate friend I have in the world.", "pos": 355460}
{"speaker": "mother", "text": "That does not justify you in being uncivil to the father and mother. And you should remember what you came here for.", "pos": 355560}
{"speaker": "Sir Felix", "text": "What did I come for?", "pos": 355679}
{"speaker": "mother", "text": "That you might see Marie Melmotte more at your ease than you can in their London house.", "pos": 355702}
{"speaker": "Sir Felix", "text": "That's all settled,", "pos": 355792}
{"speaker": "mother", "text": "Settled!", "pos": 355881}
{"speaker": "Sir Felix", "text": "As far as the girl is concerned. I can't very well go to the old fellow for his consent down here.", "pos": 355892}
{"speaker": "mother", "text": "Do you mean to say, Felix, that Marie Melmotte has accepted you?", "pos": 355993}
{"speaker": "Sir Felix", "text": "I told you that before.", "pos": 356060}
{"speaker": "mother", "text": "My dear Felix. Oh, my boy! No, you didn't tell me before. But I am so happy. Is she really fond of you? I don't wonder that any girl should be fond of you.", "pos": 356086}
{"speaker": "Sir Felix", "text": "I can't say anything about that, but I think she means to stick to it.", "pos": 356512}
{"speaker": "mother", "text": "If she is firm, of course her father will give way at last. Fathers always do give way when the girl is firm. Why should he oppose it?", "pos": 356585}
{"speaker": "Sir Felix", "text": "I don't know that he will.", "pos": 356722}
{"speaker": "mother", "text": "You are a man of rank, with a title of your own. I suppose what he wants is a gentleman for his girl. I don't see why he should not be perfectly satisfied. With all his enormous wealth a thousand a year or so can't make any difference. And then he made you one of the Directors at his Board. Oh Felix;--it is almost too good to be true.", "pos": 356751}
{"speaker": "Sir Felix", "text": "I ain't quite sure that I care very much about being married, you know.", "pos": 357090}
{"speaker": "Roger Carbury", "text": "Oh, Felix, pray don't say that. Why shouldn't you like being married? She is a very nice girl, and we shall all be so fond of her! Don't let any feeling of that kind come over you; pray don't. You will be able to do just what you please when once the question of her money is settled. Of course you can hunt as often as you like, and you can have a house in any part of London you please. You must understand by this time how very disagreeable it is to have to get on without an established income.", "pos": 357163}
{"speaker": "Sir Felix", "text": "I quite understand that.", "pos": 357664}
{"speaker": "Roger Carbury", "text": "If this were once done you would never have any more trouble of that kind. There would be plenty of money for everything as long as you live. It would be complete success. I don't know how to say enough to you, or to tell you how dearly I love you, or to make you understand how well I think you have done it all.", "pos": 357691}
{"speaker": "Roger Carbury", "text": "But, Felix, you really must stay and go to the Longestaffes' to-morrow. It will only be one day.--And now were you to run away--", "pos": 358901}
{"speaker": "Sir Felix", "text": "Run away! What nonsense you talk.", "pos": 359049}
{"speaker": "Roger Carbury", "text": "If you were to start back to London at once I mean, it would be an affront to her, and the very thing to set Melmotte against you. You should lay yourself out to please him;--indeed you should.", "pos": 359085}
{"speaker": "Sir Felix", "text": "Oh, bother!", "pos": 359281}
{"speaker": "Roger Carbury", "text": "What did you think of our bishop?", "pos": 360554}
{"speaker": "Father Barham", "text": "Not much of him as a bishop. I don't doubt that he makes a very nice lord, and that he does more good among his neighbours than an average lord. But you don't put power or responsibility into the hands of any one sufficient to make him a bishop.", "pos": 360627}
{"speaker": "Roger Carbury", "text": "Nine-tenths of the clergy in the diocese would be guided by him in any matter of clerical conduct which might come before him.", "pos": 360875}
{"speaker": "Father Barham", "text": "Because they know that he has no strong opinion of his own, and would not therefore desire to dominate theirs. Take any of your bishops that has an opinion,--if there be one left,--and see how far your clergy consent to his teaching!", "pos": 361004}
{"speaker": "Lady Carbury", "text": "I suppose our bishops are sincere in their beliefs,", "pos": 362094}
{"speaker": "Father Barham", "text": "I'm sure I hope so. I have no possible reason to doubt it as to the two or three whom I have seen,--nor indeed as to all the rest whom I have not seen.", "pos": 362182}
{"speaker": "Lady Carbury", "text": "They are so much respected everywhere as good and pious men!", "pos": 362336}
{"speaker": "Father Barham", "text": "I do not doubt it. Nothing tends so much to respect as a good income. But they may be excellent men without being excellent bishops. I find no fault with them, but much with the system by which they are controlled. Is it probable that a man should be fitted to select guides for other men's souls because he has succeeded by infinite labour in his vocation in becoming the leader of a majority in the House of Commons?", "pos": 362399}
{"speaker": "Lady Carbury", "text": "Indeed, no,", "pos": 362820}
{"speaker": "Father Barham", "text": "And when you've got your bishop, is it likely that a man should be able to do his duty in that capacity who has no power of his own to decide whether a clergyman under him is or is not fit for his duty?", "pos": 362928}
{"speaker": "Lady Carbury", "text": "Hardly, indeed.", "pos": 363133}
{"speaker": "Father Barham", "text": "The English people, or some of them,--that some being the richest, and, at present, the most powerful,--like to play at having a Church, though there is not sufficient faith in them to submit to the control of a Church.", "pos": 363151}
{"speaker": "Lady Carbury", "text": "Do you think men should be controlled by clergymen, Mr. Barham?", "pos": 363373}
{"speaker": "Father Barham", "text": "In matters of faith I do; and so, I suppose, do you; at least you make that profession. You declare it to be your duty to submit yourself to your spiritual pastors and masters.", "pos": 363439}
{"speaker": "Lady Carbury", "text": "That, I thought, was for children. The clergyman, in the catechism, says, 'My good child.'", "pos": 363618}
{"speaker": "Father Barham", "text": "It is what you were taught as a child before you had made profession of your faith to a bishop, in order that you might know your duty when you had ceased to be a child. I quite agree, however, that the matter, as viewed by your Church, is childish altogether, and intended only for children. As a rule, adults with you want no religion.", "pos": 363732}
{"speaker": "Lady Carbury", "text": "I am afraid that is true of a great many.", "pos": 364072}
{"speaker": "Father Barham", "text": "It is marvellous to me that, when a man thinks of it, he should not be driven by very fear to the comforts of a safer faith,--unless, indeed, he enjoy the security of absolute infidelity.", "pos": 364116}
{"speaker": "Lady Carbury", "text": "That is worse than anything,", "pos": 364306}
{"speaker": "Father Barham", "text": "I don't know that it is worse than a belief which is no belief, --than a creed which sits so easily on a man that he does not even know what it contains, and never asks himself as he repeats it, whether it be to him credible or incredible.", "pos": 364382}
{"speaker": "Lady Carbury", "text": "That is very bad,", "pos": 364654}
{"speaker": "Roger Carbury", "text": "We're getting too deep, I think,", "pos": 364693}
{"speaker": "Lady Carbury", "text": "I think it is so pleasant to have a little serious conversation on Sunday evening,", "pos": 364804}
{"speaker": "Roger Carbury", "text": "I don't like hearing my Church ill-spoken of,", "pos": 365372}
{"speaker": "Father Barham", "text": "You wouldn't like me if I thought ill of it and spoke well of it,", "pos": 365432}
{"speaker": "Roger Carbury", "text": "And, therefore, the less said the sooner mended,", "pos": 365517}
{"speaker": "Roger Carbury", "text": "Hetta, come out into the garden awhile.", "pos": 367357}
{"speaker": "Hetta", "text": "Are not you going to the men?", "pos": 367426}
{"speaker": "Roger Carbury", "text": "Not yet, at any rate. I do not always go to the men as you call it.", "pos": 367458}
{"speaker": "Roger Carbury", "text": "Hetta, put your arm here. I was a little annoyed last night by that priest. I want to be civil to him, and now he is always turning against me.", "pos": 368914}
{"speaker": "Hetta", "text": "He doesn't do any harm, I suppose?", "pos": 369095}
{"speaker": "Roger Carbury", "text": "He does do harm if he teaches you and me to think lightly of those things which we have been brought up to revere. He ought not to say things before my guests as to our way of believing, which I wouldn't under any circumstances say as to his. I didn't quite like your hearing it.", "pos": 369132}
{"speaker": "Hetta", "text": "I don't think he'll do me any harm. I'm not at all that way given. I suppose they all do it. It's their business.", "pos": 369498}
{"speaker": "Roger Carbury", "text": "Poor fellow! I brought him here just because I thought it was a pity that a man born and bred like a gentleman should never see the inside of a comfortable house.", "pos": 369614}
{"speaker": "Hetta", "text": "I liked him;--only I didn't like his saying stupid things about the bishop.", "pos": 369779}
{"speaker": "Roger Carbury", "text": "And I like him. I suppose your brother does not talk to you much about his own affairs.", "pos": 369857}
{"speaker": "Hetta", "text": "His own affairs, Roger? Do you mean money? He never says a word to me about money.", "pos": 369973}
{"speaker": "Roger Carbury", "text": "I meant about the Melmottes.", "pos": 370058}
{"speaker": "Hetta", "text": "No; not to me. Felix hardly ever speaks to me about anything.", "pos": 370089}
{"speaker": "Roger Carbury", "text": "I wonder whether she has accepted him.", "pos": 370153}
{"speaker": "Hetta", "text": "I think she very nearly did accept him in London.", "pos": 370194}
{"speaker": "Roger Carbury", "text": "I can't quite sympathise with your mother in all her feelings about this marriage, because I do not think that I recognise as she does the necessity of money.", "pos": 370246}
{"speaker": "Hetta", "text": "Felix is so disposed to be extravagant.", "pos": 370407}
{"speaker": "Roger Carbury", "text": "Well; yes. But I was going to say that though I cannot bring myself to say anything to encourage her about this heiress, I quite recognise her unselfish devotion to his interests.", "pos": 370449}
{"speaker": "Hetta", "text": "Mamma thinks more of him than of anything,", "pos": 370631}
{"speaker": "Roger Carbury", "text": "I know it; and though I happen to think myself that her other child would better repay her devotion. I quite feel how good a mother she is to Felix. You know, when she first came the other day we almost had a quarrel.", "pos": 370764}
{"speaker": "Hetta", "text": "I felt that there was something unpleasant.", "pos": 371035}
{"speaker": "Roger Carbury", "text": "And then Felix coming after his time put me out. I am getting old and cross, or I should not mind such things.", "pos": 371081}
{"speaker": "Hetta", "text": "I think you are so good,--and so kind.", "pos": 371194}
{"speaker": "Roger Carbury", "text": "I have been angry with myself, and so I am making you my father confessor. Open confession is good for the soul sometimes, and I think that you would understand me better than your mother.", "pos": 371335}
{"speaker": "Hetta", "text": "I do understand you; but don't think there is any fault to confess.", "pos": 371537}
{"speaker": "Roger Carbury", "text": "You will not exact any penance? I am going to put a penance on myself all the same. I can't congratulate your brother on his wooing over at Caversham, as I know nothing about it, but I will express some civil wish to him about things in general.", "pos": 371607}
{"speaker": "Hetta", "text": "Will that be a penance?", "pos": 371892}
{"speaker": "Roger Carbury", "text": "If you could look into my mind you'd find that it would. I'm full of fretful anger against him for half-a-dozen little frivolous things. Didn't he throw his cigar on the path? Didn't he lie in bed on Sunday instead of going to church?", "pos": 371918}
{"speaker": "Hetta", "text": "But then he was travelling all the Saturday night.", "pos": 372155}
{"speaker": "Roger Carbury", "text": "Whose fault was that? But don't you see it is the triviality of the offence which makes the penance necessary. Had he knocked me over the head with a pickaxe, or burned the house down, I should have had a right to be angry. But I was angry because he wanted a horse on Sunday;--and therefore I must do penance. And now. I must speak about myself. No, do not make any change towards me while I speak to you. Whatever comes of it we shall at any rate be cousins and friends.", "pos": 372208}
{"speaker": "Hetta", "text": "Always friends!", "pos": 373146}
{"speaker": "Roger Carbury", "text": "Yes;--always friends. And now listen to me for I have much to say. I will not tell you again that I love you. You know it, or else you must think me the vainest and falsest of men. It is not only that I love you, but I am so accustomed to concern myself with one thing only, so constrained by the habits and nature of my life to confine myself to single interests, that I cannot as it were escape from my love. I am thinking of it always, often despising myself because I think of it so much. For, after all, let a woman be ever so good,--and you to me are all that is good,--a man should not allow his love to dominate his intellect.", "pos": 373174}
{"speaker": "Hetta", "text": "Oh, no!", "pos": 373811}
{"speaker": "Roger Carbury", "text": "I do. I calculate my chances within my own bosom almost as a man might calculate his chances of heaven. I should like you to know me just as I am, the weak and the strong together. I would not win you by a lie if I could. I think of you more than I ought to do. I am sure,--quite sure that you are the only possible mistress of this house during my tenure of it. If I am ever to live as other men do, and to care about the things which other men care for, it must be as your husband. Pray,--pray do not say that. Yes; I think that I have a right to say it,--and a right to expect that you should believe me. I will not ask you to be my wife if you do not love me. Not that I should fear aught for myself, but that you should not be pressed to make a sacrifice of yourself because I am your friend and cousin. But I think it is quite possible you might come to love me,--unless your heart be absolutely given away elsewhere.", "pos": 373821}
{"speaker": "Hetta", "text": "What am I to say?", "pos": 374750}
{"speaker": "Roger Carbury", "text": "We each of us know of what the other is thinking. If Paul Montague has robbed me of my love--?", "pos": 374770}
{"speaker": "Hetta", "text": "Mr. Montague has never said a word.", "pos": 374867}
{"speaker": "Roger Carbury", "text": "If he had, I think he would have wronged me. He met you in my house, and I think must have known what my feelings were towards you.", "pos": 374905}
{"speaker": "Hetta", "text": "But he never has.", "pos": 375039}
{"speaker": "Roger Carbury", "text": "We have been like brothers together,--one brother being very much older than the other, indeed; or like father and son. I think he should place his hopes elsewhere.", "pos": 375059}
{"speaker": "Hetta", "text": "What am I to say? If he have such hope he has not told me. I think it almost cruel that a girl should be asked in that way.", "pos": 375226}
{"speaker": "Roger Carbury", "text": "Hetta, I should not wish to be cruel to you. Of course I know the way of the world in such matters. I have no right to ask you about Paul Montague,--no right to expect an answer. But it is all the world to me. You can understand that I should think you might learn to love even me, if you loved no one else.", "pos": 375352}
{"speaker": "Roger Carbury", "text": "I thought I would tell it you all, because I wish you to know exactly the state of my mind. I would show you if I could all my heart and all my thoughts about yourself as in a glass case. Do not coy your love for me if you can feel it. When you know, dear, that a man's heart is set upon a woman as mine is set on you, so that it is for you to make his life bright or dark, for you to open or to shut the gates of his earthly Paradise, I think you will be above keeping him in darkness for the sake of a girlish scruple.", "pos": 376548}
{"speaker": "Hetta", "text": "Oh, Roger!", "pos": 377071}
{"speaker": "Roger Carbury", "text": "If ever there should come a time in which you can say it truly, remember my truth to you and say it boldly. I at least shall never change. Of course if you love another man and give yourself to him, it will be all over. Tell me that boldly also. I have said it all now. God bless you, my own heart's darling. I hope,--I hope I may be strong enough through it all to think more of your happiness than of my own.", "pos": 377084}
{"speaker": "Roger Carbury", "text": "What a poor creature a man is, who is not sufficiently his own master to get over a feeling like this.", "pos": 380513}
{"speaker": "Lady Carbury", "text": "I hope you like Suffolk,", "pos": 383761}
{"speaker": "Melmotte", "text": "Pretty well, I thank you. Oh, yes;--very nice place for a little fresh air.", "pos": 383798}
{"speaker": "Lady Carbury", "text": "Yes;--that's just it, Mr. Melmotte. When the summer comes one does long so to see the flowers.", "pos": 383876}
{"speaker": "Melmotte", "text": "We have better flowers in our balconies than any I see down here,", "pos": 383973}
{"speaker": "Lady Carbury", "text": "No doubt;--because you can command the floral tribute of the world at large. What is there that money will not do? It can turn a London street into a bower of roses, and give you grottoes in Grosvenor Square.", "pos": 384060}
{"speaker": "Melmotte", "text": "It's a very nice place, is London.", "pos": 384271}
{"speaker": "Lady Carbury", "text": "If you have got plenty of money, Mr. Melmotte.", "pos": 384308}
{"speaker": "Melmotte", "text": "And if you have not, it's the best place I know to get it. Do you live in London, ma'am?", "pos": 384357}
{"speaker": "Lady Carbury", "text": "Oh, yes, I live in London. I have had the honour of being entertained by you there.", "pos": 384633}
{"speaker": "Melmotte", "text": "Oh, indeed. So many do come, that I don't always just remember.", "pos": 384758}
{"speaker": "Lady Carbury", "text": "How should you,--with all the world flocking round you? I am Lady Carbury, the mother of Sir Felix Carbury, whom I think you will remember.", "pos": 384824}
{"speaker": "Melmotte", "text": "Yes; I know Sir Felix. He's sitting there, next to my daughter.", "pos": 384966}
{"speaker": "Lady Carbury", "text": "Happy fellow!", "pos": 385032}
{"speaker": "Melmotte", "text": "I don't know much about that. Young men don't get their happiness in that way now. They've got other things to think of.", "pos": 385048}
{"speaker": "Lady Carbury", "text": "He thinks so much of his business.", "pos": 385171}
{"speaker": "Melmotte", "text": "Oh! I didn't know,", "pos": 385208}
{"speaker": "Lady Carbury", "text": "He sits at the same Board with you, I think, Mr. Melmotte.", "pos": 385248}
{"speaker": "Melmotte", "text": "Oh;--that's his business!", "pos": 385309}
{"speaker": "Lady Carbury", "text": "I trust that he is diligent, there, and that he is aware of the great privilege which he enjoys in having the advantage of your counsel and guidance.", "pos": 385669}
{"speaker": "Melmotte", "text": "He don't trouble me much, ma'am, and I don't trouble him much.", "pos": 385833}
{"speaker": "Marie", "text": "I have told mamma,", "pos": 386410}
{"speaker": "Sir Felix", "text": "Did she say anything? As to her, I suppose it does not matter what she says, does it?", "pos": 386633}
{"speaker": "Marie", "text": "She said a great deal. She thinks that papa will think you are not rich enough. Hush! Talk about something else, or people will hear.", "pos": 386819}
{"speaker": "Sir Felix", "text": "Have you been riding?", "pos": 387100}
{"speaker": "Marie", "text": "No; I don't think there are horses here,--not for visitors, that is. How did you get home? Did you have any adventures?", "pos": 387134}
{"speaker": "Sir Felix", "text": "None at all. I just rode home quietly. I go to town to-morrow.", "pos": 387256}
{"speaker": "Marie", "text": "And we go on Wednesday. Mind you come and see us before long.", "pos": 387361}
{"speaker": "Sir Felix", "text": "Of course I shall. I suppose I'd better go to your father in the city. Does he go every day?", "pos": 387477}
{"speaker": "Marie", "text": "Oh yes, every day. He's back always about seven. Sometimes he's good-natured enough when he comes back, but sometimes he's very cross. He's best just after dinner. But it's so hard to get to him then. Lord Alfred is almost always there; and then other people come, and they play cards. I think the city will be best.", "pos": 387572}
{"speaker": "Sir Felix", "text": "You'll stick to it?", "pos": 387891}
{"speaker": "Marie", "text": "Oh, yes;--indeed I will. Now that I've once said it nothing will ever turn me. I think papa knows that.", "pos": 387923}
{"speaker": "Lady Carbury", "text": "They arranged that you should sit next to her,", "pos": 388957}
{"speaker": "Sir Felix", "text": "Oh, I suppose that came naturally;--one young man and one young woman, you know.", "pos": 389066}
{"speaker": "Lady Carbury", "text": "Those things are always arranged, and they would not have done it unless they had thought that it would please Mr. Melmotte. Oh, Felix! if you can bring it about.", "pos": 389149}
{"speaker": "Sir Felix", "text": "I shall if I can, mother; you needn't make a fuss about it.", "pos": 389314}
{"speaker": "Lady Carbury", "text": "No, I won't. You cannot wonder that I should be anxious. You behaved beautifully to her at dinner; I was so happy to see you together. Good night, Felix, and God bless you! I shall be the happiest and the proudest mother in England if this comes about.", "pos": 389376}
{"speaker": "Georgiana", "text": "I suppose we can go at any rate on Tuesday,", "pos": 390638}
{"speaker": "Mr. Longestaffe", "text": "I don't know why you should suppose anything of the kind,", "pos": 390722}
{"speaker": "Lady Pomona", "text": "You might as well wear them, for I am sure you will not be in London again this year.", "pos": 391690}
{"speaker": "Sophia", "text": "You don't mean it, mamma,", "pos": 391797}
{"speaker": "Lady Pomona", "text": "I do, my dear. He looked like it when he put those papers back into his pocket. I know what his face means so well.", "pos": 391838}
{"speaker": "Sophia", "text": "It is not possible. He promised, and he got us to have those horrid people because he promised.", "pos": 391956}
{"speaker": "Lady Pomona", "text": "Well, my dear, if your father says that we can't go back, I suppose we must take his word for it. It is he must decide of course. What he meant I suppose was, that he would take us back if he could.", "pos": 392069}
{"speaker": "Georgiana", "text": "Mamma!", "pos": 392270}
{"speaker": "Lady Pomona", "text": "My dear, what can we do?", "pos": 392481}
{"speaker": "Georgiana", "text": "Do! Make him understand that we are not going to be sat upon like that. I'll do something, if that's going to be the way of it. If he treats me like that I'll run off with the first man that will take me, let him be who it may.", "pos": 392526}
{"speaker": "Lady Pomona", "text": "Don't talk like that, Georgiana, unless you wish to kill me.", "pos": 392804}
{"speaker": "Georgiana", "text": "I'll break his heart for him. He does not care about us,--not the least,--whether we are happy or miserable; but he cares very much about the family name. I'll tell him that I'm not going to be a slave. I'll marry a London tradesman before I'll stay down here.", "pos": 392867}
{"speaker": "Sophia", "text": "Oh, Georgey, don't say such horrid things as that. It's all very well for you, Sophy. You've got George Whitstable. I haven't got George Whitstable.", "pos": 393207}
{"speaker": "Georgiana", "text": "Yes, you have, and your fish is fried. Dolly does just what he pleases, and spends money as fast as he likes. Of course it makes no difference to you, mamma, where you are.", "pos": 393382}
{"speaker": "Lady Pomona", "text": "You are very unjust, and you say horrid things.", "pos": 393557}
{"speaker": "Georgiana", "text": "I ain't unjust at all. It doesn't matter to you. And Sophy is the same as settled. But I'm to be sacrificed! How am I to see anybody down here in this horrid hole? Papa promised and he must keep his word.", "pos": 393636}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Are any of you coming to church, or are you going to keep the carriage waiting all day?", "pos": 393911}
{"speaker": "Georgiana", "text": "have it out Papa, don't you think you could settle now when we are to go back to town? Of course we want to know about engagements and all that. There is Lady Monogram's party on Wednesday. We promised to be there ever so long ago.", "pos": 396042}
{"speaker": "Mr. Longestaffe", "text": "You had better write to Lady Monogram and say you can't keep your engagement.", "pos": 396434}
{"speaker": "Georgiana", "text": "But why not, papa? We could go up on Wednesday morning.", "pos": 396514}
{"speaker": "Mr. Longestaffe", "text": "You can't do anything of the kind.", "pos": 396572}
{"speaker": "Lady Pomona", "text": "But, my dear, we should all like to have a day fixed,", "pos": 396609}
{"speaker": "Mr. Longestaffe", "text": "Then you can't have a day fixed,", "pos": 396830}
{"speaker": "Sophia", "text": "How long do you suppose that we shall be kept here?", "pos": 396887}
{"speaker": "Mr. Longestaffe", "text": "I do not know what you mean by being kept here. This is your home, and this is where you may make up your minds to live.", "pos": 396982}
{"speaker": "Sophia", "text": "But we are to go back?", "pos": 397105}
{"speaker": "Mr. Longestaffe", "text": "You'll not return to London this season,", "pos": 397221}
{"speaker": "Lady Pomona", "text": "Do you mean that that is settled?", "pos": 397354}
{"speaker": "Mr. Longestaffe", "text": "I mean to say that that is settled,", "pos": 397408}
{"speaker": "Georgiana", "text": "Then, papa, you have simply and with premeditation broken your word to us.", "pos": 398022}
{"speaker": "Mr. Longestaffe", "text": "How dare you speak to me in that way, you wicked child!", "pos": 398099}
{"speaker": "Georgiana", "text": "I am not a child, papa, as you know very well. I am my own mistress,--by law.", "pos": 398157}
{"speaker": "Mr. Longestaffe", "text": "Then go and be your own mistress. You dare to tell me, your father, that I have premeditated a falsehood! If you tell me that again, you shall eat your meals in your own room or not eat them in this house.", "pos": 398237}
{"speaker": "Georgiana", "text": "Did you not promise that we should go back if we would come down and entertain these people?", "pos": 398445}
{"speaker": "Mr. Longestaffe", "text": "I will not argue with a child, insolent and disobedient as you are. If I have anything to say about it, I will say it to your mother. It should be enough for you that I, your father, tell you that you have to live here. Now go away, and if you choose to be sullen, go and be sullen where I shan't see you.", "pos": 398540}
{"speaker": "Georgiana", "text": "And you mean to put up with it, mamma?", "pos": 399215}
{"speaker": "Lady Pomona", "text": "What can we do, my dear?", "pos": 399266}
{"speaker": "Georgiana", "text": "I will do something. I'm not going to be cheated and swindled and have my life thrown away into the bargain. I have always behaved well to him. I have never run up bills without saying anything about them.", "pos": 399293}
{"speaker": "Sophia", "text": "You do that for your own sake, I suppose,", "pos": 400231}
{"speaker": "Georgiana", "text": "It is more than you've been able to do for anybody's sake,", "pos": 400292}
{"speaker": "Sophia", "text": "I've kept myself as straight as you have. It's easy enough to be straight, when a person never cares for anybody, and nobody cares for a person.", "pos": 400698}
{"speaker": "Lady Pomona", "text": "My dears, if you quarrel what am I to do?", "pos": 400860}
{"speaker": "Georgiana", "text": "It is I that have to suffer. Does he expect me to find anybody here that I could take? Poor George Whitstable is not much; but there is nobody else at all.", "pos": 400923}
{"speaker": "Sophia", "text": "You may have him if you like,", "pos": 401104}
{"speaker": "Georgiana", "text": "Thank you, my dear, but I shouldn't like it at all. I haven't come to that quite yet.", "pos": 401175}
{"speaker": "Sophia", "text": "You were talking of running away with somebody.", "pos": 401263}
{"speaker": "Georgiana", "text": "I shan't run away with George Whitstable; you may be sure of that. I'll tell you what I shall do,--I will write papa a letter. I suppose he'll condescend to read it. If he won't take me up to town himself, he must send me up to the Primeros. What makes me most angry in the whole thing is that we should have condescended to be civil to the Melmottes down in the country. In London one does those things, but to have them here was terrible!", "pos": 401313}
{"speaker": "Georgiana", "text": "MY DEAR PAPA,-- I don't think you ought to be surprised because we feel that our going up to town is so very important to us. If we are not to be in London at this time of the year we can never see anybody, and of course you know what that must mean for me. If this goes on about Sophia, it does not signify for her, and, though mamma likes London, it is not of real importance. But it is very, very hard upon me. It isn't for pleasure that I want to go up. There isn't so very much pleasure in it. But if I'm to be buried down here at Caversham, I might just as well be dead at once. If you choose to give up both houses for a year, or for two years, and take us all abroad, I should not grumble in the least. There are very nice people to be met abroad, and perhaps things go easier that way than in town. And there would be nothing for horses, and we could dress very cheap and wear our old things. I'm sure I don't want to run up bills. But if you would only think what Caversham must be to me, without any one worth thinking about within twenty miles, you would hardly ask me to stay here. You certainly did say that if we would come down here with those Melmottes we should be taken back to town, and you cannot be surprised that we should be disappointed when we are told that we are to be kept here after that. It makes me feel that life is so hard that I can't bear it. I see other girls having such chances when I have none, that sometimes I think I don't know what will happen to me. I suppose that now it is useless for me to ask you to take us all back this summer,--though it was promised; but I hope you'll give me money to go up to the Primeros. It would only be me and my maid. Julia Primero asked me to stay with them when you first talked of not going up, and I should not in the least object to reminding her, only it should be done at once. Their house in Queen's Gate is very large, and I know they've a room. They all ride, and I should want a horse; but there would be nothing else, as they have plenty of carriages, and the groom who rides with Julia would do for both of us. Pray answer this at once, papa. Your affectionate daughter, GEORGIANA LONGESTAFFE.", "pos": 402529}
{"speaker": "Lady Pomona", "text": "Your papa has this moment given it me. Of course you must judge for yourself.", "pos": 409027}
{"speaker": "Georgiana", "text": "Why shouldn't I go to the Primeros?", "pos": 409907}
{"speaker": "Lady Pomona", "text": "Your father will not hear of it. He dislikes them especially.", "pos": 409956}
{"speaker": "Georgiana", "text": "And I dislike the Melmottes. I dislike the Primeros of course, but they are not so bad as the Melmottes. That would be dreadful.", "pos": 410020}
{"speaker": "Lady Pomona", "text": "You must judge for yourself, Georgiana.", "pos": 410151}
{"speaker": "Georgiana", "text": "It is that,--or staying here?", "pos": 410193}
{"speaker": "Lady Pomona", "text": "I think so, my dear.", "pos": 410225}
{"speaker": "Georgiana", "text": "If papa chooses I don't know why I am to mind. It will be awfully disagreeable,--absolutely disgusting!", "pos": 410248}
{"speaker": "Lady Pomona", "text": "She seemed to be very quiet.", "pos": 410354}
{"speaker": "Georgiana", "text": "Pooh, mamma! Quiet! She was quiet here because she was afraid of us. She isn't yet used to be with people like us. She'll get over that if I'm in the house with her. And then she is, oh! so frightfully vulgar! She must have been the very sweeping of the gutters. Did you not see it, mamma? She could not even open her mouth, she was so ashamed of herself. I shouldn't wonder if they turned out to be something quite horrid. They make me shudder. Was there ever anything so dreadful to look at as he is?", "pos": 410385}
{"speaker": "Lady Pomona", "text": "Everybody goes to them. The Duchess of Stevenage has been there over and over again, and so has Lady Auld Reekie. Everybody goes to their house.", "pos": 410890}
{"speaker": "Georgiana", "text": "But everybody doesn't go and live with them. Oh, mamma,--to have to sit down to breakfast every day for ten weeks with that man and that woman!", "pos": 411057}
{"speaker": "Lady Pomona", "text": "Perhaps they'll let you have your breakfast up-stairs.", "pos": 411203}
{"speaker": "Georgiana", "text": "But to have to go out with them;--walking into the room after her! Only think of it!", "pos": 411260}
{"speaker": "Lady Pomona", "text": "But you are so anxious to be in London, my dear.", "pos": 411347}
{"speaker": "Georgiana", "text": "Of course I am anxious. What other chance have I, mamma? And, oh dear, I am so tired of it! Pleasure, indeed! Papa talks of pleasure. If papa had to work half as hard as I do, I wonder what he'd think of it. I suppose I must do it. I know it will make me so ill that I shall almost die under it. Horrid, horrid people! And papa to propose it, who has always been so proud of everything,--who used to think so much of being with the right set.", "pos": 411398}
{"speaker": "Lady Pomona", "text": "Things are changed, Georgiana,", "pos": 411843}
{"speaker": "Georgiana", "text": "Indeed they are when papa wants me to go and stay with people like that. Why, mamma, the apothecary in Bungay is a fine gentleman compared with Mr. Melmotte, and his wife is a fine lady compared with Madame Melmotte. But I'll go. If papa chooses me to be seen with such people it is not my fault. There will be no disgracing one's self after that. I don't believe in the least that any decent man would propose to a girl in such a house, and you and papa must not be surprised if I take some horrid creature from the Stock Exchange. Papa has altered his ideas; and so, I suppose, I had better alter mine.", "pos": 411901}
{"speaker": "Mr. Longestaffe", "text": "I hope she'll like it,", "pos": 412752}
{"speaker": "Georgiana", "text": "Sophy, I do so envy you staying here. Yes; I was determined, and am determined. I've got to get myself settled somehow, and that can't be done down here. But you are not going to disgrace yourself.", "pos": 413334}
{"speaker": "Sophia", "text": "There's no disgrace in it, Georgey.", "pos": 413593}
{"speaker": "Georgiana", "text": "Yes, there is. I believe the man to be a swindler and a thief; and I believe her to be anything low that you can think of. As to their pretensions to be gentlefolk, it is monstrous. The footmen and housemaids would be much better.", "pos": 413631}
{"speaker": "Sophia", "text": "Then don't go, Georgey.", "pos": 413864}
{"speaker": "Georgiana", "text": "I must go. It's the only chance that is left. If I were to remain down here everybody would say that I was on the shelf. You are going to marry Whitstable, and you'll do very well. It isn't a big place, but there's no debt on it, and Whitstable himself isn't a bad sort of fellow.", "pos": 413890}
{"speaker": "Sophia", "text": "Is he, now?", "pos": 414173}
{"speaker": "Georgiana", "text": "Of course he hasn't much to say for himself, for he's always at home. But he is a gentleman.", "pos": 414187}
{"speaker": "Sophia", "text": "That he certainly is.", "pos": 414282}
{"speaker": "Georgiana", "text": "As for me I shall give over caring about gentlemen now. The first man that comes to me with four or five thousand a year, I'll take him, though he'd come out of Newgate or Bedlam. And I shall always say it has been papa's doing.", "pos": 414306}
{"speaker": "Lord Alfred", "text": "I did not think all that was at all necessary.", "pos": 416866}
{"speaker": "Miles Grendall", "text": "But from what we see, old fellow, I don't think you have anything to fear. You seem to be about the best in of them all. Melmotte wouldn't advise you to sell out gradually, if he didn't look upon the thing as a certain income as far as you are concerned. I don't think you have anything to fear. You seem to be about the best in of them all. Melmotte wouldn't advise you to sell out gradually, if he didn't look upon the thing as a certain income as far as you are concerned.", "pos": 418354}
{"speaker": "Sir Felix", "text": "You haven't sold any shares;--have you?", "pos": 423008}
{"speaker": "Lord Nidderdale", "text": "Not a share.", "pos": 423237}
{"speaker": "Sir Felix", "text": "Nor got any profits?", "pos": 423252}
{"speaker": "Lord Nidderdale", "text": "Not a shilling of any kind. As far as money is concerned my only transaction has been my part of the expense of Fisker's dinner.", "pos": 423275}
{"speaker": "Sir Felix", "text": "What do you get then, by going into the city?", "pos": 423406}
{"speaker": "Lord Nidderdale", "text": "I'm blessed if I know what I get. I suppose something will turn up some day.", "pos": 423471}
{"speaker": "Sir Felix", "text": "In the meantime, you know, there are our names. And Grendall is making a fortune out of it.", "pos": 423550}
{"speaker": "Lord Nidderdale", "text": "Poor old duffer. If he's doing so well, I think Miles ought to be made to pay up something of what he owes. I think we ought to tell him that we shall expect him to have the money ready when that bill of Vossner's comes round.", "pos": 423665}
{"speaker": "Sir Felix", "text": "Yes, by George; let's tell him that. Will you do it?", "pos": 423894}
{"speaker": "Lord Nidderdale", "text": "Not that it will be the least good. It would be quite unnatural to him to pay anything.", "pos": 423949}
{"speaker": "Sir Felix", "text": "Fellows used to pay their gambling debts,", "pos": 424039}
{"speaker": "Lord Nidderdale", "text": "They don't now,--unless they like it. How did a fellow manage before, if he hadn't got it?", "pos": 424183}
{"speaker": "Sir Felix", "text": "He went smash,", "pos": 424276}
{"speaker": "Lord Nidderdale", "text": "I shouldn't. What's the use of being beastly ill-natured? I'm not very good at saying my prayers, but I do think there's something in that bit about forgiving people. Of course cheating isn't very nice: and it isn't very nice for a fellow to play when he knows he can't pay; but I don't know that it's worse than getting drunk like Dolly Longestaffe, or quarrelling with everybody as Grasslough does,--or trying to marry some poor devil of a girl merely because she's got money. I believe in living in glass houses, but I don't believe in throwing stones. Do you ever read the Bible, Carbury?", "pos": 424499}
{"speaker": "Sir Felix", "text": "Read the Bible! Well;--yes;--no;--that is, I suppose, I used to do.", "pos": 425094}
{"speaker": "Lord Nidderdale", "text": "I often think I shouldn't have been the first to pick up a stone and pitch it at that woman. Live and let live;--that's my motto.", "pos": 425164}
{"speaker": "Sir Felix", "text": "But you agree that we ought to do something about these shares?", "pos": 425296}
{"speaker": "Lord Nidderdale", "text": "Oh, certainly. I'll let old Grendall live with all my heart; but then he ought to let me live too. Only, who's to bell the cat? It's no good our going to old Grendall, nor yet to young Grendall. The one would only grunt and say nothing, and the other would tell every lie that came into his head. The cat in this matter I take to be our great master, Augustus Melmotte.", "pos": 425447}
{"speaker": "Sir Felix", "text": "You go there oftener than I do, and perhaps you could do it best,", "pos": 426772}
{"speaker": "Lord Nidderdale", "text": "Go where?", "pos": 426856}
{"speaker": "Sir Felix", "text": "To the Board.", "pos": 426868}
{"speaker": "Lord Nidderdale", "text": "But you're always at his house. He'd be civil to me, perhaps, because I'm a lord: but then, for the same reason, he'd think I was the bigger fool of the two.", "pos": 426884}
{"speaker": "Sir Felix", "text": "I don't see that at all,", "pos": 427044}
{"speaker": "Lord Nidderdale", "text": "I ain't afraid of him, if you mean that. He's a wretched old reprobate, and I don't doubt but he'd skin you and me if he could make money off our carcasses. But as he can't skin me, I'll have a shy at him. On the whole I think he rather likes me, because I've always been on the square with him. If it depended on him, you know, I should have the girl to-morrow.", "pos": 427087}
{"speaker": "Sir Felix", "text": "Would you?", "pos": 427481}
{"speaker": "Lord Nidderdale", "text": "But then she don't want me, and I ain't quite sure that I want her. Where the devil would a fellow find himself if the money wasn't all there?", "pos": 427613}
{"speaker": "Lord Nidderdale", "text": "I wanted just to ask you something,", "pos": 428397}
{"speaker": "Melmotte", "text": "Anything you please, my lord.", "pos": 428481}
{"speaker": "Lord Nidderdale", "text": "Don't you think that Carbury and I ought to have some shares to sell?", "pos": 428513}
{"speaker": "Melmotte", "text": "No, I don't,--if you ask me.", "pos": 428585}
{"speaker": "Lord Nidderdale", "text": "Oh;--I didn't know. But why shouldn't we as well as the others?", "pos": 428616}
{"speaker": "Melmotte", "text": "Have you and Sir Felix put any money into it?", "pos": 428682}
{"speaker": "Lord Nidderdale", "text": "Well, if you come to that, I don't suppose we have. How much has Lord Alfred put into it?", "pos": 428730}
{"speaker": "Melmotte", "text": "I have taken shares for Lord Alfred. If it suits me to advance money to Lord Alfred Grendall, I suppose I may do so without asking your lordship's consent, or that of Sir Felix Carbury.", "pos": 428822}
{"speaker": "Lord Nidderdale", "text": "Oh, certainly. I don't want to make inquiry as to what you do with your money.", "pos": 429080}
{"speaker": "Melmotte", "text": "I'm sure you don't, and, therefore, we won't say anything more about it. You wait awhile, Lord Nidderdale, and you'll find it will come all right. If you've got a few thousand pounds loose, and will put them into the concern, why, of course you can sell; and, if the shares are up, can sell at a profit. It's presumed just at present that, at some early day, you'll qualify for your directorship by doing so, and till that is done, the shares are allocated to you, but cannot be transferred to you.", "pos": 429161}
{"speaker": "Lord Nidderdale", "text": "That's it, is it,", "pos": 429662}
{"speaker": "Melmotte", "text": "If things go on as we hope they will between you and Marie, you can have pretty nearly any number of shares that you please;--that is, if your father consents to a proper settlement.", "pos": 429743}
{"speaker": "Lord Nidderdale", "text": "I hope it'll all go smooth, I'm sure. Thank you; I'm ever so much obliged to you, and I'll explain it all to Carbury.", "pos": 429928}
{"speaker": "Lady Carbury", "text": "My dear Felix, pray don't put it off; you don't know how many slips there may be between the cup and the lip.", "pos": 430240}
{"speaker": "Sir Felix", "text": "It's everything to get him in a good humour,", "pos": 430412}
{"speaker": "Lady Carbury", "text": "But the young lady will feel that she is ill-used.", "pos": 430478}
{"speaker": "Sir Felix", "text": "There's no fear of that; she's all right. What am I to say to him about money? That's the question.", "pos": 430531}
{"speaker": "Lady Carbury", "text": "I shouldn't think of dictating anything, Felix.", "pos": 430633}
{"speaker": "Sir Felix", "text": "Nidderdale, when he was on before, stipulated for a certain sum down; or his father did for him. So much cash was to be paid over before the ceremony, and it only went off because Nidderdale wanted the money to do what he liked with.", "pos": 430683}
{"speaker": "Lady Carbury", "text": "You wouldn't mind having it settled?", "pos": 430919}
{"speaker": "Sir Felix", "text": "No;--I'd consent to that on condition that the money was paid down, and the income insured to me,--say £7,000 or £8,000 a year. I wouldn't do it for less, mother; it wouldn't be worth while. I've got a throat that I can cut, and brains that I can blow out,", "pos": 430958}
{"speaker": "Lady Carbury", "text": "Oh, Felix! how brutal it is to speak to me in that way.", "pos": 431481}
{"speaker": "Sir Felix", "text": "It may be brutal; but you know, mother, business is business. You want me to marry this girl because of her money.", "pos": 431539}
{"speaker": "Lady Carbury", "text": "You want to marry her yourself.", "pos": 431656}
{"speaker": "Sir Felix", "text": "I'm quite a philosopher about it. I want her money; and when one wants money, one should make up one's mind how much or how little one means to take,--and whether one is sure to get it.", "pos": 431690}
{"speaker": "Lady Carbury", "text": "I don't think there can be any doubt.", "pos": 431878}
{"speaker": "Sir Felix", "text": "If I were to marry her, and if the money wasn't there, it would be very like cutting my throat then, mother. If a man plays and loses, he can play again and perhaps win; but when a fellow goes in for an heiress, and gets the wife without the money, he feels a little hampered you know.", "pos": 431918}
{"speaker": "Lady Carbury", "text": "Of course he'd pay the money first.", "pos": 432206}
{"speaker": "Sir Felix", "text": "It's very well to say that. Of course he ought; but it would be rather awkward to refuse to go into church after everything had been arranged because the money hadn't been paid over. He's so clever, that he'd contrive that a man shouldn't know whether the money had been paid or not. You can't carry £10,000 a year about in your pocket, you know. If you'll go, mother, perhaps I might think of getting up.", "pos": 432244}
{"speaker": "Sir Felix", "text": "I wish you'd leave me alone,", "pos": 434150}
{"speaker": "Lady Carbury", "text": "Is it not my business too?", "pos": 434219}
{"speaker": "Sir Felix", "text": "No; you haven't got to marry her, and to put up with these people. I shall make up my mind what to do myself, and I don't want anybody to meddle with me.", "pos": 434248}
{"speaker": "Lady Carbury", "text": "You ungrateful boy!", "pos": 434404}
{"speaker": "Sir Felix", "text": "I understand all about that. Of course I'm ungrateful when I don't do everything just as you wish it. You don't do any good. You only set me against it all.", "pos": 434426}
{"speaker": "Lady Carbury", "text": "How do you expect to live, then? Are you always to be a burden on me and your sister? I wonder that you've no shame. Your cousin Roger is right. I will quit London altogether, and leave you to your own wretchedness.", "pos": 434585}
{"speaker": "Sir Felix", "text": "That's what Roger says; is it? I always thought Roger was a fellow of that sort.", "pos": 434803}
{"speaker": "Lady Carbury", "text": "He is the best friend I have.", "pos": 434886}
{"speaker": "Sir Felix", "text": "He's an ill-tempered, close-fisted, interfering cad, and if he meddles with my affairs again, I shall tell him what I think of him. Upon my word, mother, these little disputes up in my bedroom ain't very pleasant. Of course it's your house; but if you do allow me a room, I think you might let me have it to myself.", "pos": 434995}
{"speaker": "Marie", "text": "I intend to like the young lady very much.", "pos": 437029}
{"speaker": "Madame Melmotte", "text": "Pooh! You never like no person at all.", "pos": 437073}
{"speaker": "Marie", "text": "Ah, yes; that is all very well,--while it lasts; but you care for no friend. Come on Sunday at half-past two. You will find papa after lunch.", "pos": 437193}
{"speaker": "Marie", "text": "Papa is down-stairs in the book-room. Lord Alfred was told when he came that he was out. You go down, and ask the man to show you into the book-room. Shall I come up again? No; but leave a note for me here under cover to Madame Didon. Or send it by post,--under cover to her. That will be better. Go at once, now.", "pos": 439193}
{"speaker": "Melmotte", "text": "How do you do, Sir Felix? I suppose you want the ladies.", "pos": 440448}
{"speaker": "Sir Felix", "text": "I've just been in the drawing-room, but I thought I'd look in on you as I came down.", "pos": 440518}
{"speaker": "Melmotte", "text": "I'm very glad to see you, and all that, but this is hardly a day for business, Sir Felix, nor,--yet a place for business.", "pos": 441712}
{"speaker": "Sir Felix", "text": "I didn't mean to intrude, Mr. Melmotte,", "pos": 442332}
{"speaker": "Melmotte", "text": "I dare say not. I only thought I'd tell you. You might have been going to speak about that railway.", "pos": 442383}
{"speaker": "Sir Felix", "text": "Oh dear no.", "pos": 442485}
{"speaker": "Melmotte", "text": "Your mother was saying to me down in the country that she hoped you attended to the business. I told her that there was nothing to attend to.", "pos": 442499}
{"speaker": "Sir Felix", "text": "My mother doesn't understand anything at all about it,", "pos": 442643}
{"speaker": "Melmotte", "text": "Women never do. Well;--what can I do for you, now that you are here?", "pos": 442716}
{"speaker": "Sir Felix", "text": "Mr. Melmotte, I'm come,--I'm come to;--in short, Mr. Melmotte, I want to propose myself as a suitor for your daughter's hand.", "pos": 442787}
{"speaker": "Melmotte", "text": "The d---- you do!", "pos": 442915}
{"speaker": "Sir Felix", "text": "Well, yes; and we hope you'll give us your consent.", "pos": 442935}
{"speaker": "Melmotte", "text": "She knows you're coming then?", "pos": 442989}
{"speaker": "Sir Felix", "text": "Yes;--she knows.", "pos": 443021}
{"speaker": "Melmotte", "text": "And my wife;--does she know?", "pos": 443040}
{"speaker": "Sir Felix", "text": "I've never spoken to her about it. Perhaps Miss Melmotte has.", "pos": 443071}
{"speaker": "Melmotte", "text": "And how long have you and she understood each other?", "pos": 443135}
{"speaker": "Sir Felix", "text": "I've been attached to her ever since I saw her. I have indeed. I've spoken to her sometimes. You know how that kind of thing goes on.", "pos": 443189}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I'm blessed if I do. I know how it ought to go on. I know that when large sums of money are supposed to be concerned, the young man should speak to the father before he speaks to the girl. He's a fool if he don't, if he wants to get the father's money. So she has given you a promise?", "pos": 443343}
{"speaker": "Sir Felix", "text": "I don't know about a promise.", "pos": 443630}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Do you consider that she's engaged to you?", "pos": 443662}
{"speaker": "Sir Felix", "text": "Not if she's disposed to get out of it. Of course, I should be awfully disappointed.", "pos": 443707}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "She has consented to your coming to me?", "pos": 443874}
{"speaker": "Sir Felix", "text": "Well, yes;--in a sort of a way. Of course she knows that it all depends on you.", "pos": 443916}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Not at all. She's of age. If she chooses to marry you, she can marry you. If that's all you want, her consent is enough. You're a baronet, I believe?", "pos": 443998}
{"speaker": "Sir Felix", "text": "Oh, yes, I'm a baronet.", "pos": 444150}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "And therefore you've come to your own property. You haven't to wait for your father to die, and I dare say you are indifferent about money.", "pos": 444176}
{"speaker": "Sir Felix", "text": "Not exactly that. I suppose you will give your daughter a fortune, of course.", "pos": 444436}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Then I wonder you didn't come to me before you went to her. If my daughter marries to please me, I shall give her money, no doubt. How much is neither here nor there. If she marries to please herself, without considering me, I shan't give her a farthing.", "pos": 444527}
{"speaker": "Sir Felix", "text": "I had hoped that you might consent, Mr. Melmotte.", "pos": 444784}
{"speaker": "Melmotte", "text": "I've said nothing about that. It is possible. You're a man of fashion and have a title of your own,--and no doubt a property. If you'll show me that you've an income fit to maintain her, I'll think about it at any rate. What is your property, Sir Felix?", "pos": 444836}
{"speaker": "Sir Felix", "text": "It isn't a large property, you know,", "pos": 445887}
{"speaker": "Melmotte", "text": "Not like the Marquis of Westminster's, I suppose,", "pos": 445935}
{"speaker": "Sir Felix", "text": "No;--not quite like that,", "pos": 446025}
{"speaker": "Melmotte", "text": "But you have got enough to support a baronet's title?", "pos": 446090}
{"speaker": "Sir Felix", "text": "That depends on how you want to support it,", "pos": 446146}
{"speaker": "Melmotte", "text": "Where's your family seat?", "pos": 446234}
{"speaker": "Sir Felix", "text": "Carbury Manor, down in Suffolk, near the Longestaffes, is the old family place.", "pos": 446262}
{"speaker": "Melmotte", "text": "That doesn't belong to you,", "pos": 446344}
{"speaker": "Sir Felix", "text": "No; not yet. But I'm the heir.", "pos": 446403}
{"speaker": "Melmotte", "text": "Oh, the heir are you? But how did he get it before you? You're the head of the family?", "pos": 447522}
{"speaker": "Sir Felix", "text": "Yes, I am the head of the family, of course. But the place won't be mine till he dies. It would take a long time to explain it all.", "pos": 447611}
{"speaker": "Melmotte", "text": "He's a young man, isn't he?", "pos": 447779}
{"speaker": "Sir Felix", "text": "No,--not what you'd call a young man. He isn't very old.", "pos": 447809}
{"speaker": "Melmotte", "text": "If he were to marry and have children, how would it be then?", "pos": 447868}
{"speaker": "Sir Felix", "text": "I don't quite know how it would be. I have always understood that I am the heir. It's not very likely that he will marry.", "pos": 448015}
{"speaker": "Melmotte", "text": "And in the meantime what is your own property?", "pos": 448139}
{"speaker": "Sir Felix", "text": "My father left me money in the funds and in railway stock,--and then I am my mother's heir.", "pos": 448188}
{"speaker": "Melmotte", "text": "You have done me the honour of telling me that you wish to marry my daughter.", "pos": 448282}
{"speaker": "Sir Felix", "text": "Certainly.", "pos": 448362}
{"speaker": "Melmotte", "text": "Would you then object to inform me the amount and nature of the income on which you intend to support your establishment as a married man? I fancy that the position you assume justifies the question on my part.", "pos": 448375}
{"speaker": "Melmotte", "text": "You don't seem to be very clear about your own circumstances, Sir Felix. Perhaps you will get your lawyer to write to me.", "pos": 449667}
{"speaker": "Sir Felix", "text": "Perhaps that will be best,", "pos": 449791}
{"speaker": "Melmotte", "text": "Either that, or to give it up. My daughter, no doubt, will have money; but money expects money. You're very late to-day, Alfred. Why didn't you come as you said you would?", "pos": 449836}
{"speaker": "Lord Alfred", "text": "I was here more than an hour ago, and they said you were out.", "pos": 450057}
{"speaker": "Melmotte", "text": "I haven't been out of this room all day,--except to lunch. Good morning, Sir Felix. Ring the bell, Alfred, and we'll have a little soda and brandy. Do you know anything about that young fellow?", "pos": 450121}
{"speaker": "Lord Alfred", "text": "He's a baronet without a shilling;--was in the army and had to leave it,", "pos": 450528}
{"speaker": "Melmotte", "text": "Without a shilling! I supposed so. But he's heir to a place down in Suffolk;--eh?", "pos": 450660}
{"speaker": "Lord Alfred", "text": "Not a bit of it. It's the same name, and that's about all. Mr. Carbury has a small property there, and he might give it to me to-morrow. I wish he would, though there isn't much of it. That young fellow has nothing to do with it whatever.", "pos": 450744}
{"speaker": "Melmotte", "text": "Hasn't he now?", "pos": 450985}
{"speaker": "Sir Felix", "text": "You see we haven't bought any and therefore can't sell any. There seems to be something in that. I shall explain it all to my governor, and get him to go a thou' or two. If he sees his way to get the money back, he'd do that and let me have the difference. Why shouldn't he 'go a thou,' and get the difference?", "pos": 452573}
{"speaker": "Sir Felix", "text": "How I do hate a fellow who does not pay up. How the deuce fellows can look one in the face, is what I can't understand. Your father cut up very rough,--about money. Perhaps you had better see him yourself; or would your mother? Yours always. F. You couldn't cash your I. O. U.'s for me to-morrow;--could you?", "pos": 454549}
{"speaker": "Dolly Longestaffe", "text": "To-morrow! oh, lord!", "pos": 455779}
{"speaker": "Sir Felix", "text": "I'll tell you why. You know I'd tell you anything because I think we are really friends. I'm after that daughter of Melmotte's.", "pos": 455802}
{"speaker": "Dolly Longestaffe", "text": "I'm told you're to have her.", "pos": 455932}
{"speaker": "Sir Felix", "text": "I don't know about that. I mean to try at any rate. I've gone in you know for that Board in the city.", "pos": 455963}
{"speaker": "Dolly Longestaffe", "text": "I don't know anything about Boards, my boy.", "pos": 456067}
{"speaker": "Sir Felix", "text": "Yes, you do, Dolly. You remember that American fellow, Montague's friend, that was here one night and won all our money.", "pos": 456113}
{"speaker": "Dolly Longestaffe", "text": "The chap that had the waistcoat, and went away in the morning to California. Fancy starting to California after a hard night. I always wondered whether he got there alive.", "pos": 456236}
{"speaker": "Sir Felix", "text": "Well;--I can't explain to you all about it, because you hate those kinds of things.", "pos": 456410}
{"speaker": "Dolly Longestaffe", "text": "And because I am such a fool.", "pos": 456496}
{"speaker": "Sir Felix", "text": "I don't think you're a fool at all, but it would take a week. But it's absolutely essential for me to take up a lot of shares in the city to-morrow;--or perhaps Wednesday might do. I'm bound to pay for them, and old Melmotte will think that I'm utterly hard up if I don't. Indeed he said as much, and the only objection about me and this girl of his is as to money. Can't you understand, now, how important it may be?", "pos": 456528}
{"speaker": "Dolly Longestaffe", "text": "It's always important to have a lot of money. I know that.", "pos": 456948}
{"speaker": "Sir Felix", "text": "I shouldn't have gone in for this kind of thing if I hadn't thought I was sure. You know how much you owe me, don't you?", "pos": 457009}
{"speaker": "Dolly Longestaffe", "text": "Not in the least.", "pos": 457132}
{"speaker": "Sir Felix", "text": "It's about eleven hundred pounds!", "pos": 457152}
{"speaker": "Dolly Longestaffe", "text": "I shouldn't wonder.", "pos": 457188}
{"speaker": "Sir Felix", "text": "And Miles Grendall owes me two thousand. Grasslough and Nidderdale when they lose always pay with Miles's I. O. U.'s.", "pos": 457210}
{"speaker": "Dolly Longestaffe", "text": "So should I, if I had them.", "pos": 457330}
{"speaker": "Sir Felix", "text": "It'll come to that soon that there won't be any other stuff going, and they really ain't worth anything. I don't see what's the use of playing when this rubbish is shoved about the table. As for Grendall himself, he has no feeling about it.", "pos": 457360}
{"speaker": "Dolly Longestaffe", "text": "Not the least, I should say.", "pos": 457603}
{"speaker": "Sir Felix", "text": "You'll try and get me the money, won't you, Dolly?", "pos": 457634}
{"speaker": "Dolly Longestaffe", "text": "Melmotte has been at me twice. He wants me to agree to sell something. He's an old thief, and of course he means to rob me. You may tell him that if he'll let me have the money in the way I've proposed, you are to have a thousand pounds out of it. I don't know any other way.", "pos": 457687}
{"speaker": "Sir Felix", "text": "You could write me that,--in a business sort of way.", "pos": 457965}
{"speaker": "Dolly Longestaffe", "text": "I couldn't do that, Carbury. What's the use? I never write any letters. I can't do it. You tell him that; and if the sale comes off, I'll make it straight.", "pos": 458020}
{"speaker": "Sir Felix", "text": "I'm going to take up my shares in that company,", "pos": 458443}
{"speaker": "Miles Grendall", "text": "Ah;--indeed.", "pos": 458509}
{"speaker": "Sir Felix", "text": "I didn't quite understand about it, but Nidderdale saw Melmotte and he has explained it. I think I shall go in for a couple of thousand on Wednesday.", "pos": 458580}
{"speaker": "Miles Grendall", "text": "Oh;--ah.", "pos": 458732}
{"speaker": "Sir Felix", "text": "It will be the proper thing to do;--won't it?", "pos": 458743}
{"speaker": "Miles Grendall", "text": "Very good--thing to do!", "pos": 458791}
{"speaker": "Sir Felix", "text": "Is it always ready money?", "pos": 458894}
{"speaker": "Miles Grendall", "text": "Always ready money,", "pos": 458922}
{"speaker": "Sir Felix", "text": "I suppose they allow some time to their own Directors, if a deposit, say 50 per cent., is made for the shares?", "pos": 459031}
{"speaker": "Miles Grendall", "text": "They'll give you half the number, which would come to the same thing.", "pos": 459144}
{"speaker": "Sir Felix", "text": "You know I should want to sell again,--for the rise.", "pos": 459343}
{"speaker": "Miles Grendall", "text": "Oh; you'll want to sell again.", "pos": 459398}
{"speaker": "Sir Felix", "text": "And therefore I must have the full number.", "pos": 459431}
{"speaker": "Miles Grendall", "text": "You could sell half the number, you know,", "pos": 459476}
{"speaker": "Sir Felix", "text": "I'm determined to begin with ten shares;--that's £1,000. Well;--I have got the money, but I don't want to draw out so much. Couldn't you manage for me that I should get them on paying 50 per cent. down?", "pos": 459532}
{"speaker": "Miles Grendall", "text": "Melmotte does all that himself.", "pos": 459737}
{"speaker": "Sir Felix", "text": "You could explain, you know, that you are a little short in your own payments to me.", "pos": 459771}
{"speaker": "Miles Grendall", "text": "That's private,", "pos": 459958}
{"speaker": "Sir Felix", "text": "Of course it's private; but if you would pay me the money I could buy the shares with it, though they are public.", "pos": 459997}
{"speaker": "Miles Grendall", "text": "I don't think we could mix the two things together, Carbury.", "pos": 460113}
{"speaker": "Sir Felix", "text": "You can't help me?", "pos": 460176}
{"speaker": "Miles Grendall", "text": "Not in that way.", "pos": 460197}
{"speaker": "Sir Felix", "text": "Then, when the deuce will you pay me what you owe me? Do you know how much you owe me?", "pos": 460215}
{"speaker": "Miles Grendall", "text": "Of course I know,", "pos": 461100}
{"speaker": "Sir Felix", "text": "Well?", "pos": 461132}
{"speaker": "Miles Grendall", "text": "I'm not going to talk about it here.", "pos": 461140}
{"speaker": "Sir Felix", "text": "Not going to talk about it here?", "pos": 461179}
{"speaker": "Miles Grendall", "text": "No. This is a public room.", "pos": 461214}
{"speaker": "Sir Felix", "text": "I am going to talk about it,", "pos": 461243}
{"speaker": "Miles Grendall", "text": "Will any fellow come up-stairs and play a game of billiards?", "pos": 461309}
{"speaker": "Lord Grasslough", "text": "Let's stick to whist; I like cutting out,", "pos": 462459}
{"speaker": "Dolly Longestaffe", "text": "It's much more jolly having nothing to do now and then; one can always bet,", "pos": 462520}
{"speaker": "Sir Felix", "text": "I hate loo,", "pos": 462629}
{"speaker": "Lord Nidderdale", "text": "I like whist best, but I'll play anything anybody likes;--pitch and toss if you please.", "pos": 462692}
{"speaker": "Sir Felix", "text": "Montague, just change these for the time. I'll take them back, if you still have them when we've done.", "pos": 463349}
{"speaker": "Miles Grendall", "text": "I don't understand this kind of thing. When I win from you, Carbury, I'll take my I. O. U.'s, as long as you have any.", "pos": 464088}
{"speaker": "Sir Felix", "text": "By George, that's kind.", "pos": 464220}
{"speaker": "Miles Grendall", "text": "But I won't have them handed about the table to be changed.", "pos": 464246}
{"speaker": "Sir Felix", "text": "Pay them yourself, then,", "pos": 464308}
{"speaker": "Lord Nidderdale", "text": "Don't let's have a row,", "pos": 464387}
{"speaker": "Lord Grasslough", "text": "Carbury is always making a row,", "pos": 464435}
{"speaker": "Miles Grendall", "text": "Of course he is,", "pos": 464486}
{"speaker": "Sir Felix", "text": "I don't make more row than anybody else; but I do say that as we have such a lot of these things, and as we all know that we don't get cash for them as we want it, Grendall shouldn't take money and walk off with it.", "pos": 464526}
{"speaker": "Miles Grendall", "text": "Who is walking off?", "pos": 464744}
{"speaker": "Lord Grasslough", "text": "And why should you be entitled to Montague's money more than any of us?", "pos": 464778}
{"speaker": "Miles Grendall", "text": "I never saw a fellow have such a run of luck in my life,", "pos": 466033}
{"speaker": "Lord Grasslough", "text": "You've had two trumps dealt to you every hand almost since we began!", "pos": 466109}
{"speaker": "Miles Grendall", "text": "Ever so many hands I haven't played at all,", "pos": 466180}
{"speaker": "Dolly Longestaffe", "text": "You've always won when I've played. I've been looed every time.", "pos": 466238}
{"speaker": "Miles Grendall", "text": "You oughtn't to begrudge me one run of luck, when I've lost so much,", "pos": 466318}
{"speaker": "Lord Nidderdale", "text": "I hate all this row about winning and losing. Let's go on, or go to bed.", "pos": 466707}
{"speaker": "Lord Grasslough", "text": "There's something the matter with that fellow,", "pos": 468236}
{"speaker": "Miles Grendall", "text": "There's always something the matter with him, I think. He is so awfully greedy about his money.", "pos": 468302}
{"speaker": "Lord Nidderdale", "text": "The less said about that, Grendall, the better. We have put up with a good deal, you know, and he has put up with as much as anybody.", "pos": 468467}
{"speaker": "Didon", "text": "Well, perhaps not Madame,", "pos": 469071}
{"speaker": "Melmotte", "text": "But if they should say that I'm not an Englishman?", "pos": 470266}
{"speaker": "Marie", "text": "DEAREST, DEAREST FELIX. I have just got your note;--such a scrap! Of course papa would talk about money because he never thinks of anything else. I don't know anything about money, and I don't care in the least how much you have got. Papa has got plenty, and I think he would give us some if we were once married. I have told mamma, but mamma is always afraid of everything. Papa is very cross to her sometimes;--more so than to me. I will try to tell him, though I can't always get at him. I very often hardly see him all day long. But I don't mean to be afraid of him, and will tell him that on my word and honour I will never marry any one except you. I don't think he will beat me, but if he does, I'll bear it,--for your sake. He does beat mamma sometimes, I know. You can write to me quite safely through Didon. I think if you would call some day and give her something, it would help, as she is very fond of money. Do write and tell me that you love me. I love you better than anything in the world, and I will never,--never give you up. I suppose you can come and call,--unless papa tells the man in the hall not to let you in. I'll find that out from Didon, but I can't do it before sending this letter. Papa dined out yesterday somewhere with that Lord Alfred, so I haven't seen him since you were here. I never see him before he goes into the city in the morning. Now I am going down-stairs to breakfast with mamma and that Miss Longestaffe. She is a stuck-up thing. Didn't you think so at Caversham? Good-bye. You are my own, own, own darling Felix. And I am your own, own affectionate ladylove,", "pos": 473242}
{"speaker": "Sir Felix", "text": "What an infernal little ass!", "pos": 475129}
{"speaker": "Georgiana", "text": "She never really cared for anybody but herself,", "pos": 476967}
{"speaker": "Lord Grasslough", "text": "What's all this about?", "pos": 477824}
{"speaker": "Georgiana", "text": "Impudent scoundrel!", "pos": 478007}
{"speaker": "Georgiana", "text": "What's all this about? What brings you here, I wonder? This is quite an unexpected compliment.", "pos": 478664}
{"speaker": "Dolly Longestaffe", "text": "My being here doesn't matter. I can go anywhere without doing much harm. Why are you staying with these people?", "pos": 478806}
{"speaker": "Georgiana", "text": "Ask papa.", "pos": 478920}
{"speaker": "Dolly Longestaffe", "text": "I don't suppose he sent you here?", "pos": 478932}
{"speaker": "Georgiana", "text": "That's just what he did do.", "pos": 478968}
{"speaker": "Dolly Longestaffe", "text": "You needn't have come, I suppose, unless you liked it. Is it because they are none of them coming up?", "pos": 478998}
{"speaker": "Georgiana", "text": "Exactly that, Dolly. What a wonderful young man you are for guessing!", "pos": 479102}
{"speaker": "Dolly Longestaffe", "text": "Don't you feel ashamed of yourself?", "pos": 479174}
{"speaker": "Georgiana", "text": "No;--not a bit.", "pos": 479212}
{"speaker": "Dolly Longestaffe", "text": "Then I feel ashamed for you.", "pos": 479230}
{"speaker": "Georgiana", "text": "Everybody comes here.", "pos": 479261}
{"speaker": "Dolly Longestaffe", "text": "No;--everybody does not come and stay here as you are doing. Everybody doesn't make themselves a part of the family. I have heard of nobody doing it except you. I thought you used to think so much of yourself.", "pos": 479285}
{"speaker": "Georgiana", "text": "I think as much of myself as ever I did,", "pos": 479497}
{"speaker": "Dolly Longestaffe", "text": "I can tell you nobody else will think much of you if you remain here. I could hardly believe it when Nidderdale told me.", "pos": 479591}
{"speaker": "Georgiana", "text": "What did he say, Dolly?", "pos": 479714}
{"speaker": "Dolly Longestaffe", "text": "He didn't say much to me, but I could see what he thought. And of course everybody thinks the same. How you can like the people yourself is what I can't understand!", "pos": 479740}
{"speaker": "Georgiana", "text": "I don't like them,--I hate them.", "pos": 479907}
{"speaker": "Dolly Longestaffe", "text": "Then why do you come and live with them?", "pos": 479942}
{"speaker": "Georgiana", "text": "Oh, Dolly, it is impossible to make you understand. A man is so different. You can go just where you please, and do what you like. And if you're short of money, people will give you credit. And you can live by yourself, and all that sort of thing. How should you like to be shut up down at Caversham all the season?", "pos": 479985}
{"speaker": "Dolly Longestaffe", "text": "I shouldn't mind it,--only for the governor.", "pos": 480303}
{"speaker": "Georgiana", "text": "You have got a property of your own. Your fortune is made for you. What is to become of me?", "pos": 480350}
{"speaker": "Dolly Longestaffe", "text": "You mean about marrying?", "pos": 480444}
{"speaker": "Georgiana", "text": "I mean altogether. Of course I have to think of myself.", "pos": 480471}
{"speaker": "Dolly Longestaffe", "text": "I don't see how the Melmottes are to help you. The long and the short of it is, you oughtn't to be here. It's not often I interfere, but when I heard it I thought I'd come and tell you. I shall write to the governor, and tell him too. He should have known better.", "pos": 480657}
{"speaker": "Georgiana", "text": "Don't write to papa, Dolly!", "pos": 480923}
{"speaker": "Dolly Longestaffe", "text": "Yes, I shall. I am not going to see everything going to the devil without saying a word. Good-bye.", "pos": 480953}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Hurtle", "text": "Paul. Paul, say that that letter of yours must go for nothing. Say that it shall be so, and I will forgive everything.", "pos": 483551}
{"speaker": "Paul Montague", "text": "I cannot say that,", "pos": 483813}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Hurtle", "text": "You cannot say it! What do you mean? Will you dare to tell me that your promises to me are to go for nothing?", "pos": 483871}
{"speaker": "Paul Montague", "text": "Things are changed,", "pos": 483983}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Hurtle", "text": "How are they changed? I am two years older, if you mean that.", "pos": 484602}
{"speaker": "Paul Montague", "text": "You are beautiful as ever you were,", "pos": 487078}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Hurtle", "text": "Psha! Do not tell me of that. I care nothing for my beauty unless it can bind me to your love. Sit down there and tell me what it means.", "pos": 487125}
{"speaker": "Paul Montague", "text": "I told you in my letter.", "pos": 487351}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Hurtle", "text": "You told me nothing in your letter,--except that it was to be--off. Why is it to be--off? Do you not love me? Paul. I have come again across the Atlantic on purpose to see you,--after so many months,--and will you not give me one kiss? Even though you should leave me for ever, give me one kiss. Now tell me everything,", "pos": 487378}
{"speaker": "Mr. Fisker", "text": "She always had money when she was here, but no one knew where it came from.", "pos": 491531}
{"speaker": "Hamilton K. Fisker", "text": "I don't think, you know, that I should like to go in for a life partnership, if you mean that,", "pos": 491675}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Hurtle", "text": "Tell me everything,", "pos": 492504}
{"speaker": "Paul Montague", "text": "But you,--when did you arrive here?", "pos": 492583}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Hurtle", "text": "Here, at this house, I arrived the night before last. On Tuesday I reached Liverpool. There I found that you were probably in London, and so I came on. I have come only to see you. I can understand that you should have been estranged from me. That journey home is now so long ago! Our meeting in New York was so short and wretched. I would not tell you because you then were poor yourself, but at that moment I was penniless. I have got my own now out from the very teeth of robbers. I could not get across to San Francisco as I said I would, and when I was there you had quarrelled with your uncle and returned. And now I am here. I at any rate have been faithful. And now, tell me about yourself?", "pos": 492621}
{"speaker": "Paul Montague", "text": "I am engaged here about this railway. You have heard, I suppose, of our projected scheme?", "pos": 494268}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Hurtle", "text": "Heard of it! San Francisco is full of it. Hamilton Fisker is the great man of the day there, and, when I left, your uncle was buying a villa for seventy-four thousand dollars. And yet they say that the best of it all has been transferred to you Londoners. Many there are very hard upon Fisker for coming here and doing as he did.", "pos": 494371}
{"speaker": "Paul Montague", "text": "It's doing very well, I believe,", "pos": 494703}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Hurtle", "text": "You are the manager here in England?", "pos": 494825}
{"speaker": "Paul Montague", "text": "No,--I am a member of the firm that manages it at San Francisco; but the real manager here is our chairman, Mr. Melmotte.", "pos": 494864}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Hurtle", "text": "Ah,--I have heard of him. He is a great man;--a Frenchman, is he not? There was a talk of inviting him to California. You know him of course?", "pos": 494988}
{"speaker": "Paul Montague", "text": "Yes;--I know him. I see him once a week.", "pos": 495132}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Hurtle", "text": "I would sooner see that man than your Queen, or any of your dukes or lords. They tell me that he holds the world of commerce in his right hand. What power;--what grandeur!", "pos": 495174}
{"speaker": "Paul Montague", "text": "Grand enough, if it all came honestly.", "pos": 495348}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Hurtle", "text": "Such a man rises above honesty, as a great general rises above humanity when he sacrifices an army to conquer a nation. Such greatness is incompatible with small scruples. A pigmy man is stopped by a little ditch, but a giant stalks over the rivers.", "pos": 495402}
{"speaker": "Paul Montague", "text": "I prefer to be stopped by the ditches,", "pos": 495674}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Hurtle", "text": "Ah, Paul, you were not born for commerce. And I will grant you this, that commerce is not noble unless it rises to great heights. To live in plenty by sticking to your counter from nine in the morning to nine at night, is not a fine life. But this man with a scratch of his pen can send out or call in millions of dollars. Do they say here that he is not honest?", "pos": 495730}
{"speaker": "Paul Montague", "text": "As he is my partner in this affair perhaps I had better say nothing against him.", "pos": 496095}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Hurtle", "text": "Of course such a man will be abused. People have said that Napoleon was a coward, and Washington a traitor. You must take me where I shall see Melmotte. He is a man whose hand I would kiss; but I would not condescend to speak even a word of reverence to any of your Emperors.", "pos": 496178}
{"speaker": "Paul Montague", "text": "I fear you will find that your idol has feet of clay.", "pos": 496456}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Hurtle", "text": "Ah,--you mean that he is bold in breaking those precepts of yours about coveting worldly wealth. All men and women break that commandment, but they do so in a stealthy fashion, half drawing back the grasping hand, praying to be delivered from temptation while they filch only a little, pretending to despise the only thing that is dear to them in the world. Here is a man who boldly says that he recognises no such law; that wealth is power, and that power is good, and that the more a man has of wealth the greater and the stronger and the nobler he can be. I love a man who can turn the hobgoblins inside out and burn the wooden bogies that he meets.", "pos": 496512}
{"speaker": "Paul Montague", "text": "Personally, I do not like him,", "pos": 497487}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Hurtle", "text": "I had thought to find that you and he were hand and glove.", "pos": 497531}
{"speaker": "Paul Montague", "text": "Oh no.", "pos": 497592}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Hurtle", "text": "But you are prospering in this business?", "pos": 497601}
{"speaker": "Paul Montague", "text": "Yes,--I suppose we are prospering. It is one of those hazardous things in which a man can never tell whether he be really prosperous till he is out of it. I fell into it altogether against my will. I had no alternative.", "pos": 497644}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Hurtle", "text": "It seems to me to have been a golden chance.", "pos": 497866}
{"speaker": "Paul Montague", "text": "As far as immediate results go it has been golden.", "pos": 497913}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Hurtle", "text": "That at any rate is well, Paul. And now,--now that we have got back into our old way of talking, tell me what all this means. I have talked to no one after this fashion since we parted. Why should our engagement be over? You used to love me, did you not?", "pos": 497966}
{"speaker": "Paul Montague", "text": "You know I did,", "pos": 498307}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Hurtle", "text": "I thought so. This I know, that you were sure and are sure of my love to you. Is it not so? Come, speak openly like a man. Do you doubt me?", "pos": 498334}
{"speaker": "Paul Montague", "text": "No, indeed.", "pos": 498524}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Hurtle", "text": "Oh, with what bated, half-mouthed words you speak,--fit for a girl from a nursery! Out with it if you have anything to say against me! You owe me so much at any rate. I have never ill-treated you. I have never lied to you. I have taken nothing from you,--if I have not taken your heart. I have given you all that I have to give. If you hate me, say so.", "pos": 498538}
{"speaker": "Paul Montague", "text": "Winifrid,", "pos": 498958}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Hurtle", "text": "Winifrid! Yes, now for the first time, though I have called you Paul from the moment you entered the room. Well, speak out. Is there another woman that you love?", "pos": 499004}
{"speaker": "Paul Montague", "text": "There is another,", "pos": 499411}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Hurtle", "text": "Oh, --that is the reason why I am told that I am to be--off.", "pos": 499646}
{"speaker": "Paul Montague", "text": "That was not the reason.", "pos": 499734}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Hurtle", "text": "What;--can there be more reason than that,--better reason than that? Unless, indeed, it be that as you have learned to love another so also you have learned to--hate me.", "pos": 499761}
{"speaker": "Paul Montague", "text": "Listen to me, Winifrid.", "pos": 499933}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Hurtle", "text": "No, sir; no Winifrid now! How did you dare to kiss me, knowing that it was on your tongue to tell me I was to be cast aside? And so you love--some other woman! I am too old to please you, too rough,--too little like the dolls of your own country! What were your--other reasons? Let me hear your--other reasons, that I may tell you that they are lies.", "pos": 499959}
{"speaker": "Paul Montague", "text": "We know too little of each other,", "pos": 500572}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Hurtle", "text": "What more do you want to know? You can know all for the asking. Did I ever refuse to answer you? As to my knowledge of you and your affairs, if I think it sufficient, need you complain? What is it that you want to know? Ask anything and I will tell you. Is it about my money? You knew when you gave me your word that I had next to none. Now I have ample means of my own. You knew that I was a widow. What more? If you wish to hear of the wretch that was my husband, I will deluge you with stories. I should have thought that a man who loved would not have cared to hear much of one--who perhaps was loved once.", "pos": 500617}
{"speaker": "Paul Montague", "text": "I wish to hear nothing,", "pos": 501924}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Hurtle", "text": "Then why tell me that we know so little of each other? That, surely, is a poor excuse to make to a woman,--after you have been false to her. Why did you not say that when we were in New York together? Think of it, Paul. Is not that mean?", "pos": 501959}
{"speaker": "Paul Montague", "text": "I do not think that I am mean.", "pos": 502199}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Hurtle", "text": "No;--a man will lie to a woman, and justify it always. Who is--this lady?", "pos": 502232}
{"speaker": "Paul Montague", "text": "I can not name her.", "pos": 502496}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Hurtle", "text": "And I, who have come hither from California to see you, am to return satisfied because you tell me that you have--changed your affections? That is to be all, and you think that fair? That suits your own mind, and leaves no sore spot in your heart? You can do that, and shake hands with me, and go away,--without a pang, without a scruple?", "pos": 502518}
{"speaker": "Paul Montague", "text": "I did not say so.", "pos": 502859}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Hurtle", "text": "And you are the man who cannot bear to hear me praise Augustus Melmotte because you think him dishonest! Are you a liar?", "pos": 502879}
{"speaker": "Paul Montague", "text": "I hope not.", "pos": 503002}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Hurtle", "text": "Did you say you would be my husband? Answer me, sir.", "pos": 503016}
{"speaker": "Paul Montague", "text": "I did say so.", "pos": 503071}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Hurtle", "text": "Do you now refuse to keep your promise? You shall answer me.", "pos": 503087}
{"speaker": "Paul Montague", "text": "I cannot marry you.", "pos": 503150}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Hurtle", "text": "Then, sir, are you not a liar?", "pos": 503172}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Hurtle", "text": "Oh, Paul, --I am pleading to you for my life. Oh, that I could make you feel that I am pleading for my life. Have you given a promise to this lady also?", "pos": 503801}
{"speaker": "Paul Montague", "text": "No. I have given no promise.", "pos": 503999}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Hurtle", "text": "But she loves you?", "pos": 504041}
{"speaker": "Paul Montague", "text": "She has never said so.", "pos": 504062}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Hurtle", "text": "You have told her of your love?", "pos": 504087}
{"speaker": "Paul Montague", "text": "Never.", "pos": 504121}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Hurtle", "text": "There is nothing, then, between you? And you would put her against me,--some woman who has nothing to suffer, no cause of complaint, who, for aught you know, cares nothing for you. Is that so?", "pos": 504130}
{"speaker": "Paul Montague", "text": "I suppose it is,", "pos": 504325}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Hurtle", "text": "Then you may still be mine. Oh, Paul, come back to me. Will any woman love you as I do;--live for you as I do? Think what I have done in coming here, where I have no friend,--not a single friend,--unless you are a friend. Listen to me. I have told the woman here that I am engaged to marry you.", "pos": 504355}
{"speaker": "Paul Montague", "text": "You have told the woman of the house?", "pos": 504652}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Hurtle", "text": "Certainly I have. Was I not justified? Were you not engaged to me? Am I to have you to visit me here, and to risk her insults, perhaps to be told to take myself off and to find accommodation elsewhere, because I am too mealy-mouthed to tell the truth as to the cause of my being here? I am here because you have promised to make me your wife, and, as far as I am concerned, I am not ashamed to have the fact advertised in every newspaper in the town. I told her that I was the promised wife of one Paul Montague, who was joined with Mr. Melmotte in managing the new great American railway, and that Mr. Paul Montague would be with me this morning. She was too far-seeing to doubt me, but had she doubted, I could have shown her your letters. Now go and tell her that what I have said is false,--if you dare. Do you mean to tell her that my statement is untrue?", "pos": 504692}
{"speaker": "Paul Montague", "text": "No,-- not to-day.", "pos": 505801}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Hurtle", "text": "And you will come back to me?", "pos": 505832}
{"speaker": "Paul Montague", "text": "Yes;--I will come back.", "pos": 505864}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Hurtle", "text": "I have no friend here, but you, Paul. Remember that. Remember all your promises. Remember all our love,--and be good to me. MY DEAR PAUL,-- I think that perhaps we hardly made ourselves understood to each other yesterday, and I am sure that you do not understand how absolutely my whole life is now at stake. I need only refer you to our journey from San Francisco to London to make you conscious that I really love you. To a woman such love is all important. She cannot throw it from her as a man may do amidst the affairs of the world. Nor, if it has to be thrown from her, can she bear the loss as a man bears it. Her thoughts have dwelt on it with more constancy than his;--and then too her devotion has separated her from other things. My devotion to you has separated me from everything. But I scorn to come to you as a suppliant. If you choose to say after hearing me that you will put me away from you because you have seen some one fairer than I am, whatever course I may take in my indignation, I shall not throw myself at your feet to tell you of my wrongs. I wish, however, that you should hear me. You say that there is some one you love better than you love me, but that you have not committed yourself to her. Alas, I know too much of the world to be surprised that a man's constancy should not stand out two years in the absence of his mistress. A man cannot wrap himself up and keep himself warm with an absent love as a woman does. But I think that some remembrance of the past must come back upon you now that you have seen me again. I think that you must have owned to yourself that you did love me, and that you could love me again. You sin against me to my utter destruction if you leave me. I have given up every friend I have to follow you. As regards the other--nameless lady, there can be no fault; for, as you tell me, she knows nothing of your passion. You hinted that there were other reasons,--that we know too little of each other. You meant no doubt that you knew too little of me. Is it not the case that you were content when you knew only what was to be learned in those days of our sweet intimacy, but that you have been made discontented by stories told you by your partners at San Francisco? If this be so, trouble yourself at any rate to find out the truth before you allow yourself to treat a woman as you propose to treat me. I think you are too good a man to cast aside a woman you have loved,--like a soiled glove,--because ill-natured words have been spoken of her by men, or perhaps by women, who know nothing of her life. My late husband, Caradoc Hurtle, was Attorney-General in the State of Kansas when I married him, I being then in possession of a considerable fortune left to me by my mother. There his life was infamously bad. He spent what money he could get of mine, and then left me and the State, and took himself to Texas;--where he drank himself to death. I did not follow him, and in his absence I was divorced from him in accordance with the laws of Kansas State. I then went to San Francisco about property of my mother's, which my husband had fraudulently sold to a countryman of ours now resident in Paris,--having forged my name. There I met you, and in that short story I tell you all that there is to be told. It may be that you do not believe me now; but if so, are you not bound to go where you can verify your own doubts or my word? I try to write dispassionately, but I am in truth overborne by passion. I also have heard in California rumours about myself, and after much delay I received your letter. I resolved to follow you to England as soon as circumstances would permit me. I have been forced to fight a battle about my property, and I have won it. I had two reasons for carrying this through by my personal efforts before I saw you. I had begun it and had determined that I would not be beaten by fraud. And I was also determined that I would not plead to you as a pauper. We have talked too freely together in past days of our mutual money matters for me to feel any delicacy in alluding to them. When a man and woman have agreed to be husband and wife there should be no delicacy of that kind. When we came here together we were both embarrassed. We both had some property, but neither of us could enjoy it. Since that I have made my way through my difficulties. From what I have heard at San Francisco I suppose that you have done the same. I at any rate shall be perfectly contented if from this time our affairs can be made one. And now about myself,--immediately. I have come here all alone. Since I last saw you in New York I have not had altogether a good time. I have had a great struggle and have been thrown on my own resources and have been all alone. Very cruel things have been said of me. You heard cruel things said, but I presume them to have been said to you with reference to my late husband. Since that they have been said to others with reference to you. I have not now come, as my countrymen do generally, backed with a trunk full of introductions and with scores of friends ready to receive me. It was necessary to me that I should see you and hear my fate,--and here I am. I appeal to you to release me in some degree from the misery of my solitude. You know,--no one so well,--that my nature is social and that I am not given to be melancholy. Let us be cheerful together, as we once were, if it be only for a day. Let me see you as I used to see you, and let me be seen as I used to be seen. Come to me and take me out with you, and let us dine together, and take me to one of your theatres. If you wish it I will promise you not to allude to that revelation you made to me just now, though of course it is nearer to my heart than any other matter. Perhaps some woman's vanity makes me think that if you would only see me again, and talk to me as you used to talk, you would think of me as you used to think. You need not fear but you will find me at home. I have no whither to go,--and shall hardly stir from the house till you come to me. Send me a line, however, that I may have my hat on if you are minded to do as I ask you. Yours with all my heart. WINIFRID HURTLE.", "pos": 505890}
{"speaker": "Paul Montague", "text": "DEAR WINIFRID. I will come for you to-morrow at half-past five. We will dine together at the Thespian;--and then I will have a box at the Haymarket. The Thespian is a good sort of place, and lots of ladies dine there. You can dine in your bonnet. Yours affectionately. P. M.", "pos": 518120}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Hurtle", "text": "You told me to have a hat, and here I am,--hat and all.", "pos": 522090}
{"speaker": "Paul Montague", "text": "The acting isn't very good,", "pos": 525414}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Hurtle", "text": "What does it signify? What we enjoy or what we suffer depends upon the humour. The acting is not first-rate, but I have listened and laughed and cried, because I have been happy.", "pos": 525484}
{"speaker": "Paul Montague", "text": "It has been very jolly,", "pos": 525792}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Hurtle", "text": "And one has so little that is really jolly, as you call it. I wonder whether any girl ever did sit and cry like that because her lover talked to another woman. What I find fault with is that the writers and actors are so ignorant of men and women as we see them every day. It's all right that she should cry, but she shouldn't cry there. A woman hides such tears. She may be found crying because she is unable to hide them;--but she does not willingly let the other woman see them. Does she?", "pos": 525827}
{"speaker": "Paul Montague", "text": "I suppose not.", "pos": 526529}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Hurtle", "text": "Medea did not weep when she was introduced to Creusa.", "pos": 526546}
{"speaker": "Paul Montague", "text": "Women are not all Medeas,", "pos": 526602}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Hurtle", "text": "There's a dash of the savage princess about most of them. I am quite ready if you like. I never want to see the curtain fall. And I have had no nosegay brought in a wheelbarrow to throw on to the stage. Are you going to see me home?", "pos": 526642}
{"speaker": "Paul Montague", "text": "Certainly.", "pos": 526877}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Hurtle", "text": "You need not. I'm not a bit afraid of a London cab by myself. I do so hate all kinds of buckram. I like good conduct, and law, and religion too if it be not forced down one's throat; but I hate what your women call propriety. I suppose what we have been doing to-night is very improper; but I am quite sure that it has not been in the least wicked.", "pos": 526890}
{"speaker": "Paul Montague", "text": "I don't think it has,", "pos": 527691}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Hurtle", "text": "Yes, this is it. Even about the houses there is an air of stiff-necked propriety which frightens me. Come in for one moment. Shut the door for one moment. Oh Paul, my darling! Oh Paul, my love! I will not bear to be separated from you. No, no;--never. I swear it, and you may believe me. There is nothing I cannot do for love of you,--but to lose you. But Paul, I mean to keep my pledge to you to-night. It was to be an island in our troubles, a little holiday in our hard school-time, and I will not destroy it at its close. You will see me again soon,--will you not?", "pos": 527849}
{"speaker": "Dolly Longestaffe", "text": "Where the blessed angels have you been?", "pos": 530515}
{"speaker": "Sir Felix", "text": "I've had fish of my own to fry. I'm particularly anxious to take up those shares,", "pos": 530760}
{"speaker": "Dolly Longestaffe", "text": "Of course you ought to have your money.", "pos": 531196}
{"speaker": "Sir Felix", "text": "I don't say that at all, old fellow. I know very well that you're all right. You're not like that fellow, Miles Grendall.", "pos": 531238}
{"speaker": "Dolly Longestaffe", "text": "Well; no. Poor Miles has got nothing to bless himself with. I suppose I could get it, and so I ought to pay.", "pos": 531362}
{"speaker": "Sir Felix", "text": "That's no excuse for Grendall,", "pos": 531473}
{"speaker": "Dolly Longestaffe", "text": "A chap can't pay if he hasn't got it, Carbury. A chap ought to pay of course. I've had a letter from our lawyer within the last half hour--here it is. My governor wants to sell Pickering, and Melmotte wants to buy the place. My governor can't sell without me, and I've asked for half the plunder. I know what's what. My interest in the property is greater than his. It isn't much of a place, and they are talking of £50,000, over and above the debt upon it. £25,000 would pay off what I owe on my own property, and make me very square. From what this fellow says I suppose they're going to give in to my terms.", "pos": 531540}
{"speaker": "Sir Felix", "text": "By George, that'll be a grand thing for you, Dolly.", "pos": 532329}
{"speaker": "Dolly Longestaffe", "text": "Oh yes. Of course I want it. But I don't like the place going. I'm not much of a fellow, I know. I'm awfully lazy and can't get myself to go in for things as I ought to do; but I've a sort of feeling that I don't like the family property going to pieces. A fellow oughtn't to let his family property go to pieces.", "pos": 532383}
{"speaker": "Sir Felix", "text": "You never lived at Pickering.", "pos": 532699}
{"speaker": "Dolly Longestaffe", "text": "No;--and I don't know that it is any good. It gives us 3 per cent. on the money it's worth, while the governor is paying 6 per cent., and I'm paying 25, for the money we've borrowed. I know more about it than you'd think. It ought to be sold, and now I suppose it will be sold. Old Melmotte knows all about it, and if you like I'll go with you to the city to-morrow and make it straight about what I owe you. He'll advance me £1,000, and then you can get the shares. Are you going to dine here?", "pos": 532731}
{"speaker": "Dolly Longestaffe", "text": "Is there anything up between you and Miles?", "pos": 534006}
{"speaker": "Sir Felix", "text": "I can't bear him.", "pos": 534109}
{"speaker": "Dolly Longestaffe", "text": "There never was any love between you two, I know. But you used to speak, and you've played with him all through.", "pos": 534129}
{"speaker": "Sir Felix", "text": "Played with him! I should think I have. Though he did get such a haul last Sunday he owes me more than you do now.", "pos": 534244}
{"speaker": "Dolly Longestaffe", "text": "Is that the reason you haven't played the last two nights?", "pos": 534361}
{"speaker": "Sir Felix", "text": "No;--that is not the reason. I'll tell you all about it in the cab to-morrow.", "pos": 534449}
{"speaker": "Marie", "text": "DEAREST FELIX. Why don't we see you? Mamma would say nothing if you came. Papa is never in the drawing-room. Miss Longestaffe is here of course, and people always come in in the evening. We are just going to dine out at the Duchess of Stevenage's. Papa, and mamma and I. Mamma told me that Lord Nidderdale is to be there, but you need not be a bit afraid. I don't like Lord Nidderdale, and I will never take any one but the man I love. You know who that is. Miss Longestaffe is so angry because she can't go with us. What do you think of her telling me that she did not understand being left alone? We are to go afterwards to a musical party at Lady Gamut's. Miss Longestaffe is going with us, but she says that she hates music. She is such a set-up thing! I wonder why papa has her here. We don't go anywhere to-morrow evening, so pray come. And why haven't you written me something and sent it to Didon? She won't betray us. And if she did, what matters? I mean to be true. If papa were to beat me into a mummy I would stick to you. He told me once to take Lord Nidderdale, and then he told me to refuse him. And now he wants me to take him again. But I won't. I'll take no one but my own darling. Yours for ever and ever. MARIE.", "pos": 535101}
{"speaker": "Dolly Longestaffe", "text": "By George! And you think you saw him do it!", "pos": 537048}
{"speaker": "Sir Felix", "text": "It's not thinking at all. I'm sure I saw him do it three times. I believe he always had an ace somewhere about him. What had I better do?", "pos": 537108}
{"speaker": "Dolly Longestaffe", "text": "By George;--I don't know.", "pos": 537306}
{"speaker": "Sir Felix", "text": "What should you do?", "pos": 537334}
{"speaker": "Dolly Longestaffe", "text": "Nothing at all. I shouldn't believe my own eyes. Or if I did, should take care not to look at him.", "pos": 537356}
{"speaker": "Sir Felix", "text": "You wouldn't go on playing with him?", "pos": 537457}
{"speaker": "Dolly Longestaffe", "text": "Yes I should. It'd be such a bore breaking up.", "pos": 537496}
{"speaker": "Sir Felix", "text": "But Dolly,--if you think of it!", "pos": 537545}
{"speaker": "Dolly Longestaffe", "text": "That's all very fine, my dear fellow, but I shouldn't think of it.", "pos": 537579}
{"speaker": "Sir Felix", "text": "And you won't give me your advice.", "pos": 537648}
{"speaker": "Dolly Longestaffe", "text": "Well;--no; I think I'd rather not. I wish you hadn't told me. Why did you pick me out to tell me? Why didn't you tell Nidderdale?", "pos": 537685}
{"speaker": "Sir Felix", "text": "He might have said, why didn't you tell Longestaffe?", "pos": 537817}
{"speaker": "Dolly Longestaffe", "text": "No, he wouldn't. Nobody would suppose that anybody would pick me out for this kind of thing. If I'd known that you were going to tell me such a story as this I wouldn't have come with you.", "pos": 537872}
{"speaker": "Sir Felix", "text": "That's nonsense, Dolly.", "pos": 538063}
{"speaker": "Dolly Longestaffe", "text": "Very well. I can't bear these kind of things. I feel all in a twitter already.", "pos": 538089}
{"speaker": "Sir Felix", "text": "You mean to go on playing just the same?", "pos": 538170}
{"speaker": "Dolly Longestaffe", "text": "Of course I do. If he won anything very heavy I should begin to think about it, I suppose. Oh; this is Abchurch Lane, is it? Now for the man of money.", "pos": 538213}
{"speaker": "Melmotte", "text": "You will wish to sell again, of course;--of course. I'll watch the market for you.", "pos": 539886}
{"speaker": "Dolly Longestaffe", "text": "But why didn't he give you the scrip?", "pos": 540235}
{"speaker": "Sir Felix", "text": "I suppose it's all right with him,", "pos": 540308}
{"speaker": "Dolly Longestaffe", "text": "Oh yes;--it's all right. Thousands of pounds to him are only like half-crowns to us fellows. I should say it's all right. All the same, he's the biggest rogue out, you know.", "pos": 540361}
{"speaker": "Sir Felix", "text": "I have spoken to her father,", "pos": 540784}
{"speaker": "Lady Carbury", "text": "And what did Mr. Melmotte say?", "pos": 540832}
{"speaker": "Sir Felix", "text": "Say;--what should he say? He wanted to know what income I had got. After all he's an old screw.", "pos": 540865}
{"speaker": "Lady Carbury", "text": "Did he forbid you to come there any more?", "pos": 540963}
{"speaker": "Sir Felix", "text": "Now, mother, it's no use your cross-examining me. If you'll let me alone I'll do the best I can.", "pos": 541007}
{"speaker": "Lady Carbury", "text": "She has accepted you, herself?", "pos": 541106}
{"speaker": "Sir Felix", "text": "Of course she has. I told you that at Carbury.", "pos": 541139}
{"speaker": "Lady Carbury", "text": "Then, Felix, if I were you I'd run off with her. I would indeed. It's done every day, and nobody thinks any harm of it when you marry the girl. You could do it now because I know you've got money. From all I can hear she's just the sort of girl that would go with you.", "pos": 541188}
{"speaker": "Lady Carbury", "text": "Of course, Felix, there must be some risk.", "pos": 542228}
{"speaker": "Sir Felix", "text": "Fancy what it would be to be thrown over at last! I couldn't bear it. I think I should kill her.", "pos": 542273}
{"speaker": "Lady Carbury", "text": "Oh no, Felix; you wouldn't do that. But when I say there would be some risk I mean that there would be very little. There would be nothing in it that ought to make him really angry. He has nobody else to give his money to, and it would be much nicer to have his daughter, Lady Carbury, with him, than to be left all alone in the world.", "pos": 542388}
{"speaker": "Sir Felix", "text": "I couldn't live with him, you know. I couldn't do it.", "pos": 542726}
{"speaker": "Lady Carbury", "text": "You needn't live with him, Felix. Of course she would visit her parents. When the money was once settled you need see as little of them as you pleased. Pray do not allow trifles to interfere with you. If this should not succeed, what are you to do? We shall all starve unless something be done. If I were you, Felix, I would take her away at once. They say she is of age.", "pos": 542782}
{"speaker": "Sir Felix", "text": "I shouldn't know where to take her. I shouldn't know where to take her. All that about Scotland is done with now.", "pos": 543156}
{"speaker": "Lady Carbury", "text": "Of course you would marry her at once.", "pos": 543338}
{"speaker": "Sir Felix", "text": "I suppose so,--unless it were better to stay as we were, till the money was settled.", "pos": 543379}
{"speaker": "Lady Carbury", "text": "Oh, no; no! Everybody would be against you. If you take her off in a spirited sort of way and then marry her, everybody will be with you. That's what you want. The father and mother will be sure to come round, if--", "pos": 543466}
{"speaker": "Sir Felix", "text": "The mother is nothing.", "pos": 543683}
{"speaker": "Lady Carbury", "text": "He will come round if people speak up in your favour. I could get Mr. Alf and Mr. Broune to help. I'd try it, Felix; indeed I would. Ten thousand a year is not to be had every year.", "pos": 543708}
{"speaker": "Sir Felix", "text": "But he could not ask Miles. There would be no difficulty out of which Herr Vossner would not extricate \"a fellow,\"--if \"the fellow\" paid him.", "pos": 544507}
{"speaker": "Marquis of Auld Reekie", "text": "Suppose we go down-stairs,", "pos": 545957}
{"speaker": "Melmotte", "text": "Certainly, my lord. I'll show your lordship the way.", "pos": 546004}
{"speaker": "Madame Melmotte", "text": "You should not have been made to come up at all. Il faut que vous vous retirez.", "pos": 546332}
{"speaker": "Sir Felix", "text": "I am very sorry,", "pos": 546426}
{"speaker": "Miss Longestaffe", "text": "I think that I had at any rate better retire,", "pos": 546483}
{"speaker": "Madame Melmotte", "text": "Qu'elle est méchante. Oh, she is so bad. Sir Felix, you had better go too. Yes,--indeed.", "pos": 546619}
{"speaker": "Marie", "text": "No. Why should he go? I want papa to know.", "pos": 546734}
{"speaker": "Madame Melmotte", "text": "Il vous tuera. My God, yes.", "pos": 546837}
{"speaker": "Marie", "text": "Then he shall. I will never marry Lord Nidderdale. If he were to cut me into bits I wouldn't do it. Felix, you love me;--do you not?", "pos": 546891}
{"speaker": "Sir Felix", "text": "Certainly,", "pos": 547063}
{"speaker": "Marie", "text": "Mamma. I will never have any other man but him;--never, never, never. Oh, Felix, tell her that you love me.", "pos": 547126}
{"speaker": "Sir Felix", "text": "You know that, don't you, ma'am?", "pos": 547250}
{"speaker": "Madame Melmotte", "text": "Oh, love! It is a beastliness. Sir Felix, you had better go. Yes, indeed. Will you be so obliging?", "pos": 547377}
{"speaker": "Marie", "text": "Don't go. No, mamma, he shan't go. What has he to be afraid of? I will walk down among them into papa's room, and say that I will never marry that man, and that this is my lover. Felix, will you come?", "pos": 547502}
{"speaker": "Sir Felix", "text": "I don't think I have a right to do that, because it is Mr. Melmotte's own house.", "pos": 547927}
{"speaker": "Marie", "text": "I wouldn't mind. I told papa to-day that I wouldn't marry Lord Nidderdale.", "pos": 548021}
{"speaker": "Sir Felix", "text": "Was he angry with you?", "pos": 548112}
{"speaker": "Marie", "text": "He laughed at me. He manages people till he thinks that everybody must do exactly what he tells them. He may kill me, but I will not do it. I have quite made up my mind. Felix, if you will be true to me, nothing shall separate us. I will not be ashamed to tell everybody that I love you.", "pos": 548137}
{"speaker": "Madame Melmotte", "text": "C'est lui,", "pos": 548688}
{"speaker": "Marie", "text": "Now be brave, and I'll be brave.", "pos": 548910}
{"speaker": "Melmotte", "text": "Where are the others?", "pos": 549030}
{"speaker": "Marie", "text": "Mamma has gone away, and Miss Longestaffe went before mamma.", "pos": 549064}
{"speaker": "Melmotte", "text": "Sir Felix, it is well that I should tell you that my daughter is engaged to marry Lord Nidderdale.", "pos": 549127}
{"speaker": "Marie", "text": "Sir Felix, I am not engaged--to--marry Lord Nidderdale. It's no good, papa. I won't do it. If you chop me to pieces, I won't do it.", "pos": 549228}
{"speaker": "Melmotte", "text": "She will marry Lord Nidderdale. As that is arranged, you will perhaps think it better to leave us. I shall be happy to renew my acquaintance with you as soon as the fact is recognised;--or happy to see you in the city at any time.", "pos": 549376}
{"speaker": "Marie", "text": "Papa, he is my lover,", "pos": 549668}
{"speaker": "Melmotte", "text": "Pooh!", "pos": 549704}
{"speaker": "Marie", "text": "It is not pooh. He is. I will never have any other. I hate Lord Nidderdale; and as for that dreadful old man, I could not bear to look at him. Sir Felix is as good a gentleman as he is. If you loved me, papa, you would not want to make me unhappy all my life.", "pos": 549712}
{"speaker": "Melmotte", "text": "Jade! get to your room.", "pos": 550195}
{"speaker": "Marie", "text": "Of course I will go to bed, if you tell me, papa.", "pos": 550238}
{"speaker": "Melmotte", "text": "I do tell you. How dare you take hold of him in that way before me! Have you no idea of disgrace?", "pos": 550290}
{"speaker": "Marie", "text": "I am not disgraced. It is not more disgraceful to love him than that other man. Oh, papa, don't. You hurt me. I am going.", "pos": 550390}
{"speaker": "Sir Felix", "text": "I am very sorry, Mr. Melmotte, to have had a hand in causing this disturbance.", "pos": 550591}
{"speaker": "Melmotte", "text": "Go away, and don't come back any more;--that's all. You can't both marry her. All you have got to understand is this. I'm not the man to give my daughter a single shilling if she marries against my consent. By the God that hears me, Sir Felix, she shall not have one shilling. But look you,--if you'll give this up, I shall be proud to co-operate with you in anything you may wish to have done in the city.", "pos": 550690}
{"speaker": "M.", "text": "I hope you will come to-night. There is something I cannot tell you then, but you ought to know it. When we were in France papa thought it wise to settle a lot of money on me. I don't know how much, but I suppose it was enough to live on if other things went wrong. He never talked to me about it, but I know it was done. And it hasn't been undone, and can't be without my leave. He is very angry about you this morning, for I told him I would never give you up. He says he won't give me anything if I marry without his leave. But I am sure he cannot take it away. I tell you, because I think I ought to tell you everything.", "pos": 551477}
{"speaker": "Marie", "text": "Take me and marry me without my father's consent,--and then you and I together can rob my father of the money which, for his own purposes, he has settled upon me.", "pos": 553067}
{"speaker": "Lady Carbury", "text": "You think him honest;--don't you? Of course, I mean honest as men can be in such very large transactions.", "pos": 561763}
{"speaker": "Mr. Booker", "text": "Perhaps that is the best way of putting it,", "pos": 561926}
{"speaker": "Lady Carbury", "text": "If a thing can be made great and beneficent, a boon to humanity, simply by creating a belief in it, does not a man become a benefactor to his race by creating that belief?", "pos": 561989}
{"speaker": "Mr. Booker", "text": "At the expense of veracity?", "pos": 562163}
{"speaker": "Lady Carbury", "text": "At the expense of anything? One cannot measure such men by the ordinary rule.", "pos": 562215}
{"speaker": "Mr. Booker", "text": "You would do evil to produce good?", "pos": 562332}
{"speaker": "Lady Carbury", "text": "I do not call it doing evil. You have to destroy a thousand living creatures every time you drink a glass of water, but you do not think of that when you are athirst. You cannot send a ship to sea without endangering lives. You do send ships to sea though men perish yearly. You tell me this man may perhaps ruin hundreds, but then again he may create a new world in which millions will be rich and happy. You are an excellent casuist, Lady Carbury. I am an enthusiastic lover of beneficent audacity. Did I hold your place, Mr. Booker, in the literature of my country,--", "pos": 562387}
{"speaker": "Mr. Booker", "text": "I hold no place, Lady Carbury.", "pos": 563086}
{"speaker": "Lady Carbury", "text": "Yes;--and a very distinguished place. Were I circumstanced as you are I should have no hesitation in lending the whole weight of my periodical, let it be what it might, to the assistance of so great a man and so great an object as this.", "pos": 563119}
{"speaker": "Mr. Booker", "text": "I should be dismissed to-morrow,", "pos": 563357}
{"speaker": "Lady Carbury", "text": "Now I must introduce you to Mr. Alf,", "pos": 564978}
{"speaker": "Melmotte", "text": "There were a great many there I never saw, and probably never shall see,", "pos": 565183}
{"speaker": "Mr. Alf", "text": "I was one of the unfortunates,", "pos": 565277}
{"speaker": "Melmotte", "text": "I'm sorry you were unfortunate. If you had come into the whist-room you would have found me.", "pos": 565324}
{"speaker": "Mr. Alf", "text": "Ah,--if I had but known!", "pos": 565419}
{"speaker": "Lady Carbury", "text": "Mr. Melmotte. I do so want to make you known to Mr. Broune. Mr. Broune I know you have never met before. A morning paper is a much heavier burden to an editor than one published in the afternoon. Mr. Broune, as of course you know, manages the 'Breakfast Table.' There is hardly a more influential man in London than Mr. Broune. And they declare, you know, that his commercial articles are gospel,--absolutely gospel.", "pos": 565731}
{"speaker": "Melmotte", "text": "Getting very hot,", "pos": 566352}
{"speaker": "Mr. Broune", "text": "Very hot indeed,", "pos": 566391}
{"speaker": "Melmotte", "text": "It was over 70 in the city to-day. I call that very hot for June.", "pos": 566427}
{"speaker": "Mr. Broune", "text": "Very hot indeed,", "pos": 566495}
{"speaker": "Melmotte", "text": "It was very good of you to ask me, Lady Carbury;--very good. And I came, because I had something particular to say. Otherwise I don't go out much to evening parties. Your son has proposed to my daughter. My daughter, ma'am, is engaged to another man.", "pos": 566960}
{"speaker": "Lady Carbury", "text": "You would not enslave her affections, Mr. Melmotte?", "pos": 567471}
{"speaker": "Melmotte", "text": "I won't give her a shilling if she marries any one else; that's all. You reminded me down at Caversham that your son is a Director at our Board.", "pos": 567525}
{"speaker": "Lady Carbury", "text": "I did;--I did.", "pos": 567672}
{"speaker": "Melmotte", "text": "I have a great respect for your son, ma'am. I don't want to hurt him in any way. If he'll signify to my daughter that he withdraws from this offer of his, because I'm against it, I'll see that he does uncommon well in the city. I'll be the making of him. Good night, ma'am.", "pos": 567689}
{"speaker": "Lady Carbury", "text": "Hetta. I have something of business to communicate to Mr. Broune. I'm afraid you didn't make much of Mr. Melmotte. I saw how it was, and I was sorry for it; for he certainly is a wonderful man.", "pos": 571573}
{"speaker": "Mr. Broune", "text": "I suppose he is, but he is one of those men whose powers do not lie, I should say, chiefly in conversation. Though, indeed, there is no reason why he should not say the same of me;--for if he said little, I said less.", "pos": 571965}
{"speaker": "Lady Carbury", "text": "It didn't just come off. But now I want to tell you something. I think I am justified in regarding you as a real friend.", "pos": 572185}
{"speaker": "Mr. Broune", "text": "Certainly,", "pos": 572358}
{"speaker": "Lady Carbury", "text": "Stupid old goose! And now to my story. You know my boy, Felix?", "pos": 572531}
{"speaker": "Mr. Broune", "text": "Engaged to marry Miss Melmotte? Why, she is said to be the greatest heiress that the world has ever produced. I thought she was to marry Lord Nidderdale.", "pos": 572693}
{"speaker": "Lady Carbury", "text": "She has engaged herself to Felix. She is desperately in love with him,--as is he with her. Melmotte naturally wants her to marry the lord. He came here to tell me that if his daughter married Felix she should not have a penny.", "pos": 572886}
{"speaker": "Mr. Broune", "text": "Do you mean that he volunteered that,--as a threat?", "pos": 573266}
{"speaker": "Lady Carbury", "text": "Just so;--and he told me that he had come here simply with the object of saying so. It was more candid than civil, but we must take it as we get it.", "pos": 573320}
{"speaker": "Mr. Broune", "text": "He would be sure to make some such threat.", "pos": 573471}
{"speaker": "Lady Carbury", "text": "Exactly. That is just what I feel. And in these days young people are not often kept from marrying simply by a father's fantasy. But I must tell you something else. He told me that if Felix would desist, he would enable him to make a fortune in the city.", "pos": 573516}
{"speaker": "Mr. Broune", "text": "That's bosh,", "pos": 573773}
{"speaker": "Lady Carbury", "text": "Do you think it must be so;--certainly?", "pos": 573815}
{"speaker": "Mr. Broune", "text": "Yes, I do. Such an undertaking, if intended by Melmotte, would give me a worse opinion of him than I have ever held.", "pos": 573857}
{"speaker": "Lady Carbury", "text": "He did make it.", "pos": 573976}
{"speaker": "Mr. Broune", "text": "Then he did very wrong. He must have spoken with the purpose of deceiving.", "pos": 573994}
{"speaker": "Lady Carbury", "text": "You know my son is one of the Directors of that great American Railway. It was not just as though the promise were made to a young man who was altogether unconnected with him.", "pos": 574071}
{"speaker": "Mr. Broune", "text": "Sir Felix's name was put there, in a hurry, merely because he has a title, and because Melmotte thought he, as a young man, would not be likely to interfere with him. It may be that he will be able to sell a few shares at a profit; but, if I understand the matter rightly, he has no capital to go into such a business.", "pos": 574249}
{"speaker": "Lady Carbury", "text": "No;--he has no capital.", "pos": 574570}
{"speaker": "Mr. Broune", "text": "Dear Lady Carbury, I would place no dependence at all on such a promise as that.", "pos": 574596}
{"speaker": "Lady Carbury", "text": "You think he should marry the girl then in spite of the father? Perhaps I should have begun by saying that Felix is all but prepared to take her off. She is quite ready to go. She is devoted to him. Do you think he would be wrong?", "pos": 574679}
{"speaker": "Mr. Broune", "text": "That is a question very hard to answer.", "pos": 575179}
{"speaker": "Lady Carbury", "text": "People do it every day. Lionel Goldsheiner ran away the other day with Lady Julia Start, and everybody visits them.", "pos": 575221}
{"speaker": "Mr. Broune", "text": "Oh yes, people do run away, and it all comes right. It was the gentleman had the money then, and it is said you know that old Lady Catchboy, Lady Julia's mother, had arranged the elopement herself as offering the safest way of securing the rich prize. The young lord didn't like it, so the mother had it done in that fashion.", "pos": 575339}
{"speaker": "Lady Carbury", "text": "There would be nothing disgraceful.", "pos": 575667}
{"speaker": "Mr. Broune", "text": "I didn't say there would;--but nevertheless it is one of those things a man hardly ventures to advise. If you ask me whether I think that Melmotte would forgive her, and make her an allowance afterwards,--I think he would.", "pos": 575705}
{"speaker": "Lady Carbury", "text": "I am so glad to hear you say that.", "pos": 575930}
{"speaker": "Mr. Broune", "text": "And I feel quite certain that no dependence whatever should be placed on that promise of assistance.", "pos": 575967}
{"speaker": "Lady Carbury", "text": "I quite agree with you. I am so much obliged to you. You have been so very kind.", "pos": 576070}
{"speaker": "Mr. Broune", "text": "And now. I also have something to say to you. And now I have something to say to you.", "pos": 576317}
{"speaker": "Lady Carbury", "text": "The susceptible old goose is going to do something highly ridiculous and very disagreeable.", "pos": 576708}
{"speaker": "Mr. Broune", "text": "Lady Carbury, we are neither of us so young as we used to be.", "pos": 577002}
{"speaker": "Lady Carbury", "text": "No, indeed;--and therefore it is that we can afford to ourselves the luxury of being friends. Nothing but age enables men and women to know each other intimately.", "pos": 577112}
{"speaker": "Mr. Broune", "text": "I hope we know each other intimately at any rate,", "pos": 577901}
{"speaker": "Lady Carbury", "text": "Oh, yes;--and it is for that reason that I have come to you for advice. Had I been a young woman I should not have dared to ask you.", "pos": 577978}
{"speaker": "Mr. Broune", "text": "I don't see that. I don't quite understand that. But it has nothing to do with my present purpose. When I said that we were neither of us so young as we once were, I uttered what was a stupid platitude,--a foolish truism.", "pos": 578113}
{"speaker": "Lady Carbury", "text": "I did not think so,", "pos": 578337}
{"speaker": "Mr. Broune", "text": "Or would have been, only that I intended something further. I was going on to say that I hoped we were not too old to--love.", "pos": 578386}
{"speaker": "Lady Carbury", "text": "Mr. Broune. I did not think that you would take advantage of the confidence I have placed in you to annoy me in this way.", "pos": 580248}
{"speaker": "Mr. Broune", "text": "To annoy you, Lady Carbury! The phrase at any rate is singular. After much thought I have determined to ask you to be my wife. That I should be--annoyed, and more than annoyed by your refusal, is a matter of course. That I ought to expect such annoyance is perhaps too true. But you can extricate yourself from the dilemma only too easily.", "pos": 580384}
{"speaker": "Lady Carbury", "text": "Mr. Broune, you have quite taken away my breath. I never expected anything of this kind.", "pos": 583369}
{"speaker": "Mr. Broune", "text": "Lady Carbury. I have lived a long time without marrying, and I have sometimes thought that it would be better for me to go on in the same way to the end. I have worked so hard all my life that when I was young I had no time to think of love. And, as I have gone on, my mind has been so fully employed, that I have hardly realised the want which nevertheless I have felt. And so it has been with me till I fancied, not that I was too old for love, but that others would think me so. Then I met you. As I said at first, perhaps with scant gallantry, you also are not as young as you once were. But you keep the beauty of your youth, and the energy, and something of the freshness of a young heart. And I have come to love you. I speak with absolute frankness, risking your anger. I have doubted much before I resolved upon this. It is so hard to know the nature of another person. But I think I understand yours;--and if you can confide your happiness with me, I am prepared to intrust mine to your keeping.", "pos": 583535}
{"speaker": "Lady Carbury", "text": "You do me infinite honour. You pay me a great compliment,", "pos": 584914}
{"speaker": "Mr. Broune", "text": "Well?", "pos": 584999}
{"speaker": "Lady Carbury", "text": "How am I to answer you at a moment? I expected nothing of this. As God is to be my judge it has come upon me like a dream. I look upon your position as almost the highest in England,--on your prosperity as the uttermost that can be achieved.", "pos": 585007}
{"speaker": "Mr. Broune", "text": "That prosperity, such as it is, I desire most anxiously to share with you.", "pos": 585251}
{"speaker": "Lady Carbury", "text": "You tell me so;--but I can hardly yet believe it. And then how am I to know my own feelings so suddenly? Marriage as I have found it, Mr. Broune, has not been happy. I have suffered much. I have been wounded in every joint, hurt in every nerve,--tortured till I could hardly endure my punishment. At last I got my liberty, and to that I have looked for happiness.", "pos": 585328}
{"speaker": "Mr. Broune", "text": "Has it made you happy?", "pos": 585694}
{"speaker": "Lady Carbury", "text": "It has made me less wretched. And there is so much to be considered! I have a son and a daughter, Mr. Broune.", "pos": 585719}
{"speaker": "Mr. Broune", "text": "Your daughter I can love as my own. I think I prove my devotion to you when I say that I am willing for your sake to encounter the troubles which may attend your son's future career.", "pos": 585831}
{"speaker": "Lady Carbury", "text": "Mr. Broune, I love him better,--always shall love him better,--than anything in the world. Mr. Broune. I am now so agitated that you had better leave me. And it is very late. The servant is sitting up, and will wonder that you should remain. It is near two o'clock.", "pos": 586016}
{"speaker": "Mr. Broune", "text": "When may I hope for an answer?", "pos": 586476}
{"speaker": "Lady Carbury", "text": "You shall not be kept waiting. I will write to you, almost at once. I will write to you,--to-morrow; say the day after to-morrow, on Thursday. I feel that I ought to have been prepared with an answer; but I am so surprised that I have none ready.", "pos": 586509}
{"speaker": "Sir Felix", "text": "Halloo, old fellow, you've been keeping it up late here; haven't you?", "pos": 587085}
{"speaker": "Lady Carbury", "text": "Felix, why do you make so much noise as you come in?", "pos": 587505}
{"speaker": "Sir Felix", "text": "Noish! I'm not making any noish. I think I'm very early. Your people's only just gone. I shaw shat editor fellow at the door that won't call himself Brown. He'sh great ass'h, that fellow. All right, mother. Oh, ye'sh I'm all right.", "pos": 587572}
{"speaker": "Lady Carbury", "text": "Do you like Mr. Broune, Hetta?", "pos": 593771}
{"speaker": "Hetta", "text": "Yes;--pretty well. I don't care very much about him. What makes you ask, mamma?", "pos": 593804}
{"speaker": "Lady Carbury", "text": "Because among my acquaintances in London there is no one so truly kind to me as he is.", "pos": 593886}
{"speaker": "Hetta", "text": "He always seems to me to like to have his own way.", "pos": 593975}
{"speaker": "Lady Carbury", "text": "Why shouldn't he like it?", "pos": 594028}
{"speaker": "Hetta", "text": "He has to me that air of selfishness which is so very common with people in London;--as though what he said were all said out of surface politeness.", "pos": 594056}
{"speaker": "Lady Carbury", "text": "I wonder what you expect, Hetta, when you talk of--London people? Why should not London people be as kind as other people? I think Mr. Broune is as obliging a man as any one I know. But if I like anybody, you always make little of him. The only person you seem to think well of is Mr. Montague.", "pos": 594207}
{"speaker": "Hetta", "text": "Mamma, that is unfair and unkind. I never mention Mr. Montague's name if I can help it,--and I should not have spoken of Mr. Broune, had you not asked me.", "pos": 594504}
{"speaker": "Lady Pomona", "text": "I hope they are kind to you,", "pos": 595792}
{"speaker": "Lord Nidderdale", "text": "Your host is a wonderful fellow, by George! No one seems to know which way he'll turn up at last.", "pos": 601684}
{"speaker": "Lord Grasslough", "text": "There's nothing like being a robber, if you can only rob enough,", "pos": 601808}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "If he can manage that I think he'll pull through,", "pos": 602079}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "If money'll do it, it will be done,", "pos": 602154}
{"speaker": "Georgiana", "text": "Heartless, false, purse-proud creature. I think you hardly understand my position. Of course you have cut me. Haven't you? And of course I must feel it very much. You did not use to be ill-natured, and I hardly think you can have become so now when you have everything pleasant around you. I do not think that I have done anything that should make an old friend treat me in this way, and therefore I write to ask you to let me see you. Of course it is because I am staying here. You know me well enough to be sure that it can't be my own choice. Papa arranged it all. If there is anything against these people, I suppose papa does not know it. Of course they are not nice. Of course they are not like anything that I have been used to. But when papa told me that the house in Bruton Street was to be shut up and that I was to come here, of course I did as I was bid. I don't think an old friend like you, whom I have always liked more than anybody else, ought to cut me for it. It's not about the parties, but about yourself that I mind. I don't ask you to come here, but if you will see me I can have the carriage and will go to you.", "pos": 603968}
{"speaker": "J. Monogram", "text": "Of course I shall be delighted to see you. I don't know what you mean by cutting. I never cut anybody. We happen to have got into different sets, but that is not my fault. Sir Damask won't let me call on the Melmottes. I can't help that. You wouldn't have me go where he tells me not. I don't know anything about them myself, except that I did go to their ball. But everybody knows that's different. I shall be at home all to-morrow till three,--that is to-day I mean, for I'm writing after coming home from Lady Killarney's ball; but if you wish to see me alone you had better come before lunch.", "pos": 606031}
{"speaker": "Ruby", "text": "John Crumb be a coming over by-and-by. He's welcome to stay away then, for me. The parson may say what he pleases, grandfather. I can't stop his saying of 'em. It isn't likely I shall try, neither. But no parson among 'em all can marry me without I'm willing. You've been a' drinking, grandfather. Look ye here, Ruby, out o' this place you go. If you go as John Crumb's wife you'll go with five hun'erd pound, and we'll have a dinner here, and a dance, and all Bungay. Who cares for all Bungay,--a set of beery chaps as knows nothing but swilling and smoking;--and John Crumb the main of 'em all? There never was a chap for beer like John Crumb. It ony just makes him stoopider and stoopider the more he swills. You can't tell me, grandfather, about John Crumb. I knows him. Didn't ye say as how ye'd have him? Didn't ye give him a promise? If I did, I ain't the first girl as has gone back of her word,--and I shan't be the last. You means you won't have him? That's about it, grandfather.", "pos": 613705}
{"speaker": "Grandfather", "text": "Then you'll have to have somebody to fend for ye, and that pretty sharp,--for you won't have me.", "pos": 615693}
{"speaker": "Ruby", "text": "There ain't no difficulty about that, grandfather.", "pos": 615792}
{"speaker": "Grandfather", "text": "Very well. He's a coming here to-night, and you may settle it along wi' him. Out o' this ye shall go. I know of your doings.", "pos": 615845}
{"speaker": "Ruby", "text": "What doings! You don't know of no doings. There ain't no doings. You don't know nothing ag'in me.", "pos": 615972}
{"speaker": "Grandfather", "text": "He's a coming here to-night, and if you can make it up wi' him, well and good. There's five hun'erd pound, and ye shall have the dinner and the dance and all Bungay. He ain't a going to be put off no longer;--he ain't.", "pos": 616072}
{"speaker": "Ruby", "text": "Whoever wanted him to be put on? Let him go his own gait.", "pos": 616293}
{"speaker": "Grandfather", "text": "If you can't make it up wi' him--", "pos": 616353}
{"speaker": "Ruby", "text": "Well, grandfather, I shan't anyways.", "pos": 616389}
{"speaker": "Grandfather", "text": "Let me have my say, will ye, yer jade, you? There's five hun'erd pound! and there ain't ere a farmer in Suffolk or Norfolk paying rent for a bit of land like this can do as well for his darter as that,--let alone only a granddarter. You never thinks o' that;--you don't. If you don't like to take it,--leave it. But you'll leave Sheep's Acre too.", "pos": 616428}
{"speaker": "Ruby", "text": "Bother Sheep's Acre. Who wants to stop at Sheep's Acre? It's the stoopidest place in all England.", "pos": 616777}
{"speaker": "Grandfather", "text": "Then find another. Then find another. That's all aboot it. John Crumb's a coming up for a bit o' supper. You tell him your own mind. I'm dommed if I trouble aboot it. On'y you don't stay here. Sheep's Acre ain't good enough for you, and you'd best find another home. Stoopid, is it? You'll have to put up wi' places stoopider nor Sheep's Acre, afore you've done.", "pos": 616877}
{"speaker": "Ruby", "text": "It's no good going against love, and I won't try. He shall have his supper, and be told all about it, and then go home. He cares more for his supper than he do for me.", "pos": 618850}
{"speaker": "Ruby", "text": "If here isn't Joe Mixet. Was there ever such a stoopid as John Crumb? There's no end to his being stoopid.", "pos": 621605}
{"speaker": "Grandfather", "text": "What, Joe Mixet; is that thou? Thou'rt welcome. Come in, man. Well, John, how is it wi' you? Ruby's a stewing o' something for us to eat a bit. Don't 'e smell it?", "pos": 621876}
{"speaker": "Joe Mixet", "text": "John didn't like going home in the dark like. So I just come along to drive away the bogies.", "pos": 622100}
{"speaker": "Grandfather", "text": "The more the merrier;--the more the merrier. Ruby 'll have enough for the two o' you, I'll go bail. So John Crumb's afraid of bogies;--is he? The more need he to have some 'un in his house to scart 'em away.", "pos": 622235}
{"speaker": "John Crumb", "text": "Where be she, Muster Ruggles?", "pos": 622544}
{"speaker": "Ruby", "text": "Grandfather said as how you was a coming out for your supper, so I've been a seeing to it. You'll excuse the apron, Mr. Mixet.", "pos": 623057}
{"speaker": "Joe Mixet", "text": "You couldn't look nicer, miss, if you was to try it ever so. My mother says as it's housifery as recommends a girl to the young men. What do you say, John?", "pos": 623186}
{"speaker": "John Crumb", "text": "I loiks to see her loik o' that,", "pos": 623344}
{"speaker": "Joe Mixet", "text": "It looks homely; don't it, John?", "pos": 623526}
{"speaker": "Ruby", "text": "Bother!", "pos": 623573}
{"speaker": "Grandfather", "text": "You've got it all afore you,", "pos": 623742}
{"speaker": "John Crumb", "text": "And I don't care how soon I ha'e it in hond;--that I don't,", "pos": 623870}
{"speaker": "Joe Mixet", "text": "That's the chat. There ain't nothing wanting in his house;--is there, John? It's all there,--cradle, caudle-cup, and the rest of it. A young woman going to John knows what she'll have to eat when she gets up, and what she'll lie down upon when she goes to bed.", "pos": 623943}
{"speaker": "John Crumb", "text": "That she do. There's a hun'erd and fifty poond o' things in my house forbye what mother left behind her.", "pos": 624302}
{"speaker": "Ruby", "text": "If you'll sit yourself down, I'll give you a bit of something to eat. Is it to be spirits or ale, Mr. Crumb?", "pos": 625032}
{"speaker": "Grandfather", "text": "Where the mischief is the jade gone? The devil's in them. They're off some gates. She'll make the place hot for her, if she goes on this way. She's playing off her games somwheres. Take a glass of sperrits and water, Mr. Crumb, and I'll see after her.", "pos": 627477}
{"speaker": "John Crumb", "text": "I'll just take a drop of y'ell,", "pos": 627999}
{"speaker": "Grandfather", "text": "Domm her,", "pos": 628485}
{"speaker": "Ruby", "text": "You can answer him as well as I, grandfather. Oh, if it comes to that. I'm not afraid of John Crumb, nor yet of nobody else. Only I didn't think you'd go to strike me, grandfather.", "pos": 629002}
{"speaker": "Grandfather", "text": "I'll knock the life out of thee, if thou goest on this gate,", "pos": 629282}
{"speaker": "Mr. Mixet", "text": "We're a disturbing you a'most too late, miss,", "pos": 629430}
{"speaker": "Ruby", "text": "It ain't that at all, Mr. Mixet. If grandfather chooses to have a few friends, I ain't nothing against it. I wish he'd have a few friends a deal oftener than he do. I likes nothing better than to do for 'em;--only when I've done for 'em and they're smoking their pipes and that like, I don't see why I ain't to leave 'em to 'emselves.", "pos": 629494}
{"speaker": "Joe Mixet", "text": "But we've come here on a hauspicious occasion, Miss Ruby.", "pos": 629831}
{"speaker": "Ruby", "text": "I don't know nothing about auspicious, Mr. Mixet. If you and Mr. Crumb've come out to Sheep's Acre farm for a bit of supper--", "pos": 629891}
{"speaker": "John Crumb", "text": "Which we ain't, nor yet for beer;--not by no means.", "pos": 630019}
{"speaker": "Joe Mixet", "text": "We've come for the smiles of beauty,", "pos": 630105}
{"speaker": "Ruby", "text": "Mr. Mixet, if you'll be so good as to stow that! There ain't no beauty here as I knows of, and if there was it isn't nothing to you.", "pos": 630186}
{"speaker": "Mixet", "text": "Except in the way of friendship,", "pos": 630321}
{"speaker": "Mr. Ruggles", "text": "I'm just as sick of all this as a man can be. I won't put up with it no more.", "pos": 630368}
{"speaker": "Ruby", "text": "Who wants you to put up with it? Who wants 'em to come here with their trash? Who brought 'em to-night? I don't know what business Mr. Mixet has interfering along o' me. I never interfere along o' him.", "pos": 630544}
{"speaker": "Grandfather", "text": "John Crumb, have you anything to say?", "pos": 630761}
{"speaker": "John Crumb", "text": "I hove,", "pos": 630898}
{"speaker": "Grandfather", "text": "Then say it.", "pos": 630948}
{"speaker": "John Crumb", "text": "I will,", "pos": 630963}
{"speaker": "Mixet", "text": "Now speak your mind, like a man,", "pos": 631270}
{"speaker": "John", "text": "I intends it,", "pos": 631317}
{"speaker": "Mixet", "text": "You've asked Miss Ruby to be your wife a dozen times;--haven't you, John?", "pos": 631562}
{"speaker": "John", "text": "I hove.", "pos": 631655}
{"speaker": "Joe Mixet", "text": "And you mean to be as good as your word?", "pos": 631665}
{"speaker": "John", "text": "I do.", "pos": 631708}
{"speaker": "Joe Mixet", "text": "And she has promised to have you?", "pos": 631716}
{"speaker": "John", "text": "She hove.", "pos": 631752}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "More nor once or twice?", "pos": 631764}
{"speaker": "Joe Mixet", "text": "You're ready,--and willing?", "pos": 631857}
{"speaker": "John", "text": "I om.", "pos": 631887}
{"speaker": "Joe Mixet", "text": "You're wishing to have the banns said without any more delay?", "pos": 631895}
{"speaker": "John", "text": "There ain't no delay 'bout me;--never was.", "pos": 631959}
{"speaker": "Joe Mixet", "text": "Everything is ready in your own house?", "pos": 632004}
{"speaker": "John", "text": "They is.", "pos": 632045}
{"speaker": "Joe Mixet", "text": "And you will expect Miss Ruby to come to the scratch?", "pos": 632056}
{"speaker": "John", "text": "I sholl.", "pos": 632112}
{"speaker": "Joe Mixet", "text": "That's about it, I think. I don't think there was ever anything much more straightforward than that. You know, I know, Miss Ruby knows all about John Crumb. John Crumb didn't come to Bungay yesterday,--nor yet the day before. There's been a talk of five hundred pounds, Mr. Ruggles. Five hundred pounds is very comfortable; and added to what John has will make things that snug that things never was snugger. But John Crumb isn't after Miss Ruby along of her fortune.", "pos": 632123}
{"speaker": "the lover", "text": "Nohow's,", "pos": 632699}
{"speaker": "Mixet", "text": "Not he;--it isn't his ways, and them as knows him'll never say it of him. John has a heart in his buzsom.", "pos": 632798}
{"speaker": "John", "text": "I has,", "pos": 632906}
{"speaker": "Mixet", "text": "And feelings as a man. It's true love as has brought John Crumb to Sheep's Acre farm this night;--love of that young lady, if she'll let me make so free. He's a proposed to her, and she's a haccepted him, and now it's about time as they was married. That's what John Crumb has to say.", "pos": 632971}
{"speaker": "John Crumb", "text": "That's what I has to say, and I means it.", "pos": 633258}
{"speaker": "Mixet", "text": "And now, miss, you've heard what John has to say.", "pos": 633325}
{"speaker": "Ruby", "text": "I've heard you, Mr. Mixet, and I've heard quite enough.", "pos": 633424}
{"speaker": "Mixet", "text": "You can't have anything to say against it, miss; can you? There's your grandfather as is willing, and the money as one may say counted out,--and John Crumb is willing, with his house so ready that there isn't a ha'porth to do. All we want is for you to name the day.", "pos": 633482}
{"speaker": "John Crumb", "text": "Say to-morrow, Ruby, and I'll not be agon it,", "pos": 633751}
{"speaker": "Ruby", "text": "I won't say to-morrow, Mr. Crumb, nor yet the day after to-morrow, nor yet no day at all. I'm not going to have you. I've told you as much before.", "pos": 633836}
{"speaker": "John Crumb", "text": "That was only in fun, loike.", "pos": 633985}
{"speaker": "Ruby", "text": "Then now I tell you in earnest. There's some folk wants such a deal of telling.", "pos": 634016}
{"speaker": "John Crumb", "text": "You don't mean,--never?", "pos": 634098}
{"speaker": "Ruby", "text": "I do mean never, Mr. Crumb.", "pos": 634124}
{"speaker": "John Crumb", "text": "Didn't you say as you would, Ruby? Didn't you say so as plain as the nose on my face?", "pos": 634154}
{"speaker": "Ruby", "text": "Young women is allowed to change their minds,", "pos": 634308}
{"speaker": "Ruggles", "text": "Brute! Pig! Jade! I'll tell'ee what, John. She'll go out o' this into the streets;--that's what she wull. I won't keep her here, no longer;--nasty, ungrateful, lying slut.", "pos": 634367}
{"speaker": "John Crumb", "text": "She ain't that;--she ain't that. She ain't that at all. She's no slut. I won't hear her called so;--not by her grandfather. But, oh, she has a mind to put me so abouts, that I'll have to go home and hang myself.", "pos": 634566}
{"speaker": "Mixet", "text": "Dash it, Miss Ruby, you ain't a going to serve a young man that way,", "pos": 634793}
{"speaker": "Ruby", "text": "If you'll jist keep yourself to yourself, I'll be obliged to you, Mr. Mixet. If you hadn't come here at all things might have been different.", "pos": 634880}
{"speaker": "John Crumb", "text": "He's aff now, Ruby,", "pos": 635672}
{"speaker": "Ruby", "text": "And you'd better be aff after him,", "pos": 635705}
{"speaker": "John Crumb", "text": "And when'll I come back again?", "pos": 635763}
{"speaker": "Ruby", "text": "Never. It ain't no use. What's the good of more words, Mr. Crumb?", "pos": 635796}
{"speaker": "Ruggles", "text": "Domm her; domm her. I'll even it to her. She'll have to be out on the roads this night.", "pos": 635864}
{"speaker": "John Crumb", "text": "She shall have the best bed in my house if she'll come for it, and the old woman to look arter her; and I won't come nigh her till she sends for me.", "pos": 635974}
{"speaker": "Ruby", "text": "I can find a place for myself, thank ye, Mr. Crumb. And now if you please, Mr. Crumb, I'll go up-stairs to my own room.", "pos": 636138}
{"speaker": "Ruggles", "text": "You don't go up to any room here, you jade you.", "pos": 636393}
{"speaker": "John Crumb", "text": "Don't hit the girl, no gate, Mr. Ruggles.", "pos": 636601}
{"speaker": "Ruggles", "text": "Domm her, John; she breaks my heart. Ain't it more nor a man ought to have to bear;--ain't it, Mr. Crumb? Ways on 'em! A whipping at the cart-tail ought to be the ways on her. She's been and seen some young buck.", "pos": 636645}
{"speaker": "John Crumb", "text": "You ain't a meaning of it, master?", "pos": 637209}
{"speaker": "Ruggles", "text": "I'm told there's been the squoire's cousin aboot,--him as they call the baronite.", "pos": 637246}
{"speaker": "John Crumb", "text": "Been along wi' Ruby? By the mortials I'll baronite him;--I wull,", "pos": 637330}
{"speaker": "Ruggles", "text": "Grandfather says I'm to go, and I'm gone,", "pos": 638773}
{"speaker": "Roger Carbury", "text": "I always thought it was settled they were to be man and wife,", "pos": 641042}
{"speaker": "Ruggles", "text": "It was settled, squoire;--and he war to have five hun'erd pound down;--money as I'd saved myself. Drat the jade.", "pos": 641118}
{"speaker": "Roger Carbury", "text": "Didn't she like him, Daniel?", "pos": 641233}
{"speaker": "Ruggles", "text": "She liked him well enough till she'd seed somebody else.", "pos": 641264}
{"speaker": "Father Barham", "text": "If she was one of our people, we should have her back quick enough.", "pos": 642370}
{"speaker": "Carbury", "text": "I don't see how you would have more chance of catching her than we have,", "pos": 642581}
{"speaker": "Ruggles", "text": "She'd catch herself. Wherever she might be she'd go to the priest, and he wouldn't leave her till he'd seen her put on the way back to her friends.", "pos": 642670}
{"speaker": "Father Barham", "text": "Your people never go to a clergyman in their distress. It's the last thing they'd think of. Any one might more probably be regarded as a friend than the parson. But with us the poor know where to look for sympathy.", "pos": 642868}
{"speaker": "Ruggles", "text": "She ain't that poor, neither. I don't know just what she had; but she ain't been brought up poor. And I don't think as our Ruby'd go of herself to any clergyman. It never was her way.", "pos": 643085}
{"speaker": "Father Barham", "text": "It never is the way with a Protestant,", "pos": 643321}
{"speaker": "Roger Carbury", "text": "We'll say no more about that for the present,", "pos": 643379}
{"speaker": "John Crumb", "text": "Ye ain't a' found her, Mr. Ruggles, ha' ye?", "pos": 644159}
{"speaker": "Ruggles", "text": "Noa;--we ain't a' found no one yet.", "pos": 644251}
{"speaker": "John Crumb", "text": "If it was as she was to come to harm, Mr. Carbury, I'd never forgive myself,--never,", "pos": 644289}
{"speaker": "Carbury", "text": "As far as I can understand it is no doing of yours, my friend,", "pos": 644388}
{"speaker": "John Crumb", "text": "In one way, it ain't; and in one way it is. I was over there last night a bothering of her. She'd a' come round may be, if she'd a' been left alone. She wouldn't a' been off now, only for our going over to Sheep's Acre. But,--oh! He's a coosin o' yours, squoire; and long as I've known Suffolk, I've never known nothing but good o' you and yourn. But if your baronite has been and done this! Oh, Mr. Carbury! If I was to wring his neck round, you wouldn't say as how I was wrong; would ye, now? They says as how he was groping about Sheep's Acre when he was last here, a hiding himself and skulking behind hedges. Drat 'em all. They've gals enough of their own,--them fellows. Why can't they let a fellow alone? I'll do him a mischief, Master Roger; I wull;--if he's had a hand in this.", "pos": 644470}
{"speaker": "Roger Carbury", "text": "But you must first learn that Sir Felix has had anything to do with this, Mr. Crumb.", "pos": 645955}
{"speaker": "John Crumb", "text": "In coorse; in coorse. That's right. That's right. Must l'arn as he did it, afore I does it. But when I have l'arned!", "pos": 646042}
{"speaker": "Roger Carbury", "text": "I'll go up myself by the first train to-morrow. I can trace her better than Mr. Crumb can do, and you will both trust me.", "pos": 648730}
{"speaker": "Ruggles", "text": "There's not one in the two counties I'd trust so soon,", "pos": 648854}
{"speaker": "John Crumb", "text": "But you'll let us know the very truth,", "pos": 648929}
{"speaker": "Mr. Fisker", "text": "perhaps the grandest when you consider the amount of territory manipulated, which has ever opened itself before the eyes of a great commercial people,", "pos": 651091}
{"speaker": "Marie", "text": "It is no use, father, for I will never have him,", "pos": 667033}
{"speaker": "Melmotte", "text": "Is it about that other scamp?", "pos": 667096}
{"speaker": "Marie", "text": "If you mean Sir Felix Carbury, it is about him. He has been to you and told you, and therefore I don't know why I need hold my tongue.", "pos": 667146}
{"speaker": "Melmotte", "text": "You'll both starve, my lady; that's all. By ----, if you run rusty after all I've done for you, I'll make you suffer. You little fool; that man's a beggar. He hasn't the price of a petticoat or a pair of stockings. He's looking only for what you haven't got, and shan't have if you marry him. He wants money, not you, you little fool!", "pos": 667283}
{"speaker": "Lord Nidderdale", "text": "Well, Miss Melmotte, governors are stern beings: are they not?", "pos": 668493}
{"speaker": "Marie", "text": "Is yours stern, my lord?", "pos": 668569}
{"speaker": "Lord Nidderdale", "text": "What I mean is that sons and daughters have to obey them. I think you understand what I mean. I was awfully spoony on you that time before; I was indeed.", "pos": 668596}
{"speaker": "Marie", "text": "I hope it didn't hurt you much, Lord Nidderdale.", "pos": 668752}
{"speaker": "Lord Nidderdale", "text": "That's so like a woman; that is. You know well enough that you and I can't marry without leave from the governors.", "pos": 668803}
{"speaker": "Marie", "text": "Nor with it,", "pos": 668920}
{"speaker": "Lord Nidderdale", "text": "I don't know how that may be. There was some hitch somewhere,--I don't quite know where. But it's all right now. The old fellows are agreed. Can't we make a match of it, Miss Melmotte?", "pos": 668965}
{"speaker": "Marie", "text": "No, Lord Nidderdale; I don't think we can.", "pos": 669216}
{"speaker": "Lord Nidderdale", "text": "Do you mean that?", "pos": 669261}
{"speaker": "Marie", "text": "I do mean it. When that was going on before I knew nothing about it. I have seen more of things since then.", "pos": 669281}
{"speaker": "Lord Nidderdale", "text": "And you've seen somebody you like better than me?", "pos": 669391}
{"speaker": "Marie", "text": "I say nothing about that, Lord Nidderdale. I don't think you ought to blame me, my lord.", "pos": 669443}
{"speaker": "Lord Nidderdale", "text": "Oh dear no.", "pos": 669534}
{"speaker": "Marie", "text": "There was something before, but it was you that was off first. Wasn't it now?", "pos": 669548}
{"speaker": "Lord Nidderdale", "text": "The governors were off, I think.", "pos": 669628}
{"speaker": "Marie", "text": "The governors have a right to be off, I suppose. But I don't think any governor has a right to make anybody marry any one.", "pos": 669663}
{"speaker": "Lord Nidderdale", "text": "I agree with you there;--I do indeed,", "pos": 669788}
{"speaker": "Marie", "text": "And no governor shall make me marry. I've thought a great deal about it since that other time, and that's what I've come to determine.", "pos": 669850}
{"speaker": "Lord Nidderdale", "text": "But I don't know why you shouldn't--just marry me--because you--like me.", "pos": 669987}
{"speaker": "Marie", "text": "Only,--just because I don't. Well; I do like you, Lord Nidderdale.", "pos": 670062}
{"speaker": "Lord Nidderdale", "text": "Thanks;--so much!", "pos": 670131}
{"speaker": "Marie", "text": "I like you ever so,--only marrying a person is different.", "pos": 670151}
{"speaker": "Lord Nidderdale", "text": "There's something in that to be sure.", "pos": 670211}
{"speaker": "Marie", "text": "And I don't mind telling you, because you are good-natured and won't get me into a scrape if you can help it, that I do like somebody else;--oh, so much.", "pos": 670251}
{"speaker": "Lord Nidderdale", "text": "I supposed that was it.", "pos": 670473}
{"speaker": "Marie", "text": "That is it.", "pos": 670499}
{"speaker": "Lord Nidderdale", "text": "It's a deuced pity. The governors had settled everything, and we should have been awfully jolly. I'd have gone in for all the things you go in for; and though your governor was screwing us up a bit, there would have been plenty of tin to go on with. You couldn't think of it again?", "pos": 670513}
{"speaker": "Marie", "text": "I tell you, my lord, I'm--in love.", "pos": 670797}
{"speaker": "Lord Nidderdale", "text": "Oh, ah;--yes. So you were saying. It's an awful bore. That's all. I shall come to the party all the same if you send me a ticket.", "pos": 670834}
{"speaker": "Mr. Broune", "text": "I'll be d---- if he shall live in my house,", "pos": 678959}
{"speaker": "Mr. Broune", "text": "It shall be a part of the bargain that I shall never have to see him,", "pos": 680878}
{"speaker": "Mr. Broune", "text": "'Cut and scotched and lopped!' I suppose she has been. I shouldn't have cut her, or scotched her, or lopped her. 'Showers instead of sunshine; melancholy instead of mirth,' I should have done the best for her, taking the showers and the melancholy if they were necessary.", "pos": 682102}
{"speaker": "N. B.", "text": "Be it so. It need not break our friendship.", "pos": 683045}
{"speaker": "M. C.", "text": "No;--no; certainly not. No word of this will ever pass my mouth.", "pos": 683221}
{"speaker": "Mr. Cohenlupe", "text": "If anybody don't understand, it's his own fault,", "pos": 686599}
{"speaker": "Miles Grendall", "text": "A cussed deal of trouble and all that, you know! He's used to it, and it's what he's meant for. I'm not going to flurry myself about stuff of that kind.", "pos": 687310}
{"speaker": "Lord Nidderdale", "text": "He couldn't do it, if it was ever so. I don't think I'd bully him if I were you. He gets £500 a-year, and if you knew all he owes, and all he hasn't got, you wouldn't try to rob him of it.", "pos": 687549}
{"speaker": "Melmotte", "text": "Gentlemen, is it your pleasure that I shall sign the record?", "pos": 688758}
{"speaker": "Melmotte", "text": "Gentlemen, it may perhaps be as well if I take this occasion of saying a few words to you about the affairs of the company.", "pos": 690183}
{"speaker": "Lord Nidderdale", "text": "I suppose that's about all,", "pos": 691739}
{"speaker": "Melmotte", "text": "Well;--perhaps as your lordship is in a hurry, and as my lord here is engaged elsewhere, we had better adjourn this meeting for another week.", "pos": 691802}
{"speaker": "Paul Montague", "text": "I cannot allow that,", "pos": 692057}
{"speaker": "Melmotte", "text": "I suppose then we must take the sense of the Board,", "pos": 692100}
{"speaker": "Cohenlupe", "text": "I have been discussing certain circumstances with our friend and Chairman, and I must say that it is not expedient just at present to go into matters too freely.", "pos": 692173}
{"speaker": "Melmotte", "text": "My lords and gentlemen. I hope that you trust me.", "pos": 692355}
{"speaker": "Mr. Cohenlupe", "text": "Hear, hear,", "pos": 692538}
{"speaker": "Lord Nidderdale", "text": "All right, go on;", "pos": 692572}
{"speaker": "The Chairman", "text": "I trust, that my young friend, Sir Felix, doubts neither my discretion nor my ability.", "pos": 692667}
{"speaker": "Sir Felix", "text": "Oh dear, no;--not at all,", "pos": 692777}
{"speaker": "Melmotte", "text": "My Lords and Gentlemen. I am delighted to receive this expression of your confidence. If I know anything in the world I know something of commercial matters. I am able to tell you that we are prospering. I do not know that greater prosperity has ever been achieved in a shorter time by a commercial company. I think our friend here, Mr. Montague, should be as feelingly aware of that as any gentleman.", "pos": 692992}
{"speaker": "Paul Montague", "text": "What do you mean by that, Mr. Melmotte?", "pos": 693418}
{"speaker": "Melmotte", "text": "What do I mean?--Certainly nothing adverse to your character, sir. Your firm in San Francisco, sir, know very well how the affairs of the Company are being transacted on this side of the water. No doubt you are in correspondence with Mr. Fisker. Ask him. The telegraph wires are open to you, sir. But, my Lords and Gentlemen, I am able to inform you that in affairs of this nature great discretion is necessary. On behalf of the shareholders at large whose interests are in our hands, I think it expedient that any general statement should be postponed for a short time, and I flatter myself that in that opinion I shall carry the majority of this Board with me. I now move that this meeting be adjourned to this day week,", "pos": 693472}
{"speaker": "Lord Alfred", "text": "I second that motion,", "pos": 694412}
{"speaker": "Paul Montague", "text": "I understood that we were to have a statement,", "pos": 694495}
{"speaker": "Mr. Cohenlupe", "text": "You've had a statement,", "pos": 694559}
{"speaker": "The Chairman", "text": "I will put my motion to the vote,", "pos": 694605}
{"speaker": "Paul Montague", "text": "I shall move an amendment,", "pos": 694660}
{"speaker": "Mr. Cohenlupe", "text": "There is nobody to second it,", "pos": 694753}
{"speaker": "Paul Montague", "text": "How do you know till I've made it? I shall ask Lord Nidderdale to second it, and when he has heard it I think that he will not refuse.", "pos": 694805}
{"speaker": "Lord Nidderdale", "text": "Oh, gracious me! why me? No;--don't ask me. I've got to go away. I have indeed.", "pos": 694961}
{"speaker": "Paul Montague", "text": "At any rate I claim the right of saying a few words. I do not say whether every affair of this Company should or should not be published to the world.", "pos": 695043}
{"speaker": "Cohenlupe", "text": "You'd break up everything if you did,", "pos": 695196}
{"speaker": "Paul Montague", "text": "Perhaps everything ought to be broken up. But I say nothing about that. What I do say is this. That as we sit here as directors and will be held to be responsible as such by the public, we ought to know what is being done. We ought to know where the shares really are. I for one do not even know what scrip has been issued.", "pos": 695252}
{"speaker": "Melmotte", "text": "You've bought and sold enough to know something about it,", "pos": 695578}
{"speaker": "Paul Montague", "text": "I, at any rate, began, by putting what was to me a large sum of money into the affair.", "pos": 695696}
{"speaker": "Melmotte", "text": "That's more than I know. Whatever shares you have, were issued at San Francisco, and not here.", "pos": 695796}
{"speaker": "Paul Montague", "text": "I have taken nothing that I haven't paid for. Nor have I yet had allotted to me anything like the number of shares which my capital would represent. But I did not intend to speak of my own concerns.", "pos": 695910}
{"speaker": "Cohenlupe", "text": "It looks very like it,", "pos": 696128}
{"speaker": "Paul Montague", "text": "So far from it that I am prepared to risk the not improbable loss of everything I have in the world. I am determined to know what is being done with the shares, or to make it public to the world at large that I, one of the directors of the Company, do not in truth know anything about it. I cannot, I suppose, absolve myself from further responsibility; but I can at any rate do what is right from this time forward,--and that course I intend to take.", "pos": 696169}
{"speaker": "Melmotte", "text": "The gentleman had better resign his seat at this Board. There will be no difficulty about that.", "pos": 696623}
{"speaker": "Paul Montague", "text": "Bound up as I am with Fisker and Montague in California I fear that there will be difficulty.", "pos": 696738}
{"speaker": "Melmotte", "text": "Not in the least. You need only gazette your resignation and the thing is done. I had intended, gentlemen, to propose an addition to our number. When I name to you a gentleman, personally known to many of you, and generally esteemed throughout England as a man of business, as a man of probity, and as a man of fortune, a man standing deservedly high in all British circles, I mean Mr. Longestaffe of Caversham--", "pos": 696834}
{"speaker": "Lord Nidderdale", "text": "Young Dolly, or old?", "pos": 697275}
{"speaker": "Melmotte", "text": "I mean Mr. Adolphus Longestaffe, senior, of Caversham. I am sure that you will all be glad to welcome him among you. I had thought to strengthen our number by this addition. But if Mr. Montague is determined to leave us,--and no one will regret the loss of his services so much as I shall,--it will be my pleasing duty to move that Adolphus Longestaffe, senior, Esquire, of Caversham, be requested to take his place. If on reconsideration Mr. Montague shall determine to remain with us,--and I for one most sincerely hope that such reconsideration may lead to such determination,--then I shall move that an additional director be added to our number, and that Mr. Longestaffe be requested to take the chair of that additional director. Certainly. Carbury, if you are not in a hurry, wait a moment for me. I have a word or two to say before you go. Now, Mr. Montague, what can I do for you? The thing is about this way, I take it, Mr. Montague;--you think you know more of this matter than I do.", "pos": 697321}
{"speaker": "Paul Montague", "text": "Not at all, Mr. Melmotte.", "pos": 698977}
{"speaker": "Melmotte", "text": "And I think that I know more of it than you do. Either of us may be right. But as I don't intend to give way to you, perhaps the less we speak together about it the better. You can't be in earnest in the threat you made, because you would be making public things communicated to you under the seal of privacy,--and no gentleman would do that. But as long as you are hostile to me, I can't help you;--and so good afternoon.", "pos": 699005}
{"speaker": "Melmotte", "text": "I am delighted to see you here. You come regularly, and you'll find that it will be worth your while. There's nothing like attending to business. You should be here every Friday.", "pos": 701900}
{"speaker": "Sir Felix", "text": "I will,", "pos": 702133}
{"speaker": "Melmotte", "text": "And let me see you sometimes up at my place in Abchurch Lane. I can put you more in the way of understanding things there than I can here. This is all a mere formal sort of thing. You can see that.", "pos": 702161}
{"speaker": "Sir Felix", "text": "Oh yes, I see that.", "pos": 702361}
{"speaker": "Melmotte", "text": "We are obliged to have this kind of thing for men like that fellow Montague. By-the-bye, is he a friend of yours?", "pos": 702383}
{"speaker": "Sir Felix", "text": "Not particularly. He is a friend of a cousin of mine; and the women know him at home. He isn't a pal of mine if you mean that.", "pos": 702499}
{"speaker": "Melmotte", "text": "If he makes himself disagreeable, he'll have to go to the wall;--that's all. But never mind him at present. Was your mother speaking to you of what I said to her?", "pos": 702628}
{"speaker": "Sir Felix", "text": "No, Mr. Melmotte,", "pos": 702793}
{"speaker": "Melmotte", "text": "I was talking to her about you, and I thought that perhaps she might have told you. This is all nonsense, you know, about you and Marie. You understand that; don't you? It's all d---- nonsense. You haven't got a brass farthing, you know. You've no income at all; you're just living on your mother, and I'm afraid she's not very well off. How can you suppose that I shall give my girl to you? You're a baronet, and that's about all, you know. The Carbury property, which is a very small thing, belongs to a distant cousin who may leave it to me if he pleases;--and who isn't very much older than you are yourself.", "pos": 702855}
{"speaker": "Sir Felix", "text": "Oh, come, Mr. Melmotte; he's a great deal older than me.", "pos": 704092}
{"speaker": "Melmotte", "text": "It wouldn't matter if he were as old as Adam. The thing is out of the question, and you must drop it. You hear what I say. She is going to marry Lord Nidderdale. She was engaged to him before you ever saw her. What do you expect to get by it?", "pos": 704151}
{"speaker": "Sir Felix", "text": "I suppose it's the old story,", "pos": 704598}
{"speaker": "Melmotte", "text": "Just so;--the old story. You want my money, and she wants you, just because she has been told to take somebody else. You want something to live on;--that's what you want. Come;--out with it. Is not that it? When we understand each other I'll put you in the way of making money.", "pos": 704639}
{"speaker": "Sir Felix", "text": "Of course I'm not very well off,", "pos": 704919}
{"speaker": "Melmotte", "text": "About as badly as any young man that I can hear of. You give me your written promise that you'll drop this affair with Marie, and you shan't want for money.", "pos": 704966}
{"speaker": "Sir Felix", "text": "A written promise!", "pos": 705125}
{"speaker": "Melmotte", "text": "Yes;--a written promise. I give nothing for nothing. I'll put you in the way of doing so well with these shares that you shall be able to marry any other girl you please;--or to live without marrying, which you'll find to be better.", "pos": 705146}
{"speaker": "Sir Felix", "text": "By-the-bye, Mr. Melmotte, could you let me have those shares?", "pos": 706107}
{"speaker": "Melmotte", "text": "What shares?", "pos": 706182}
{"speaker": "Sir Felix", "text": "Don't you know?--I gave you a thousand pounds, and I was to have ten shares.", "pos": 706238}
{"speaker": "Melmotte", "text": "You must come about that on the proper day, to the proper place.", "pos": 706317}
{"speaker": "Sir Felix", "text": "When is the proper day?", "pos": 706384}
{"speaker": "Melmotte", "text": "It is the twentieth of each month I think. But what does that signify? Do you want a little money?", "pos": 706410}
{"speaker": "Sir Felix", "text": "Well, I do. A lot of fellows owe me money, but it's so hard to get it.", "pos": 706619}
{"speaker": "Melmotte", "text": "That tells a story of gambling. You think I'd give my girl to a gambler?", "pos": 706710}
{"speaker": "Sir Felix", "text": "Nidderdale's in it quite as thick as I am.", "pos": 706806}
{"speaker": "Melmotte", "text": "Nidderdale has a settled property which neither he nor his father can destroy. But don't you be such a fool as to argue with me. You won't get anything by it. If you'll write that letter here now--", "pos": 706851}
{"speaker": "Sir Felix", "text": "What;--to Marie?", "pos": 707051}
{"speaker": "Melmotte", "text": "No;--not to Marie at all; but to me. It need never be shown to her. If you'll do that I'll stick to you and make a man of you. And if you want a couple of hundred pounds I'll give you a cheque for it before you leave the room. Mind, I can tell you this. On my word of honour as a gentleman, if my daughter were to marry you, she'd never have a single shilling. I should immediately make a will and leave all my property to St. George's Hospital. I have quite made up my mind about that.", "pos": 707070}
{"speaker": "Sir Felix", "text": "And couldn't you manage that I should have the shares before the twentieth of next month?", "pos": 707559}
{"speaker": "Melmotte", "text": "I'll see about it. Perhaps I could let you have a few of my own. At any rate I won't see you short of money.", "pos": 707651}
{"speaker": "Sir Felix", "text": "You'll give me that cheque for £200, Mr. Melmotte? And you'll see about letting me have those shares?", "pos": 708499}
{"speaker": "Melmotte", "text": "You can come to me in Abchurch Lane, you know.", "pos": 708692}
{"speaker": "Lord Nidderdale", "text": "What made you so savage at old Melmotte to-day?", "pos": 719561}
{"speaker": "Paul Montague", "text": "I didn't mean to be savage, but I think that as we call ourselves Directors we ought to know something about it.", "pos": 719632}
{"speaker": "Lord Nidderdale", "text": "I suppose we ought. I don't know, you know. I'll tell you what I've been thinking. I can't make out why the mischief they made me a Director.", "pos": 719747}
{"speaker": "Paul Montague", "text": "Because you're a lord,", "pos": 719891}
{"speaker": "Lord Nidderdale", "text": "I suppose there's something in that. But what good can I do them? Nobody thinks that I know anything about business. Of course I'm in Parliament, but I don't often go there unless they want me to vote. Everybody knows that I'm hard up. I can't understand it. The Governor said that I was to do it, and so I've done it. They say, you know,--there's something between you and Melmotte's daughter.", "pos": 719934}
{"speaker": "Paul Montague", "text": "But if there is, what has that to do with a railway in the city? And why should Carbury be there? And, heaven and earth, why should old Grendall be a Director? I'm impecunious; but if you were to pick out the two most hopeless men in London in regard to money, they would be old Grendall and young Carbury. I've been thinking a good deal about it, and I can't make it out. I have been thinking about it too,", "pos": 720333}
{"speaker": "Lord Nidderdale", "text": "I suppose old Melmotte is all right? You can speak out to me, you know,", "pos": 720756}
{"speaker": "Paul Montague", "text": "I've got nothing to speak. People say that he is about the richest man alive.", "pos": 721094}
{"speaker": "Lord Nidderdale", "text": "He lives as though he were.", "pos": 721174}
{"speaker": "Paul Montague", "text": "I don't see why it shouldn't be all true. Nobody, I take it, knows very much about him.", "pos": 721204}
{"speaker": "Lord Nidderdale", "text": "be coming a cropper rather. Carbury, and Grasslough, and Dolly Longestaffe are there waiting. Poor Miles isn't there, if you're afraid of that,", "pos": 721401}
{"speaker": "Paul Montague", "text": "Miles Grendall wouldn't hinder me,", "pos": 721804}
{"speaker": "Lord Nidderdale", "text": "Nor me either. Of course it's a confounded shame. I know that as well as any body. But, God bless me, I owe a fellow down in Leicestershire heaven knows how much for keeping horses, and that's a shame.", "pos": 721856}
{"speaker": "Paul Montague", "text": "You'll pay him some day.", "pos": 722060}
{"speaker": "Lord Nidderdale", "text": "I suppose I shall,--if I don't die first. But I should have gone on with the horses just the same if there had never been anything to come;--only they wouldn't have given me tick, you know. As far as I'm concerned it's just the same. I like to live whether I've got money or not. And I fear I don't have many scruples about paying. But then I like to let live too. There's Carbury always saying nasty things about poor Miles. He's playing himself without a rap to back him. If he were to lose, Vossner wouldn't stand him a £10 note. But because he has won, he goes on as though he were old Melmotte himself. You'd better come up.", "pos": 722087}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I am so glad to see you. What an age it is since we met.", "pos": 724349}
{"speaker": "Hetta", "text": "Hardly since the Melmottes' ball,", "pos": 724408}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Hardly indeed. I have been here once since that. What has brought Roger up to town?", "pos": 724456}
{"speaker": "Hetta", "text": "I don't know what it is. Some mystery, I think. Whenever there is a mystery I am always afraid that there is something wrong about Felix. I do get so unhappy about Felix, Mr. Montague.", "pos": 724542}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I saw him to-day in the city, at the Railway Board.", "pos": 724729}
{"speaker": "Hetta", "text": "But Roger says the Railway Board is all a sham, and that Felix should not be there. And then there is something going on about that horrid man's daughter.", "pos": 724783}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "She is to marry Lord Nidderdale, I think.", "pos": 725004}
{"speaker": "Hetta", "text": "Is she? They are talking of her marrying Felix, and of course it is for her money. And I believe that man is determined to quarrel with them.", "pos": 725048}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "What man, Miss Carbury?", "pos": 725192}
{"speaker": "Hetta", "text": "Mr. Melmotte himself. It's all horrid from beginning to end.", "pos": 725218}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "But I saw them in the city to-day and they seemed to be the greatest friends. When I wanted to see Mr. Melmotte he bolted himself into an inner room, but he took your brother with him. He would not have done that if they had not been friends. When I saw it I almost thought that he had consented to the marriage.", "pos": 725281}
{"speaker": "Hetta", "text": "Roger has the greatest dislike to Mr. Melmotte.", "pos": 725596}
{"speaker": "Paul Montague", "text": "I know he has,", "pos": 725646}
{"speaker": "Hetta", "text": "And Roger is always right. It is always safe to trust him. Don't you think so, Mr. Montague?", "pos": 725674}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Of course I will never go against mamma,", "pos": 725922}
{"speaker": "Hetta", "text": "I think everybody has reason to praise him that has to do with him. And I'll tell you why I think it is. Whenever he thinks anything he says it;--or, at least, he never says anything that he doesn't think. If he spent a thousand pounds, everybody would know that he'd got it to spend; but other people are not like that.", "pos": 726238}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "You're thinking of Melmotte.", "pos": 726561}
{"speaker": "Hetta", "text": "I'm thinking of everybody, Mr. Montague;--of everybody except Roger.", "pos": 726592}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Is he the only man you can trust? But it is abominable to me to seem even to contradict you. Roger Carbury has been to me the best friend that any man ever had. I think as much of him as you do.", "pos": 726663}
{"speaker": "Hetta", "text": "I didn't say he was the only person;--or I didn't mean to say so. But of all my friends--", "pos": 726860}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Am I among the number, Miss Carbury?", "pos": 726952}
{"speaker": "Hetta", "text": "Yes;--I suppose so. Of course you are. Why not? Of course you are a friend,--because you are his friend.", "pos": 726991}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Look here, Hetta,", "pos": 727098}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "It is no good going on like this. I love Roger Carbury,--as well as one man can love another. He is all that you say,--and more. You hardly know how he denies himself, and how he thinks of everybody near him. He is a gentleman all round and every inch. He never lies. He never takes what is not his own. I believe he does love his neighbour as himself.", "pos": 727127}
{"speaker": "Hetta", "text": "Oh, Mr. Montague! I am so glad to hear you speak of him like that.", "pos": 727482}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I love him better than any man,--as well as a man can love a man. If you will say that you love him as well as a woman can love a man,--I will leave England at once, and never return to it.", "pos": 727551}
{"speaker": "Hetta", "text": "There's mamma,", "pos": 727743}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "This is quite an unexpected pleasure, Mr. Montague.", "pos": 728954}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Yes,", "pos": 729169}
{"speaker": "Roger Carbury", "text": "I thought you were at Liverpool,", "pos": 729503}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I came back to-day,--to be present at that Board in the city. I have had a good deal to trouble me. I will tell you all about it just now. What has brought you to London?", "pos": 729550}
{"speaker": "Roger Carbury", "text": "A little business,", "pos": 729723}
{"speaker": "Hetta", "text": "Have you had a pleasant evening, mamma?", "pos": 730174}
{"speaker": "Lady Carbury", "text": "Have you had a pleasant evening, my dear?", "pos": 730216}
{"speaker": "Hetta", "text": "Indeed, no,", "pos": 730336}
{"speaker": "Roger Carbury", "text": "I was out of my element, of course; but I think your mother liked it.", "pos": 730597}
{"speaker": "Lady Carbury", "text": "I was very glad indeed to meet Dr. Palmoil. It seems that if we can only open the interior of Africa a little further, we can get everything that is wanted to complete the chemical combination necessary for feeding the human race. Isn't that a grand idea, Roger?", "pos": 730669}
{"speaker": "Roger Carbury", "text": "A little more elbow grease is the combination that I look to.", "pos": 730934}
{"speaker": "Lady Carbury", "text": "Surely, Roger, if the Bible is to go for anything, we are to believe that labour is a curse and not a blessing. Adam was not born to labour.", "pos": 730998}
{"speaker": "Roger Carbury", "text": "But he fell; and I doubt whether Dr. Palmoil will be able to put his descendants back into Eden.", "pos": 731141}
{"speaker": "Lady Carbury", "text": "Roger, for a religious man, you do say the strangest things! I have quite made up my mind to this;--if ever I can see things so settled here as to enable me to move, I will visit the interior of Africa. It is the garden of the world. What brought him here?", "pos": 731240}
{"speaker": "Hetta", "text": "He brought himself, mamma.", "pos": 731751}
{"speaker": "Lady Carbury", "text": "Don't answer me in that way, Hetta. Of course he brought himself. That is insolent.", "pos": 731780}
{"speaker": "Hetta", "text": "Insolent, mamma! How can you say such hard words? I meant that he came of his own accord.", "pos": 731866}
{"speaker": "Lady Carbury", "text": "How long was he here?", "pos": 731958}
{"speaker": "Hetta", "text": "Two minutes before you came in. Why do you cross-question me like this? I could not help his coming. I did not desire that he might be shown up.", "pos": 731982}
{"speaker": "Lady Carbury", "text": "You did not know that he was to come?", "pos": 732129}
{"speaker": "Hetta", "text": "Mamma, if I am to be suspected, all is over between us.", "pos": 732169}
{"speaker": "Lady Carbury", "text": "What do you mean by that?", "pos": 732227}
{"speaker": "Hetta", "text": "If you can think that I would deceive you, you will think so always. If you will not trust me, how am I to live with you as though you did? I knew nothing of his coming.", "pos": 732255}
{"speaker": "Lady Carbury", "text": "Tell me this, Hetta; are you engaged to marry him?", "pos": 732427}
{"speaker": "Hetta", "text": "No;--I am not.", "pos": 732480}
{"speaker": "Lady Carbury", "text": "Has he asked you to marry him?", "pos": 732497}
{"speaker": "Hetta", "text": "I do not think he ever has.", "pos": 732601}
{"speaker": "Lady Carbury", "text": "You do not think?", "pos": 732631}
{"speaker": "Hetta", "text": "I was going on to explain. He never has asked me. But he has said that which makes me know that he wishes me to be his wife.", "pos": 732651}
{"speaker": "Lady Carbury", "text": "What has he said? When did he say it?", "pos": 732778}
{"speaker": "Hetta", "text": "Just before you came in, he said--; I don't know what he said; but it meant that.", "pos": 732892}
{"speaker": "Lady Carbury", "text": "You told me he had been here but a minute.", "pos": 732976}
{"speaker": "Hetta", "text": "It was but very little more. If you take me at my word in that way, of course you can make me out to be wrong, mamma. It was almost no time, and yet he said it.", "pos": 733021}
{"speaker": "Lady Carbury", "text": "He had come prepared to say it.", "pos": 733184}
{"speaker": "Hetta", "text": "How could he,--expecting to find you?", "pos": 733218}
{"speaker": "Lady Carbury", "text": "Psha! He expected nothing of the kind.", "pos": 733258}
{"speaker": "Hetta", "text": "I think you do him wrong, mamma. I am sure you are doing me wrong. I think his coming was an accident, and that what he said was--an accident.", "pos": 733299}
{"speaker": "Lady Carbury", "text": "An accident!", "pos": 733444}
{"speaker": "Hetta", "text": "It was not intended,--not then, mamma. I have known it ever so long;--and so have you. It was natural that he should say so when we were alone together.", "pos": 733459}
{"speaker": "Lady Carbury", "text": "And you;--what did you say?", "pos": 733614}
{"speaker": "Hetta", "text": "Nothing. You came.", "pos": 733644}
{"speaker": "Lady Carbury", "text": "I am sorry that my coming should have been so inopportune. But I must ask one other question, Hetta. What do you intend to say? How do you intend to answer him?", "pos": 733665}
{"speaker": "Hetta", "text": "I do not know that he will ask again.", "pos": 734313}
{"speaker": "Lady Carbury", "text": "That is prevaricating.", "pos": 734353}
{"speaker": "Hetta", "text": "No, mamma;--I do not prevaricate. It is unfair to say that to me. I do love him. There. I think it ought to have been enough for you to know that I should never give him encouragement without telling you about it. I do love him, and I shall never love any one else.", "pos": 734378}
{"speaker": "Lady Carbury", "text": "He is a ruined man. Your cousin says that all this Company in which he is involved will go to pieces.", "pos": 734646}
{"speaker": "Hetta", "text": "If so,", "pos": 734934}
{"speaker": "Lady Carbury", "text": "It makes me ill to hear you talk,--as if you understood these things. And you think you will marry this man because he is to make a fortune out of the Railway!", "pos": 735042}
{"speaker": "Hetta", "text": "I have not thought of his fortune. I have not thought of marrying him, mamma. I think you are very cruel to me. You say things so hard, that I cannot bear them.", "pos": 735419}
{"speaker": "Lady Carbury", "text": "Why will you not marry your cousin?", "pos": 735582}
{"speaker": "Hetta", "text": "I am not good enough for him.", "pos": 735620}
{"speaker": "Lady Carbury", "text": "Nonsense!", "pos": 735652}
{"speaker": "Hetta", "text": "Very well; you say so. But that is what I think. He is so much above me, that, though I do love him, I cannot think of him in that way. And I have told you that I do love some one else. I have no secret from you now. Good night, mamma. Do be kind to me; and pray,--pray,--do believe me.", "pos": 735664}
{"speaker": "Roger Carbury", "text": "I do not wish it to be talked of. You do not mean that Ruby has levanted? She was to have married John Crumb. Just so,--but she has gone off, leaving John Crumb in an unhappy frame of mind. John Crumb is an honest man and almost too good for her.", "pos": 736495}
{"speaker": "Paul Montague", "text": "Ruby is very pretty. Has she gone with any one?", "pos": 736899}
{"speaker": "Roger Carbury", "text": "No;--she went alone. But the horror of it is this. They think down there that Felix has,--well, made love to her, and that she has been taken to London by him.", "pos": 736949}
{"speaker": "Paul Montague", "text": "That would be very bad.", "pos": 737111}
{"speaker": "Roger Carbury", "text": "He certainly has known her. Though he lied, as he always lies, when I first spoke to him, I brought him to admit that he and she had been friends down in Suffolk. Of course we know what such friendship means. But I do not think that she came to London at his instance. Of course he would lie about that. He would lie about anything. If his horse cost him a hundred pounds, he would tell one man that he gave fifty, and another two hundred. But he has not lived long enough yet to be able to lie and tell the truth with the same eye. When he is as old as I am he'll be perfect.", "pos": 737137}
{"speaker": "Paul Montague", "text": "He knows nothing about her coming to town?", "pos": 737716}
{"speaker": "Roger Carbury", "text": "He did not when I first asked him. I am not sure, but I fancy that I was too quick after her. She started last Saturday morning. I followed on the Sunday, and made him out at his club. I think that he knew nothing then of her being in town. He is very clever if he did. Since that he has avoided me. I caught him once but only for half a minute, and then he swore that he had not seen her.", "pos": 737761}
{"speaker": "Paul Montague", "text": "You still believed him?", "pos": 738153}
{"speaker": "Roger Carbury", "text": "No;--he did it very well, but I knew that he was prepared for me. I cannot say how it may have been. To make matters worse old Ruggles has now quarrelled with Crumb, and is no longer anxious to get back his granddaughter. He was frightened at first; but that has gone off, and he is now reconciled to the loss of the girl and the saving of his money. I never believed in the thing, you know.", "pos": 738179}
{"speaker": "Paul Montague", "text": "Nor did I. But what could I do?", "pos": 738789}
{"speaker": "Roger Carbury", "text": "I'm not going to blame you. Indeed, knowing you as I do, feeling sure that you intend to be honest, I would not for a moment insist on my own opinion, if it did not seem that Mr. Ramsbottom thinks as I do. In such a matter, when a man does not see his own way clearly, it behoves him to be able to show that he has followed the advice of some man whom the world esteems and recognises. You have to bind your character to another man's character; and that other man's character, if it be good, will carry you through. From what I hear Mr. Ramsbottom's character is sufficiently good;--but then you must do exactly what he tells you.", "pos": 738823}
{"speaker": "Roger Carbury", "text": "It may be necessary that you should go out to Kansas,--and to Oregon,", "pos": 740494}
{"speaker": "Paul Montague", "text": "But even if the rumours be untrue I will not marry her. And what would she do, remaining here? I am determined that under no circumstances will I marry her. I know I have been a fool. I know I have been wrong. But of course, if there be a fair cause for my broken word, I will use it if I can.", "pos": 740578}
{"speaker": "Roger Carbury", "text": "You will get out of it, honestly if you can; but you will get out of it honestly or--any other way.", "pos": 741041}
{"speaker": "Paul Montague", "text": "Did you not advise me to get out of it, Roger;--before we knew as much as we do now?", "pos": 741143}
{"speaker": "Roger Carbury", "text": "I did,--and I do. If you make a bargain with the Devil, it may be dishonest to cheat him,--and yet I would have you cheat him if you could. As to this woman, I do believe she has deceived you. If I were you, nothing should induce me to marry her;--not though her claws were strong enough to tear me utterly in pieces. I'll tell you what I'll do. I'll go and see her if you like it.", "pos": 741230}
{"speaker": "Roger Carbury", "text": "I wish it were over, old fellow,", "pos": 742516}
{"speaker": "Paul Montague", "text": "So do I,", "pos": 742563}
{"speaker": "Ruby", "text": "Mrs. Hurtle is out for the day. Leastways, she went out yesterday and won't be back till to-night. Oh laws, Mr. Montague, is that you?", "pos": 746223}
{"speaker": "Paul Montague", "text": "Yes, it is I. I was sorry to hear, Miss Ruggles, that you had left your home.", "pos": 747061}
{"speaker": "Ruby", "text": "I'm all right, Mr. Montague;--I am. Mrs. Pipkin is my aunt, or, leastways, my mother's brother's widow, though grandfather never would speak to her. She's quite respectable, and has five children, and lets lodgings. There's a lady here now, and has gone away with her just for one night down to Southend. They'll be back this evening, and I've the children to mind, with the servant girl. I'm quite respectable here, Mr. Montague, and nobody need be a bit afraid about me.", "pos": 747141}
{"speaker": "Paul Montague", "text": "Mrs. Hurtle has gone down to Southend?", "pos": 747616}
{"speaker": "Ruby", "text": "Yes, Mr. Montague; she wasn't quite well, and wanted a breath of air, she said. And aunt didn't like she should go alone, as Mrs. Hurtle is such a stranger. And Mrs. Hurtle said as she didn't mind paying for two, and so they've gone, and the baby with them. Mrs. Pipkin said as the baby shouldn't be no trouble. And Mrs. Hurtle,--she's most as fond of the baby as aunt. Do you know Mrs. Hurtle, sir?", "pos": 747657}
{"speaker": "Paul Montague", "text": "Yes; she's a friend of mine.", "pos": 748059}
{"speaker": "Ruby", "text": "Oh; I didn't know. I did know as there was some friend as was expected and as didn't come. Be I to say, sir, as you was here?", "pos": 748090}
{"speaker": "Paul Montague", "text": "I'm afraid they are very unhappy about you down at Bungay, Miss Ruggles.", "pos": 748389}
{"speaker": "Ruby", "text": "Then they've got to be unhappy; that's all about it, Mr. Montague. Grandfather is that provoking as a young woman can't live with him, nor yet I won't try never again. He lugged me all about the room by my hair, Mr. Montague. How is a young woman to put up with that? And I did everything for him,--that careful that no one won't do it again;--did his linen, and his victuals, and even cleaned his boots of a Sunday, 'cause he was that mean he wouldn't have anybody about the place only me and the girl who had to milk the cows. There wasn't nobody to do anything, only me. And then he went to drag me about by the hairs of my head. You won't see me again at Sheep's Acre, Mr. Montague;--nor yet won't the Squire.", "pos": 748464}
{"speaker": "Paul Montague", "text": "But I thought there was somebody else was to give you a home.", "pos": 749180}
{"speaker": "Ruby", "text": "John Crumb! Oh, yes, there's John Crumb. There's plenty of people to give me a home, Mr. Montague.", "pos": 749244}
{"speaker": "Paul Montague", "text": "You were to have been married to John Crumb, I thought.", "pos": 749345}
{"speaker": "Ruby", "text": "Ladies is to change their minds if they like it, Mr. Montague. I'm sure you've heard that before. Grandfather made me say I'd have him,--but I never cared that for him.", "pos": 749403}
{"speaker": "Paul Montague", "text": "I'm afraid, Miss Ruggles, you won't find a better man up here in London.", "pos": 749574}
{"speaker": "Ruby", "text": "I didn't come here to look for a man, Mr. Montague; I can tell you that. They has to look for me, if they want me. But I am looked after; and that by one as John Crumb ain't fit to touch. But there's Betsy a crying up-stairs, and I promised not to leave them children for one minute.", "pos": 749649}
{"speaker": "Paul Montague", "text": "I will tell the Squire that I saw you, Miss Ruggles.", "pos": 750198}
{"speaker": "Ruby", "text": "What does the Squire want o' me? I ain't nothing to the Squire,--except that I respects him. You can tell if you please, Mr. Montague, of course. I'm a coming, my darling.", "pos": 750253}
{"speaker": "Ruby", "text": "Mr. Montague. I don't see why you need be saying anything about me, you know.", "pos": 751203}
{"speaker": "Paul Montague", "text": "Mr. Carbury is up in town looking after you.", "pos": 751353}
{"speaker": "Ruby", "text": "What 'm I to Mr. Carbury?", "pos": 751400}
{"speaker": "Paul Montague", "text": "Your grandfather is very anxious about you.", "pos": 751428}
{"speaker": "Ruby", "text": "Not a bit of it, Mr. Montague. Grandfather knows very well where I am. There! Grandfather doesn't want me back, and I ain't a going. Why should the Squire bother himself about me? I don't bother myself about him.", "pos": 751474}
{"speaker": "Paul Montague", "text": "He's afraid, Miss Ruggles, that you are trusting yourself to a young man who is not trustworthy.", "pos": 751689}
{"speaker": "Ruby", "text": "I can mind myself very well, Mr. Montague.", "pos": 751788}
{"speaker": "Paul Montague", "text": "Tell me this. Have you seen Sir Felix Carbury since you've been in town? You may be sure that he means no good to you. What can come of an intimacy between you and such a one as he?", "pos": 751833}
{"speaker": "Ruby", "text": "I don't see why I shouldn't have my friend, Mr. Montague, as well as you. Howsomever, if you'll not tell, I'll be ever so much obliged.", "pos": 752089}
{"speaker": "Paul Montague", "text": "But I must tell Mr. Carbury.", "pos": 752227}
{"speaker": "Ruby", "text": "Then I ain't obliged to you one bit,", "pos": 752258}
{"speaker": "Melmotte", "text": "Dear Sir,", "pos": 753408}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Hurtle", "text": "I am so sorry to have been away. I will expect you all to-morrow. W. H.", "pos": 754252}
{"speaker": "Melmotte", "text": "My dear sir, I am so sorry. You are a punctual man I see. So am I. A man of business should be punctual. But they ain't always. Brehgert,--from the house of Todd, Brehgert, and Goldsheiner, you know,--has just been with me. We had to settle something about the Moldavian loan. He came a quarter late, and of course he went a quarter late. And how is a man to catch a quarter of an hour? I never could do it. And I am so sorry to ask you into such a place as this. I had Brehgert in my room down-stairs, and then the house is so knocked about! We get into a furnished house a little way off in Bruton Street to-morrow. Longestaffe lets me his house for a month till this affair of the dinner is over. By-the-bye, Montague, if you'd like to come to the dinner, I've got a ticket I can let you have. You know how they're run after. Ah, indeed. There are ever so many people of title would give anything for a ticket. You'd be astonished at the persons who have asked. We've had to squeeze in a chair on one side for the Master of the Buckhounds, and on another for the Bishop of--; I forget what bishop it is, but we had the two archbishops before. They say he must come because he has something to do with getting up the missionaries for Thibet. But I've got the ticket, if you'll have it. You're the only man in London then. But at any rate you'll come in the evening, and I'll have one of Madame Melmotte's tickets sent to you. I am particularly anxious, to be civil to those who are connected with our great Railway, and of course, in this country, your name stands first,--next to my own.", "pos": 756430}
{"speaker": "Paul Montague", "text": "Have you anything special to say about the Railway?", "pos": 759171}
{"speaker": "Melmotte", "text": "Well, yes. It is so hard to get things said at the Board. Of course there are some there who do not understand matters.", "pos": 759235}
{"speaker": "Paul Montague", "text": "I doubt if there be any one there who does understand this matter,", "pos": 759357}
{"speaker": "Melmotte", "text": "Well, well; I am not prepared to go quite so far as that. My friend Cohenlupe has had great experience in these affairs, and of course you are aware that he is in Parliament. And Lord Alfred sees farther into them than perhaps you give him credit for.", "pos": 759465}
{"speaker": "Paul Montague", "text": "He may easily do that.", "pos": 759719}
{"speaker": "Melmotte", "text": "Well, well. Perhaps you don't know him quite as well as I do. What I wanted to say to you was this. We didn't quite agree at the last meeting.", "pos": 759744}
{"speaker": "Paul Montague", "text": "No; we did not.", "pos": 760008}
{"speaker": "Melmotte", "text": "I was very sorry for it. Unanimity is everything in the direction of such an undertaking as this. With unanimity we can do--everything. Without unanimity we can do--nothing. Unanimity should be printed everywhere about a Board-room. It should, indeed, Mr. Montague.", "pos": 760026}
{"speaker": "Paul Montague", "text": "But suppose the directors are not unanimous.", "pos": 760408}
{"speaker": "Melmotte", "text": "They should be unanimous. They should make themselves unanimous. God bless my soul! You don't want to see the thing fall to pieces!", "pos": 760455}
{"speaker": "Paul Montague", "text": "Not if it can be carried on honestly.", "pos": 760589}
{"speaker": "Melmotte", "text": "Honestly! Who says that anything is dishonest? Look here, Mr. Montague. If you and I quarrel in that Board-room, there is no knowing the amount of evil we may do to every individual shareholder in the Company. I find the responsibility on my own shoulders so great that I say the thing must be stopped. Damme, Mr. Montague, it must be stopped. We mustn't ruin widows and children, Mr. Montague. We mustn't let those shares run down 20 below par for a mere chimera. I've known a fine property blasted, Mr. Montague, sent straight to the dogs,--annihilated, sir;--so that it all vanished into thin air, and widows and children past counting were sent out to starve about the streets,--just because one director sat in another director's chair. I did, by G----! What do you think of that, Mr. Montague? Gentlemen who don't know the nature of credit, how strong it is,--as the air,--to buoy you up; how slight it is,--as a mere vapour,--when roughly touched, can do an amount of mischief of which they themselves don't in the least understand the extent! What is it you want, Mr. Montague?", "pos": 760629}
{"speaker": "Paul Montague", "text": "What do I want? I only want justice.", "pos": 761753}
{"speaker": "Melmotte", "text": "But you should know what justice is before you demand it at the expense of other people. Look here, Mr. Montague. I suppose you are like the rest of us, in this matter. You want to make money out of it.", "pos": 762009}
{"speaker": "Paul Montague", "text": "For myself, I want interest for my capital; that is all. But I am not thinking of myself.", "pos": 762214}
{"speaker": "Melmotte", "text": "You are getting very good interest. If I understand the matter, you had about £6,000 embarked in the business when Fisker joined your firm. You imagine yourself to have that still.", "pos": 762306}
{"speaker": "Paul Montague", "text": "I don't know what I've got.", "pos": 762594}
{"speaker": "Melmotte", "text": "I can tell you then. You have that, and you've drawn nearly a thousand pounds since Fisker came over, in one shape or another. That's not bad interest on your money.", "pos": 762624}
{"speaker": "Paul Montague", "text": "There was back interest due to me.", "pos": 762792}
{"speaker": "Melmotte", "text": "If so, it's due still. I've nothing to do with that. Look here, Mr. Montague. I am most anxious that you should remain with us. I was about to propose, only for that little rumpus the other day, that, as you're an unmarried man, and have time on your hands, you should go out to California and probably across to Mexico, in order to get necessary information for the Company. Were I of your age, unmarried, and without impediment, it is just the thing I should like. Of course you'd go at the Company's expense. I would see to your own personal interests while you were away;--or you could appoint any one by power of attorney. Your seat at the Board would be kept for you; but, should anything occur amiss,--which it won't, for the thing is as sound as anything I know,--of course you, as absent, would not share the responsibility. That's what I was thinking. It would be a delightful trip;--but if you don't like it, you can of course remain at the Board, and be of the greatest use to me. Indeed, after a bit I could devolve nearly the whole management on you;--and I must do something of the kind, as I really haven't the time for it. But,--if it is to be that way,--do be unanimous. Unanimity is the very soul of these things;--the very soul, Mr. Montague.", "pos": 762829}
{"speaker": "Paul Montague", "text": "But if I can't be unanimous?", "pos": 764094}
{"speaker": "Melmotte", "text": "Well;--if you can't, and if you won't take my advice about going out;--which, pray, think about, for you would be most useful. It might be the very making of the railway;--then I can only suggest that you should take your £6,000 and leave us. I, myself, should be greatly distressed; but if you are determined that way I will see that you have your money. I will make myself personally responsible for the payment of it,--some time before the end of the year. And now, good-bye. I'm afraid that I'm keeping Sir Gregory Gribe, the Bank Director, waiting down-stairs.", "pos": 764125}
{"speaker": "Marie", "text": "You may buy what you like, mamma, and if papa agrees about Felix, why then I suppose they'll do. But they'll never be of any use about Lord Nidderdale. If you were to sew me up in the things by main force, I wouldn't have him. Nobody shall manage this matter for me. I know what I'm about now, and I won't marry anybody just because it will suit papa.", "pos": 766093}
{"speaker": "Madame Melmotte", "text": "Que nous étions encore à Francfort, ou New York,", "pos": 766734}
{"speaker": "Sir Felix", "text": "It was the only thing to do, Marie;--it was indeed.", "pos": 767976}
{"speaker": "Marie", "text": "But you said you had accepted some offer.", "pos": 768030}
{"speaker": "Sir Felix", "text": "You don't suppose I wrote the letter?", "pos": 768074}
{"speaker": "Marie", "text": "It was your handwriting, Felix.", "pos": 768114}
{"speaker": "Sir Felix", "text": "Of course it was. I copied just what he put down. He'd have sent you clean away where I couldn't have got near you if I hadn't written it.", "pos": 768148}
{"speaker": "Marie", "text": "And you have accepted nothing?", "pos": 768289}
{"speaker": "Sir Felix", "text": "Not at all. As it is, he owes me money. Is not that odd? I gave him a thousand pounds to buy shares, and I haven't got anything from him yet.", "pos": 768322}
{"speaker": "Marie", "text": "Nobody ever does who gives papa money,", "pos": 768515}
{"speaker": "Sir Felix", "text": "Don't they? Dear me! But I just wrote it because I thought anything better than a downright quarrel.", "pos": 768585}
{"speaker": "Marie", "text": "I wouldn't have written it, if it had been ever so.", "pos": 768688}
{"speaker": "Sir Felix", "text": "It's no good scolding, Marie. I did it for the best. What do you think we'd best do now? I wonder whether you're sure you're right about that money which you say is settled.", "pos": 768742}
{"speaker": "Marie", "text": "I'm quite sure. Mamma told me in Paris,--just when we were coming away,--that it was done so that there might be something if things went wrong. And papa told me that he should want me to sign something from time to time; and of course I said I would. But of course I won't,--if I should have a husband of my own.", "pos": 769015}
{"speaker": "Marie", "text": "What are you thinking of, Felix?", "pos": 770304}
{"speaker": "Sir Felix", "text": "It's d---- difficult to know what to do.", "pos": 770350}
{"speaker": "Marie", "text": "But you do love me?", "pos": 770393}
{"speaker": "Sir Felix", "text": "Of course I do. If I didn't love you why should I be here walking round this stupid place? They talk of your being married to Nidderdale about the end of August.", "pos": 770415}
{"speaker": "Marie", "text": "Some day in August. But that's all nonsense, you know. They can't take me up and marry me, as they used to do the girls ever so long ago. I won't marry him. He don't care a bit for me, and never did. I don't think you care much, Felix.", "pos": 770579}
{"speaker": "Sir Felix", "text": "Yes, I do. A fellow can't go on saying so over and over again in a beastly place like this. If we were anywhere jolly together, then I could say it often enough.", "pos": 770817}
{"speaker": "Marie", "text": "I wish we were, Felix. I wonder whether we ever shall be.", "pos": 770981}
{"speaker": "Sir Felix", "text": "Upon my word I hardly see my way as yet.", "pos": 771041}
{"speaker": "Marie", "text": "You're not going to give it up!", "pos": 771083}
{"speaker": "Sir Felix", "text": "Oh no;--not give it up; certainly not. But the bother is a fellow doesn't know what to do.", "pos": 771117}
{"speaker": "Marie", "text": "You've heard of young Mr. Goldsheiner, haven't you?", "pos": 771210}
{"speaker": "Sir Felix", "text": "He's one of those city chaps.", "pos": 771281}
{"speaker": "Marie", "text": "And Lady Julia Start?", "pos": 771313}
{"speaker": "Sir Felix", "text": "She's old Lady Catchboy's daughter. Yes; I've heard of them. They got spliced last winter.", "pos": 771337}
{"speaker": "Marie", "text": "Yes,--somewhere in Switzerland, I think. At any rate they went to Switzerland, and now they've got a house close to Albert Gate.", "pos": 771430}
{"speaker": "Sir Felix", "text": "How jolly for them! He is awfully rich, isn't he?", "pos": 771561}
{"speaker": "Marie", "text": "I don't suppose he's half so rich as papa. They did all they could to prevent her going, but she met him down at Folkestone just as the tidal boat was starting. Didon says that nothing was easier.", "pos": 771613}
{"speaker": "Sir Felix", "text": "Oh;--ah. Didon knows all about it.", "pos": 771812}
{"speaker": "Marie", "text": "That she does.", "pos": 771849}
{"speaker": "Sir Felix", "text": "But she'd lose her place.", "pos": 771866}
{"speaker": "Marie", "text": "There are plenty of places. She could come and live with us, and be my maid. If you would give her £50 for herself, she'd arrange it all.", "pos": 771894}
{"speaker": "Sir Felix", "text": "And would you come to Folkestone?", "pos": 772034}
{"speaker": "Marie", "text": "I think that would be stupid, because Lady Julia did that. We should make it a little different. If you liked I wouldn't mind going to--New York. And then, perhaps, we might--get--married, you know, on board. That's what Didon thinks.", "pos": 772070}
{"speaker": "Sir Felix", "text": "And would Didon go too?", "pos": 772307}
{"speaker": "Marie", "text": "That's what she proposes. She could go as my aunt, and I'd call myself by her name;--any French name you know. I should go as a French girl. And you could call yourself Smith, and be an American. We wouldn't go together, but we'd get on board just at the last moment. If they wouldn't--marry us on board, they would at New York, instantly.", "pos": 772333}
{"speaker": "Sir Felix", "text": "That's Didon's plan?", "pos": 772675}
{"speaker": "Marie", "text": "That's what she thinks best,--and she'll do it, if you'll give her £50 for herself, you know. The 'Adriatic,'--that's a White Star boat, goes on Thursday week at noon. There's an early train that would take us down that morning. You had better go and sleep at Liverpool, and take no notice of us at all till we meet on board. We could be back in a month,--and then papa would be obliged to make the best of it.", "pos": 772698}
{"speaker": "Sir Felix", "text": "It's deuced important,", "pos": 774235}
{"speaker": "Marie", "text": "It's not more important for you than me,", "pos": 774290}
{"speaker": "Sir Felix", "text": "If you're wrong about the money, and he shouldn't come round, where should we be then?", "pos": 774345}
{"speaker": "Marie", "text": "Nothing venture, nothing have,", "pos": 774434}
{"speaker": "Sir Felix", "text": "That's all very well; but one might venture everything and get nothing after all.", "pos": 774485}
{"speaker": "Marie", "text": "You'd get me,", "pos": 774569}
{"speaker": "Sir Felix", "text": "Yes;--and I'm awfully fond of you. Of course I should get you! But--", "pos": 774609}
{"speaker": "Marie", "text": "Very well then;--if that's your love,", "pos": 774680}
{"speaker": "Sir Felix", "text": "I'll venture it.", "pos": 774819}
{"speaker": "Marie", "text": "Oh, Felix, how grand it will be!", "pos": 774838}
{"speaker": "Sir Felix", "text": "There's a great deal to do, you know. I don't know whether it can be Thursday week.", "pos": 774873}
{"speaker": "Marie", "text": "I shall be afraid of Didon if it's delayed long.", "pos": 775011}
{"speaker": "Sir Felix", "text": "There's the money to get, and all that.", "pos": 775062}
{"speaker": "Marie", "text": "I can get some money. Mamma has money in the house.", "pos": 775104}
{"speaker": "Sir Felix", "text": "How much?", "pos": 775158}
{"speaker": "Marie", "text": "A hundred pounds, perhaps;--perhaps two hundred.", "pos": 775197}
{"speaker": "Sir Felix", "text": "That would help certainly. I must go to your father for money. Won't that be a sell? To get it from him, to take you away!", "pos": 775248}
{"speaker": "Marie", "text": "And now, there's Didon. Nobody's looking and she can open that gate for you. When we're gone, do you creep out. The gate can be left, you know. Then we'll get out on the other side.", "pos": 775859}
{"speaker": "Roger Carbury", "text": "It's not so bad as you thought. Then it doesn't matter whether the woman's her aunt or not. I'll go and see her and try to get her back to Bungay.", "pos": 776548}
{"speaker": "Paul Montague", "text": "The ladies have come back from Southend, Miss Ruggles?", "pos": 779763}
{"speaker": "Ruby", "text": "You didn't tell him as you'd seen me, Mr. Montague?", "pos": 779927}
{"speaker": "Paul Montague", "text": "Indeed I did, Miss Ruggles.", "pos": 779981}
{"speaker": "Ruby", "text": "Then you might as well have left it alone, and not have been ill-natured,--that's all,", "pos": 780011}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Hurtle", "text": "Only fancy,", "pos": 780366}
{"speaker": "Paul Montague", "text": "Why should you be sorry? It is easy to come again.", "pos": 780543}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Hurtle", "text": "Because I don't like to miss you, even for a day. But I wasn't well, and I fancied that the house was stuffy, and Mrs. Pipkin took a bright idea and proposed to carry me off to Southend. She was dying to go herself. She declared that Southend was Paradise.", "pos": 780596}
{"speaker": "Paul Montague", "text": "A cockney Paradise.", "pos": 780855}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Hurtle", "text": "Oh, what a place it is! Do your people really go to Southend and fancy that that is the sea?", "pos": 780877}
{"speaker": "Paul Montague", "text": "I believe they do. I never went to Southend myself,--so that you know more about it than I do.", "pos": 780972}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Hurtle", "text": "How very English it is,--a little yellow river,--and you call it the sea! Ah;--you never were at Newport!", "pos": 781069}
{"speaker": "Paul Montague", "text": "But I've been at San Francisco.", "pos": 781177}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Hurtle", "text": "Yes; you've been at San Francisco, and heard the seals howling. Well; that's better than Southend.", "pos": 781211}
{"speaker": "Paul Montague", "text": "I suppose we do have the sea here in England. It's generally supposed we're an island.", "pos": 781312}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Hurtle", "text": "Of course;--but things are so small. If you choose to go to the west of Ireland, I suppose you'd find the Atlantic. But nobody ever does go there for fear of being murdered. But we went to Southend, I, and Mrs. Pipkin and the baby, and upon my word I enjoyed it. She was so afraid that the baby would annoy me, and I thought the baby was so much the best of it. And then we ate shrimps, and she was so humble. You must acknowledge that with us nobody would be so humble. Of course I paid. She has got all her children, and nothing but what she can make out of these lodgings. People are just as poor with us;--and other people who happen to be a little better off, pay for them. But nobody is humble to another, as you are here. Of course we like to have money as well as you do, but it doesn't make so much difference.", "pos": 781401}
{"speaker": "Paul Montague", "text": "He who wants to receive, all the world over, will make himself as agreeable as he can to him who can give.", "pos": 782424}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Hurtle", "text": "But Mrs. Pipkin was so humble. However we got back all right yesterday evening, and then I found that you had been here,--at last.", "pos": 782533}
{"speaker": "Paul Montague", "text": "You knew that I had to go to Liverpool.", "pos": 782666}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Hurtle", "text": "I'm not going to scold. Did you get your business done at Liverpool?", "pos": 782708}
{"speaker": "Paul Montague", "text": "Yes;--one generally gets something done, but never anything very satisfactorily. Of course it's about this railway.", "pos": 782779}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Hurtle", "text": "I should have thought that that was satisfactory. Everybody talks of it as being the greatest thing ever invented. I wish I was a man that I might be concerned with a really great thing like that. I hate little peddling things. I should like to manage the greatest bank in the world, or to be Captain of the biggest fleet, or to make the largest railway. It would be better even than being President of a Republic, because one would have more of one's own way. What is it that you do in it, Paul?", "pos": 782897}
{"speaker": "Paul Montague", "text": "They want me now to go out to Mexico about it,", "pos": 783396}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Hurtle", "text": "Shall you go?", "pos": 783461}
{"speaker": "Paul Montague", "text": "I think not.", "pos": 783559}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Hurtle", "text": "Why not? Do go. Oh, Paul, I would go with you. Why should you not go? It is just the thing for such a one as you to do. The railway will make Mexico a new country, and then you would be the man who had done it. Why should you throw away such a chance as that? It will never come again. Emperors and kings have tried their hands at Mexico and have been able to do nothing. Emperors and kings never can do anything. Think what it would be to be the regenerator of Mexico!", "pos": 783574}
{"speaker": "Paul Montague", "text": "Think what it would be to find one's self there without the means of doing anything, and to feel that one had been sent there merely that one might be out of the way.", "pos": 784046}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Hurtle", "text": "I would make the means of doing something.", "pos": 784215}
{"speaker": "Paul Montague", "text": "Means are money. How can I make that?", "pos": 784260}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Hurtle", "text": "There is money going. There must be money where there is all this buying and selling of shares. Where does your uncle get the money with which he is living like a prince at San Francisco? Where does Fisker get the money with which he is speculating in New York? Where does Melmotte get the money which makes him the richest man in the world? Why should not you get it as well as the others?", "pos": 784300}
{"speaker": "Paul Montague", "text": "If I were anxious to rob on my own account perhaps I might do it.", "pos": 784693}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Hurtle", "text": "Why should it be robbery? I do not want you to live in a palace and spend millions of dollars on yourself. But I want you to have ambition. Go to Mexico, and chance it. Take San Francisco in your way, and get across the country. I will go every yard with you. Make people there believe that you are in earnest, and there will be no difficulty about the money.", "pos": 784761}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Hurtle", "text": "You are not in a hurry?", "pos": 786046}
{"speaker": "Paul Montague", "text": "Oh no.", "pos": 786082}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Hurtle", "text": "You're going to spend the evening with me like a good man? Then I'll ask them to let us have tea. That young lady tells me that you are an old friend of hers.", "pos": 786091}
{"speaker": "Paul Montague", "text": "I've known about her down in the country, and was astonished to find her here yesterday.", "pos": 786315}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Hurtle", "text": "There's some lover, isn't there;--some would-be husband whom she does not like?", "pos": 786406}
{"speaker": "Paul Montague", "text": "And some won't-be husband, I fear, whom she does like.", "pos": 786488}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Hurtle", "text": "That's quite of course, if the other is true. Miss Ruby isn't the girl to have come to her time of life without a preference. The natural liking of a young woman for a man in a station above her, because he is softer and cleaner and has better parts of speech,--just as we keep a pretty dog if we keep a dog at all,--is one of the evils of the inequality of mankind. The girl is content with the love without having the love justified, because the object is more desirable. She can only have her love justified with an object less desirable. If all men wore coats of the same fabric, and had to share the soil of the work of the world equally between them, that evil would come to an end. A woman here and there might go wrong from fantasy and diseased passions, but the ever-existing temptation to go wrong would be at an end.", "pos": 786545}
{"speaker": "Paul Montague", "text": "If men were equal to-morrow and all wore the same coats, they would wear different coats the next day.", "pos": 787375}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Hurtle", "text": "Slightly different. But there would be no more purple and fine linen, and no more blue woad. It isn't to be done in a day of course, nor yet in a century,--nor in a decade of centuries; but every human being who looks into it honestly will see that his efforts should be made in that direction. I remember; you never take sugar; give me that.", "pos": 787480}
{"speaker": "Paul Montague", "text": "Thanks. How well you remember!", "pos": 788385}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Hurtle", "text": "Do you think I shall ever forget your preferences and dislikings? Do you recollect telling me about that blue scarf of mine, that I should never wear blue?", "pos": 788447}
{"speaker": "Paul Montague", "text": "Of course I do. Black is your colour;--black and grey; or white,--and perhaps yellow when you choose to be gorgeous; crimson possibly. But not blue or green.", "pos": 788700}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Hurtle", "text": "I never thought much of it before, but I have taken your word for gospel. It is very good to have an eye for such things,--as you have, Paul. But I fancy that taste comes with, or at any rate forbodes, an effete civilisation.", "pos": 788860}
{"speaker": "Paul Montague", "text": "I am sorry that mine should be effete,", "pos": 789088}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Hurtle", "text": "You know what I mean, Paul. I speak of nations, not individuals. Civilisation was becoming effete, or at any rate men were, in the time of the great painters; but Savanarola and Galileo were individuals. You should throw your lot in with a new people. This railway to Mexico gives you the chance.", "pos": 789146}
{"speaker": "Paul Montague", "text": "Are the Mexicans a new people?", "pos": 789445}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Hurtle", "text": "They who will rule the Mexicans are. All American women I dare say have bad taste in gowns,--and so the vain ones and rich ones send to Paris for their finery; but I think our taste in men is generally good. We like our philosophers; we like our poets; we like our genuine workmen;--but we love our heroes. I would have you a hero, Paul.", "pos": 789478}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Hurtle", "text": "What makes you so uneasy? Do you not like me to say that I would have you be a hero?", "pos": 790877}
{"speaker": "Paul Montague", "text": "Winifrid. I came here with a purpose, and I had better carry it out.", "pos": 791060}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Hurtle", "text": "What purpose?", "pos": 791142}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Stop, my dear,", "pos": 791590}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Must the purpose be told to-night?", "pos": 791617}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Why not to-night?", "pos": 791654}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Hurtle", "text": "Paul, I am not well;--I am weak now. I am a coward. You do not know the delight to me of having a few words of pleasant talk to an old friend after the desolation of the last weeks. Mrs. Pipkin is not very charming. Even her baby cannot supply all the social wants of my life. I had intended that everything should be sweet to-night. Oh, Paul, if it was your purpose to tell me of your love, to assure me that you are still my dear, dear friend, to speak with hope of future days, or with pleasure of those that are past,--then carry out your purpose. But if it be cruel, or harsh, or painful; if you had come to speak daggers;--then drop your purpose for to-night. Try and think what my solitude must have been to me, and let me have one hour of comfort.", "pos": 791674}
{"speaker": "Paul Montague", "text": "I will not harass you, if you are ill,", "pos": 792555}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Hurtle", "text": "I am ill. It was because I was afraid that I should be really ill that I went to Southend. The weather is hot, though of course the sun here is not as we have it. But the air is heavy,--what Mrs. Pipkin calls muggy. I was thinking if I were to go somewhere for a week, it would do me good. Where had I better go? That is full of people; is it not?--a fashionable place?", "pos": 792605}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Not at this time of the year.", "pos": 793004}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Hurtle", "text": "But it is a big place. I want some little place that would be pretty. You could take me down; could you not? Not very far, you know;--not that any place can be very far from here.", "pos": 793036}
{"speaker": "Paul Montague", "text": "Not Penzance then, which I know is your very Ultima Thule;--not Penzance, nor yet Orkney. Is there no other place,--except Southend? There is Cromer in Norfolk,--perhaps ten hours.", "pos": 793334}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Hurtle", "text": "Is Cromer by the sea?", "pos": 793519}
{"speaker": "Paul Montague", "text": "Yes;--what we call the sea.", "pos": 793543}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Hurtle", "text": "I mean really the sea, Paul?", "pos": 793573}
{"speaker": "Paul Montague", "text": "If you start from Cromer right away, a hundred miles would perhaps take you across to Holland. A ditch of that kind wouldn't do perhaps.", "pos": 793604}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Hurtle", "text": "Ah,--now I see you are laughing at me. Is Cromer pretty?", "pos": 793743}
{"speaker": "Paul Montague", "text": "Well, yes;--I think it is. I was there once, but I don't remember much. There's Ramsgate.", "pos": 793802}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Hurtle", "text": "Mrs. Pipkin told me of Ramsgate. I don't think I should like Ramsgate.", "pos": 793894}
{"speaker": "Paul Montague", "text": "There's the Isle of Wight. The Isle of Wight is very pretty.", "pos": 793967}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Hurtle", "text": "That's the Queen's place. There would not be room for her and me too.", "pos": 794030}
{"speaker": "Paul Montague", "text": "Or Lowestoft. Lowestoft is not so far as Cromer, and there is a railway all the distance.", "pos": 794102}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Hurtle", "text": "And sea?", "pos": 794194}
{"speaker": "Paul Montague", "text": "Sea enough for anything. If you can't see across it, and if there are waves, and wind enough to knock you down, and shipwrecks every other day, I don't see why a hundred miles isn't as good as a thousand.", "pos": 794205}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Hurtle", "text": "A hundred miles is just as good as a thousand. But, Paul, at Southend it isn't a hundred miles across to the other side of the river. You must admit that. But you will be a better guide than Mrs. Pipkin. You would not have taken me to Southend when I expressed a wish for the ocean;--would you? Let it be Lowestoft. Is there an hotel?", "pos": 794412}
{"speaker": "Paul Montague", "text": "A small little place.", "pos": 794749}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Hurtle", "text": "Very small? uncomfortably small? But almost any place would do for me.", "pos": 794773}
{"speaker": "Paul Montague", "text": "They make up, I believe, about a hundred beds; but in the States it would be very small.", "pos": 794846}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Hurtle", "text": "Paul, if I were to throw the tea things at you, it would serve you right. This is all because I did not lose myself in awe at the sight of the Southend ocean. It shall be Lowestoft. You will take me down, will you not? It is desolate for a woman to go into such a place all alone. I will not ask you to stay. And I can return by myself. You will do that for old acquaintance sake?", "pos": 794937}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I don't think you will let me ask in vain for such a favour as that,", "pos": 795717}
{"speaker": "Paul Montague", "text": "No; I will take you down. When will you go?", "pos": 795798}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Hurtle", "text": "When will I go? when will you take me? You have Boards to attend, and shares to look to, and Mexico to regenerate. I am a poor woman with nothing on hand but Mrs. Pipkin's baby. Can you be ready in ten minutes?--because I could.", "pos": 796024}
{"speaker": "Paul Montague", "text": "I've named a time and that doesn't suit. Now, sir, you name another, and I'll promise it shall suit. Saturday, the 29th.", "pos": 796288}
{"speaker": "Ruby", "text": "I'm all right. That's as it may be, by-and-by,", "pos": 798137}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Pipkin", "text": "What's all the love in the world, Ruby, if a man can't do for you?", "pos": 799070}
{"speaker": "Ruby", "text": "the fat would be in the fire. Who do you think was at our place yesterday?", "pos": 800841}
{"speaker": "Ruby", "text": "Who do you suppose was at our place yesterday?", "pos": 802995}
{"speaker": "Sir Felix", "text": "Who was it, Ruby?", "pos": 803710}
{"speaker": "Ruby", "text": "A friend of the Squire's, a Mr. Montague. I used to see him about in Bungay and Beccles.", "pos": 803730}
{"speaker": "Sir Felix", "text": "Paul Montague!", "pos": 803821}
{"speaker": "Ruby", "text": "Do you know him, Felix?", "pos": 803838}
{"speaker": "Sir Felix", "text": "Well;--rather. He's a member of our club, and I see him constantly in the city--and I know him at home.", "pos": 803864}
{"speaker": "Ruby", "text": "Is he nice?", "pos": 803970}
{"speaker": "Sir Felix", "text": "Well;--that depends on what you call nice. He's a prig of a fellow.", "pos": 803984}
{"speaker": "Ruby", "text": "He's got a lady friend where I live.", "pos": 804054}
{"speaker": "Sir Felix", "text": "The devil he has! Who is she, Ruby?", "pos": 804093}
{"speaker": "Ruby", "text": "Well;--she's a Mrs. Hurtle. Such a stunning woman! Aunt says she's an American. She's got lots of money.", "pos": 804339}
{"speaker": "Sir Felix", "text": "Is Montague going to marry her?", "pos": 804446}
{"speaker": "Ruby", "text": "Oh dear yes. It's all arranged. Mr. Montague comes quite regular to see her;--not so regular as he ought, though. When gentlemen are fixed as they're to be married, they never are regular afterwards. I wonder whether it'll be the same with you?", "pos": 804480}
{"speaker": "Sir Felix", "text": "Wasn't John Crumb regular, Ruby?", "pos": 804727}
{"speaker": "Ruby", "text": "Bother John Crumb! That wasn't none of my doings. Oh, he'd been regular enough, if I'd let him; he'd been like clockwork,--only the slowest clock out. But Mr. Montague has been and told the Squire as he saw me. He told me so himself. The Squire's coming about John Crumb. I know that. What am I to tell him, Felix?", "pos": 804762}
{"speaker": "Sir Felix", "text": "Tell him to mind his own business. He can't do anything to you.", "pos": 805079}
{"speaker": "Ruby", "text": "No;--he can't do nothing. I ain't done nothing wrong, and he can't send for the police to have me took back to Sheep's Acre. But he can talk,--and he can look. I ain't one of those, Felix, as don't mind about their characters,--so don't you think it. Shall I tell him as I'm with you?", "pos": 805144}
{"speaker": "Sir Felix", "text": "Gracious goodness, no! What would you say that for?", "pos": 805431}
{"speaker": "Ruby", "text": "I didn't know. I must say something.", "pos": 805485}
{"speaker": "Sir Felix", "text": "Tell him you're nothing to him.", "pos": 805524}
{"speaker": "Ruby", "text": "But aunt will be letting on about my being out late o'nights; I know she will. And who am I with? He'll be asking that.", "pos": 805558}
{"speaker": "Sir Felix", "text": "Your aunt does not know?", "pos": 805680}
{"speaker": "Ruby", "text": "No;--I've told nobody yet. But it won't do to go on like that, you know,--will it? You don't want it to go on always like that;--do you?", "pos": 805707}
{"speaker": "Sir Felix", "text": "It's very jolly, I think.", "pos": 805846}
{"speaker": "Ruby", "text": "It ain't jolly for me. Of course, Felix, I like to be with you. That's jolly. But I have to mind them brats all the day, and to be doing the bedrooms. And that's not the worst of it.", "pos": 805874}
{"speaker": "Sir Felix", "text": "What is the worst of it?", "pos": 806059}
{"speaker": "Ruby", "text": "I'm pretty nigh ashamed of myself. Yes, I am. Because I wouldn't have John Crumb, I didn't mean to be a bad girl. Nor yet I won't. But what'll I do, if everybody turns again me? Aunt won't go on for ever in this way. She said last night that--", "pos": 806086}
{"speaker": "Sir Felix", "text": "Bother what she says!", "pos": 806369}
{"speaker": "Ruby", "text": "She's right too. Of course she knows there's somebody. She ain't such a fool as to think that I'm out at these hours to sing psalms with a lot of young women. She says that whoever it is ought to speak out his mind. There;--that's what she says. And she's right. A girl has to mind herself, though she's ever so fond of a young man.", "pos": 806488}
{"speaker": "Sir Felix", "text": "Let's go in and have a dance,", "pos": 807868}
{"speaker": "Ruby", "text": "And now I must go. You'll see me as far as the Angel, won't you? What am I to say to the Squire?", "pos": 808594}
{"speaker": "Sir Felix", "text": "Say nothing.", "pos": 808770}
{"speaker": "Ruby", "text": "And what am I to say to aunt?", "pos": 808785}
{"speaker": "Sir Felix", "text": "Say to her? Just say what you have said all along.", "pos": 808817}
{"speaker": "Ruby", "text": "I've said nothing all along,--just to oblige you, Felix. I must say something. A girl has got herself to mind. What have you got to say to me, Felix?", "pos": 808870}
{"speaker": "Sir Felix", "text": "If you bother me I shall cut it, you know.", "pos": 809079}
{"speaker": "Ruby", "text": "Cut it!", "pos": 809124}
{"speaker": "Sir Felix", "text": "Yes;--cut it. Can't you wait till I am ready to say something?", "pos": 809134}
{"speaker": "Ruby", "text": "Waiting will be the ruin o' me, if I wait much longer. Where am I to go, if Mrs. Pipkin won't have me no more?", "pos": 809199}
{"speaker": "Sir Felix", "text": "I'll find a place for you.", "pos": 809312}
{"speaker": "Ruby", "text": "You find a place! No; that won't do. I've told you all that before. I'd sooner go into service, or--", "pos": 809341}
{"speaker": "Sir Felix", "text": "Go back to John Crumb.", "pos": 809444}
{"speaker": "Ruby", "text": "John Crumb has more respect for me nor you. He'd make me his wife to-morrow, and only be too happy.", "pos": 809469}
{"speaker": "Sir Felix", "text": "I didn't tell you to come away from him,", "pos": 809571}
{"speaker": "Ruby", "text": "Yes, you did. You told me as I was to come up to London when I saw you at Sheepstone Beeches;--didn't you? And you told me you loved me;--didn't you? And that if I wanted anything you'd get it done for me;--didn't you?", "pos": 809630}
{"speaker": "Sir Felix", "text": "So I will. What do you want? I can give you a couple of sovereigns, if that's what it is.", "pos": 809851}
{"speaker": "Ruby", "text": "No it isn't;--and I won't have your money. I'd sooner work my fingers off. I want you to say whether you mean to marry me. There!", "pos": 809943}
{"speaker": "Sir Felix", "text": "Marry, Ruby! No, I don't ever mean to marry. It's the greatest bore out. I know a trick worth two of that.", "pos": 810741}
{"speaker": "Ruby", "text": "And what do you mean that I'm to do, Sir Felix?", "pos": 811211}
{"speaker": "Sir Felix", "text": "Just go easy, and not make yourself a bother.", "pos": 811271}
{"speaker": "Ruby", "text": "Not make myself a bother! Oh, but I will; I will. I'm to be carrying on with you, and nothing to come of it; but for you to tell me that you don't mean to marry, never at all! Never?", "pos": 811319}
{"speaker": "Sir Felix", "text": "Don't you see lots of old bachelors about, Ruby?", "pos": 811504}
{"speaker": "Ruby", "text": "Of course I does. There's the Squire. But he don't come asking girls to keep him company.", "pos": 811555}
{"speaker": "Sir Felix", "text": "That's more than you know, Ruby.", "pos": 811647}
{"speaker": "Ruby", "text": "If he did he'd marry her out of hand,--because he's a gentleman. That's what he is, every inch of him. He never said a word to a girl,--not to do her any harm, I'm sure. You mustn't come no further now, and I'll never see you again--never! I think you're the falsest young man, and the basest, and the lowest-minded that I ever heard tell of. I know there are them as don't keep their words. Things turn up, and they can't. Or they gets to like others better; or there ain't nothing to live on. But for a young man to come after a young woman, and then say, right out, as he never means to marry at all, is the lowest-spirited fellow that ever was. I never read of such a one in none of the books. No, I won't. You go your way, and I'll go mine.", "pos": 811682}
{"speaker": "Roger Carbury", "text": "We were all alarmed, of course, when you went away without telling anybody where you were going.", "pos": 814877}
{"speaker": "Ruby", "text": "Grandfather 'd been that cruel to me that I couldn't tell him.", "pos": 814976}
{"speaker": "Roger Carbury", "text": "He wanted you to keep your word to an old friend of yours.", "pos": 815041}
{"speaker": "Ruby", "text": "To pull me all about by the hairs of my head wasn't the way to make a girl keep her word;--was it, Mr. Carbury? That's what he did, then;--and Sally Hockett, who is there, heard it. I've been good to grandfather, whatever I may have been to John Crumb; and he shouldn't have treated me like that. No girl 'd like to be pulled about the room by the hairs of her head, and she with her things all off, just getting into bed.", "pos": 815102}
{"speaker": "Roger Carbury", "text": "As you found yourself obliged to run away. I'm glad that you should be here; but you don't mean to stay here always?", "pos": 816254}
{"speaker": "Ruby", "text": "I don't know,", "pos": 816387}
{"speaker": "Roger Carbury", "text": "You must think of your future life. You don't want to be always your aunt's maid.", "pos": 816414}
{"speaker": "Ruby", "text": "Oh dear, no.", "pos": 816498}
{"speaker": "Roger Carbury", "text": "It would be very odd if you did, when you may be the wife of such a man as Mr. Crumb.", "pos": 816513}
{"speaker": "Ruby", "text": "Oh, Mr. Crumb! Everybody is going on about Mr. Crumb. I don't like Mr. Crumb, and I never will like him.", "pos": 816601}
{"speaker": "Roger Carbury", "text": "Now look here, Ruby; I have come to speak to you very seriously, and I expect you to hear me. Nobody can make you marry Mr. Crumb, unless you please.", "pos": 816708}
{"speaker": "Ruby", "text": "Nobody can't, of course, sir.", "pos": 816860}
{"speaker": "Roger Carbury", "text": "But I fear you have given him up for somebody else, who certainly won't marry you, and who can only mean to ruin you.", "pos": 816892}
{"speaker": "Ruby", "text": "Nobody won't ruin me. A girl has to look to herself, and I mean to look to myself.", "pos": 817012}
{"speaker": "Roger Carbury", "text": "I'm glad to hear you say so, but being out at night with such a one as Sir Felix Carbury is not looking to yourself. That means going to the devil head foremost.", "pos": 817110}
{"speaker": "Ruby", "text": "I ain't a going to the devil,", "pos": 817274}
{"speaker": "Roger Carbury", "text": "But you will, if you put yourself into the hands of that young man. He's as bad as bad can be. He's my own cousin, and yet I'm obliged to tell you so. He has no more idea of marrying you than I have; but were he to marry you, he could not support you. He is ruined himself, and would ruin any young woman who trusted him. I'm almost old enough to be your father, and in all my experience I never came across so vile a young man as he is. He would ruin you and cast you from him without a pang of remorse. He has no heart in his bosom;--none. That's what Sir Felix Carbury is. And if I understand it rightly, it is for a vile thing such as he, that you have left a man who is as much above him in character, as the sun is above the earth. You think little of John Crumb because he does not wear a fine coat.", "pos": 817339}
{"speaker": "Ruby", "text": "I don't care about any man's coat, but John hasn't ever a word to say, was it ever so.", "pos": 818382}
{"speaker": "Roger Carbury", "text": "Words to say! what do words matter? He loves you. He loves you after that fashion that he wants to make you happy and respectable, not to make you a bye-word and a disgrace. He thinks more of you than of himself, and would give you all that he has. What would that other man give you? If you were once married to John Crumb, would any one then pull you by the hairs of your head? Would there be any want then, or any disgrace?", "pos": 818484}
{"speaker": "Ruby", "text": "There ain't no disgrace, Mr. Carbury.", "pos": 819037}
{"speaker": "Roger Carbury", "text": "No disgrace in going about at midnight with such a one as Felix Carbury? You are not a fool, and you know that it is disgraceful. If you are not unfit to be an honest man's wife, go back and beg that man's pardon.", "pos": 819077}
{"speaker": "Ruby", "text": "John Crumb's pardon! No!", "pos": 819293}
{"speaker": "Roger Carbury", "text": "Oh, Ruby, if you knew how highly I respect that man, and how lowly I think of the other; how I look on the one as a noble fellow, and regard the other as dust beneath my feet, you would perhaps change your mind a little. I'll tell you what will take place. Mr. Crumb won't put up with this you know.", "pos": 819320}
{"speaker": "Ruby", "text": "He can't do nothing to me, sir.", "pos": 820072}
{"speaker": "Roger Carbury", "text": "That's true enough. Unless it be to take you in his arms and press you to his heart, he wants to do nothing to you. Do you think he'd injure you if he could? You don't know what a man's love really means, Ruby. But he could do something to somebody else. How do you think it would be with Felix Carbury, if they two were in a room together and nobody else by?", "pos": 820106}
{"speaker": "Ruby", "text": "John's mortial strong, Mr. Carbury.", "pos": 820468}
{"speaker": "Roger Carbury", "text": "If two men have equal pluck, strength isn't much needed. One is a brave man, and the other--a coward. Which do you think is which?", "pos": 820506}
{"speaker": "Ruby", "text": "He's your own cousin, and I don't know why you should say everything again him.", "pos": 820639}
{"speaker": "Roger Carbury", "text": "You know I'm telling you the truth. You know it as well as I do myself;--and you're throwing yourself away, and throwing the man who loves you over,--for such a fellow as that! Go back to him, Ruby, and beg his pardon.", "pos": 820721}
{"speaker": "Ruby", "text": "I never will;--never.", "pos": 820942}
{"speaker": "Roger Carbury", "text": "I've spoken to Mrs. Pipkin, and while you're here she will see that you don't keep such hours any longer. You tell me that you're not disgraced, and yet you are out at midnight with a young blackguard like that! I've said what I've got to say, and I'm going away. But I'll let your grandfather know.", "pos": 820966}
{"speaker": "Ruby", "text": "Grandfather don't want me no more.", "pos": 821268}
{"speaker": "Roger Carbury", "text": "And I'll come again. If you want money to go home, I will let you have it. Take my advice at least in this;--do not see Sir Felix Carbury any more.", "pos": 821305}
{"speaker": "Mr. Broune", "text": "Very clever,--and dashing, but he never had ballast.", "pos": 833697}
{"speaker": "Lady Carbury", "text": "I suppose he is very rich,", "pos": 834419}
{"speaker": "Mr. Broune", "text": "I dare say he has put by something. But this election will cost him £10,000;--and if he goes on as he is doing now, he had better allow another £10,000 for action for libel. They've already declared that they will indict the paper.", "pos": 834501}
{"speaker": "Lady Carbury", "text": "Do you believe about the Austrian Insurance Company?", "pos": 834735}
{"speaker": "Mr. Broune", "text": "I don't believe the 'Evening Pulpit' can prove it,--and I'm sure that they can't attempt to prove it without an expense of three or four thousand pounds. That's a game in which nobody wins but the lawyers. I wonder at Alf. I should have thought that he would have known how to get all said that he wanted to have said without running with his head into the lion's mouth. He has been so clever up to this! God knows he has been bitter enough, but he has always sailed within the wind.", "pos": 834895}
{"speaker": "Mr. Alf", "text": "Let them prove it. I defied them to prove it. Englishmen were too great, too generous, too honest, too noble,--the men of Westminster especially were a great deal too high-minded to pay any attention to such charges as these till they were proved. Let them prove it. Such accusations as these were mere lies till they were proved.", "pos": 837479}
{"speaker": "Lord Alfred", "text": "If this goes on much longer I shall cut it,", "pos": 839187}
{"speaker": "Miles Grendall", "text": "Think of me, governor. I have to be in the city four or five times a week.", "pos": 839253}
{"speaker": "Lord Alfred", "text": "You've a regular salary.", "pos": 839346}
{"speaker": "Miles Grendall", "text": "Come, governor; you've done pretty well for that. What's my salary to the shares you've had? The thing is;--will it last?", "pos": 839373}
{"speaker": "Lord Alfred", "text": "How last?", "pos": 839497}
{"speaker": "Miles Grendall", "text": "There are a good many who say that Melmotte will burst up.", "pos": 839509}
{"speaker": "Lord Alfred", "text": "I don't believe it. They don't know what they're talking about. There are too many in the same boat to let him burst up. It would be the bursting up of half London. But I shall tell him after this that he must make it easier. He wants to know who's to have every ticket for the dinner, and there's nobody to tell him except me. And I've got to arrange all the places, and nobody to help me except that fellow from the Herald's office. I don't know about people's rank. Which ought to come first: a director of the bank or a fellow who writes books?", "pos": 839569}
{"speaker": "Lady Monogram", "text": "And you shall come to us for three days,--after it's over,", "pos": 840289}
{"speaker": "Melmotte", "text": "If your banker is pressing you, refer him to me,", "pos": 846290}
{"speaker": "Dolly Longestaffe", "text": "Are you going to see Melmotte, sir?", "pos": 847600}
{"speaker": "Mr. Longestaffe", "text": "Yes;--I'm to be with him to-morrow, and he is to introduce me to the Board.", "pos": 847666}
{"speaker": "Dolly Longestaffe", "text": "You're going in for that, are you, sir? Do they pay anything?", "pos": 847744}
{"speaker": "Mr. Longestaffe", "text": "I believe not.", "pos": 847808}
{"speaker": "Dolly Longestaffe", "text": "Nidderdale and young Carbury belong to it. It's a sort of Beargarden affair.", "pos": 847825}
{"speaker": "Mr. Longestaffe", "text": "A bear-garden affair, Adolphus. How so?", "pos": 847904}
{"speaker": "Dolly Longestaffe", "text": "I mean the club. We had them all there for dinner one day, and a jolly dinner we gave them. Miles Grendall and old Alfred belong to it. I don't think they'd go in for it, if there was no money going. I'd make them fork out something if I took the trouble of going all that way.", "pos": 847946}
{"speaker": "Mr. Longestaffe", "text": "I think that perhaps, Adolphus, you hardly understand these things.", "pos": 848226}
{"speaker": "Dolly Longestaffe", "text": "No, I don't. I don't understand much about business, I know. What I want to understand is, when Melmotte is going to pay up this money.", "pos": 848296}
{"speaker": "Mr. Longestaffe", "text": "I suppose he'll arrange it with the banks,", "pos": 848434}
{"speaker": "Dolly Longestaffe", "text": "I beg that he won't arrange my money with the banks, sir. You'd better tell him not. A cheque upon his bank which I can pay in to mine is about the best thing going. You'll be in the city to-morrow, and you'd better tell him. If you don't like, you know, I'll get Squercum to do it.", "pos": 848496}
{"speaker": "Mr. Longestaffe", "text": "I beg you'll do nothing of the kind. It will be very foolish if you do;--perhaps ruinous.", "pos": 848933}
{"speaker": "Dolly Longestaffe", "text": "Then he'd better pay up, like anybody else,", "pos": 849025}
{"speaker": "Melmotte", "text": "My dear young friend, what can I do for you?", "pos": 850004}
{"speaker": "Sir Felix", "text": "About that money, Mr. Melmotte?", "pos": 850138}
{"speaker": "Melmotte", "text": "What money, my dear fellow? You see that a good many money matters pass through my hands.", "pos": 850172}
{"speaker": "Sir Felix", "text": "The thousand pounds I gave you for shares. If you don't mind, and as the shares seem to be a bother, I'll take the money back.", "pos": 850264}
{"speaker": "Melmotte", "text": "It was only the other day you had £200,", "pos": 850393}
{"speaker": "Sir Felix", "text": "Exactly;--and you might as well let me have the £800.", "pos": 850528}
{"speaker": "Melmotte", "text": "I've ordered the shares;--gave the order to my broker the other day.", "pos": 850584}
{"speaker": "Sir Felix", "text": "Then I'd better take the shares. Could I get them, Mr. Melmotte?", "pos": 850655}
{"speaker": "Melmotte", "text": "My dear fellow, I really think you hardly calculate the value of my time when you come to me about such an affair as this.", "pos": 850834}
{"speaker": "Sir Felix", "text": "I'd like to have the money or the shares,", "pos": 850959}
{"speaker": "Melmotte", "text": "You're a spendthrift, and I'm afraid a gambler. I suppose I must give you £200 more on account. No, my friend, you are only entitled to shares for £600 pounds now. I will see that the thing is put right.", "pos": 851458}
{"speaker": "Sir Felix", "text": "What's this I hear about a lady at Islington?", "pos": 852345}
{"speaker": "Paul Montague", "text": "Who has told you anything about a lady at Islington?", "pos": 852403}
{"speaker": "Sir Felix", "text": "A little bird. There are always little birds about telling of ladies. I'm told that I'm to congratulate you on your coming marriage.", "pos": 852458}
{"speaker": "Paul Montague", "text": "Then you've been told an infernal falsehood. I don't know who can have told you, but if you hear it again, I'll trouble you to contradict it.", "pos": 852593}
{"speaker": "Miles Grendall", "text": "He's awfully full of work just now,--you won't forget that;--will you?", "pos": 853149}
{"speaker": "Paul Montague", "text": "I should not have troubled you, only that I understood that I was to see you before the Board met.", "pos": 853301}
{"speaker": "Melmotte", "text": "Exactly;--of course. It was quite necessary,--only you see I am a little busy. If this d----d dinner were over I shouldn't mind. It's a deal easier to make a treaty with an Emperor, than to give him a dinner; I can tell you that. Well;--let me see. Oh;--I was proposing that you should go out to Pekin?", "pos": 853415}
{"speaker": "Paul Montague", "text": "To Mexico.", "pos": 853720}
{"speaker": "Melmotte", "text": "Yes, yes;--to Mexico. I've so many things running in my head! Well;--if you'll say when you're ready to start, we'll draw up something of instructions. You'd know better, however, than we can tell you what to do. You'll see Fisker, of course. You and Fisker will manage it. The chief thing will be a cheque for the expenses; eh? We must get that passed at the next Board.", "pos": 853733}
{"speaker": "Paul Montague", "text": "There need be no trouble about that, Mr. Melmotte, as I have made up my mind that it would not be fit that I should go.", "pos": 854186}
{"speaker": "Melmotte", "text": "Oh, indeed!", "pos": 854308}
{"speaker": "Paul Montague", "text": "No;--even did I see my way to do any good in America my duties here would not be compatible with the undertaking.", "pos": 854508}
{"speaker": "Melmotte", "text": "I don't see that at all. What duties have you got here? What good are you doing the Company? If you do stay, I hope you'll be unanimous; that's all;--or perhaps you intend to go out. If that's it, I'll look to your money. I think I told you that before.", "pos": 854624}
{"speaker": "Paul Montague", "text": "That, Mr. Melmotte, is what I should prefer.", "pos": 854880}
{"speaker": "Melmotte", "text": "Very well,--very well. I'll arrange it. Sorry to lose you,--that's all. Miles, isn't Mr. Goldsheiner waiting to see me?", "pos": 854927}
{"speaker": "Paul Montague", "text": "You're a little too quick, Mr. Melmotte,", "pos": 855049}
{"speaker": "Melmotte", "text": "A man with my business on his hands is bound to be quick, sir.", "pos": 855103}
{"speaker": "Paul Montague", "text": "But I must be precise. I cannot tell you as a fact that I shall withdraw from the Board till I receive the advice of a friend with whom I am consulting. I hardly yet know what my duty may be.", "pos": 855168}
{"speaker": "Melmotte", "text": "I'll tell you, sir, what can not be your duty. It cannot be your duty to make known out of that Board-room any of the affairs of the Company which you have learned in that Board-room. It cannot be your duty to divulge the circumstances of the Company or any differences which may exist between Directors of the Company, to any gentleman who is a stranger to the Company. It cannot be your duty--.", "pos": 855362}
{"speaker": "Paul Montague", "text": "Thank you, Mr. Melmotte. On matters such as that I think that I can see my own way. I have been in fault in coming in to the Board without understanding what duties I should have to perform--.", "pos": 855761}
{"speaker": "Melmotte", "text": "Very much in fault, I should say,", "pos": 855956}
{"speaker": "Paul Montague", "text": "But in reference to what I may or may not say to any friend, or how far I should be restricted by the scruples of a gentleman, I do not want advice from you.", "pos": 856081}
{"speaker": "Melmotte", "text": "Very well;--very well. I can't ask you to stay, because a partner from the house of Todd, Brehgert, and Goldsheiner is waiting to see me, about matters which are rather more important than this of yours.", "pos": 856241}
{"speaker": "Melmotte", "text": "All right. I know all about it. Go on. I'm not sure but that Mr. Montague's retirement from among us may be an advantage. He could not be made to understand that unanimity in such an enterprise as this is essential. I am confident that the new director whom I have had the pleasure of introducing to you to-day will not sin in the same direction.", "pos": 857943}
{"speaker": "John Crumb", "text": "Did ye find her, squoire?", "pos": 860831}
{"speaker": "Roger Carbury", "text": "Oh, yes, Mr. Crumb, I found her. She's living with her aunt, Mrs. Pipkin, at Islington.", "pos": 860859}
{"speaker": "John Crumb", "text": "Eh, now;--look at that.", "pos": 860949}
{"speaker": "Roger Carbury", "text": "You knew she had an aunt of that name up in London.", "pos": 860975}
{"speaker": "John Crumb", "text": "Ye-es; I knew'd it, squoire. I a' heard tell of Mrs. Pipkin, but I never see'd her.", "pos": 861029}
{"speaker": "Roger Carbury", "text": "I wonder it did not occur to you that Ruby would go there. Of course if she was to go to London it was the proper thing for her to do.", "pos": 861115}
{"speaker": "John Crumb", "text": "I knew she'd do the thing as was right. I said that all along. Darned if I didn't. You ask Mixet, squoire,--him as is baker down Bardsey Lane. I allays guv' it her that she'd do the thing as was right. But how about she and the Baro-nite?", "pos": 861347}
{"speaker": "Roger Carbury", "text": "I suppose the old man down here did ill use her?", "pos": 861648}
{"speaker": "John Crumb", "text": "Oh, dreadful;--there ain't no manner of doubt o' that. Dragged her about awful;--as he ought to be took up, only for the rumpus like. D'ye think she's see'd the Baro-nite since she's been in Lon'on, Muster Carbury?", "pos": 861699}
{"speaker": "Roger Carbury", "text": "I think she's a good girl, if you mean that.", "pos": 861916}
{"speaker": "John Crumb", "text": "I'm sure she be. I don't want none to tell me that, squoire. Tho', squoire, it's better to me nor a ten pun' note to hear you say so. I allays had a leaning to you, squoire; but I'll more nor lean to you, now. I've said all through she was good, and if e'er a man in Bungay said she warn't--; well, I was there, and ready.", "pos": 861963}
{"speaker": "Roger Carbury", "text": "I hope nobody has said so.", "pos": 862288}
{"speaker": "John Crumb", "text": "You can't stop them women, squoire. There ain't no dropping into them. But, Lord love 'ee, she shall come and be missus of my house to-morrow, and what 'll it matter her then what they say? But, squoire,--did ye hear if the Baro-nite had been a' hanging about that place?", "pos": 862317}
{"speaker": "Roger Carbury", "text": "About Islington, you mean.", "pos": 862591}
{"speaker": "John Crumb", "text": "He goes a hanging about; he do. He don't come out straight forrard, and tell a girl as he loves her afore all the parish. There ain't one in Bungay, nor yet in Mettingham, nor yet in all the Ilketsals and all the Elmhams, as don't know as I'm set on Ruby Ruggles. Huggery-Muggery is pi'son to me, squoire.", "pos": 862620}
{"speaker": "Roger Carbury", "text": "We all know that when you've made up your mind, you have made up your mind.", "pos": 862928}
{"speaker": "John Crumb", "text": "I hove. It's made up ever so as to Ruby. What sort of a one is her aunt now, squoire?", "pos": 863006}
{"speaker": "Roger Carbury", "text": "She keeps lodgings;--a very decent sort of a woman I should say.", "pos": 863094}
{"speaker": "John Crumb", "text": "She won't let the Baro-nite come there?", "pos": 863161}
{"speaker": "Roger Carbury", "text": "Certainly not. Mrs. Pipkin won't let him come there.", "pos": 863203}
{"speaker": "John Crumb", "text": "If I was to give her a ge'own now,--or a blue cloak;--them lodging-house women is mostly hard put to it;--or a chest of drawers like, for her best bedroom, wouldn't that make her more o' my side, squoire?", "pos": 863508}
{"speaker": "Roger Carbury", "text": "I think she'll try to do her duty without that.", "pos": 863715}
{"speaker": "John Crumb", "text": "They do like things the like o' that; any ways I'll go up, squoire, arter Sax'nam market, and see how things is lying.", "pos": 863765}
{"speaker": "Roger Carbury", "text": "I wouldn't go just yet, Mr. Crumb, if I were you. She hasn't forgotten the scene at the farm yet.", "pos": 863886}
{"speaker": "John Crumb", "text": "I said nothing as warn't as kind as kind.", "pos": 863986}
{"speaker": "Roger Carbury", "text": "But her own perversity runs in her own head. If you had been unkind she could have forgiven that; but as you were good-natured and she was cross, she can't forgive that. And to tell you the truth, my friend, I think that a little hardship up at Mrs. Pipkin's will do her good.", "pos": 864030}
{"speaker": "John Crumb", "text": "Don't she have a bellyful o' vittels?", "pos": 864447}
{"speaker": "Roger Carbury", "text": "I don't quite mean that. I dare say she has enough to eat. But of course she has to work for it with her aunt. She has three or four children to look after.", "pos": 864527}
{"speaker": "John Crumb", "text": "That moight come in handy by-and-by;--moightn't it, squoire?", "pos": 864686}
{"speaker": "Roger Carbury", "text": "As you say, she'll be learning something that may be useful to her in another sphere. Of course there is a good deal to do, and I should not be surprised if she were to think after a bit that your house in Bungay was more comfortable than Mrs. Pipkin's kitchen in London.", "pos": 864775}
{"speaker": "John Crumb", "text": "My little back parlour;--eh, squoire! And I've got a four-poster, most as big as any in Bungay.", "pos": 865049}
{"speaker": "Roger Carbury", "text": "I am sure you have everything comfortable for her, and she knows it herself. Let her think about all that,--and do you go and tell her again in a month's time. She'll be more willing to settle matters then than she is now.", "pos": 865147}
{"speaker": "John Crumb", "text": "But,--the Baro-nite!", "pos": 865372}
{"speaker": "Roger Carbury", "text": "Mrs. Pipkin will allow nothing of that.", "pos": 865395}
{"speaker": "John Crumb", "text": "Girls is so 'cute. Ruby is awful 'cute. It makes me feel as though I had two hun'erd weight o' meal on my stomach, lying awake o' nights and thinking as how he is, may be,--pulling of her about! If I thought that she'd let him--; oh! I'd swing for it, Muster Carbury. They'd have to make an eend o' me at Bury, if it was that way. They would then.", "pos": 865437}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Hurtle", "text": "I think the hotel charming. I don't know what you mean by your fun about the American hotels, but I think this quite gorgeous, and the people so civil!", "pos": 869034}
{"speaker": "Paul Montague", "text": "It is Mrs. Hurtle. I must introduce you,", "pos": 871079}
{"speaker": "Roger Carbury", "text": "I did not know that you were thinking of coming to Lowestoft,", "pos": 871475}
{"speaker": "Paul Montague", "text": "I was not thinking of it. Mrs. Hurtle wished to get to the sea, and as she knew no one else here in England, I brought her.", "pos": 871668}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Hurtle", "text": "Mr. Montague and I have travelled so many miles together before now, that a few additional will not make much difference.", "pos": 871794}
{"speaker": "Roger Carbury", "text": "Do you stay long?", "pos": 871930}
{"speaker": "Paul Montague", "text": "I go back probably on Monday,", "pos": 871981}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Hurtle", "text": "As I shall be here a whole week, and shall not speak a word to any one after he has left me, he has consented to bestow his company on me for two days. Will you join us at dinner, Mr. Carbury, this evening?", "pos": 872028}
{"speaker": "Roger Carbury", "text": "Thank you, madam;--I have dined.", "pos": 872237}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Hurtle", "text": "Then, Mr. Montague, I will leave you with your friend. My toilet, though it will be very slight, will take longer than yours. We dine you know in twenty minutes. I wish you could get your friend to join us.", "pos": 872272}
{"speaker": "Roger Carbury", "text": "Is this wise?", "pos": 872552}
{"speaker": "Paul Montague", "text": "You may well ask that, Carbury. Nobody knows the folly of it so thoroughly as I do.", "pos": 872662}
{"speaker": "Roger Carbury", "text": "Then why do you do it? Do you mean to marry her?", "pos": 872748}
{"speaker": "Paul Montague", "text": "No; certainly not.", "pos": 872799}
{"speaker": "Roger Carbury", "text": "Is it honest then, or like a gentleman, that you should be with her in this way? Does she think that you intend to marry her?", "pos": 872820}
{"speaker": "Paul Montague", "text": "I have told her that I would not. I have told her--.", "pos": 872948}
{"speaker": "Roger Carbury", "text": "What does she mean then? Has she no regard for her own character?", "pos": 873178}
{"speaker": "Paul Montague", "text": "I would explain it to you all, Carbury, if I could. But you would never have the patience to hear me.", "pos": 873246}
{"speaker": "Roger Carbury", "text": "I am not naturally impatient.", "pos": 873350}
{"speaker": "Paul Montague", "text": "But this would drive you mad. I wrote to her assuring her that it must be all over. Then she came here and sent for me. Was I not bound to go to her?", "pos": 873382}
{"speaker": "Roger Carbury", "text": "Yes;--to go to her and repeat what you had said in your letter.", "pos": 873534}
{"speaker": "Paul Montague", "text": "I did do so. I went with that very purpose, and did repeat it.", "pos": 873600}
{"speaker": "Roger Carbury", "text": "Then you should have left her.", "pos": 873665}
{"speaker": "Paul Montague", "text": "Ah; but you do not understand. She begged that I would not desert her in her loneliness. We have been so much together that I could not desert her. I certainly do not understand that, Paul. You have allowed yourself to be entrapped into a promise of marriage; and then, for reasons which we will not go into now but which we both thought to be adequate, you resolved to break your promise, thinking that you would be justified in doing so. But nothing can justify you in living with the lady afterwards on such terms as to induce her to suppose that your old promise holds good. She does not think so. She cannot think so. Then what must she be, to be here with you? And what must you be, to be here, in public, with such a one as she is? I don't know why I should trouble you or myself about it. People live now in a way that I don't comprehend. If this be your way of living, I have no right to complain. For God's sake, Carbury, do not speak in that way. It sounds as though you meant to throw me over. I should have said that you had thrown me over. You come down here to this hotel, where we are both known, with this lady whom you are not going to marry;--and I meet you, just by chance. Had I known it, of course I could have turned the other way. But coming on you by accident, as I did, how am I not to speak to you? And if I speak, what am I to say? Of course I think that the lady will succeed in marrying you. Never. And that such a marriage will be your destruction. Doubtless she is good-looking. Yes, and clever. And you must remember that the manners of her country are not as the manners of this country.", "pos": 873697}
{"speaker": "Roger Carbury", "text": "I trust I may not marry a lady of her country. She does not think that she is to marry you, and yet she comes down here and stays with you. Paul, I don't believe it. I believe you, but I don't believe her. She is here with you in order that she may marry you. She is cunning and strong. You are foolish and weak. Believing as I do that marriage with her would be destruction, I should tell her my mind,--and leave her. That's what I should do. You must go in now, I suppose, and eat your dinner.", "pos": 875431}
{"speaker": "Paul Montague", "text": "I may come to the hall as I go back home?", "pos": 876026}
{"speaker": "Roger Carbury", "text": "Certainly you may come if you please. I mean that I shall be delighted to see you,", "pos": 876070}
{"speaker": "Roger Carbury", "text": "Never. Never.", "pos": 878251}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Hurtle", "text": "Your friend was hardly civil; was he, Paul?", "pos": 879180}
{"speaker": "Paul Montague", "text": "Do you mean that he should have come in? I have no doubt it was true that he had dined.", "pos": 879226}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Hurtle", "text": "I am quite indifferent about his dinner,--but there are two ways of declining as there are of accepting. I suppose he is on very intimate terms with you?", "pos": 879316}
{"speaker": "Paul Montague", "text": "Oh, yes.", "pos": 879472}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Hurtle", "text": "Then his want of courtesy was the more evidently intended for me. In point of fact he disapproves of me. Is not that it? I can well understand that it should be so. An intimate friend may like or dislike the friend of his friend, without offence. But unless there be strong reason he is bound to be civil to his friend's friend, when accident brings them together. You have told me that Mr. Carbury was your beau ideal of an English gentleman.", "pos": 879483}
{"speaker": "Paul Montague", "text": "So he is.", "pos": 880020}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Hurtle", "text": "Then why didn't he behave as such? Did not you yourself feel that you were rebuked for coming here with me, when he expressed surprise at your journey? Has he authority over you?", "pos": 880032}
{"speaker": "Paul Montague", "text": "Of course he has not. What authority could he have?", "pos": 880245}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Hurtle", "text": "Nay, I do not know. He may be your guardian. In this safe-going country young men perhaps are not their own masters till they are past thirty. I should have said that he was your guardian, and that he intended to rebuke you for being in bad company. I dare say he did after I had gone.", "pos": 880299}
{"speaker": "Paul Montague", "text": "It was nearly that,", "pos": 881159}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Hurtle", "text": "Mr. Carbury did take it upon himself to rebuke you for showing yourself on the sands at Lowestoft with such a one as I am?", "pos": 883513}
{"speaker": "Paul Montague", "text": "He knew of the letter which I wrote to you.", "pos": 883638}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Hurtle", "text": "You have canvassed me between you?", "pos": 883684}
{"speaker": "Paul Montague", "text": "Of course we have. Is that unnatural? Would you have had me be silent about you to the oldest and the best friend I have in the world?", "pos": 883721}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Hurtle", "text": "No, I would not have had you be silent to your oldest and best friend. I presume you would declare your purpose. But I should not have supposed you would have asked his leave. When I was travelling with you, I thought you were a man capable of managing your own actions. I had heard that in your country girls sometimes hold themselves at the disposal of their friends,--but I did not dream that such could be the case with a man who had gone out into the world to make his fortune.", "pos": 883858}
{"speaker": "Paul Montague", "text": "Of course you can say bitter things,", "pos": 884424}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Hurtle", "text": "Is it my nature to say bitter things? Have I usually said bitter things to you? When I have hung round your neck and have sworn that you should be my God upon earth, was that bitter? I am alone and I have to fight my own battles. A woman's weapon is her tongue. Say but one word to me, Paul, as you know how to say it, and there will be soon an end to that bitterness. What shall I care for Mr. Carbury, except to make him the cause of some innocent joke, if you will speak but that one word? And think what it is I am asking. Do you remember how urgent were once your own prayers to me;--how you swore that your happiness could only be secured by one word of mine? Though I loved you, I doubted. There were considerations of money, which have now vanished. But I spoke it,--because I loved you, and because I believed you. Give me that which you swore you had given before I made my gift to you.", "pos": 884475}
{"speaker": "Paul Montague", "text": "I cannot say that word.", "pos": 885374}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Hurtle", "text": "Do you mean that, after all, I am to be thrown off like an old glove? I have had many dealings with men and have found them to be false, cruel, unworthy, and selfish. But I have met nothing like that. No man has ever dared to treat me like that. No man shall dare.", "pos": 885400}
{"speaker": "Paul Montague", "text": "I wrote to you.", "pos": 885667}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Hurtle", "text": "Wrote to me;--yes! And I was to take that as sufficient! No. I think but little of my life and have but little for which to live. But while I do live I will travel over the world's surface to face injustice and to expose it, before I will put up with it. You wrote to me! Heaven and earth;--I can hardly control myself when I hear such impudence! Wrote to me! Could any mere letter of your writing break the bond by which we were bound together? Had not the distance between us seemed to have made you safe would you have dared to write that letter? The letter must be unwritten. It has already been contradicted by your conduct to me since I have been in this country.", "pos": 885685}
{"speaker": "Paul Montague", "text": "I am sorry to hear you say that.", "pos": 886496}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Hurtle", "text": "Am I not justified in saying it?", "pos": 886531}
{"speaker": "Paul Montague", "text": "I hope not. When I first saw you I told you everything. If I have been wrong in attending to your wishes since, I regret it.", "pos": 886566}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Hurtle", "text": "This comes from your seeing your master for two minutes on the beach. You are acting now under his orders. No doubt he came with the purpose. Had you told him you were to be here?", "pos": 886693}
{"speaker": "Paul Montague", "text": "His coming was an accident.", "pos": 886875}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Hurtle", "text": "It was very opportune at any rate. Well;--what have you to say to me? Or am I to understand that you suppose yourself to have said all that is required of you? Perhaps you would prefer that I should argue the matter out with your--friend, Mr. Carbury.", "pos": 886905}
{"speaker": "Paul Montague", "text": "What has to be said, I believe I can say myself.", "pos": 887159}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Hurtle", "text": "Say it then. Or are you so ashamed of it, that the words stick in your throat?", "pos": 887210}
{"speaker": "Paul Montague", "text": "There is some truth in that. I am ashamed of it. I must say that which will be painful, and which would not have been to be said, had I been fairly careful.", "pos": 887291}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Hurtle", "text": "Don't spare me. I know what it all is as well as though it were already told. I know the lies with which they have crammed you at San Francisco. You have heard that up in Oregon--I shot a man. That is no lie. I did. I brought him down dead at my feet. Do you wonder that that is a story that a woman should hesitate to tell? But not from shame. Do you suppose that the sight of that dying wretch does not haunt me? that I do not daily hear his drunken screech, and see him bound from the earth, and then fall in a heap just below my hand? But did they tell you also that it was thus alone that I could save myself,--and that had I spared him, I must afterwards have destroyed myself? If I were wrong, why did they not try me for his murder? Why did the women flock around me and kiss the very hems of my garments? In this soft civilization of yours you know nothing of such necessity. A woman here is protected,--unless it be from lies.", "pos": 887466}
{"speaker": "Paul Montague", "text": "It was not that only,", "pos": 888480}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Hurtle", "text": "No; they told you other things. They told you of quarrels with my husband. I know the lies, and who made them, and why. Did I conceal from you the character of my former husband? Did I not tell you that he was a drunkard and a scoundrel? How should I not quarrel with such a one? Ah, Paul; you can hardly know what my life has been.", "pos": 888518}
{"speaker": "Paul Montague", "text": "They told me that--you fought him.", "pos": 888895}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Hurtle", "text": "Psha;--fought him! Yes;--I was always fighting him. What are you to do but to fight cruelty, and fight falsehood, and fight fraud and treachery,--when they come upon you and would overwhelm you but for fighting? You have not been fool enough to believe that fable about a duel? I did stand once, armed, and guarded my bedroom door from him, and told him that he should only enter it over my body. He went away to the tavern and I did not see him for a week afterwards. That was the duel. And they have told you that he is not dead.", "pos": 888932}
{"speaker": "Paul Montague", "text": "Yes;--they have told me that.", "pos": 889466}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Hurtle", "text": "Who has seen him alive? I never said to you that I had seen him dead. How should I?", "pos": 889498}
{"speaker": "Paul Montague", "text": "There would be a certificate.", "pos": 889584}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Hurtle", "text": "Certificate;--in the back of Texas;--five hundred miles from Galveston! And what would it matter to you? I was divorced from him according to the law of the State of Kansas. Does not the law make a woman free here to marry again,--and why not with us? I sued for a divorce on the score of cruelty and drunkenness. He made no appearance, and the Court granted it me. Am I disgraced by that?", "pos": 889616}
{"speaker": "Paul Montague", "text": "I heard nothing of the divorce.", "pos": 890008}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Hurtle", "text": "I do not remember. When we were talking of these old days before, you did not care how short I was in telling my story. You wanted to hear little or nothing then of Caradoc Hurtle. Now you have become more particular. I told you that he was dead,--as I believed myself, and do believe. Whether the other story was told or not I do not know.", "pos": 890042}
{"speaker": "Paul Montague", "text": "It was not told.", "pos": 890385}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Hurtle", "text": "Then it was your own fault,--because you would not listen. And they have made you believe I suppose that I have failed in getting back my property?", "pos": 890403}
{"speaker": "Paul Montague", "text": "I have heard nothing about your property but what you yourself have said unasked. I have asked no question about your property.", "pos": 890553}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Hurtle", "text": "You are welcome. At last I have made it again my own. And now, sir. I think I have been open with you. Is it because I protected myself from drunken violence that I am to be rejected? Am I to be cast aside because I saved my life while in the hands of a reprobate husband, and escaped from him by means provided by law;--or because by my own energy I have secured my own property? If I am not to be condemned for these things, then say why am I condemned.", "pos": 890683}
{"speaker": "Paul Montague", "text": "I do not condemn you,", "pos": 892117}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Hurtle", "text": "At any rate, Paul, do not lie. If you tell me that you will not be my husband, you do condemn me. Is it not so?", "pos": 892153}
{"speaker": "Paul Montague", "text": "I will not lie if I can help it. I did ask you to be my wife--", "pos": 892283}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Hurtle", "text": "Well;--rather. How often before I consented?", "pos": 892348}
{"speaker": "Paul Montague", "text": "It matters little; at any rate, till you did consent. I have since satisfied myself that such a marriage would be miserable for both of us.", "pos": 892395}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Hurtle", "text": "You have?", "pos": 892537}
{"speaker": "Paul Montague", "text": "I have. Of course, you can speak of me as you please and think of me as you please. I can hardly defend myself.", "pos": 892549}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Hurtle", "text": "Hardly, I think.", "pos": 892663}
{"speaker": "Paul Montague", "text": "But, with whatever result, I know that I shall now be acting for the best in declaring that I will not become--your husband.", "pos": 892682}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Hurtle", "text": "You will not?", "pos": 892809}
{"speaker": "Paul Montague", "text": "If I speak with abruptness it is only to avoid a show of indecision. I will not.", "pos": 892951}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Hurtle", "text": "Oh, God! what have I done that it should be my lot to meet man after man false and cruel as this! You tell me to my face that I am to bear it! Who is the jade that has done it? Has she money?--or rank? Or is it that you are afraid to have by your side a woman who can speak for herself,--and even act for herself if some action be necessary? Perhaps you think that I am--old. Speak, man,--is it that you want a younger wife?", "pos": 893034}
{"speaker": "Paul Montague", "text": "You know it is not.", "pos": 893725}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Hurtle", "text": "Know! How should any one know anything from a liar? From what you tell me I know nothing. I have to gather what I can from your character. I see that you are a coward. It is that man that came to you, and who is your master, that has forced you to this. Between me and him you tremble, and are a thing to be pitied. As for knowing what you would be at, from anything that you would say,--that is impossible. Once again I have come across a mean wretch. Oh, fool!--that men should be so vile, and think themselves masters of the world! My last word to you is, that you are--a liar. Now for the present you can go. Ten minutes since, had I had a weapon in my hand I should have shot another man.", "pos": 893747}
{"speaker": "Paul Montague", "text": "I will say good-bye to you,", "pos": 894728}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Hurtle", "text": "Say no such thing. Tell me that you have triumphed and got rid of me. Pluck up your spirits, if you have any, and show me your joy. Tell me that an Englishman has dared to ill-treat an American woman. You would,--were you not afraid to indulge yourself. I shall not stay here now. I shall return on Monday. I must think of what you have said, and must resolve what I myself will do. I shall not bear this without seeking a means of punishing you for your treachery. I shall expect you to come to me on Monday.", "pos": 894794}
{"speaker": "Paul Montague", "text": "I do not see that it will serve any purpose.", "pos": 895453}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Hurtle", "text": "It is for me, sir, to judge of that. I suppose you are not so much a coward that you are afraid to come to me. If so, I shall come to you; and you may be assured that I shall not be too timid to show myself and to tell my story.", "pos": 895500}
{"speaker": "W. H.", "text": "You are right and I am wrong. Our marriage would not have been fitting. I do not blame you. I attracted you when we were together; but you have learned and have learned truly that you should not give up your life for such attractions. If I have been violent with you, forgive me. You will acknowledge that I have suffered. Always know that there is one woman who will love you better than any one else. I think too that you will love me even when some other woman is by your side. God bless you, and make you happy. Write me the shortest, shortest word of adieu. Not to do so would make you think yourself heartless. But do not come to me.", "pos": 901842}
{"speaker": "Paul Montague", "text": "I have come earlier than you expected,", "pos": 903072}
{"speaker": "the squire", "text": "Yes, indeed;--much earlier. Are you going back to Lowestoft?", "pos": 903122}
{"speaker": "Roger Carbury", "text": "Let her follow you, and bear it. Of course you must suffer the effects of your own imprudence.", "pos": 903315}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Pipkin", "text": "You won't be wanting to go out to-night;--will you, Mrs. Hurtle? If you should hear words between me and my niece, don't you mind, ma'am.", "pos": 906819}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Hurtle", "text": "I hope there's nothing wrong, Mrs. Pipkin?", "pos": 907081}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Pipkin", "text": "She'll be wanting to go out, and I won't have it. It isn't right; is it, ma'am? She's a good girl; but they've got such a way nowadays of doing just as they pleases, that one doesn't know what's going to come next.", "pos": 907125}
{"speaker": "Ruby", "text": "I'm just going to step out, aunt, for a little time to-night. I've got the key, and I'll let myself in quite quiet.", "pos": 907534}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Pipkin", "text": "Indeed, Ruby, you won't,", "pos": 907652}
{"speaker": "Ruby", "text": "Won't what, aunt?", "pos": 907697}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Pipkin", "text": "Won't let yourself in, if you go out. If you go out to-night you'll stay out. That's all about it. If you go out to-night you won't come back here any more. I won't have it, and it isn't right that I should. You're going after that young man that they tell me is the greatest scamp in all England.", "pos": 907717}
{"speaker": "Ruby", "text": "They tell you lies then, Aunt Pipkin.", "pos": 908017}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Pipkin", "text": "Very well. No girl is going out any more at nights out of my house; so that's all about it. If you had told me you was going before, you needn't have gone up and bedizened yourself. For now it's all to take off again.", "pos": 908057}
{"speaker": "Ruby", "text": "I've a right to go if I like,", "pos": 908630}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Pipkin", "text": "That's as you think. You haven't a right to come back again, any way.", "pos": 908672}
{"speaker": "Ruby", "text": "Yes, I have. I've worked for you a deal harder than the girl down-stairs, and I don't want no wages. I've a right to go out, and a right to come back;--and go I shall.", "pos": 908744}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Pipkin", "text": "You'll be no better than you should be, if you do.", "pos": 908914}
{"speaker": "Ruby", "text": "Am I to work my very nails off, and push that perambulator about all day till my legs won't carry me,--and then I ain't to go out, not once in a week?", "pos": 908967}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Pipkin", "text": "Not unless I know more about it, Ruby. I won't have you go and throw yourself into the gutter;--not while you're with me.", "pos": 909120}
{"speaker": "Ruby", "text": "Who's throwing themselves into the gutter? I've thrown myself into no gutter. I know what I'm about.", "pos": 909244}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Pipkin", "text": "There's two of us that way, Ruby;--for I know what I'm about.", "pos": 909347}
{"speaker": "Ruby", "text": "I shall just go then.", "pos": 909411}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Pipkin", "text": "You won't get out that way, any way, for the door's locked;--and the area gate. You'd better be said, Ruby, and just take your things off.", "pos": 909473}
{"speaker": "Ruby", "text": "Aunt Pipkin, let me go just this once.", "pos": 910317}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Pipkin", "text": "No, Ruby;--it ain't proper.", "pos": 910370}
{"speaker": "Ruby", "text": "You don't know what you're a' doing of, aunt; you don't. You'll ruin me,--you will. Dear Aunt Pipkin, do, do! I'll never ask again, if you don't like.", "pos": 910400}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Pipkin", "text": "It ain't the thing, Ruby; and I won't do it.", "pos": 910665}
{"speaker": "Ruby", "text": "And I'm to be--a prisoner! What have I done to be--a prisoner? I don't believe as you've any right to lock me up.", "pos": 910712}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Pipkin", "text": "I've a right to lock my own doors.", "pos": 910828}
{"speaker": "Ruby", "text": "Then I shall go away to-morrow.", "pos": 910865}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Pipkin", "text": "I can't help that, my dear. The door will be open to-morrow, if you choose to go out.", "pos": 910899}
{"speaker": "Ruby", "text": "Then why not open it to-night? Where's the difference?", "pos": 910987}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Pipkin", "text": "She's gone to bed,", "pos": 911182}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Hurtle", "text": "I'm glad to hear it. There wasn't any noise about it;--was there?", "pos": 911213}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Pipkin", "text": "Not as I expected, Mrs. Hurtle, certainly. But she was put out a bit. Poor girl! I've been a girl too, and used to like a bit of outing as well as any one,--and a dance too; only it was always when mother knew. She ain't got a mother, poor dear! and as good as no father. And she's got it into her head that she's that pretty that a great gentleman will marry her.", "pos": 911281}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Hurtle", "text": "She is pretty!", "pos": 911648}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Pipkin", "text": "But what's beauty, Mrs. Hurtle? It's no more nor skin deep, as the scriptures tell us. And what'd a grand gentleman see in Ruby to marry her? She says she'll leave to-morrow.", "pos": 911665}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Hurtle", "text": "And where will she go?", "pos": 911842}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Pipkin", "text": "Just nowhere. After this gentleman,--and you know what that means! You're going to be married yourself, Mrs. Hurtle.", "pos": 911867}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Hurtle", "text": "We won't mind about that now, Mrs. Pipkin.", "pos": 911986}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Pipkin", "text": "And this 'll be your second, and you know how these things are managed. No gentleman 'll marry her because she runs after him. Girls as knows what they're about should let the gentlemen run after them. That's my way of looking at it.", "pos": 912031}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Hurtle", "text": "Don't you think they should be equal in that respect?", "pos": 912267}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Pipkin", "text": "Anyways the girls shouldn't let on as they are running after the gentlemen. A gentleman goes here and he goes there, and he speaks up free, of course. In my time, girls usen't to do that. But then, maybe, I'm old-fashioned,", "pos": 912323}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Hurtle", "text": "I suppose girls do speak for themselves more than they did formerly.", "pos": 912602}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Pipkin", "text": "A deal more, Mrs. Hurtle; quite different. You hear them talk of spooning with this fellow, and spooning with that fellow,--and that before their very fathers and mothers! When I was young we used to do it, I suppose,--only not like that.", "pos": 912673}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Hurtle", "text": "You did it on the sly.", "pos": 912914}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Pipkin", "text": "I think we got married quicker than they do, any way. When the gentlemen had to take more trouble they thought more about it. But if you wouldn't mind speaking to Ruby to-morrow, Mrs. Hurtle, she'd listen to you when she wouldn't mind a word I said to her. I don't want her to go away from this, out into the street, till she knows where she's to go to, decent. As for going to her young man,--that's just walking the streets.", "pos": 912939}
{"speaker": "Marie", "text": "Mind you go by the 5 P.M. train. That will take you into Liverpool at 10.15. There's an hotel at the railway-station. Didon has got our tickets under the names of Madame and Mademoiselle Racine. We are to have one cabin between us. You must get yours to-morrow. She has found out that there is plenty of room.", "pos": 915040}
{"speaker": "Sir Felix", "text": "I'll be all right.", "pos": 915366}
{"speaker": "Marie", "text": "Pray don't miss the train that afternoon. Somebody would be sure to suspect something if we were seen together in the same train. We leave at 7 A.M. I shan't go to bed all night, so as to be sure to be in time. Robert,--he's the man,--will start a little earlier in the cab with my heavy box. What do you think is in it?", "pos": 915387}
{"speaker": "Sir Felix", "text": "Clothes,", "pos": 915710}
{"speaker": "Marie", "text": "Yes, but what clothes?--my wedding dresses. Think of that! What a job to get them and nobody to know anything about it except Didon and Madame Craik at the shop in Mount Street! They haven't come yet, but I shall be there whether they come or not. And I shall have all my jewels. I'm not going to leave them behind. They'll go off in our cab. We can get the things out behind the house into the mews. Then Didon and I follow in another cab. Nobody ever is up before near nine, and I don't think we shall be interrupted.", "pos": 915738}
{"speaker": "Sir Felix", "text": "If the servants were to hear.", "pos": 916260}
{"speaker": "Marie", "text": "I don't think they'd tell. But if I was to be brought back again, I should only tell papa that it was no good. He can't prevent me marrying.", "pos": 916292}
{"speaker": "Sir Felix", "text": "Won't your mother find out?", "pos": 916435}
{"speaker": "Marie", "text": "She never looks after anything. I don't think she'd tell if she knew. Papa leads her such a life! Felix! I hope you won't be like that.", "pos": 916465}
{"speaker": "Sir Felix", "text": "I'm all right,", "pos": 916696}
{"speaker": "Sir Felix", "text": "How about money though?", "pos": 917410}
{"speaker": "Marie", "text": "You have got some?", "pos": 917454}
{"speaker": "Sir Felix", "text": "I have just the two hundred pounds which your father paid me, and not a shilling more. I don't see why he should keep my money, and not let me have it back.", "pos": 917475}
{"speaker": "Marie", "text": "Look here. I told you I thought I could get some. There is a cheque for two hundred and fifty pounds. I had money of my own enough for the tickets.", "pos": 917634}
{"speaker": "Sir Felix", "text": "And whose is this?", "pos": 917836}
{"speaker": "Marie", "text": "It is papa's cheque. Mamma gets ever so many of them to carry on the house and pay for things. But she gets so muddled about it that she doesn't know what she pays and what she doesn't. If you take it to the bank you'll get the money. Or shall I send Didon, and give you the money on board the ship?", "pos": 917916}
{"speaker": "Sir Felix", "text": "I think Didon had better get the money, and bring it to me to-morrow, at four o'clock in the afternoon, to the club. You see. I'm so much in the City that they might know me at the bank. And then I'll come on board on Thursday morning, without looking for you.", "pos": 918745}
{"speaker": "Marie", "text": "Oh dear, yes;--without looking for us. And don't know us even till we are out at sea. Won't it be fun when we shall be walking about on the deck and not speaking to one another! And, Felix;--what do you think? Didon has found out that there is to be an American clergyman on board. I wonder whether he'd marry us.", "pos": 919226}
{"speaker": "Sir Felix", "text": "Of course he will.", "pos": 919542}
{"speaker": "Marie", "text": "Won't that be jolly? I wish it was all done. Then, directly it's done, and when we get to New York, we'll telegraph and write to papa, and we'll be ever so penitent and good; won't we? Of course he'll make the best of it.", "pos": 919563}
{"speaker": "Sir Felix", "text": "But he's so savage; isn't he?", "pos": 919787}
{"speaker": "Marie", "text": "When there's anything to get;--or just at the moment. But I don't think he minds afterwards. He's always for making the best of everything;--misfortunes and all. Things go wrong so often that if he was to go on thinking of them always they'd be too many for anybody. It'll be all right in a month's time. I wonder how Lord Nidderdale will look when he hears that we've gone off. I should so like to see him. He never can say that I've behaved bad to him. We were engaged, but it was he broke it. Do you know, Felix, that though we were engaged to be married, and everybody knew it, he never once kissed me!", "pos": 919819}
{"speaker": "Didon", "text": "C'est tout en règle?", "pos": 922054}
{"speaker": "Lady Carbury", "text": "What; Felix?", "pos": 923140}
{"speaker": "Sir Felix", "text": "You're surprised; are you not? Mother, would you mind coming into the other room? I've got something to tell you,", "pos": 923179}
{"speaker": "Lady Carbury", "text": "Good news?", "pos": 923393}
{"speaker": "Sir Felix", "text": "That's as may be,", "pos": 923577}
{"speaker": "Lady Carbury", "text": "Don't keep me in suspense, Felix.", "pos": 923626}
{"speaker": "Sir Felix", "text": "The long and the short of it is that I'm going to take Marie off.", "pos": 923662}
{"speaker": "Lady Carbury", "text": "Oh, Felix.", "pos": 923730}
{"speaker": "Sir Felix", "text": "You said you thought it was the right thing to do;--and therefore I'm going to do it. The worst of it is that one wants such a lot of money for this kind of thing.", "pos": 923743}
{"speaker": "Lady Carbury", "text": "But when?", "pos": 923909}
{"speaker": "Sir Felix", "text": "Immediately. I wouldn't tell you till I had arranged everything. I've had it in my mind for the last fortnight.", "pos": 923921}
{"speaker": "Lady Carbury", "text": "And how is it to be? Oh, Felix, I hope it may succeed.", "pos": 924035}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "It was your own idea, you know. We're going to;--where do you think?", "pos": 924091}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "How can I think?--Boulogne.", "pos": 924162}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "You say that just because Goldsheiner went there. That wouldn't have done at all for us. We're going to--New York.", "pos": 924192}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "To New York! But when will you be married?", "pos": 924309}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "There will be a clergyman on board. It's all fixed. I wouldn't go without telling you.", "pos": 924354}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Oh; I wish you hadn't told me.", "pos": 924443}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Come now;--that's kind. You don't mean to say it wasn't you that put me up to it. I've got to get my things ready.", "pos": 924476}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Of course, if you tell me that you are going on a journey, I will have your clothes got ready for you. When do you start?", "pos": 924593}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Wednesday afternoon.", "pos": 924717}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "For New York! We must get some things ready-made. Oh, Felix, how will it be if he does not forgive her?", "pos": 924740}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "When I spoke of such a thing as possible he had not sworn then that he would never give her a shilling.", "pos": 924869}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "They always say that.", "pos": 924975}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "You are going to risk it?", "pos": 924999}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I am going to take your advice.", "pos": 925027}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "There is money settled on her.", "pos": 925099}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Settled on whom?", "pos": 925132}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "On Marie;--money which he can't get back again.", "pos": 925151}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "How much?", "pos": 925201}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "She doesn't know;--but a great deal; enough for them all to live upon if things went amiss with them.", "pos": 925213}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "But that's only a form, Felix. That money can't be her own, to give to her husband.", "pos": 925317}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Melmotte will find that it is, unless he comes to terms. That's the pull we've got over him. Marie knows what she's about. She's a great deal sharper than any one would take her to be. What can you do for me about money, mother?", "pos": 925403}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I have none, Felix.", "pos": 925634}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I thought you'd be sure to help me, as you wanted me so much to do it.", "pos": 925656}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "That's not true, Felix. I didn't want you to do it. Oh, I am so sorry that that word ever passed my mouth! I have no money. There isn't £20 at the bank altogether.", "pos": 925729}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "They would let you overdraw for £50 or £60.", "pos": 925895}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I will not do it. I will not starve myself and Hetta. You had ever so much money only lately. I will get some things for you, and pay for them as I can if you cannot pay for them after your marriage;--but I have not money to give you.", "pos": 925941}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "That's a blue look out,", "pos": 926178}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "just when £60 or £70 might make a fellow for life! You could borrow it from your friend Broune.", "pos": 926244}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I will do no such thing, Felix. £50 or £60 would make very little difference in the expense of such a trip as this. I suppose you have some money?", "pos": 926342}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Some;--yes, some. But I'm so short that any little thing would help me.", "pos": 926491}
{"speaker": "Dolly Longestaffe", "text": "Here's Carbury. Now we can have a game at three-handed loo.", "pos": 927096}
{"speaker": "Sir Felix", "text": "Thank ye; not for me. I hate three-handed loo.", "pos": 927199}
{"speaker": "Dolly Longestaffe", "text": "Dummy,", "pos": 927266}
{"speaker": "Sir Felix", "text": "I don't think I'll play to-night, old fellow. I hate three fellows sticking down together. By-the-bye, Grendall,--look here.", "pos": 927292}
{"speaker": "Miles Grendall", "text": "'Pon my word, I must ask you to wait till next week,", "pos": 927651}
{"speaker": "Sir Felix", "text": "It's always waiting till next week with you. I wonder whether any fellow would buy these for five shillings in the pound?", "pos": 927717}
{"speaker": "Dolly Longestaffe", "text": "Don't let's have any of that kind of thing down here. If there is to be a row about cards, let it be in the card-room.", "pos": 928172}
{"speaker": "Miles Grendall", "text": "Of course. I won't say a word about the matter down here. It isn't the proper thing.", "pos": 928307}
{"speaker": "Sir Felix", "text": "Come up into the card-room, then. It seems to me that it makes no difference to you, what room you're in. Come up, now; and Dolly Longestaffe shall come and hear what you say.", "pos": 928408}
{"speaker": "Dolly Longestaffe", "text": "How I do hate a row! One has to have rows with one's own people, but there ought not to be rows at a club.", "pos": 928857}
{"speaker": "Miles Grendall", "text": "He likes a row,--Carbury does,", "pos": 928980}
{"speaker": "Sir Felix", "text": "I should like my money, if I could get it. Dear, dear; I'm sure she was unaware of it.", "pos": 929025}
{"speaker": "Lord Nidderdale", "text": "Bygones are bygones, old fellow; but you really must stump up, you know, after this.", "pos": 931444}
{"speaker": "Miles Grendall", "text": "stump up.", "pos": 931564}
{"speaker": "Marie", "text": "pas un baiser!", "pos": 934100}
{"speaker": "Didon", "text": "Bah!", "pos": 934414}
{"speaker": "gentleman", "text": "You, I think, are Miss Melmotte.", "pos": 936670}
{"speaker": "Didon", "text": "No; the young lady was not Miss Melmotte; the young lady was Mademoiselle Racine, her niece. She was Madame Racine. Melmotte! What was Melmotte? They knew nothing about Melmottes. Would the gentleman kindly allow them to pass on to their cab?", "pos": 936789}
{"speaker": "gentleman", "text": "I am afraid I must persist in asserting that you are Miss Melmotte, and that this other--person is your servant, Elise Didon. You speak English, Miss Melmotte.", "pos": 937488}
{"speaker": "Marie", "text": "French.", "pos": 937701}
{"speaker": "gentleman", "text": "And English too. I think you had better make up your minds to go back to London. I will accompany you.", "pos": 937710}
{"speaker": "Marie", "text": "Ah, Didon, nous sommes perdues!", "pos": 937837}
{"speaker": "Didon", "text": "They had both a right to come to Liverpool. They had both a right to get into the cab with their luggage. Nobody had a right to stop them. They had done nothing against the laws. Why were they to be stopped in this way? What was it to anybody whether they called themselves Melmotte or Racine?", "pos": 938005}
{"speaker": "gentleman", "text": "You had better trust yourself to me; you had indeed,", "pos": 938403}
{"speaker": "Marie", "text": "But why?", "pos": 938478}
{"speaker": "gentleman", "text": "A cheque has been changed which you took from your father's house. No doubt your father will pardon that when you are once with him. But in order that we may bring you back safely we can arrest you on the score of the cheque,--if you force us to do so. We certainly shall not let you go on board. If you will travel back to London with me, you shall be subjected to no inconvenience which can be avoided.", "pos": 938551}
{"speaker": "Didon", "text": "Who was going to stop her? What had she done? Why should not she go where she pleased? Did anybody mean to take her up for stealing anybody's money? If anybody did, that person had better look to himself. She knew the law. She would go where she pleased. No; she would go to New York. She would go wherever she pleased,--all the world over. Nobody should stop her.", "pos": 939818}
{"speaker": "Marie", "text": "But the box in her hand is mine,", "pos": 940906}
{"speaker": "Marie", "text": "After all I don't know that he cares for me. Put a good face on it, and don't be cast down. Oh, I won't. I don't mean.", "pos": 942621}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Your mother will be delighted to have you back again.", "pos": 942969}
{"speaker": "Marie", "text": "I don't think that mamma cares. It's papa. I'd do it again to-morrow if I had the chance. I would. Why is a girl to be made to marry to please any one but herself? I won't. And it's very mean saying that I stole the money. I always take what I want, and papa never says anything about it.", "pos": 943025}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Two hundred and fifty pounds is a large sum, Miss Melmotte.", "pos": 943390}
{"speaker": "Marie", "text": "It is nothing in our house. It isn't about the money. It's because papa wants me to marry another man;--and I won't. It was downright mean to send and have me taken up before all the people.", "pos": 943452}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "You wouldn't have come back if he hadn't done that.", "pos": 943645}
{"speaker": "Marie", "text": "Of course I wouldn't. And are you to come? All the people will wonder who you are,", "pos": 943699}
{"speaker": "Melmotte", "text": "This is your game, is it?", "pos": 944535}
{"speaker": "Marie", "text": "Well, papa;--yes. You made me do it.", "pos": 944593}
{"speaker": "Melmotte", "text": "You fool you! You were going to New York,--were you? As if I hadn't found out all about it. Who was going with you?", "pos": 944632}
{"speaker": "Marie", "text": "If you have found out all about it, you know, papa.", "pos": 944785}
{"speaker": "Melmotte", "text": "Of course I know;--but you don't know all about it, you little idiot.", "pos": 944839}
{"speaker": "Marie", "text": "No doubt I'm a fool and an idiot. You always say so.", "pos": 944911}
{"speaker": "Melmotte", "text": "Where do you suppose Sir Felix Carbury is now? An hour ago he was in bed at his mother's house in Welbeck Street.", "pos": 944966}
{"speaker": "Marie", "text": "I don't believe it, papa.", "pos": 945128}
{"speaker": "Melmotte", "text": "You don't, don't you? You'll find it true. If you had gone to New York, you'd have gone alone. If I'd known at first that he had stayed behind, I think I'd have let you go.", "pos": 945156}
{"speaker": "Marie", "text": "I'm sure he didn't stay behind.", "pos": 945331}
{"speaker": "Melmotte", "text": "If you contradict me, I'll box your ears, you jade. He is in London at this moment. What has become of the woman that went with you?", "pos": 945365}
{"speaker": "Marie", "text": "She's gone on board the ship.", "pos": 945500}
{"speaker": "Melmotte", "text": "And where is the money you took from your mother? Who got the cheque changed?", "pos": 945532}
{"speaker": "Marie", "text": "Didon did.", "pos": 945632}
{"speaker": "Melmotte", "text": "And has she got the money?", "pos": 945645}
{"speaker": "Marie", "text": "No, papa.", "pos": 945674}
{"speaker": "Melmotte", "text": "Have you got it?", "pos": 945686}
{"speaker": "Marie", "text": "No, papa.", "pos": 945705}
{"speaker": "Melmotte", "text": "Did you give it to Sir Felix Carbury?", "pos": 945717}
{"speaker": "Marie", "text": "Yes, papa.", "pos": 945757}
{"speaker": "Melmotte", "text": "Then I'll be hanged if I don't prosecute him for stealing it.", "pos": 945770}
{"speaker": "Marie", "text": "Oh, papa, don't do that;--pray don't do that. He didn't steal it. I only gave it him to take care of for us. He'll give it you back again.", "pos": 945834}
{"speaker": "Melmotte", "text": "I shouldn't wonder if he lost it at cards, and therefore didn't go to Liverpool. Will you give me your word that you'll never attempt to marry him again if I don't prosecute him? Unless you do that I shall go to a magistrate at once.", "pos": 945975}
{"speaker": "Marie", "text": "I don't believe you can do anything to him. He didn't steal it. I gave it to him.", "pos": 946231}
{"speaker": "Melmotte", "text": "Will you promise me?", "pos": 946315}
{"speaker": "Marie", "text": "No, papa, I won't. What's the good of promising when I should only break it. Why can't you let me have the man I love? What's the good of all the money if people don't have what they like?", "pos": 946338}
{"speaker": "Melmotte", "text": "All the money!--What do you know about the money? Look here. I've been very good to you. You've had your share of everything that has been going;--carriages and horses, bracelets and brooches, silks and gloves, and every thing else.", "pos": 946529}
{"speaker": "Marie", "text": "Let me go, papa; you hurt me. I never asked for such things. I don't care a straw about bracelets and brooches.", "pos": 946843}
{"speaker": "Melmotte", "text": "What do you care for?", "pos": 946957}
{"speaker": "Marie", "text": "Only for somebody to love me,", "pos": 946981}
{"speaker": "Melmotte", "text": "You'll soon have nobody to love you, if you go on this fashion. You've had everything done for you, and if you don't do something for me in return, by G---- you shall have a hard time of it. If you weren't such a fool you'd believe me when I say that I know more than you do.", "pos": 947039}
{"speaker": "Marie", "text": "You can't know better than me what'll make me happy.", "pos": 947317}
{"speaker": "Melmotte", "text": "Do you think only of yourself? If you'll marry Lord Nidderdale you'll have a position in the world which nothing can take from you.", "pos": 947372}
{"speaker": "Marie", "text": "Then I won't,", "pos": 947506}
{"speaker": "Lady Carbury", "text": "Oh, Felix!", "pos": 950982}
{"speaker": "Sir Felix", "text": "It'sh all up,", "pos": 951010}
{"speaker": "Lady Carbury", "text": "What has happened, Felix?", "pos": 951049}
{"speaker": "Sir Felix", "text": "Discovered, and be d---- to it! The old shap'sh stopped ush. Bettersh go to bed.", "pos": 951077}
{"speaker": "Paul Montague", "text": "MY DEAR MRS. HURTLE,-- I promised that I would go to you again in Islington, and so I will, if you still require it. But I think that such a meeting can be of no service to either of us. What is to be gained? I do not for a moment mean to justify my own conduct. It is not to be justified. When I met you on our journey hither from San Francisco, I was charmed with your genius, your beauty, and your character. They are now what I found them to be then. But circumstances have made our lives and temperaments so far different, that I am certain that, were we married, we should not make each other happy. Of course the fault was mine; but it is better to own that fault, and to take all the blame,--and the evil consequences, let them be what they may,-- to be shot, for instance, like the gentleman in Oregon,-- than to be married with the consciousness that even at the very moment of the ceremony, such marriage will be a matter of sorrow and repentance. As soon as my mind was made up on this I wrote to you. I can not,--I dare not,--blame you for the step you have since taken. But I can only adhere to the resolution I then expressed. The first day I saw you here in London you asked me whether I was attached to another woman. I could answer you only by the truth. But I should not of my own accord have spoken to you of altered affections. It was after I had resolved to break my engagement with you that I first knew this girl. It was not because I had come to love her that I broke it. I have no grounds whatever for hoping that my love will lead to any results. I have now told you as exactly as I can the condition of my mind. If it were possible for me in any way to compensate the injury I have done you,--or even to undergo retribution for it,--I would do so. But what compensation can be given, or what retribution can you exact? I think that our further meeting can avail nothing. But if, after this, you wish me to come again, I will come for the last time,--because I have promised. Your most sincere friend. PAUL MONTAGUE.", "pos": 953445}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Hurtle", "text": "PAUL MONTAGUE,-- I have suffered many injuries, but of all injuries this is the worst and most unpardonable,--and the most unmanly. Surely there never was such a coward, never so false a liar. The poor wretch that I destroyed was mad with liquor and was only acting after his kind. Even Caradoc Hurtle never premeditated such wrong as this. What;--you are to bind yourself to me by the most solemn obligation that can join a man and a woman together, and then tell me,--when they have affected my whole life,--that they are to go for nothing, because they do not suit your view of things? On thinking over it, you find that an American wife would not make you so comfortable as some English girl;--and therefore it is all to go for nothing! I have no brother, no man near me;--or you would not dare to do this. You can not but be a coward. You talk of compensation! Do you mean money? You do not dare to say so, but you must mean it. It is an insult the more. But as to retribution; yes. You shall suffer retribution. I desire you to come to me,--according to your promise,--and you will find me with a horsewhip in my hand. I will whip you till I have not a breath in my body. And then I will see what you will dare to do;--whether you will drag me into a court of law for the assault. Yes; come. You shall come. And now you know the welcome you shall find. I will buy the whip while this is reaching you, and you shall find that I know how to choose such a weapon. I call upon you to come. But should you be afraid and break your promise, I will come to you. I will make London too hot to hold you;--and if I do not find you I will go with my story to every friend you have. I have now told you as exactly as I can the condition of my mind. Yes. Come.", "pos": 957705}
{"speaker": "Ruby", "text": "Yes, sir; she's at home. Don't pull so, Sally. Please, sir, is Sir Felix still in London?", "pos": 960804}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Hurtle", "text": "So you have come,", "pos": 961244}
{"speaker": "Paul Montague", "text": "Of course I came, when you desired it.", "pos": 961305}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Hurtle", "text": "I don't know why you should. My wishes do not seem to affect you much. Will you sit down there. So you think it would be best that you and I should never see each other again?", "pos": 961346}
{"speaker": "Paul Montague", "text": "I did think so certainly. What more can I say?", "pos": 961813}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Hurtle", "text": "Oh, nothing; clearly nothing. Why should a gentleman trouble himself to say any more,--than that he has changed his mind? Why make a fuss about such little things as a woman's life, or a woman's heart? And having come, in consequence of my unreasonable request, of course you are wise to hold your peace.", "pos": 961862}
{"speaker": "Paul Montague", "text": "I came because I promised.", "pos": 962214}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Hurtle", "text": "But you did not promise to speak;--did you?", "pos": 962243}
{"speaker": "Paul Montague", "text": "What would you have me say?", "pos": 962289}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Hurtle", "text": "Ah what! Am I to be so weak as to tell you now what I would have you say? Suppose you were to say, 'I am a gentleman, and a man of my word, and I repent me of my intended perfidy,' do you not think you might get your release that way? Might it not be possible that I should reply that as your heart was gone from me, your hand might go after it;--that I scorned to be the wife of a man who did not want me?", "pos": 962319}
{"speaker": "Paul Montague", "text": "You might indeed,", "pos": 962847}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Hurtle", "text": "But I should not. I at least will be true. I should take you, Paul,--still take you; with a confidence that I should yet win you to me by my devotion. I have still some kindness of feeling towards you,--none to that woman who is I suppose younger than I, and gentler, and a maid. Now that you are going to leave me, Paul, is there any advice you can give me, as to what I shall do next? I have given up every friend in the world for you. I have no home. Mrs. Pipkin's room here is more my home than any other spot on the earth. I have all the world to choose from, but no reason whatever for a choice. I have my property. What shall I do with it, Paul? If I could die and be no more heard of, you should be welcome to it. You might at any rate advise me. Paul, you are in some degree responsible,--are you not,--for my loneliness?", "pos": 962909}
{"speaker": "Paul Montague", "text": "I am. But you know that I cannot answer your questions.", "pos": 963952}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Hurtle", "text": "You cannot wonder that I should be somewhat in doubt as to my future life. As far as I can see, I had better remain here. I do good at any rate to Mrs. Pipkin. She went into hysterics yesterday when I spoke of leaving her. That woman, Paul, would starve in our country, and I shall be desolate in this. You thought my letter very short; did you not?", "pos": 964010}
{"speaker": "Paul Montague", "text": "It said, I suppose, all you had to say.", "pos": 964426}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Hurtle", "text": "No, indeed. I did have much more to say. That was the third letter I wrote. Now you shall see the other two. I wrote three, and had to choose which I would send you. I fancy that yours to me was easier written than either one of mine. You had no doubts, you know. I had many doubts. I could not send them all by post, together. But you may see them all now. There is one. You may read that first. While I was writing it, I was determined that that should go.", "pos": 964468}
{"speaker": "Paul Montague", "text": "I am glad you did not send that,", "pos": 965013}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Hurtle", "text": "I meant it.", "pos": 965057}
{"speaker": "Paul Montague", "text": "But you have changed your mind?", "pos": 965071}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Hurtle", "text": "Is there anything in it that seems to you to be unreasonable? Speak out and tell me.", "pos": 965105}
{"speaker": "Paul Montague", "text": "I am thinking of you, not of myself.", "pos": 965192}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Hurtle", "text": "Think of me, then. Is there anything said there which the usage to which I have been subjected does not justify?", "pos": 965231}
{"speaker": "Paul Montague", "text": "You ask me questions which I cannot answer. I do not think that under any provocation a woman should use a horsewhip.", "pos": 965346}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Hurtle", "text": "It is certainly more comfortable for gentlemen,--who amuse themselves,--that women should have that opinion. But, upon my word, I don't know what to say about that. As long as there are men to fight for women, it may be well to leave the fighting to the men. But when a woman has no one to help her, is she to bear everything without turning upon those who ill-use her? Shall a woman be flayed alive because it is unfeminine in her to fight for her own skin? What is the good of being--feminine, as you call it? Have you asked yourself that? That men may be attracted, I should say. But if a woman finds that men only take advantage of her assumed weakness, shall she not throw it off? If she be treated as prey, shall she not fight as a beast of prey? Oh, no;--it is so unfeminine! I also, Paul, had thought of that. The charm of womanly weakness presented itself to my mind in a soft moment,--and then I wrote this other letter. You may as well see them all. I have not sent it, you know. I only show it you that you may see how my mind has been at work.", "pos": 965466}
{"speaker": "Paul Montague", "text": "It hurts me more than the other,", "pos": 966814}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Hurtle", "text": "Nay, I would not hurt you,--not at this moment. Sometimes I feel that I could tear you limb from limb, so great is my disappointment, so ungovernable my rage! Why,--why should I be such a victim? Why should life be an utter blank to me, while you have everything before you? There, you have seen them all. Which will you have?", "pos": 966861}
{"speaker": "Paul Montague", "text": "I cannot now take that other as the expression of your mind.", "pos": 967190}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Hurtle", "text": "But it will be when you have left me;--and was when you were with me at the sea-side. And it was so I felt when I got your first letter in San Francisco. Why should you kneel there? You do not love me. A man should kneel to a woman for love, not for pardon. I wonder whether that other woman loves you. I do not want an answer, Paul. I suppose you had better go. Tell me one thing. When you spoke of--compensation, did you mean--money?", "pos": 967253}
{"speaker": "Paul Montague", "text": "No; indeed no.", "pos": 967858}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Hurtle", "text": "I hope not;--I hope not that. Well, there;--go. You shall be troubled no more with Winifrid Hurtle.", "pos": 967875}
{"speaker": "Paul Montague", "text": "And am I to keep the other?", "pos": 968074}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Good-bye, my friend,", "pos": 968260}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Nay! This parting will not bear a farewell. Go, and let there be no other word spoken.", "pos": 968292}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Pipkin", "text": "Mrs. Pipkin,", "pos": 968514}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "everything is over between me and Mr. Montague.", "pos": 968582}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "As I have told you that I was to be married to him, I think it right now to tell you that I'm not going to be married to him.", "pos": 968794}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Pipkin", "text": "And why not?--and he such a nice young man,--and quiet too.", "pos": 968922}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "As to the why not, I don't know that I am prepared to speak about that. But it is so. I was engaged to him.", "pos": 968984}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Pipkin", "text": "I'm well sure of that, Mrs. Hurtle.", "pos": 969094}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "And now I'm no longer engaged to him. That's all.", "pos": 969132}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Pipkin", "text": "Dearie me! and you going down to Lowestoft with him, and all.", "pos": 969184}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "We did go down to Lowestoft together, and we both came back,--not together. And there's an end of it.", "pos": 969343}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Pipkin", "text": "I'm sure it's not your fault, Mrs. Hurtle. When a marriage is to be, and doesn't come off, it never is the lady's fault.", "pos": 969447}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "There's an end of it, Mrs. Pipkin. If you please, we won't say anything more about it.", "pos": 969570}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Pipkin", "text": "And are you going to leave, ma'am?", "pos": 969659}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "We'll say nothing about that yet, Mrs. Pipkin.", "pos": 970060}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Felix,", "pos": 974850}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "speak to me, Felix.--I know that you are awake.", "pos": 974870}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "You must get up for your dinner. It is near six o'clock.", "pos": 975013}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "All right,", "pos": 975072}
{"speaker": "Lady Carbury", "text": "What is the meaning of this, Felix? You must tell me. It must be told sooner or later. I know you are unhappy. You had better trust your mother.", "pos": 975101}
{"speaker": "Sir Felix", "text": "I am so sick, mother.", "pos": 975248}
{"speaker": "Lady Carbury", "text": "You will be better up. What were you doing last night? What has come of it all? Where are your things?", "pos": 975272}
{"speaker": "Sir Felix", "text": "At the club.--You had better leave me now, and let Sam come up to me.", "pos": 975377}
{"speaker": "Lady Carbury", "text": "I will leave you presently; but, Felix, you must tell me about this. What has been done?", "pos": 975467}
{"speaker": "Sir Felix", "text": "It hasn't come off.", "pos": 975558}
{"speaker": "Lady Carbury", "text": "But how has it not come off?", "pos": 975580}
{"speaker": "Sir Felix", "text": "I didn't get away. What's the good of asking?", "pos": 975611}
{"speaker": "Lady Carbury", "text": "You said this morning when you came in, that Mr. Melmotte had discovered it.", "pos": 975659}
{"speaker": "Sir Felix", "text": "Did I? Then I suppose he has. Oh, mother, I wish I could die. I don't see what's the use of anything. I won't get up to dinner. I'd rather stay here.", "pos": 975738}
{"speaker": "Lady Carbury", "text": "You must have something to eat, Felix.", "pos": 975890}
{"speaker": "Sir Felix", "text": "Sam can bring it me. Do let him get me some brandy and water. I'm so faint and sick with all this that I can hardly bear myself. I can't talk now. If he'll get me a bottle of soda water and some brandy, I'll tell you all about it then.", "pos": 975931}
{"speaker": "Lady Carbury", "text": "Where is the money, Felix?", "pos": 976169}
{"speaker": "Sir Felix", "text": "I paid it for the ticket,", "pos": 976198}
{"speaker": "Hetta", "text": "Is he ill, mamma?", "pos": 976681}
{"speaker": "Lady Carbury", "text": "Yes, my dear.", "pos": 976714}
{"speaker": "Hetta", "text": "Had you not better send for a doctor?", "pos": 976730}
{"speaker": "Lady Carbury", "text": "No, my dear. He will be better to-morrow.", "pos": 976770}
{"speaker": "Hetta", "text": "Mamma, I think you would be happier if you would tell me everything.", "pos": 976814}
{"speaker": "Lady Carbury", "text": "I can't. Don't ask. What's the good of asking? It is all misery and wretchedness. There is nothing to tell,--except that I am ruined.", "pos": 976885}
{"speaker": "Hetta", "text": "Has he done anything, mamma?", "pos": 977067}
{"speaker": "Lady Carbury", "text": "No. What should he have done? How am I to know what he does? He tells me nothing. Don't talk about it any more. Oh, God,--how much better it would be to be childless!", "pos": 977098}
{"speaker": "Hetta", "text": "Oh, mamma, do you mean me? Mamma, say that you do not mean me.", "pos": 977267}
{"speaker": "Lady Carbury", "text": "It concerns you as well as me and him. I wish I were childless.", "pos": 977432}
{"speaker": "Hetta", "text": "Oh, mamma, do not be cruel to me! Am I not good to you? Do I not try to be a comfort to you?", "pos": 977498}
{"speaker": "Lady Carbury", "text": "Then marry your cousin, Roger Carbury, who is a good man, and who can protect you. You can, at any rate, find a home for yourself, and a friend for us. You are not like Felix. You do not get drunk and gamble,--because you are a woman. But you are stiff-necked, and will not help me in my trouble.", "pos": 977593}
{"speaker": "Hetta", "text": "Shall I marry him, mamma, without loving him?", "pos": 977892}
{"speaker": "Lady Carbury", "text": "Love! Have I been able to love? Do you see much of what you call love around you? Why should you not love him? He is a gentleman, and a good man,--soft-hearted, of a sweet nature, whose life would be one effort to make yours happy. You think that Felix is very bad.", "pos": 977940}
{"speaker": "Hetta", "text": "I have never said so.", "pos": 978208}
{"speaker": "Lady Carbury", "text": "But ask yourself whether you do not give as much pain, seeing what you could do for us if you would. But it never occurs to you to sacrifice even a fantasy for the advantage of others.", "pos": 978232}
{"speaker": "Sir Felix", "text": "I don't know what there is to explain. It didn't come off, and of course that knocked me off my legs. Well; yes. I did take some champagne when I found how it was. A fellow does get cut up by that kind of thing. Oh, I heard it at the club,--that the whole thing was off. I can't explain anything more. And then I was so mad, I can't tell what I was after. I did get the ticket. There it is. That shows I was in earnest. I spent the £30 in getting it. I suppose the change is there. Don't take it, for I haven't another shilling in the world.", "pos": 979609}
{"speaker": "Mr. Broune", "text": "The world of London generally knows what it is about, and the London world believes Mr. Melmotte to be sound. I don't pretend to say that he has never done anything that he ought not to do. I am not going into his antecedents. But he is a man of wealth, power, and genius, and Alf will get the worst of it. The young lady went down to Liverpool, and Sir Felix was not there.", "pos": 982658}
{"speaker": "Lady Carbury", "text": "He could not have been there. He has been in bed in this house all day. Did she go?", "pos": 983500}
{"speaker": "Mr. Broune", "text": "So I am told;--and was met at the station by the senior officer of the police at Liverpool, who brought her back to London without letting her go down to the ship at all. She must have thought that her lover was on board;--probably thinks so now. I pity her.", "pos": 983586}
{"speaker": "Lady Carbury", "text": "How much worse it would have been, had she been allowed to start,", "pos": 983847}
{"speaker": "Mr. Broune", "text": "Yes; that would have been bad. She would have had a sad journey to New York, and a sadder journey back. Has your son told you anything about money?", "pos": 983934}
{"speaker": "Lady Carbury", "text": "What money?", "pos": 984084}
{"speaker": "Mr. Broune", "text": "They say that the girl entrusted him with a large sum which she had taken from her father. If that be so he certainly ought to lose no time in restoring it. It might be done through some friend. I would do it for that matter. If it be so,--to avoid unpleasantness,--it should be sent back at once. It will be for his credit.", "pos": 984098}
{"speaker": "Lady Carbury", "text": "That would be dreadful,", "pos": 984685}
{"speaker": "Mr. Broune", "text": "Had you not better ask him about it?", "pos": 984721}
{"speaker": "Lady Carbury", "text": "What do you mean by a large sum?", "pos": 984863}
{"speaker": "Mr. Broune", "text": "Two or three hundred pounds, perhaps.", "pos": 984898}
{"speaker": "Lady Carbury", "text": "I have not a shilling in the world, Mr. Broune.", "pos": 984938}
{"speaker": "Mr. Broune", "text": "He is eating you up, Lady Carbury. You must put a stop to this.", "pos": 985215}
{"speaker": "Lady Carbury", "text": "But how?", "pos": 985364}
{"speaker": "Mr. Broune", "text": "You must rid yourself of him. It is dreadful to say so, but it must be done. You must not see your daughter ruined. Find out what money he got from Miss Melmotte and I will see that it is repaid. That must be done;--and we will then try to get him to go abroad. No;--do not contradict me. We can talk of the money another time. I must be off now, as I have stayed too long. Do as I bid you. Make him tell you, and send me word down to the office. If you could do it early to-morrow, that would be best. God bless you.", "pos": 985375}
{"speaker": "Sir Felix", "text": "MY DEAR NIDDERDALE,-- Pray come to the Board to-day;--or at any rate come to me in the city. I specially want to speak to you. Yours. A. M.", "pos": 989374}
{"speaker": "Mr. Longestaffe", "text": "Did Mr. Longestaffe want to see Mr. Melmotte? Oh;--Mr. Longestaffe wanted to see Mr. Melmotte as soon as possible! Of course Mr. Longestaffe should see Mr. Melmotte. He, Miles, knew that Mr. Melmotte was particularly desirous of seeing Mr. Longestaffe. Mr. Melmotte had mentioned Mr. Longestaffe's name twice during the last three days. Would Mr. Longestaffe sit down for a few minutes? Had Mr. Longestaffe seen the \"Morning Breakfast Table\"? Mr. Melmotte undoubtedly was very much engaged. At this moment a deputation from the Canadian Government was with him;--and Sir Gregory Gribe was in the office waiting for a few words. But Miles thought that the Canadian Government would not be long,--and as for Sir Gregory, perhaps his business might be postponed. Miles would do his very best to get an interview for Mr. Longestaffe,--more especially as Mr. Melmotte was so very desirous himself of seeing his friend.", "pos": 991302}
{"speaker": "Mr. Broune", "text": "I'll just send him a note. I'm commissioned to pay you some money on behalf of Miss Melmotte.", "pos": 992765}
{"speaker": "Lord Nidderdale", "text": "What's up with the Governor?", "pos": 993284}
{"speaker": "Miles Grendall", "text": "Anything particular do you mean? There are always so many things up here.", "pos": 993337}
{"speaker": "Lord Nidderdale", "text": "He has sent for me.", "pos": 993427}
{"speaker": "Miles Grendall", "text": "Yes,--you'll go in directly. There's that fellow who does the 'Breakfast Table' in with him. I don't know what he's come about. You know what he has sent for you for?", "pos": 993449}
{"speaker": "Lord Nidderdale", "text": "I suppose all this about Miss Melmotte is true?", "pos": 993669}
{"speaker": "Miles Grendall", "text": "She did go off yesterday morning,", "pos": 993719}
{"speaker": "Lord Nidderdale", "text": "But Carbury wasn't with her.", "pos": 993781}
{"speaker": "Miles Grendall", "text": "Well, no;--I suppose not. He seems to have mulled it. He's such a d---- brute, he'd be sure to go wrong whatever he had in hand.", "pos": 993812}
{"speaker": "Lord Nidderdale", "text": "You don't like him, of course, Miles. For that matter I've no reason to love him. He couldn't have gone. He staggered out of the club yesterday morning at four o'clock as drunk as Cloe. He'd lost a pot of money, and had been kicking up a row about you for the last hour.", "pos": 993943}
{"speaker": "Miles Grendall", "text": "Brute!", "pos": 994216}
{"speaker": "Lord Nidderdale", "text": "I dare say. But though he was able to make a row, I'm sure he couldn't get himself down to Liverpool. And I saw all his things lying about the club hall late last night;--no end of portmanteaux and bags; just what a fellow would take to New York. By George! Fancy taking a girl to New York! It was plucky.", "pos": 994267}
{"speaker": "Miles Grendall", "text": "It was all her doing,", "pos": 994575}
{"speaker": "Lord Nidderdale", "text": "What a fiasco! I wonder what the old boy means to say to me about it.", "pos": 994734}
{"speaker": "Mr. Broune", "text": "I never talk about the 'Breakfast Table,' We endeavour to get along as right as we can, and the less said the soonest mended. I have come now about quite another matter, and perhaps, the less said the sooner mended about that also. Sir Felix Carbury on a late occasion received a sum of money in trust from your daughter. Circumstances have prevented its use in the intended manner, and, therefore, as Sir Felix's friend, I have called to return the money to you.", "pos": 995228}
{"speaker": "Melmotte", "text": "Oh, indeed,", "pos": 995872}
{"speaker": "Mr. Broune", "text": "No doubt you understand all about it.", "pos": 995974}
{"speaker": "Melmotte", "text": "Yes;--I understand. D---- scoundrel!", "pos": 996014}
{"speaker": "Mr. Broune", "text": "We won't discuss that, Mr. Melmotte. I've drawn a cheque myself, payable to your order,--to make the matter all straight. The sum was £250, I think.", "pos": 996053}
{"speaker": "Melmotte", "text": "I dare say it's all right. But, remember, I don't think that this absolves him. He has been a scoundrel.", "pos": 996269}
{"speaker": "Mr. Broune", "text": "At any rate he has paid back the money, which chance put into his hands, to the only person entitled to receive it on the young lady's behalf. Good morning. Good morning.", "pos": 996397}
{"speaker": "Melmotte", "text": "Well, my Lord, and how are you?", "pos": 996870}
{"speaker": "Lord Nidderdale", "text": "fresh as paint.", "pos": 996976}
{"speaker": "Melmotte", "text": "You don't look down in the mouth, my Lord.", "pos": 996993}
{"speaker": "Lord Nidderdale", "text": "Cheer up, Sam; Don't let your spirits go down. There's many a girl that I know well, Is waiting for you in the town.", "pos": 997238}
{"speaker": "Melmotte", "text": "Ha, ha, ha, very good. I've no doubt there is,--many a one. But you won't let this stupid nonsense stand in your way with Marie.", "pos": 997357}
{"speaker": "Lord Nidderdale", "text": "Upon my word, sir, I don't know about that. Miss Melmotte has given the most convincing proof of her partiality for another gentleman, and of her indifference to me.", "pos": 997508}
{"speaker": "Melmotte", "text": "A foolish baggage! A silly little romantic baggage! She's been reading novels till she has learned to think she couldn't settle down quietly till she had run off with somebody.", "pos": 997676}
{"speaker": "Lord Nidderdale", "text": "She doesn't seem to have succeeded on this occasion, Mr. Melmotte.", "pos": 997855}
{"speaker": "Melmotte", "text": "No;--of course we had her back again from Liverpool.", "pos": 997924}
{"speaker": "Lord Nidderdale", "text": "But they say that she got further than the gentleman.", "pos": 997979}
{"speaker": "Melmotte", "text": "He is a dishonest, drunken scoundrel. My girl knows very well what he is now. She'll never try that game again. Of course, my Lord, I'm very sorry. You know that I've been on the square with you always. She's my only child, and sooner or later she must have all that I possess. What she will have at once will make any man wealthy,--that is, if she marries with my sanction; and in a year or two I expect that I shall be able to double what I give her now, without touching my capital. Of course you understand that I desire to see her occupying high rank. I think that, in this country, that is a noble object of ambition. Had she married that sweep I should have broken my heart. Now, my Lord, I want you to say that this shall make no difference to you. I am very honest with you. I do not try to hide anything. The thing of course has been a misfortune. Girls will be romantic. But you may be sure that this little accident will assist rather than impede your views. After this she will not be very fond of Sir Felix Carbury.", "pos": 998035}
{"speaker": "Lord Nidderdale", "text": "I dare say not. Though, by Jove, girls will forgive anything.", "pos": 999067}
{"speaker": "Melmotte", "text": "She won't forgive him. By George, she shan't. She shall hear the whole story. You'll come and see her just the same as ever!", "pos": 999131}
{"speaker": "Lord Nidderdale", "text": "I don't know about that, Mr. Melmotte.", "pos": 999258}
{"speaker": "Melmotte", "text": "Why not? You're not so weak as to surrender all your settled projects for such a piece of folly as that! He didn't even see her all the time.", "pos": 999299}
{"speaker": "Lord Nidderdale", "text": "That wasn't her fault.", "pos": 999443}
{"speaker": "Melmotte", "text": "The money will all be there, Lord Nidderdale.", "pos": 999468}
{"speaker": "Lord Nidderdale", "text": "The money's all right, I've no doubt. And there isn't a man in all London would be better pleased to settle down with a good income than I would. But, by Jove, it's a rather strong order when a girl has just run away with another man. Everybody knows it.", "pos": 999516}
{"speaker": "Melmotte", "text": "In three months' time everybody will have forgotten it.", "pos": 999773}
{"speaker": "Lord Nidderdale", "text": "To tell you the truth, sir, I think Miss Melmotte has got a will of her own stronger than you give her credit for. She has never given me the slightest encouragement. Ever so long ago, about Christmas, she did once say that she would do as you bade her. But she is very much changed since then. The thing was off.", "pos": 999831}
{"speaker": "Melmotte", "text": "She had nothing to do with that.", "pos": 1000147}
{"speaker": "Lord Nidderdale", "text": "No;--but she has taken advantage of it, and I have no right to complain.", "pos": 1000182}
{"speaker": "Melmotte", "text": "You just come to the house, and ask her again to-morrow. Or come on Sunday morning. Don't let us be done out of all our settled arrangements by the folly of an idle girl. Will you come on Sunday morning about noon? That's all very well for you, young man, but I must go there in order that you may be able to enjoy a splendid fortune. Come this way, Nidderdale;--come this way. I must get out without being seen. There are people waiting for me there who think that a man can attend to business from morning to night without ever having a bit in his mouth.", "pos": 1000257}
{"speaker": "Lord Nidderdale", "text": "After all it's only an affair of money,", "pos": 1002740}
{"speaker": "Mr. Longestaffe", "text": "Then say that I can't wait any longer,", "pos": 1004332}
{"speaker": "Melmotte", "text": "Ah, Mr. Longestaffe, you are the very man I am desirous of seeing.", "pos": 1004475}
{"speaker": "Mr. Longestaffe", "text": "I have been waiting two hours up in your place,", "pos": 1004597}
{"speaker": "Melmotte", "text": "Tut, tut, tut;--and they never told me!", "pos": 1004677}
{"speaker": "Mr. Longestaffe", "text": "I spoke to Mr. Grendall half a dozen times.", "pos": 1004719}
{"speaker": "Melmotte", "text": "Yes,--yes. And he did put a slip with your name on it on my desk. I do remember. My dear sir, I have so many things on my brain, that I hardly know how to get along with them. You are coming to the Board? It's just the time now.", "pos": 1004765}
{"speaker": "Mr. Longestaffe", "text": "No; I can stay no longer in the City.", "pos": 1004996}
{"speaker": "Melmotte", "text": "I was carried away to the Bank of England and could not help myself. And when they get me there I can never get away again.", "pos": 1005176}
{"speaker": "Mr. Longestaffe", "text": "My son is very anxious to have the payments made about Pickering,", "pos": 1005319}
{"speaker": "Melmotte", "text": "Payments for Pickering! Haven't they been made?", "pos": 1005464}
{"speaker": "Mr. Longestaffe", "text": "Certainly not, unless made this morning.", "pos": 1005623}
{"speaker": "Melmotte", "text": "There was something about it, but I cannot just remember what. My second cashier, Mr. Smith, manages all my private affairs, and they go clean out of my head. I'm afraid he's in Grosvenor Square at this moment. Let me see;--Pickering! Wasn't there some question of a mortgage? I'm sure there was something about a mortgage.", "pos": 1005690}
{"speaker": "Mr. Longestaffe", "text": "There was a mortgage, of course;--but that only made three payments necessary instead of two.", "pos": 1006016}
{"speaker": "Melmotte", "text": "But there was some unavoidable delay about the papers;--something occasioned by the mortgagee. I know there was. But you shan't be inconvenienced, Mr. Longestaffe.", "pos": 1006112}
{"speaker": "Mr. Longestaffe", "text": "It's my son, Mr. Melmotte. He's got a lawyer of his own.", "pos": 1006278}
{"speaker": "Melmotte", "text": "I never knew a young man that wasn't in a hurry for his money. Oh, yes;--there were three payments to be made; one to you, one to your son, and one to the mortgagee. I will speak to Mr. Smith myself to-morrow--and you may tell your son that he really need not trouble his lawyer. He will only be losing his money, for lawyers are expensive. What; you won't come to the Board? I am sorry for that.", "pos": 1006337}
{"speaker": "banker", "text": "Mind, I know nothing. The report has reached me, and if it be true, it shows that Mr. Melmotte must be much pressed for money. It does not concern you at all if you have got your price. But it seems to be rather a quick transaction. I suppose you have, or he wouldn't have the title-deeds.", "pos": 1007192}
{"speaker": "Melmotte", "text": "I must get that money for Longestaffe,", "pos": 1008253}
{"speaker": "Mr. Cohenlupe", "text": "What, eighty thousand pounds! You can't do it this week,--nor yet before this day week.", "pos": 1008323}
{"speaker": "Melmotte", "text": "It isn't eighty thousand pounds. I've renewed the mortgage, and that makes it only fifty. If I can manage the half of that which goes to the son, I can put the father off.", "pos": 1008413}
{"speaker": "Mr. Cohenlupe", "text": "You must raise what you can on the whole property.", "pos": 1008587}
{"speaker": "Melmotte", "text": "I've done that already,", "pos": 1008640}
{"speaker": "Mr. Cohenlupe", "text": "And where's the money gone?", "pos": 1008690}
{"speaker": "Melmotte", "text": "Brehgert has had £40,000. I was obliged to keep it up with them. You can manage £25,000 for me by Monday?", "pos": 1008720}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Such a time was now present.", "pos": 1010794}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "If this special seat for Westminster could be carried, the country then could hardly any longer have a doubt on the matter.", "pos": 1010920}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "If only Mr. Melmotte could be got in for Westminster, it would be manifest that the people were sound at heart, and that all the great changes which had been effected during the last forty years,--from the first reform in Parliament down to the Ballot,--had been managed by the cunning and treachery of a few ambitious men.", "pos": 1011044}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "The Ballot was on the whole popular with the party.", "pos": 1011511}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "The Ballot might perhaps help the long pull and the strong pull,--and, in spite of the ruin and disgrace, was thought by some just now to be a highly Conservative measure.", "pos": 1011800}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "It was considered that the Ballot might assist Melmotte at Westminster very materially.", "pos": 1011972}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Could anything betray so bad a cause as contradictions such as these?", "pos": 1013521}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Could anything be so false, so weak, so malignant, so useless, so wicked, so self-condemned,--in fact, so \"Liberal\" as a course of action such as this?", "pos": 1013591}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "The hotter the opposition the keener will be the support.", "pos": 1015284}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "This man was undoubtedly a very ignorant man.", "pos": 1015836}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "This man was Mr. Melmotte himself.", "pos": 1016696}
{"speaker": "Honourable Beauchamp Beauclerk", "text": "Couldn't Lord Alfred say a word to him?", "pos": 1018462}
{"speaker": "Lionel Lupton", "text": "Alfred's more than half afraid of him,", "pos": 1018849}
{"speaker": "Mr. Jones", "text": "Something really must be done, Mr. Beauclerk. He is making a great many personal enemies.", "pos": 1019158}
{"speaker": "Lionel Lupton", "text": "He's the finest old turkey cock out,", "pos": 1019470}
{"speaker": "Beauchamp Beauclerk", "text": "Alfred. I wonder whether you couldn't say something to Melmotte about his manner. They tell me he is giving offence. Of course he doesn't mean it. Couldn't he draw it a little milder?", "pos": 1019678}
{"speaker": "Lord Alfred", "text": "If you ask me, I don't think he could. If you got him down and trampled on him, you might make him mild. I don't think there's any other way.", "pos": 1020035}
{"speaker": "Beauchamp Beauclerk", "text": "You couldn't speak to him, then?", "pos": 1020179}
{"speaker": "Lord Alfred", "text": "Not unless I did it with a horsewhip.", "pos": 1020214}
{"speaker": "Melmotte", "text": "My Lord. I am desirous of being presented to his Imperial Majesty.", "pos": 1025369}
{"speaker": "Lord Alfred", "text": "This is Mr. Melmotte. Lord De Griffin, let me introduce you to Mr. Melmotte.", "pos": 1025623}
{"speaker": "Lord De Griffin", "text": "Oh--oh--oh. I am delighted;--ah, yes,", "pos": 1025781}
{"speaker": "Melmotte", "text": "I am desirous of being presented to his Imperial Majesty. Will you do me the honour of making my request known to Mr. Wilson?", "pos": 1026045}
{"speaker": "Lord De Griffin", "text": "I hardly know. I'm afraid it's all arranged. I don't know anything about it myself.", "pos": 1026287}
{"speaker": "Melmotte", "text": "You can introduce me to Mr. Wilson.", "pos": 1026397}
{"speaker": "Lord De Griffin", "text": "He's up there, Mr. Melmotte; and I couldn't get at him. Really you must excuse me. I'm very sorry. If I see him I'll tell him.", "pos": 1026435}
{"speaker": "Melmotte", "text": "I'm not going to stand this kind of thing. It is generally understood, I believe, that the Emperor is to do me the honour of dining at my poor house on Monday. He don't dine there unless I'm made acquainted with him before he comes. I mean what I say. I ain't going to entertain even an Emperor unless I'm good enough to be presented to him. Perhaps you'd better let Mr. Wilson know, as a good many people intend to come.", "pos": 1026668}
{"speaker": "Marquis of Auld Reekie", "text": "Here's a row. I wish he'd be as good as his word.", "pos": 1027327}
{"speaker": "Lord Alfred", "text": "He has taken a little wine. Melmotte, upon my word it isn't the thing. They're only Indian chaps and Eastern swells who are presented here,--not a fellow among 'em all who hasn't been in India or China, or isn't a Secretary of State, or something of that kind.", "pos": 1027403}
{"speaker": "Melmotte", "text": "Then they should have done it at Windsor, or at the ball. By George, Alfred! I'm in earnest, and somebody had better look to it. If I'm not presented to his Imperial Majesty to-night, by G----, there shall be no dinner in Grosvenor Square on Monday. I'm master enough of my own house, I suppose, to be able to manage that.", "pos": 1027720}
{"speaker": "Lord Alfred", "text": "There's no knowing how far the pig-headed brute may go in his obstinacy,", "pos": 1028217}
{"speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "text": "Bring him up. He's going to do something out in the East, isn't he?", "pos": 1029300}
{"speaker": "Lord De Griffin", "text": "Nothing in India. The submarine telegraph is quite impossible.", "pos": 1029389}
{"speaker": "Melmotte", "text": "My dear Alfred, just allow me to manage these things myself. I know my own position and how to keep it. There shall be no dinner. I'll be d---- if any of the lot shall dine in Grosvenor Square on Monday.", "pos": 1029638}
{"speaker": "Lord De Griffin", "text": "If you will come with me, it shall be managed. It isn't just the thing, but as you wish it, it shall be done.", "pos": 1030170}
{"speaker": "Melmotte", "text": "I do wish it,", "pos": 1030311}
{"speaker": "Lord De Griffin", "text": "If you will be so kind as to follow me,", "pos": 1030502}
{"speaker": "Melmotte", "text": "You might as well come, Alfred;--there are two or three things I must settle before I go to bed.", "pos": 1031191}
{"speaker": "Lord Alfred", "text": "I'm about knocked up,", "pos": 1031290}
{"speaker": "Melmotte", "text": "Knocked up, nonsense! Think what I've been through. I've been all day at the hardest work a man can do.", "pos": 1031340}
{"speaker": "Melmotte", "text": "I mean to let the fellows know what's what. Give and take is a very good motto. If I scratch their back, I mean them to scratch mine. They won't find many people to spend ten thousand pounds in entertaining a guest of the country's as a private enterprise. I don't know of any other man of business who could do it, or would do it. It's not much any of them can do for me. Thank God, I don't want 'em. But if consideration is to be shown to anybody, I intend to be considered. The Prince treated me very scurvily, Alfred, and I shall take an opportunity of telling him so on Monday. I suppose a man may be allowed to speak to his own guests.", "pos": 1031960}
{"speaker": "Lord Alfred", "text": "You might turn the election against you if you said anything the Prince didn't like.", "pos": 1032752}
{"speaker": "Melmotte", "text": "D---- the election, sir. I stand before the electors of Westminster as a man of business, not as a courtier,--as a man who understands commercial enterprise, not as one of the Prince's toadies. Some of you fellows in England don't realise the matter yet; but I can tell you that I think myself quite as great a man as any Prince. I'll teach them a lesson before long. Didn't I teach 'em a lesson to-night,--eh? They tell me that Lord De Griffin has sixty thousand a-year to spend. What's sixty thousand a year? Didn't I make him go on my business? And didn't I make 'em do as I chose? You want to tell me this and that, but I can tell you that I know more of men and women than some of you fellows do, who think you know a great deal.", "pos": 1032839}
{"speaker": "Roger Carbury", "text": "I know nothing about it, and I do not intend to ask. Of course I did know when they were down here that he hoped to marry her, and I did believe that she was willing to marry him. But whether the father had consented or not I never enquired. Nothing could have been more unfortunate for either of them than such a marriage. Melmotte will probably be in the 'Gazette' before long, and my cousin not only has not a shilling, but could not keep one if he had it. A failure! Of course he's a failure, whether rich or poor;--a miserable imposition, a hollow vulgar fraud from beginning to end,--too insignificant for you and me to talk of, were it not that his position is a sign of the degeneracy of the age. What are we coming to when such as he is an honoured guest at our tables? No;--it is not that. You can keep your house free from him, and so can I mine. But we set no example to the nation at large. They who do set the example go to his feasts, and of course he is seen at theirs in return. And yet these leaders of the fashion know,--at any rate they believe,--that he is what he is because he has been a swindler greater than other swindlers. What follows as a natural consequence? Men reconcile themselves to swindling. Though they themselves mean to be honest, dishonesty of itself is no longer odious to them. Then there comes the jealousy that others should be growing rich with the approval of all the world,--and the natural aptitude to do what all the world approves. It seems to me that the existence of a Melmotte is not compatible with a wholesome state of things in general.", "pos": 1035720}
{"speaker": "Bishop of Elmham", "text": "He has given £200, to the Curates' Aid Society. I don't know that a man could spend his money much better than that.", "pos": 1037579}
{"speaker": "Roger Carbury", "text": "Clap-trap!", "pos": 1037717}
{"speaker": "Bishop of Elmham", "text": "The money is not clap-trap, my friend. I presume that the money is really paid.", "pos": 1037783}
{"speaker": "Roger Carbury", "text": "I don't feel at all sure of that.", "pos": 1037865}
{"speaker": "Bishop of Elmham", "text": "Our collectors for clerical charities are usually stern men,--very ready to make known defalcations on the part of promising subscribers. I think they would take care to get the money during the election.", "pos": 1037901}
{"speaker": "Roger Carbury", "text": "And you think that money got in that way redounds to his credit?", "pos": 1038108}
{"speaker": "Bishop of Elmham", "text": "Such a gift shows him to be a useful member of society,--and I am always for encouraging useful men.", "pos": 1038175}
{"speaker": "Roger Carbury", "text": "Even though their own objects may be vile and pernicious?", "pos": 1038278}
{"speaker": "Bishop of Elmham", "text": "There you beg ever so many questions, Mr. Carbury. Mr. Melmotte wishes to get into Parliament, and if there would vote on the side which you at any rate approve. I do not know that his object in that respect is pernicious. And as a seat in Parliament has been a matter of ambition to the best of our countrymen for centuries, I do not know why we should say that it is vile in this man.", "pos": 1038338}
{"speaker": "Roger Carbury", "text": "It's going to the dogs, I think;--about as fast as it can go.", "pos": 1038937}
{"speaker": "Bishop of Elmham", "text": "We build churches much faster than we used to do.", "pos": 1039001}
{"speaker": "Roger Carbury", "text": "Do we say our prayers in them when we have built them?", "pos": 1039053}
{"speaker": "Bishop of Elmham", "text": "It is very hard to see into the minds of men, but we can see the results of their minds' work. I think that men on the whole do live better lives than they did a hundred years ago. There is a wider spirit of justice abroad, more of mercy from one to another, a more lively charity, and if less of religious enthusiasm, less also of superstition. Men will hardly go to heaven, Mr. Carbury, by following forms only because their fathers followed the same forms before them.", "pos": 1039128}
{"speaker": "Roger Carbury", "text": "I suppose men will go to heaven, my Lord, by doing as they would be done by.", "pos": 1039621}
{"speaker": "Bishop of Elmham", "text": "There can be no safer lesson. But we must hope that some may be saved even if they have not practised at all times that grand self-denial. Who comes up to that teaching? Do you not wish for, nay, almost demand, instant pardon for any trespass that you may commit,--of temper, or manner, for instance? and are you always ready to forgive in that way yourself? Do you not writhe with indignation at being wrongly judged by others who condemn you without knowing your actions or the causes of them; and do you never judge others after that fashion?", "pos": 1039700}
{"speaker": "Roger Carbury", "text": "I do not put myself forward as an example.", "pos": 1040248}
{"speaker": "Bishop of Elmham", "text": "I apologise for the personal form of my appeal. A clergyman is apt to forget that he is not in the pulpit. Of course I speak of men in general. Taking society as a whole, the big and the little, the rich and the poor, I think that it grows better from year to year, and not worse. I think, too, that they who grumble at the times, as Horace did, and declare that each age is worse than its forerunner, look only at the small things beneath their eyes, and ignore the course of the world at large.", "pos": 1040293}
{"speaker": "Roger Carbury", "text": "But Roman freedom and Roman manners were going to the dogs when Horace wrote.", "pos": 1040792}
{"speaker": "Bishop of Elmham", "text": "But Christ was about to be born, and men were already being made fit by wider intelligence for Christ's teaching. And as for freedom, has not freedom grown, almost every year, from that to this?", "pos": 1040872}
{"speaker": "Roger Carbury", "text": "In Rome they were worshipping just such men as this Melmotte. Do you remember the man who sat upon the seats of the knights and scoured the Via Sacra with his toga, though he had been scourged from pillar to post for his villainies? I always think of that man when I hear Melmotte's name mentioned. Hoc, hoc tribuno militum! Is this the man to be Conservative member for Westminster?", "pos": 1041069}
{"speaker": "Bishop of Elmham", "text": "Do you know of the scourges, as a fact?", "pos": 1041455}
{"speaker": "Roger Carbury", "text": "I think I know that they are deserved.", "pos": 1041497}
{"speaker": "Bishop of Elmham", "text": "That is hardly doing to others as you would be done by. If the man is what you say, he will surely be found out at last, and the day of his punishment will come. Your friend in the ode probably had a bad time of it, in spite of his farms and his horses. The world perhaps is managed more justly than you think, Mr. Carbury.", "pos": 1041538}
{"speaker": "Roger Carbury", "text": "My Lord, I believe you're a Radical at heart,", "pos": 1041864}
{"speaker": "Bishop of Elmham", "text": "Very likely,--very likely. Only don't say so to the Prime Minister, or I shall never get any of the better things which may be going.", "pos": 1041946}
{"speaker": "Father Barham", "text": "Have you seen this, Mr. Carbury?", "pos": 1044082}
{"speaker": "Roger Carbury", "text": "What's this? I am not likely to have seen anything that belongs peculiarly to 'The Surplice.'", "pos": 1044126}
{"speaker": "Father Barham", "text": "That's the prejudice of what you are pleased to call the Anglican Church. Mr. Melmotte is a convert to our faith. He is a great man, and will perhaps be one of the greatest known on the face of the globe.", "pos": 1044222}
{"speaker": "Roger Carbury", "text": "Melmotte a convert to Romanism! I'll make you a present of him, and thank you to take him; but I don't believe that we've any such good riddance.", "pos": 1044429}
{"speaker": "Father Barham", "text": "Mr. Augustus Melmotte, the great financier and capitalist, has presented a hundred guineas towards the erection of an altar for the new church of St. Fabricius, in Tothill Fields. The donation was accompanied by a letter from Mr. Melmotte's secretary, which leaves but little doubt that the new member for Westminster will be a member, and no inconsiderable member, of the Catholic party in the House, during the next session.", "pos": 1044636}
{"speaker": "Roger Carbury", "text": "That's another dodge, is it?", "pos": 1045065}
{"speaker": "Father Barham", "text": "What do you mean by a dodge, Mr. Carbury? Because money is given for a pious object of which you do not happen to approve, must it be a dodge?", "pos": 1045110}
{"speaker": "Roger Carbury", "text": "But, my dear Father Barham, the day before the same great man gave £200 to the Protestant Curates' Aid Society. I have just left the Bishop exulting in this great act of charity.", "pos": 1045255}
{"speaker": "Father Barham", "text": "I don't believe a word of it;--or it may be a parting gift to the Church to which he belonged in his darkness.", "pos": 1045436}
{"speaker": "Roger Carbury", "text": "And you would be really proud of Mr. Melmotte as a convert?", "pos": 1045549}
{"speaker": "Father Barham", "text": "I would be proud of the lowest human being that has a soul, but of course we are glad to welcome the wealthy and the great.", "pos": 1045611}
{"speaker": "Roger Carbury", "text": "The great! oh dear!", "pos": 1045756}
{"speaker": "Father Barham", "text": "A man is great who has made for himself such a position as that of Mr. Melmotte. And when such a one leaves your Church and joins our own, it is a great sign to us that the Truth is prevailing.", "pos": 1045778}
{"speaker": "Mr. Beauchamp Beauclerk", "text": "Do nothing of the kind. If any one asks you a question at any meeting, say that you are a Protestant. But it isn't likely, as we have none but our own people. Don't go writing letters.", "pos": 1051816}
{"speaker": "Lord Alfred", "text": "It's that fellow from 'The Herald' office did it, not me. I don't know how people ought to sit. But that's the reason.", "pos": 1057598}
{"speaker": "Melmotte", "text": "I'm d---- if I'm going to be treated in this way in my own house. Who the d---- are you?", "pos": 1057751}
{"speaker": "Father Barham", "text": "I am the Rev. Mr. Barham. I am the priest of Beccles in Suffolk. I believe I am speaking to Mr. Melmotte.", "pos": 1058940}
{"speaker": "Melmotte", "text": "That's my name, sir. And what may you want? I don't know whether you are aware that you have found your way into my private dining-room without any introduction. Where the mischief are the fellows, Alfred, who ought to have seen about this? I wish you'd look to it, Miles. Can anybody who pleases walk into my hall?", "pos": 1059068}
{"speaker": "Father Barham", "text": "I came on a mission which I hope may be pleaded as my excuse,", "pos": 1059386}
{"speaker": "Lord Alfred", "text": "Is it business?", "pos": 1059660}
{"speaker": "Father Barham", "text": "Certainly it is business,", "pos": 1059697}
{"speaker": "Lord Alfred", "text": "Then you had better call at the office in Abchurch Lane,--in the City,", "pos": 1059758}
{"speaker": "Father Barham", "text": "My business is not of that nature. I am a poor servant of the Cross, who is anxious to know from the lips of Mr. Melmotte himself that his heart is inclined to the true Faith.", "pos": 1059850}
{"speaker": "Melmotte", "text": "Some lunatic. See that there ain't any knives about, Alfred.", "pos": 1060028}
{"speaker": "Father Barham", "text": "No otherwise mad, sir, than they have ever been accounted mad who are enthusiastic in their desire for the souls of others.", "pos": 1060108}
{"speaker": "Melmotte", "text": "Just get a policeman, Alfred. Or send somebody; you'd better not go away.", "pos": 1060234}
{"speaker": "Father Barham", "text": "You will hardly need a policeman, Mr. Melmotte. If I might speak to you alone for a few minutes--", "pos": 1060310}
{"speaker": "Melmotte", "text": "Certainly not;--certainly not. I am very busy, and if you will not go away you'll have to be taken away. I wonder whether anybody knows him.", "pos": 1060434}
{"speaker": "Father Barham", "text": "Mr. Carbury, of Carbury Hall, is my friend.", "pos": 1060577}
{"speaker": "Melmotte", "text": "Carbury! D---- the Carburys! Did any of the Carburys send you here? A set of beggars! Why don't you do something, Alfred, to get rid of him?", "pos": 1060623}
{"speaker": "Lord Alfred", "text": "You'd better go. Don't make a rumpus, there's a good fellow;--but just go.", "pos": 1060766}
{"speaker": "Father Barham", "text": "There shall be no rumpus. I asked for you at the door, and was told to come in by your own servants. Have I been uncivil that you should treat me in this fashion?", "pos": 1060863}
{"speaker": "Lord Alfred", "text": "You're in the way,", "pos": 1061064}
{"speaker": "Melmotte", "text": "It's a piece of gross impertinence. Go away.", "pos": 1061103}
{"speaker": "Father Barham", "text": "Will you not tell me before I go whether I shall pray for you as one whose steps in the right path should be made sure and firm; or as one still in error and in darkness?", "pos": 1061167}
{"speaker": "Melmotte", "text": "What the mischief does he mean?", "pos": 1061340}
{"speaker": "Lord Alfred", "text": "He wants to know whether you're a papist,", "pos": 1061390}
{"speaker": "Melmotte", "text": "What the deuce is it to him? That's a remarkable thing, very remarkable. I suppose he was in earnest.", "pos": 1061452}
{"speaker": "Lord Alfred", "text": "Mad as a hatter,", "pos": 1061713}
{"speaker": "Melmotte", "text": "But why did he come to me in his madness--to me especially? That's what I want to know. I'll tell you what it is. There isn't a man in all England at this moment thought of so much as--your humble servant. I wonder whether the 'Morning Pulpit' people sent him here now to find out really what is my religion.", "pos": 1061750}
{"speaker": "Lord Alfred", "text": "Mad as a hatter, just that and no more.", "pos": 1062061}
{"speaker": "Melmotte", "text": "My dear fellow, I don't think you've the gift of seeing very far. The truth is they don't know what to make of me;--and I don't intend that they shall. I'm playing my game, and there isn't one of 'em understands it except myself. It's no good my sitting here, you know. I shan't be able to move. How am I to get at you if I want anything?", "pos": 1062130}
{"speaker": "Lord Alfred", "text": "What can you want? There'll be lots of servants about.", "pos": 1062471}
{"speaker": "Melmotte", "text": "I'll have this bar down, at any rate. I look upon that fellow's coming here as a very singular sign of the times. They'll want before long to know where I have my clothes made, and who measures me for my boots!", "pos": 1062528}
{"speaker": "Father Barham", "text": "He insulted me,", "pos": 1063660}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Did he intend to insult you?", "pos": 1063773}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Certainly he did. But what of that? It is not by the hands of polished men, nor even of the courteous, that this work has to be done. He was preparing for some great festival, and his mind was intent upon that.", "pos": 1063804}
{"speaker": "brother priest", "text": "He entertains the Emperor of China this very day,", "pos": 1064017}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "The Emperor of China! Ah, that accounts for it. I do think that he is on our side, even though he gave me but little encouragement for saying so. Will they vote for him, here at Westminster?", "pos": 1064169}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Our people will. They think that he is rich and can help them.", "pos": 1064362}
{"speaker": "Father Barham", "text": "There is no doubt of his wealth, I suppose,", "pos": 1064427}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Some people do doubt;--but others say he is the richest man in the world.", "pos": 1064493}
{"speaker": "Father Barham", "text": "He looked like it,--and spoke like it. Think what such a man might do, if he be really the wealthiest man in the world! And if he had been against us would he not have said so? Though he was uncivil, I am glad that I saw him.", "pos": 1064569}
{"speaker": "Marquis", "text": "She'll be sick of him by this time, I should say. What does it matter, if the money's there?", "pos": 1070495}
{"speaker": "Melmotte", "text": "Did you ever hear anything like that, Nidderdale?", "pos": 1072244}
{"speaker": "Lord Alfred", "text": "Mad as a hatter,", "pos": 1072337}
{"speaker": "Melmotte", "text": "I don't know much about his madness. I shouldn't wonder if he had been sent by the Archbishop of Westminster. Why don't we have an Archbishop of Westminster when they've got one? I shall have to see to that when I'm in the House. I suppose there is a bishop, isn't there, Alfred? There's a Dean, I know, for I called on him. He told me flat he wouldn't vote for me. I thought all those parsons were Conservatives. It didn't occur to me that the fellow had come from the Archbishop, or I would have been more civil to him.", "pos": 1072374}
{"speaker": "Lord Alfred", "text": "Mad as a hatter;--nothing else,", "pos": 1072923}
{"speaker": "Melmotte", "text": "You should have seen him, Nidderdale. It would have been as good as a play to you.", "pos": 1072975}
{"speaker": "Lord Nidderdale", "text": "I suppose you didn't ask him to the dinner, sir.", "pos": 1073060}
{"speaker": "Melmotte", "text": "D---- the dinner, I'm sick of it. We must go back again, Alfred. Those fellows will never get along if they are not looked after. Come, Miles. Ladies, I shall expect you to be ready at exactly a quarter before eight. His Imperial Majesty is to arrive at eight precisely, and I must be there to receive him. You, Madame, will have to receive your guests in the drawing-room.", "pos": 1073111}
{"speaker": "Madame Melmotte", "text": "Mamma, where are you going? I must see if I can't do something for her,", "pos": 1075023}
{"speaker": "Marie", "text": "That's a shame,", "pos": 1075355}
{"speaker": "Lord Nidderdale", "text": "Your mother has gone on purpose that I may speak to you. Why should you grudge me the opportunity?", "pos": 1075385}
{"speaker": "Marie", "text": "I don't know what you should have to say to me, Lord Nidderdale.", "pos": 1078415}
{"speaker": "Lord Nidderdale", "text": "Why shouldn't I have something to say to you?", "pos": 1078482}
{"speaker": "Marie", "text": "Because--. Oh, you know why. Besides, I've told you ever so often, my lord. I thought a gentleman would never go on with a lady when the lady has told him that she liked somebody else better.", "pos": 1078530}
{"speaker": "Lord Nidderdale", "text": "Perhaps I don't believe you when you tell me.", "pos": 1078724}
{"speaker": "Marie", "text": "Well; that is impudent! You may believe it then. I think I've given you reason to believe it, at any rate.", "pos": 1078772}
{"speaker": "Lord Nidderdale", "text": "You can't be very fond of him now, I should think.", "pos": 1078881}
{"speaker": "Marie", "text": "That's all you know about it, my lord. Why shouldn't I be fond of him? Accidents will happen, you know.", "pos": 1078934}
{"speaker": "Lord Nidderdale", "text": "I don't want to make any allusion to anything that's unpleasant, Miss Melmotte.", "pos": 1079040}
{"speaker": "Marie", "text": "You may say just what you please. All the world knows about it. Of course I went to Liverpool, and of course papa had me brought back again.", "pos": 1079122}
{"speaker": "Lord Nidderdale", "text": "Why did not Sir Felix go?", "pos": 1079265}
{"speaker": "Marie", "text": "I don't think, my lord, that that can be any business of yours.", "pos": 1079293}
{"speaker": "Lord Nidderdale", "text": "But I think that it is, and I'll tell you why. You might as well let me say what I've got to say,--out at once.", "pos": 1079359}
{"speaker": "Marie", "text": "You may say what you like, but it can't make any difference.", "pos": 1079473}
{"speaker": "Lord Nidderdale", "text": "You knew me before you knew him, you know.", "pos": 1079536}
{"speaker": "Marie", "text": "What does that matter? If it comes to that, I knew ever so many people before I knew you.", "pos": 1079581}
{"speaker": "Lord Nidderdale", "text": "And you were engaged to me.", "pos": 1079673}
{"speaker": "Marie", "text": "You broke it off.", "pos": 1079703}
{"speaker": "Lord Nidderdale", "text": "Listen to me for a moment or two. I know I did. Or, rather, your father and my father broke it off for us.", "pos": 1079723}
{"speaker": "Marie", "text": "If we had cared for each other they couldn't have broken it off. Nobody in the world could break me off as long as I felt that he really loved me;--not if they were to cut me in pieces. But you didn't care, not a bit. You did it just because your father told you. And so did I. But I know better than that now. You never cared for me a bit more than for the old woman at the crossing. You thought I didn't understand;--but I did. And now you've come again;--because your father has told you again. And you'd better go away.", "pos": 1079832}
{"speaker": "Lord Nidderdale", "text": "There's a great deal of truth in what you say.", "pos": 1080358}
{"speaker": "Marie", "text": "It's all true, my lord. Every word of it.", "pos": 1080407}
{"speaker": "Lord Nidderdale", "text": "I wish you wouldn't call me my lord.", "pos": 1080451}
{"speaker": "Marie", "text": "I suppose you are a lord, and therefore I shall call you so. I never called you anything else when they pretended that we were to be married, and you never asked me. I never even knew what your name was till I looked it out in the book after I had consented.", "pos": 1080490}
{"speaker": "Lord Nidderdale", "text": "There is truth in what you say;--but it isn't true now. How was I to love you when I had seen so little of you? I do love you now.", "pos": 1080751}
{"speaker": "Marie", "text": "Then you needn't;--for it isn't any good.", "pos": 1080884}
{"speaker": "Lord Nidderdale", "text": "I do love you now, and I think you'd find that I should be truer to you than that fellow who wouldn't take the trouble to go down to Liverpool with you.", "pos": 1080928}
{"speaker": "Marie", "text": "You don't know why he didn't go.", "pos": 1081083}
{"speaker": "Lord Nidderdale", "text": "Well;--perhaps I do. But I did not come here to say anything about that.", "pos": 1081118}
{"speaker": "Marie", "text": "Why didn't he go, Lord Nidderdale? If you really know, you might as well tell me.", "pos": 1081192}
{"speaker": "Lord Nidderdale", "text": "No, Marie;--that's just what I ought not to do. But he ought to tell you. Do you really in your heart believe that he means to come back to you?", "pos": 1081343}
{"speaker": "Marie", "text": "I don't know. I do love him;--I do indeed. I know that you are good-natured. You are more good-natured than he is. But he did like me. You never did;--no; not a bit. It isn't true. I ain't a fool. I know. No;--go away. I won't let you now. I don't care what he is; I'll be true to him. Go away, Lord Nidderdale. You oughtn't to go on like that because papa and mamma let you come here. I didn't let you come. I don't want you to come. No;--I won't say any kind word to you. I love Sir Felix Carbury better--than any person--in all the world. There! I don't know whether you call that kind, but it's true.", "pos": 1081490}
{"speaker": "Lord Nidderdale", "text": "Say good-bye to me, Marie.", "pos": 1082118}
{"speaker": "Marie", "text": "Oh, I don't mind saying good-bye. Good-bye, my lord; and don't come any more.", "pos": 1082147}
{"speaker": "Lord Nidderdale", "text": "Yes, I shall. Good-bye, Marie. You'll find the difference between me and him yet. She's quite a different sort of girl from what I took her to be. Upon my word, she's awfully jolly.", "pos": 1082227}
{"speaker": "Dolly Longestaffe", "text": "I don't know why Mr. Melmotte is to be different from anybody else. When I buy a thing and don't pay for it, it is because I haven't got the tin, and I suppose it's about the same with him. It's all right, no doubt, but I don't see why he should have got hold of the place till the money was paid down.", "pos": 1085362}
{"speaker": "Mr. Longestaffe", "text": "Of course it's all right. You think you understand everything, when you really understand nothing at all.", "pos": 1085696}
{"speaker": "Dolly Longestaffe", "text": "Of course I'm slow. I don't comprehend these things. But then Squercum does. When a fellow is stupid himself, he ought to have a sharp fellow to look after his business.", "pos": 1085823}
{"speaker": "Mr. Longestaffe", "text": "You'll ruin me and yourself too, if you go to such a man as that. Why can't you trust Mr. Bideawhile? Slow and Bideawhile have been the family lawyers for a century.", "pos": 1086009}
{"speaker": "Squercum", "text": "Melmotte's at Pickering?", "pos": 1090470}
{"speaker": "Squercum", "text": "I'll look to it. They've got him to sign something when he was tight. I wonder whether his father did it, or old Bideawhile, or Melmotte himself? It's not the trick of a pompous old fool either,", "pos": 1091061}
{"speaker": "Dolly Longestaffe", "text": "Never did such a thing in my life, and nothing could make me. I'm never tight except at the club, and the letter couldn't have been there. I'll be drawn and quartered if I ever signed it. That's flat.", "pos": 1094100}
{"speaker": "Squercum", "text": "We'll just ferret this thing out quietly,", "pos": 1094493}
{"speaker": "Dolly Longestaffe", "text": "Yes, it's easy saying that I'm lack-a-daisical. But I know when I'm lack-a-daisical and when I'm not. Awake or asleep, drunk or sober, I never signed that letter.", "pos": 1097311}
{"speaker": "Prime Minister", "text": "It is the merest rumour. I have inquired, and there is nothing to justify me in thinking that the charges can be substantiated.", "pos": 1102093}
{"speaker": "Leader of the Opposition", "text": "They say that the story is believed in the City.", "pos": 1102250}
{"speaker": "Prime Minister", "text": "I should not feel myself justified in acting upon such a report. The Prince might probably find it impossible not to go. Where should we be if Mr. Melmotte to-morrow were able to prove the whole to be a calumny, and to show that the thing had been got up with a view of influencing the election at Westminster? The dinner must certainly go on.", "pos": 1102301}
{"speaker": "Leader of the Opposition", "text": "And you will go yourself?", "pos": 1102647}
{"speaker": "Prime Minister", "text": "Most assuredly. And I hope that you will keep me in countenance. They should remember, that they are also to meet their own Prince, and that empty seats on such an occasion will be a dishonour to him.", "pos": 1102675}
{"speaker": "Leader of the Opposition", "text": "Just at present I can only answer for myself,", "pos": 1103370}
{"speaker": "Lionel Lupton", "text": "Is your Grace going?", "pos": 1105953}
{"speaker": "Duchess of Stevenage", "text": "I usually keep engagements when I make them, Mr. Lupton,", "pos": 1106230}
{"speaker": "Miles Grendall", "text": "You've heard about it; haven't you? They're saying all manner of things in the City;--forgery and heaven knows what. The Lord Mayor is not coming.", "pos": 1108569}
{"speaker": "Melmotte", "text": "How is it that there are so many places empty?", "pos": 1112191}
{"speaker": "Achates", "text": "Don't know,", "pos": 1112273}
{"speaker": "Melmotte", "text": "Hasn't there been some mistake about the numbers? There's room for ever so many more.", "pos": 1112459}
{"speaker": "Lord Alfred", "text": "Don't know,", "pos": 1112547}
{"speaker": "Melmotte", "text": "What the deuce do you mean? You've been at it from the beginning and ought to know. When I wanted to ask Brehgert, you swore that you couldn't squeeze a place.", "pos": 1112666}
{"speaker": "Lord Alfred", "text": "Can't say anything about it,", "pos": 1112850}
{"speaker": "Melmotte", "text": "I'll be d---- if I don't find out. There's either some horrible blunder, or else there's been imposition. I don't see quite clearly. Where's Sir Gregory Gribe?", "pos": 1112935}
{"speaker": "Lord Alfred", "text": "Hasn't come, I suppose.", "pos": 1113114}
{"speaker": "Melmotte", "text": "And where's the Lord Mayor? I know all their places, and I know where they were put. Have you seen the Lord Mayor?", "pos": 1113140}
{"speaker": "Lord Alfred", "text": "No; I haven't seen him at all.", "pos": 1113348}
{"speaker": "Melmotte", "text": "But he was to come. What's the meaning of it, Alfred?", "pos": 1113381}
{"speaker": "Lord Alfred", "text": "Don't know anything about it.", "pos": 1113437}
{"speaker": "Melmotte", "text": "And where's Mr. Killegrew,--and Sir David Boss? There are ever so many people not here. Why, there's not above half of them down the room. What's up, Alfred? I must know.", "pos": 1113547}
{"speaker": "Lord Alfred", "text": "I tell you I know nothing. I could not make them come. If you go on making a row. I shall go away.", "pos": 1113845}
{"speaker": "Melmotte", "text": "Just sit quiet and let the thing go on. You'll know all about it soon enough.", "pos": 1114395}
{"speaker": "Emperor", "text": "And this, is what they call royalty in the West!", "pos": 1116061}
{"speaker": "Melmotte", "text": "Where's Sir Gregory?", "pos": 1116370}
{"speaker": "Todd", "text": "Ain't he here? No;--and the Lord Mayor's not come;--nor Postlethwaite, nor Bunter. What's the meaning of it? I'm here, that's all I can say, Mr. Melmotte; and I've had a very good dinner. They who haven't come, have lost a very good dinner.", "pos": 1116620}
{"speaker": "Melmotte", "text": "It's very odd, that gentlemen should promise to come and then stay away. There were hundreds anxious to be present whom I should have been glad to welcome, if I had known that there would be room. I think it is very odd.", "pos": 1117361}
{"speaker": "Mr. Todd", "text": "It is odd,", "pos": 1117595}
{"speaker": "the lady", "text": "You have a wonderful assemblage here, Mr. Melmotte,", "pos": 1118996}
{"speaker": "Melmotte", "text": "Yes, ma'am, yes. His Majesty the Emperor has been pleased to intimate that he has been much gratified. Can you tell me, Mr. Beauclerk, why those other gentlemen are not here? It looks very odd; does it not?", "pos": 1119096}
{"speaker": "Mr. Beauclerk", "text": "Ah; you mean Killegrew.", "pos": 1119407}
{"speaker": "Melmotte", "text": "Yes; Mr. Killegrew and Sir David Boss, and the whole lot. I made a particular point of their coming. I said I wouldn't have the dinner at all unless they were to be asked. They were going to make it a Government thing; but I said no. I insisted on the leaders of our own party; and now they're not here. I know the cards were sent;--and, by George, I have their answers, saying they'd come.", "pos": 1119433}
{"speaker": "Mr. Beauclerk", "text": "I suppose some of them are engaged,", "pos": 1119826}
{"speaker": "Melmotte", "text": "Engaged! What business has a man to accept one engagement and then take another? And, if so, why shouldn't he write and make his excuses? No, Mr. Beauclerk, that won't go down.", "pos": 1119884}
{"speaker": "Beauclerk", "text": "I'm here, at any rate,", "pos": 1120063}
{"speaker": "Melmotte", "text": "Oh, yes, you're here. You're all right. But what is it, Mr. Beauclerk? There's something up, and you must have heard. Is it anything about the election to-morrow?", "pos": 1120158}
{"speaker": "Mr. Beauclerk", "text": "One never can tell what is actuating people,", "pos": 1120494}
{"speaker": "Melmotte", "text": "If you know anything about the matter I think you ought to tell me.", "pos": 1120561}
{"speaker": "Mr. Beauclerk", "text": "I know nothing except that the ballot will be taken to-morrow. You and I have got nothing more to do in the matter except to wait the result.", "pos": 1120631}
{"speaker": "Melmotte", "text": "Well; I suppose it's all right,", "pos": 1120775}
{"speaker": "Melmotte", "text": "Miles, tell me what the row is.", "pos": 1122144}
{"speaker": "Miles Grendall", "text": "How row?", "pos": 1122189}
{"speaker": "Melmotte", "text": "There's something wrong, and you know all about it. Why didn't the people come? Come; what is it? We might as well know all about it at once. Is it about the election?", "pos": 1122213}
{"speaker": "Miles Grendall", "text": "No, it's not that,", "pos": 1122510}
{"speaker": "Melmotte", "text": "Then what is it?", "pos": 1122543}
{"speaker": "Miles Grendall", "text": "They got hold of something to-day in the City--about Pickering.", "pos": 1122562}
{"speaker": "Melmotte", "text": "They did, did they? And what were they saying about Pickering? Come; you might as well out with it. You don't suppose that I care what lies they tell.", "pos": 1122628}
{"speaker": "Miles Grendall", "text": "They say there's been something--forged. Title-deeds, I think they say.", "pos": 1122781}
{"speaker": "Melmotte", "text": "Title-deeds! that I have forged title-deeds. Well; that's beginning well. And his lordship has stayed away from my house after accepting my invitation because he has heard that story! All right, Miles; that will do.", "pos": 1122855}
{"speaker": "Miss Longestaffe", "text": "As for that, my dear. I don't see what you mean at all. You meet Lady Julia Goldsheiner everywhere, and her father-in-law is Mr. Brehgert's junior partner.", "pos": 1125082}
{"speaker": "Lady Monogram", "text": "Lady Julia is Lady Julia, my dear, and young Mr. Goldsheiner has, in some sort of way, got himself in. He hunts, and Damask says that he is one of the best shots at Hurlingham. I never met old Mr. Goldsheiner anywhere.", "pos": 1125370}
{"speaker": "Miss Longestaffe", "text": "I have.", "pos": 1125591}
{"speaker": "Lady Monogram", "text": "Oh, yes, I dare say. Mr. Melmotte, of course, entertains all the City people. I don't think Sir Damask would like me to ask Mr. Brehgert to dine here.", "pos": 1125601}
{"speaker": "Miss Longestaffe", "text": "May I speak to Sir Damask about it?", "pos": 1126155}
{"speaker": "Lady Monogram", "text": "Well, my dear, I really don't think you ought to do that. There are little things which a man and his wife must manage together without interference.", "pos": 1126254}
{"speaker": "Miss Longestaffe", "text": "Nobody can ever say that I interfered in any family. But really, Julia, when you tell me that Sir Damask cannot receive Mr. Brehgert, it does sound odd. As for City people, you know as well as I do, that that kind of thing is all over now. City people are just as good as West-end people.", "pos": 1126406}
{"speaker": "Lady Monogram", "text": "A great deal better, I dare say. I'm not arguing about that. I don't make the lines; but there they are; and one gets to know in a sort of way what they are. I don't pretend to be a bit better than my neighbours. I like to see people come here whom other people who come here will like to meet. I'm big enough to hold my own, and so is Sir Damask. But we ain't big enough to introduce new-comers. I don't suppose there's anybody in London understands it better than you do, Georgiana, and therefore it's absurd my pretending to teach you. I go pretty well everywhere, as you are aware; and I shouldn't know Mr. Brehgert if I were to see him.", "pos": 1126697}
{"speaker": "Miss Longestaffe", "text": "You'll meet him at the Melmottes', and, in spite of all you said once, you're glad enough to go there.", "pos": 1127341}
{"speaker": "Lady Monogram", "text": "Quite true, my dear. I don't think that you are just the person to throw that in my teeth; but never mind that. There's the butcher round the corner in Bond Street, or the man who comes to do my hair. I don't at all think of asking them to my house. But if they were suddenly to turn out wonderful men, and go everywhere, no doubt I should be glad to have them here. That's the way we live, and you are as well used to it as I am. Mr. Brehgert at present to me is like the butcher round the corner.", "pos": 1127446}
{"speaker": "Miss Longestaffe", "text": "He is not a bit like a butcher,", "pos": 1128046}
{"speaker": "Lady Monogram", "text": "I did not say that he was.", "pos": 1128129}
{"speaker": "Miss Longestaffe", "text": "Yes, you did; and it was the unkindest thing you could possibly say. It was meant to be unkind. It was monstrous. How would you like it if I said that Sir Damask was like a hair-dresser?", "pos": 1128158}
{"speaker": "Lady Monogram", "text": "You can say so if you please. Sir Damask drives four in hand, rides as though he meant to break his neck every winter, is one of the best shots going, and is supposed to understand a yacht as well as any other gentleman out. And I'm rather afraid that before he was married he used to box with all the prize-fighters, and to be a little too free behind the scenes. If that makes a man like a hair-dresser, well, there he is.", "pos": 1128347}
{"speaker": "Miss Longestaffe", "text": "How proud you are of his vices.", "pos": 1128774}
{"speaker": "Lady Monogram", "text": "He's very good-natured, my dear, and as he does not interfere with me, I don't interfere with him. I hope you'll do as well. I dare say Mr. Brehgert is good-natured.", "pos": 1128808}
{"speaker": "Miss Longestaffe", "text": "He's an excellent man of business, and is making a very large fortune.", "pos": 1128976}
{"speaker": "Lady Monogram", "text": "And has five or six grown-up children, who, no doubt, will be a comfort.", "pos": 1129049}
{"speaker": "Miss Longestaffe", "text": "If I don't mind them, why need you? You have none at all, and you find it lonely enough.", "pos": 1129124}
{"speaker": "Lady Monogram", "text": "Not at all lonely. I have everything that I desire. How hard you are trying to be ill-natured, Georgiana.", "pos": 1129215}
{"speaker": "Miss Longestaffe", "text": "Why did you say that he was a--butcher?", "pos": 1129323}
{"speaker": "Lady Monogram", "text": "I said nothing of the kind. I didn't even say that he was like a butcher. What I did say was this,--that I don't feel inclined to risk my own reputation on the appearance of new people at my table. Of course, I go in for what you call fashion. Some people can dare to ask anybody they meet in the streets. I can't. I've my own line, and I mean to follow it. It's hard work, I can tell you; and it would be harder still if I wasn't particular. If you like Mr. Brehgert to come here on Tuesday evening, when the rooms will be full, you can ask him; but as for having him to dinner, I--won't--do--it.", "pos": 1129365}
{"speaker": "Georgiana", "text": "Mamma, there's one thing certain. I shall never do to be poor. And, mamma, to do as Sophia is doing would kill me. Fancy having to live at Toodlam all one's life with George Whitstable! And, mamma, I should drive you and papa mad if I were to stay at home always. And what would become of me when Dolly was master of everything?", "pos": 1136715}
{"speaker": "Lady Monogram", "text": "Dear me. Todd, Brehgert, and Goldsheiner! Mr. Todd is--one of us, I suppose.", "pos": 1138372}
{"speaker": "Georgiana", "text": "Yes, and Mr. Brehgert is a Jew. His name is Ezekiel Brehgert, and he is a Jew. You can say what you like about it.", "pos": 1138473}
{"speaker": "Lady Monogram", "text": "I don't say anything about it, my dear.", "pos": 1138615}
{"speaker": "Georgiana", "text": "And you can think anything you like. Things are changed since you and I were younger.", "pos": 1138657}
{"speaker": "Lady Monogram", "text": "Very much changed, it appears,", "pos": 1138745}
{"speaker": "Georgiana", "text": "I don't think we need talk of that yet, Mr. Brehgert,", "pos": 1139647}
{"speaker": "Mr. Brehgert", "text": "You might as well get over the difficulty and call me Ezekiel at once, used to call me Ezzy.", "pos": 1139713}
{"speaker": "Miss Longestaffe", "text": "Perhaps I shall do so some day,", "pos": 1140003}
{"speaker": "Mr. Brehgert", "text": "And ven shall it be? I should say as early in August as possible.", "pos": 1140293}
{"speaker": "Georgiana", "text": "In August!", "pos": 1140361}
{"speaker": "Mr. Brehgert", "text": "Vy not, my dear? Ve would have our little holiday in Germany,--at Vienna. I have business there, and know many friends.", "pos": 1140416}
{"speaker": "Georgiana", "text": "I must at any rate ask mamma about it,", "pos": 1141113}
{"speaker": "Sir Damask", "text": "Have you heard what's up, Ju?", "pos": 1143549}
{"speaker": "Lady Monogram", "text": "What is up?", "pos": 1143633}
{"speaker": "Sir Damask", "text": "Haven't you been out?", "pos": 1143647}
{"speaker": "Lady Monogram", "text": "I was shopping, and that kind of thing. I don't want to take that girl into the Park. I've made a mistake in having her here, but I mean to be seen with her as little as I can.", "pos": 1143671}
{"speaker": "Sir Damask", "text": "Be good-natured, Ju, whatever you are.", "pos": 1143850}
{"speaker": "Lady Monogram", "text": "Oh, bother! I know what I'm about. What is it you mean?", "pos": 1143891}
{"speaker": "Sir Damask", "text": "They say Melmotte's been found out.", "pos": 1143949}
{"speaker": "Lady Monogram", "text": "Found out! What do you mean by found out?", "pos": 1143987}
{"speaker": "Sir Damask", "text": "I don't know exactly. There are a dozen stories told. It's something about that place he bought of old Longestaffe.", "pos": 1144181}
{"speaker": "Lady Monogram", "text": "Are the Longestaffes mixed up in it? I won't have her here a day longer if there is anything against them.", "pos": 1144299}
{"speaker": "Sir Damask", "text": "Don't be an ass, Ju. There's nothing against him except that the poor old fellow hasn't got a shilling of his money.", "pos": 1144408}
{"speaker": "Lady Monogram", "text": "Then he's ruined,--and there's an end of them.", "pos": 1144527}
{"speaker": "Sir Damask", "text": "Perhaps he will get it now. Some say that Melmotte has forged a receipt, others a letter. Some declare that he has manufactured a whole set of title-deeds. You remember Dolly?", "pos": 1144576}
{"speaker": "Lady Monogram", "text": "Of course I know Dolly Longestaffe,", "pos": 1144754}
{"speaker": "Sir Damask", "text": "They say he has found it all out. There was always something about Dolly more than fellows gave him credit for. At any rate, everybody says that Melmotte will be in quod before long.", "pos": 1144889}
{"speaker": "Lady Monogram", "text": "Not to-night, Damask!", "pos": 1145074}
{"speaker": "Sir Damask", "text": "Nobody seems to know. Lupton was saying that the policemen would wait about in the room like servants till the Emperor and the Princes had gone away.", "pos": 1145098}
{"speaker": "Lady Monogram", "text": "Is Mr. Lupton going?", "pos": 1145250}
{"speaker": "Sir Damask", "text": "He was to have been at the dinner, but hadn't made up his mind whether he'd go or not when I saw him. Nobody seems to be quite certain whether the Emperor will go. Somebody said that a Cabinet Council was to be called to know what to do.", "pos": 1145273}
{"speaker": "Lady Monogram", "text": "A Cabinet Council!", "pos": 1145513}
{"speaker": "Sir Damask", "text": "Why, you see it's rather an awkward thing, letting the Prince go to dine with a man who perhaps may have been arrested and taken to gaol before dinner-time. That's the worst part of it. Nobody knows.", "pos": 1145534}
{"speaker": "Lady Monogram", "text": "Damask, one thing is certain;--we can't go.", "pos": 1146187}
{"speaker": "Sir Damask", "text": "After you've made such a fuss about it!", "pos": 1146265}
{"speaker": "Lady Monogram", "text": "It is a pity,--having that girl here in the house. You know, don't you, she's going to marry one of these people?", "pos": 1146307}
{"speaker": "Sir Damask", "text": "I heard about her marriage yesterday. But Brehgert isn't one of Melmotte's set. They tell me that Brehgert isn't a bad fellow. A vulgar cad, and all that, but nothing wrong about him.", "pos": 1146423}
{"speaker": "Lady Monogram", "text": "He's a Jew,--and he's seventy years old, and makes up horribly.", "pos": 1146609}
{"speaker": "Sir Damask", "text": "What does it matter to you if he's eighty? You are determined, then, you won't go?", "pos": 1146675}
{"speaker": "Sir Damask", "text": "I suppose you'll go,", "pos": 1148306}
{"speaker": "Lady Monogram", "text": "Of course we shall,--in about an hour,", "pos": 1148374}
{"speaker": "Sir Damask", "text": "Because, you know-- If you want me I'll stay, of course; but if you don't, I'll go down to the club.", "pos": 1148514}
{"speaker": "Lady Monogram", "text": "How can I say, yet? You needn't mind the club to-night.", "pos": 1148648}
{"speaker": "Sir Damask", "text": "All right;--only it's a bore being here alone.", "pos": 1148706}
{"speaker": "Miss Longestaffe", "text": "was up. Is there any doubt about our going to-night?", "pos": 1148788}
{"speaker": "Lady Monogram", "text": "I can't say. I'm so harassed that I don't know what I'm about. There seems to be a report that the Emperor won't be there.", "pos": 1148845}
{"speaker": "Miss Longestaffe", "text": "Impossible!", "pos": 1148970}
{"speaker": "Lady Monogram", "text": "It's all very well to say impossible, my dear, but still that's what people are saying. You see Mr. Melmotte is a very great man, but perhaps--something else has turned up, so that he may be thrown over. Things of that kind do happen. You had better finish dressing. I shall. But I shan't make sure of going till I hear that the Emperor is there. Damask, you must find out.", "pos": 1148984}
{"speaker": "Sir Damask", "text": "Find out what?", "pos": 1149488}
{"speaker": "Lady Monogram", "text": "Whether the Prince and the Emperor are there.", "pos": 1149505}
{"speaker": "Sir Damask", "text": "Send John to ask,", "pos": 1149553}
{"speaker": "Lady Monogram", "text": "He would be sure to make a blunder about it. If you'd go yourself you'd learn the truth in a minute. Have a cab,--just go into the hall and you'll soon know how it all is;--I'd do it in a minute if I were you.", "pos": 1149596}
{"speaker": "Sir Damask", "text": "What can be the objection? Go to a man's house and find out whether a man's guests are come before you go yourself! I don't just see it, Ju.", "pos": 1149892}
{"speaker": "Lady Monogram", "text": "Guests! What nonsense! The Emperor and all the Royal Family! As if it were like any other party. Such a thing, probably, never happened before, and never will happen again. If you don't go, Damask, I must; and I will.", "pos": 1150053}
{"speaker": "Sir Damask", "text": "It was a confounded bore. He hated emperors and he hated princes. He hated the whole box and dice of that sort of thing! He \"wished to goodness\" that he had dined at his club and sent word up home that the affair was to be off.", "pos": 1150381}
{"speaker": "Sir Damask", "text": "It's all right. They're there, safe enough. You are sure that the Emperor is there. As sure as a man can be without having seen him.", "pos": 1151448}
{"speaker": "Georgiana", "text": "I don't understand it at all. Of course the Emperor is there. Everybody has known for the last month that he was coming. What is the meaning of it, Julia?", "pos": 1151744}
{"speaker": "Lady Monogram", "text": "My dear, you must allow me to manage my own little affairs my own way. I dare say I am absurd. But I have my reason. Now, Damask, if the carriage is there we had better start.", "pos": 1151912}
{"speaker": "Mr. Broune", "text": "no affair of yours. I should go, if it were only for the sake of showing that you did not consider yourself to be implicated in the matter.", "pos": 1163169}
{"speaker": "Lady Carbury", "text": "Nonsense. Mr. Broune sees it quite in the right light. This is a grand demonstration in honour of the Emperor, rather than a private party;--and we have done nothing to offend the Melmottes. You know you wish to see the Emperor.", "pos": 1163403}
{"speaker": "Mr. Broune", "text": "Don't mind what you hear; but come. I am here and as far as I can see it is all right. The E. is beautiful, and P.'s are as thick as blackberries.", "pos": 1163825}
{"speaker": "Marie", "text": "I hope you won't be angry with me for speaking to you. I suppose you know about your brother,", "pos": 1164579}
{"speaker": "Hetta", "text": "I have heard about it. He never told me himself.", "pos": 1164886}
{"speaker": "Marie", "text": "Oh, I do so wish that I knew the truth. I know nothing. Of course, Miss Carbury, I love him. I do love him so dearly! I hope you don't think I would have done it if I hadn't loved him better than anybody in the world. Don't you think that if a girl loves a man,--really loves him,--that ought to go before everything?", "pos": 1164951}
{"speaker": "Hetta", "text": "I don't quite know. It is so hard to say,", "pos": 1165415}
{"speaker": "Marie", "text": "I do. What's the good of anything if you're to be broken-hearted? I don't care what they say of me, or what they do to me, if he would only be true to me. Why doesn't he--let me know--something about it?", "pos": 1165472}
{"speaker": "Marie", "text": "Do tell me. Where is he?", "pos": 1166702}
{"speaker": "Hetta", "text": "He has not been very well lately.", "pos": 1166744}
{"speaker": "Marie", "text": "Is he ill? Oh, Miss Carbury, do tell me. You can understand what it is to love him as I do;--can't you?", "pos": 1166780}
{"speaker": "Hetta", "text": "He has been ill. I think he is better now.", "pos": 1166886}
{"speaker": "Marie", "text": "Why does he not come to me, or send to me; or let me know something? It is cruel, is it not? Tell me,--you must know,--does he really care for me?", "pos": 1166931}
{"speaker": "Hetta", "text": "Felix hardly ever talks about himself to me,", "pos": 1167389}
{"speaker": "Marie", "text": "If he doesn't care for me, there shall be an end of it. If I only knew! If I thought that he loved me, I'd go through,--oh,--all the world for him. Nothing that papa could say should stop me. That's my feeling about it. I have never talked to any one but you about it. Isn't that strange? I haven't a person to talk to. That's my feeling, and I'm not a bit ashamed of it. There's no disgrace in being in love. But it's very bad to get married without being in love. That's what I think.", "pos": 1167446}
{"speaker": "Hetta", "text": "It is bad,", "pos": 1167962}
{"speaker": "Marie", "text": "But if Felix doesn't care for me! Tell me just what you think. Ah,--I see. Then I must give him up? Eh?", "pos": 1168014}
{"speaker": "Hetta", "text": "What can I say, Miss Melmotte? Felix never tells me. He is my brother,--and of course I love you for loving him.", "pos": 1168537}
{"speaker": "Marie", "text": "Do you? Oh! I wish you did. I should so like to be loved by you. Nobody loves me, I think. That man there wants to marry me. Do you know him? He is Lord Nidderdale. He is very nice; but he does not love me any more than he loves you. That's the way with men. It isn't the way with me. I would go with Felix and slave for him if he were poor. Is it all to be over then? You will give him a message from me? Just tell him I want to know; that's all. I want to know. You'll understand. I want to know the real truth. I suppose I do know it now. Then I shall not care what happens to me. It will be all the same. I suppose I shall marry that young man, though it will be very bad. I shall just be as if I hadn't any self of my own at all. But he ought to send me word after all that has passed. Do not you think he ought to send me word?", "pos": 1168750}
{"speaker": "Hetta", "text": "Yes, indeed.", "pos": 1169665}
{"speaker": "Marie", "text": "You tell him, then,", "pos": 1169680}
{"speaker": "Lord Nidderdale", "text": "How do you like the party?", "pos": 1170818}
{"speaker": "Marie", "text": "I don't like it at all, my lord. How do you like it?", "pos": 1170865}
{"speaker": "Lord Nidderdale", "text": "Very much, indeed. I think the Emperor is the greatest fun I ever saw. Prince Frederic. Prince Frederic says that he's stuffed with hay, and that he's made up fresh every morning at a shop in the Haymarket.", "pos": 1170920}
{"speaker": "Marie", "text": "I've seen him talk.", "pos": 1171214}
{"speaker": "Lord Nidderdale", "text": "He opens his mouth, of course. There is machinery as well as hay. I think he's the grandest old buffer out, and I'm awfully glad that I've dined with him. I couldn't make out whether he really put anything to eat into his jolly old mouth.", "pos": 1171236}
{"speaker": "Marie", "text": "Of course he did.", "pos": 1171477}
{"speaker": "Lord Nidderdale", "text": "Have you been thinking about what we were talking about the other day?", "pos": 1171497}
{"speaker": "Marie", "text": "No, my lord,--I haven't thought about it since. Why should I?", "pos": 1171570}
{"speaker": "Lord Nidderdale", "text": "Well;--it's a sort of thing that people do think about, you know.", "pos": 1171634}
{"speaker": "Marie", "text": "You don't think about it.", "pos": 1171702}
{"speaker": "Lord Nidderdale", "text": "Don't I? I've been thinking about nothing else the last three months.", "pos": 1171730}
{"speaker": "Marie", "text": "You've been thinking whether you'd get married or not.", "pos": 1171802}
{"speaker": "Lord Nidderdale", "text": "That's what I mean,", "pos": 1171859}
{"speaker": "Marie", "text": "It isn't what I mean, then.", "pos": 1171903}
{"speaker": "Lord Nidderdale", "text": "I'll be shot if I can understand you.", "pos": 1171933}
{"speaker": "Marie", "text": "Perhaps not. And you never will understand me. Oh, goodness;--they're all going, and we must get out of the way. Is that Prince Frederic, who told you about the hay? He is handsome; isn't he? And who is that in the violet dress;--with all the pearls?", "pos": 1171973}
{"speaker": "Lord Nidderdale", "text": "That's the Princess Dwarza.", "pos": 1172226}
{"speaker": "Marie", "text": "Dear me;--isn't it odd, having a lot of people in one's own house, and not being able to speak a word to them? I don't think it's at all nice. Good night, my lord. I'm glad you like the Emperor.", "pos": 1172256}
{"speaker": "Melmotte", "text": "I only wish it could have been done a little cheaper,", "pos": 1173313}
{"speaker": "Melmotte", "text": "Is that you, Miles? Come in. I'm just going home, and came up here to see how the empty rooms would look after they were all gone. What became of your father?", "pos": 1175485}
{"speaker": "Miles Grendall", "text": "I suppose he went away.", "pos": 1175657}
{"speaker": "Melmotte", "text": "I suppose he did. It went off very well, I think.", "pos": 1175683}
{"speaker": "Miles Grendall", "text": "Very well. You'd better see it out to-night, as you've had a regular salary, and all that. I shall hook it. I sha'n't go near him to-morrow till I find out how things are going. By G----, I've had about enough of him.", "pos": 1175924}
{"speaker": "Melmotte", "text": "Why don't you come in, and not stand there? There's no Emperor here now for you to be afraid of.", "pos": 1176384}
{"speaker": "Miles Grendall", "text": "I'm afraid of nobody,", "pos": 1176500}
{"speaker": "Melmotte", "text": "Nor am I. What's one man that another man should be afraid of him? We've got to die, and there'll be an end of it, I suppose.", "pos": 1176573}
{"speaker": "Miles Grendall", "text": "That's about it,", "pos": 1176701}
{"speaker": "Melmotte", "text": "I shouldn't care how soon. When a man has worked as I have done, he gets about tired at my age. I suppose I'd better be down at the committee-room about ten to-morrow?", "pos": 1176783}
{"speaker": "Miles Grendall", "text": "That's the best, I should say.", "pos": 1176953}
{"speaker": "Melmotte", "text": "You'll be there by that time? And tell your father he might as well be there as early as convenient.", "pos": 1176986}
{"speaker": "Miles Grendall", "text": "All right,", "pos": 1177150}
{"speaker": "Melmotte", "text": "Curs! They neither of them will be there. If any evil can be done to me by treachery and desertion, they will do it. Curs! What cowards they are! Good night, Croll. You'll see everything safe, eh, Croll?", "pos": 1177200}
{"speaker": "the old gentleman", "text": "It's no more than we've all believed all along, and why are we to let a fellow like that get the seat if we can keep him out?", "pos": 1181620}
{"speaker": "Melmotte", "text": "Has Lord Alfred been here? Nor Mr. Grendall? In fact, there is nothing more to be done, I suppose?", "pos": 1188264}
{"speaker": "Cohenlupe", "text": "Ve didn't expect you here to-day,", "pos": 1193403}
{"speaker": "Melmotte", "text": "Nor did I expect to come. But there isn't much to do at Westminster while the ballot is going on; so I came up, just to look at the letters. The dinner went off pretty well yesterday, eh?", "pos": 1193468}
{"speaker": "Cohenlupe", "text": "Uncommon;--nothing better. Vy did the Lord Mayor stay away, Melmotte?", "pos": 1193658}
{"speaker": "Melmotte", "text": "Because he's an ass and a cur. Alf and his people had got hold of him. There was ever so much fuss about it at first,--whether he would accept the invitation. I say it was an insult to the City to take it and not to come. I shall be even with him some of these days.", "pos": 1193730}
{"speaker": "Cohenlupe", "text": "Things will go on just the same as usual, Melmotte?", "pos": 1194055}
{"speaker": "Melmotte", "text": "Go on. Of course they'll go. What's to hinder them?", "pos": 1194109}
{"speaker": "Cohenlupe", "text": "There's ever so much been said,", "pos": 1194163}
{"speaker": "Melmotte", "text": "Said;--yes. You're not such a fool, I hope, as to believe every word you hear. You'll have enough to believe, if you do.", "pos": 1194218}
{"speaker": "Cohenlupe", "text": "There's no knowing vat anybody does know, and vat anybody does not know,", "pos": 1194376}
{"speaker": "Melmotte", "text": "Look you here, Cohenlupe, keep your tongue in your mouth; go about just as usual, and say nothing. It's all right. There has been some heavy pulls upon us.", "pos": 1194467}
{"speaker": "Cohenlupe", "text": "Oh dear, there has indeed!", "pos": 1194680}
{"speaker": "Melmotte", "text": "But any paper with my name to it will come right.", "pos": 1194709}
{"speaker": "Cohenlupe", "text": "That's nothing;--nothing at all,", "pos": 1194761}
{"speaker": "Melmotte", "text": "And there is nothing;--nothing at all! I've bought some property and have paid for it; and I have bought some, and have not yet paid for it. There's no fraud in that.", "pos": 1194812}
{"speaker": "Cohenlupe", "text": "No, no,--nothing in that.", "pos": 1194981}
{"speaker": "Melmotte", "text": "You hold your tongue, and go about your business. I'm going to the bank now.", "pos": 1195009}
{"speaker": "manager", "text": "We hardly expected to see you in the City to-day, Mr. Melmotte.", "pos": 1196114}
{"speaker": "Melmotte", "text": "And I didn't expect to see myself here. But it always happens that when one expects that there's most to be done, there's nothing to be done at all. They're all at work down at Westminster, balloting; but as I can't go on voting for myself, I'm of no use. I've been at Covent Garden this morning, making a stump speech, and if all that they say there is true, I haven't much to be afraid of.", "pos": 1196180}
{"speaker": "manager", "text": "And the dinner went off pretty well?", "pos": 1196574}
{"speaker": "Melmotte", "text": "Very well, indeed. They say the Emperor liked it better than anything that has been done for him yet. For a friend to dine with me every day, you know, I should prefer somebody who had a little more to say for himself. But then, perhaps, you know, if you or I were in China we shouldn't have much to say for ourselves;--eh? We had one awful disappointment. His lordship from over the way didn't come.", "pos": 1196632}
{"speaker": "manager", "text": "The Lord Mayor, you mean.", "pos": 1197123}
{"speaker": "Melmotte", "text": "The Lord Mayor didn't come! He was frightened at the last moment;--took it into his head that his authority in the City was somehow compromised. But the wonder was that the dinner went on without him. You don't give a dinner to an Emperor of China for nothing, you know.", "pos": 1197151}
{"speaker": "manager", "text": "There don't seem much the matter with him,", "pos": 1197911}
{"speaker": "senior clerk", "text": "He brazens it out, don't he?", "pos": 1198007}
{"speaker": "Mr. Alf", "text": "Mr. Melmotte, comes before you as a Conservative, and has told us, by the mouths of his friends,--for he has not favoured us with many words of his own,--that he is supported by the whole Conservative party. That party is not my party, but I respect it. Where, however, are these Conservative supporters? We have heard, till we are sick of it, of the banquet which Mr. Melmotte gave yesterday. I am told that very few of those whom he calls his Conservative friends could be induced to attend that banquet. It is equally notorious that the leading merchants of the City refused to grace the table of this great commercial prince. I say that the leaders of the Conservative party have at last found their candidate out, have repudiated him;--and are seeking now to free themselves from the individual shame of having supported the candidature of such a man by remaining in their own houses instead of clustering round the polling booths. Go to Mr. Melmotte's committee-room and inquire if those leading Conservatives be there. Look about, and see whether they are walking with him in the streets, or standing with him in public places, or taking the air with him in the parks. I respect the leaders of the Conservative party; but they have made a mistake in this matter, and they know it. I scorn, to say anything against the personal character of a political opponent, which I am not in a position to prove. I make no allusion, and have made no allusion, to reports which were circulated yesterday about him, and which I believe were originated in the City. They may be false or they may be true. As I know nothing of the matter, I prefer to regard them as false, and I recommend you to do the same. But I declared to you long before these reports were in men's mouths, that Mr. Melmotte was not entitled by his character to represent you in parliament, and I repeat that assertion. A great British merchant, indeed! How long, do you think, should a man be known in this city before that title be accorded to him? Who knew aught of this man two years since,--unless, indeed, it be some one who had burnt his wings in trafficking with him in some continental city? Ask the character of this great British merchant in Hamburg and Vienna; ask it in Paris;--ask those whose business here has connected them with the assurance companies of foreign countries, and you will be told whether this is a fit man to represent Westminster in the British parliament!", "pos": 1201245}
{"speaker": "Lady Carbury", "text": "What is it all about?", "pos": 1205521}
{"speaker": "Mr. Broune", "text": "I don't know what to make of it. There is a story abroad that Mr. Melmotte has forged some document with reference to a purchase he made,--and hanging on to that story are other stories as to moneys that he has raised. I should say that it was simply an electioneering trick, and a very unfair trick, were it not that all his own side seem to believe it.", "pos": 1205759}
{"speaker": "Lady Carbury", "text": "Do you believe it?", "pos": 1206135}
{"speaker": "Mr. Broune", "text": "Ah,--I could answer almost any question sooner than that.", "pos": 1206156}
{"speaker": "Lady Carbury", "text": "Then he can't be rich at all.", "pos": 1206216}
{"speaker": "Mr. Broune", "text": "Even that would not follow. He has such large concerns in hand that he might be very much pressed for funds, and yet be possessed of immense wealth. Everybody says that he pays all his bills.", "pos": 1206248}
{"speaker": "Lady Carbury", "text": "Will he be returned?", "pos": 1206442}
{"speaker": "Mr. Broune", "text": "From what we hear, we think not. I shall know more about it in an hour or two. At present I should not like to have to publish an opinion; but were I forced to bet, I would bet against him. Nobody is doing anything for him. There can be no doubt that his own party are ashamed of him. As things used to be, this would have been fatal to him at the day of election; but now, with the ballot, it won't matter so much. If I were a candidate, at present, I think I would go to bed on the last day, and beg all my committee to do the same as soon as they had put in their voting papers.", "pos": 1206476}
{"speaker": "Lady Carbury", "text": "I am glad Felix did not go to Liverpool.", "pos": 1207060}
{"speaker": "Mr. Broune", "text": "It would not have made much difference. She would have been brought back all the same. They say Lord Nidderdale still means to marry her.", "pos": 1207122}
{"speaker": "Lady Carbury", "text": "I saw him talking to her last night.", "pos": 1207262}
{"speaker": "Mr. Broune", "text": "There must be an immense amount of property somewhere. No one doubts that he was rich when he came to England two years ago, and they say everything has prospered that he has put his hand to since. The Mexican Railway shares had fallen this morning, but they were at £15 premium yesterday morning. He must have made an enormous deal out of that. I shouldn't think him such a fool if he had announced his resignation of the editorship when he came before the world as a candidate for parliament. But a man must be mad who imagines that he can sit for Westminster and edit a London daily paper at the same time.", "pos": 1207301}
{"speaker": "Lady Carbury", "text": "Has it never been done?", "pos": 1208022}
{"speaker": "Mr. Broune", "text": "Never, I think;--that is, by the editor of such a paper as the 'Pulpit.' How is a man who sits in parliament himself ever to pretend to discuss the doings of parliament with impartiality? But Alf believes that he can do more than anybody else ever did, and he'll come to the ground. Where's Felix now?", "pos": 1208048}
{"speaker": "Lady Carbury", "text": "Do not ask me.", "pos": 1208352}
{"speaker": "Mr. Broune", "text": "Is he doing anything?", "pos": 1208391}
{"speaker": "Lady Carbury", "text": "He lies in bed all day, and is out all night.", "pos": 1208415}
{"speaker": "Mr. Broune", "text": "But that wants money. You do not give him any?", "pos": 1208463}
{"speaker": "Lady Carbury", "text": "I have none to give.", "pos": 1208539}
{"speaker": "Mr. Broune", "text": "I should simply take the key of the house from him,--or bolt the door if he will not give it up.", "pos": 1208562}
{"speaker": "Lady Carbury", "text": "And be in bed, and listen while he knocks,--knowing that he must wander in the streets if I refuse to let him in? A mother cannot do that, Mr. Broune. A child has such a hold upon his mother. When her reason has bade her to condemn him, her heart will not let her carry out the sentence.", "pos": 1208661}
{"speaker": "Madame Melmotte", "text": "Is not Mr. Grendall coming?", "pos": 1210297}
{"speaker": "Melmotte", "text": "No, he is not.", "pos": 1210373}
{"speaker": "Madame Melmotte", "text": "Nor Lord Alfred?", "pos": 1210405}
{"speaker": "Melmotte", "text": "Nor Lord Alfred.", "pos": 1210424}
{"speaker": "Melmotte", "text": "The father and son are two d---- curs.", "pos": 1211902}
{"speaker": "Madame Melmotte", "text": "Is there anything wrong, Melmotte?", "pos": 1212066}
{"speaker": "Melmotte", "text": "What do you call wrong?", "pos": 1212188}
{"speaker": "Madame Melmotte", "text": "I don't know;--but I seem to be afraid of something.", "pos": 1212214}
{"speaker": "Melmotte", "text": "I should have thought you were used to that kind of feeling by this time.", "pos": 1212269}
{"speaker": "Madame Melmotte", "text": "Then there is something.", "pos": 1212345}
{"speaker": "Melmotte", "text": "Don't be a fool. There is always something. There is always much. You don't suppose that this kind of thing can be carried on as smoothly as the life of an old maid with £400 a year paid quarterly in advance.", "pos": 1212372}
{"speaker": "Madame Melmotte", "text": "Shall we have to--move again?", "pos": 1212583}
{"speaker": "Melmotte", "text": "How am I to tell? You haven't much to do when we move, and may get plenty to eat and drink wherever you go. Does that girl mean to marry Lord Nidderdale? What a poor creature you must be when you can't talk her out of a fancy for such a reprobate as young Carbury. If she throws me over, I'll throw her over. I'll flog her within an inch of her life if she disobeys me. You tell her that I say so.", "pos": 1212626}
{"speaker": "Marie", "text": "Then he may flog me. Papa does not know me if he thinks that I'm to be made to marry a man by flogging.", "pos": 1213060}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "We know not how such an opinion forms itself,", "pos": 1214065}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "but it seems to have been formed.", "pos": 1214131}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "As nothing as yet is really known, or can be known, we express no opinion of our own upon the matter.", "pos": 1214165}
{"speaker": "Messrs. Slow and Bideawhile", "text": "We have to remind you, that the title-deeds were delivered to you on receipt by us of authority to that effect from the Messrs. Longestaffe, father and son, on the understanding that the purchase-money was to be at once paid to us by you. We are informed that the property has been since mortgaged by you. We do not state this as a fact. But the information, whether true or untrue, forces upon us the necessity of demanding that you should at once pay to us the purchase-money,--£80,000,--or else return to us the title-deeds of the estate.", "pos": 1215416}
{"speaker": "Lady Monogram", "text": "What a horrid affair! Did anybody ever see anything so vulgar?", "pos": 1221100}
{"speaker": "Georgiana", "text": "I don't know why you were so late,", "pos": 1221301}
{"speaker": "Lady Monogram", "text": "Late! Why it's not yet twelve. I don't suppose it was eleven when we got into the Square. Anywhere else it would have been early.", "pos": 1221353}
{"speaker": "Miss Longestaffe", "text": "You knew they did not mean to stay long. It was particularly said so. I really think it was your own fault.", "pos": 1221485}
{"speaker": "Lady Monogram", "text": "My own fault. Yes;--I don't doubt that. I know it was my own fault, my dear, to have had anything to do with it. And now I have got to pay for it.", "pos": 1221595}
{"speaker": "Miss Longestaffe", "text": "What do you mean by paying for it, Julia?", "pos": 1221744}
{"speaker": "Lady Monogram", "text": "You know what I mean very well. Is your friend going to do us the honour of coming to us to-morrow night?", "pos": 1221788}
{"speaker": "Miss Longestaffe", "text": "If you mean Mr. Brehgert, he is coming. You desired me to ask him, and I did so.", "pos": 1222049}
{"speaker": "Lady Monogram", "text": "Desired you! The truth is, Georgiana, when people get into different sets, they'd better stay where they are. It's no good trying to mix things.", "pos": 1222132}
{"speaker": "Miss Longestaffe", "text": "I wonder what has made you so ill-natured. You didn't use to be like that.", "pos": 1222951}
{"speaker": "Lady Monogram", "text": "It's no good abusing me. Here we are, and I suppose we had better get out,--unless you want the carriage to take you anywhere else.", "pos": 1223048}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I am afraid you will be very much astonished by this letter, and perhaps disappointed. I have engaged myself to Mr. Brehgert, a member of a very wealthy firm in the City, called Todd, Brehgert, and Goldsheiner. I may as well tell you the worst at once. Mr. Brehgert is a Jew.", "pos": 1227395}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "He is a very wealthy man, and his business is about banking and what he calls finance. I understand they are among the most leading people in the City. He lives at present at a very handsome house at Fulham. I don't know that I ever saw a place more beautifully fitted up. I have said nothing to papa, nor has he; but he says he will be willing to satisfy papa perfectly as to settlements. He has offered to have a house in London if I like,--and also to keep the villa at Fulham or else to have a place somewhere in the country. Or I may have the villa at Fulham and a house in the country. No man can be more generous than he is. He has been married before, and has a family, and now I think I have told you all.", "pos": 1227798}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I suppose you and papa will be very much dissatisfied. I hope papa won't refuse his consent. It can do no good. I am not going to remain as I am now all my life, and there is no use waiting any longer. It was papa who made me go to the Melmottes, who are not nearly so well placed as Mr. Brehgert. Everybody knows that Madame Melmotte is a Jewess, and nobody knows what Mr. Melmotte is. It is no good going on with the old thing when everything seems to to be upset and at sixes and sevens. If papa has got to be so poor that he is obliged to let the house in town, one must of course expect to be different from what we were.", "pos": 1228513}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I hope you won't mind having me back the day after to-morrow,--that is to-morrow, Wednesday. There is a party here to-night, and Mr. Brehgert is coming. But I can't stay longer with Julia, who doesn't make herself nice, and I do not at all want to go back to the Melmottes. I fancy that there is something wrong between papa and Mr. Melmotte.", "pos": 1229137}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Send the carriage to meet me by the 2.30 train from London,--and pray, mamma, don't scold when you see me, or have hysterics, or anything of that sort. Of course it isn't all nice, but things have got so that they never will be nice again. I shall tell Mr. Brehgert to go to papa on Wednesday.", "pos": 1229480}
{"speaker": "Georgiana", "text": "I am sick of the Melmottes,", "pos": 1230321}
{"speaker": "Mr. Longestaffe", "text": "And so am I,", "pos": 1230361}
{"speaker": "Lady Monogram", "text": "We should have been delighted to have had Georgiana to stay with us a little longer, but we have but the one spare bedroom, and another friend is coming. We have a few friends coming to-night, Mr. Longestaffe, and I hope you'll come in and see Georgiana. Mr. Brehgert will be here,", "pos": 1230426}
{"speaker": "Mr. Longestaffe", "text": "Mr. who?", "pos": 1231027}
{"speaker": "Lady Monogram", "text": "Mr. Brehgert. I hope I'm not revealing any secret.", "pos": 1231093}
{"speaker": "Mr. Longestaffe", "text": "I don't understand anything about it. Georgiana, who is Mr. Brehgert?", "pos": 1231184}
{"speaker": "Lady Monogram", "text": "My dear Georgiana. I supposed your father knew all about it.", "pos": 1231727}
{"speaker": "Mr. Longestaffe", "text": "I know nothing. Georgiana, I hate a mystery. I insist upon knowing. Who is Mr. Brehgert, Lady Monogram?", "pos": 1231802}
{"speaker": "Lady Monogram", "text": "Mr. Brehgert is a--very wealthy gentleman. That is all I know of him. Perhaps, Georgiana, you will be glad to be alone with your father.", "pos": 1231908}
{"speaker": "Georgiana", "text": "Papa, I wrote to mamma this morning, and Mr. Brehgert was to come to you to-morrow.", "pos": 1232219}
{"speaker": "Mr. Longestaffe", "text": "Do you mean that you are engaged to marry him?", "pos": 1232305}
{"speaker": "Georgiana", "text": "Yes, papa.", "pos": 1232354}
{"speaker": "Mr. Longestaffe", "text": "What Mr. Brehgert is he?", "pos": 1232367}
{"speaker": "Georgiana", "text": "He is a merchant.", "pos": 1232394}
{"speaker": "Mr. Longestaffe", "text": "You can't mean the fat Jew whom I've met with Mr. Melmotte;--a man old enough to be your father! Is the man a Jew?", "pos": 1232414}
{"speaker": "Georgiana", "text": "Yes, papa,", "pos": 1233025}
{"speaker": "Mr. Longestaffe", "text": "He is that fat man?", "pos": 1233048}
{"speaker": "Georgiana", "text": "Yes, papa.", "pos": 1233070}
{"speaker": "Mr. Longestaffe", "text": "And nearly as old as I am?", "pos": 1233083}
{"speaker": "Georgiana", "text": "No, papa,--not nearly as old as you are. He is fifty.", "pos": 1233112}
{"speaker": "Mr. Longestaffe", "text": "And a Jew? If you do, you shall do it as an alien from my house. I certainly will never see him. Tell him not to come to me, for I certainly will not speak to him. You are degraded and disgraced; but you shall not degrade and disgrace me and your mother and sister.", "pos": 1233168}
{"speaker": "Georgiana", "text": "It was you, papa, who told me to go to the Melmottes.", "pos": 1233566}
{"speaker": "Mr. Longestaffe", "text": "That is not true. I wanted you to stay at Caversham. A Jew! an old fat Jew! Heavens and earth! that it should be possible that you should think of it! You;--my daughter,--that used to take such pride in yourself! Have you written to your mother?", "pos": 1233622}
{"speaker": "Georgiana", "text": "I have.", "pos": 1233870}
{"speaker": "Mr. Longestaffe", "text": "It will kill her. It will simply kill her. And you are going home to-morrow?", "pos": 1233880}
{"speaker": "Georgiana", "text": "I wrote to say so.", "pos": 1233959}
{"speaker": "Mr. Longestaffe", "text": "And there you must remain. I suppose I had better see the man and explain to him that it is utterly impossible. Heavens on earth;--a Jew! An old fat Jew! My daughter! I will take you down home myself to-morrow. What have I done that I should be punished by my children in this way? You had better leave this house to-day, and come to my hotel in Jermyn Street.", "pos": 1233980}
{"speaker": "Georgiana", "text": "Oh, papa, I can't do that.", "pos": 1234417}
{"speaker": "Mr. Longestaffe", "text": "Why can't you do it? You can do it, and you shall do it. I will not have you see him again. I will see him. If you do not promise me to come, I will send for Lady Monogram and tell her that I will not permit you to meet Mr. Brehgert at her house. I do wonder at her. A Jew! An old fat Jew!", "pos": 1234446}
{"speaker": "Georgiana", "text": "Tell him that I was called away suddenly.", "pos": 1235070}
{"speaker": "Lady Monogram", "text": "I will, my dear. I thought your papa would not like it.", "pos": 1235114}
{"speaker": "Lady Monogram", "text": "Miss Longestaffe, has left me and gone to her father.", "pos": 1235901}
{"speaker": "Mr. Brehgert", "text": "Oh, indeed.", "pos": 1235969}
{"speaker": "Lady Monogram", "text": "Yes,", "pos": 1235983}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Hurtle", "text": "You shall be troubled no more with Winifrid Hurtle. Nay, this parting will bear no farewell.", "pos": 1236531}
{"speaker": "Lord Grasslough", "text": "We think that Carbury has drowned himself, and I haven't heard of anybody being heartbroken about it. He's taken up the running with the girl. What he'll do now, nobody knows. If I was at it, I'd have the money down in hard cash before I went into the church. He was there at the party yesterday, talking to the girl all the night;--a sort of thing he never did before. Nidderdale is the best fellow going, but he was always an ass. We've got into a way of play the poor fellow doesn't like, and then Melmotte won't let him out of his sight. He has taken to dine there every day.", "pos": 1240299}
{"speaker": "Hetta", "text": "Mamma has gone to her publisher's. She is writing so much now that she is always going there. Who has been elected, Mr. Montague?", "pos": 1241646}
{"speaker": "Paul Montague", "text": "I suppose it will make no difference to you whether your chairman be in Parliament or not?", "pos": 1241909}
{"speaker": "Hetta", "text": "Are you out of it altogether, Mr. Montague?", "pos": 1242059}
{"speaker": "Paul Montague", "text": "Just a scoundrel;--that's all.", "pos": 1242443}
{"speaker": "Hetta", "text": "You heard about Felix?", "pos": 1242476}
{"speaker": "Paul Montague", "text": "Of course I heard that he was to marry the girl, and that he tried to run off with her. I don't know much about it. They say that Lord Nidderdale is to marry her now.", "pos": 1242501}
{"speaker": "Hetta", "text": "I think not, Mr. Montague.", "pos": 1242670}
{"speaker": "Paul Montague", "text": "I hope not, for his sake. At any rate, your brother is well out of it.", "pos": 1242699}
{"speaker": "Hetta", "text": "Do you know that she loves Felix? There is no pretence about that. I do think she is good. The other night at the party she spoke to me.", "pos": 1242772}
{"speaker": "Paul Montague", "text": "You went to the party, then?", "pos": 1242911}
{"speaker": "Hetta", "text": "Yes;--I could not refuse to go when mamma chose to take me. And when I was there she spoke to me about Felix. I don't think she will marry Lord Nidderdale. Poor girl;--I do pity her. Think what a downfall it will be if anything happens.", "pos": 1242942}
{"speaker": "Paul Montague", "text": "Hetta. I am thinking more of myself than of her,--or even of Felix.", "pos": 1243434}
{"speaker": "Hetta", "text": "I suppose we all do think more of ourselves than of other people,", "pos": 1243515}
{"speaker": "Paul Montague", "text": "Yes;--but I am not thinking of myself only. I am thinking of myself, and you. In all my thoughts of myself I am thinking of you too.", "pos": 1243658}
{"speaker": "Hetta", "text": "I do not know why you should do that.", "pos": 1243793}
{"speaker": "Paul Montague", "text": "Hetta, you must know that I love you.", "pos": 1243833}
{"speaker": "Hetta", "text": "Do you?", "pos": 1243873}
{"speaker": "Paul Montague", "text": "Yes,--I do. Hetta, say a word to me. Can it be so? Look at me for one moment so as to let me know. If Roger is dearer to you than I am, I will go at once.", "pos": 1244978}
{"speaker": "Hetta", "text": "Roger is very dear to me.", "pos": 1245183}
{"speaker": "Paul Montague", "text": "Do you love him as I would have you love me?", "pos": 1245211}
{"speaker": "Hetta", "text": "No, --not like that.", "pos": 1245393}
{"speaker": "Paul Montague", "text": "Can you love me like that? Is it mine?", "pos": 1245427}
{"speaker": "Hetta", "text": "If you want it.", "pos": 1245685}
{"speaker": "Paul Montague", "text": "Want it! Hetta, I have never wanted anything but that with real desire. Oh, Hetta, my own. Since I first saw you this has been my only dream of happiness. And now it is my own.", "pos": 1245910}
{"speaker": "Hetta", "text": "He is as good as gold, --ever so much better than you are, Paul,", "pos": 1246448}
{"speaker": "Paul Montague", "text": "Better than anybody I have ever known,", "pos": 1246585}
{"speaker": "Hetta", "text": "I think he is;--but, ah, that is not everything. I suppose we ought to love the best people best; but I don't, Paul.", "pos": 1246661}
{"speaker": "Paul Montague", "text": "I do,", "pos": 1246780}
{"speaker": "Hetta", "text": "No,--you don't. You must love me best, but I won't be called good. I do not know why it has been so. Do you know, Paul, I have sometimes thought I would do as he would have me, out of sheer gratitude. I did not know how to refuse such a trifling thing to one who ought to have everything that he wants.", "pos": 1246797}
{"speaker": "Paul Montague", "text": "Where should I have been?", "pos": 1247102}
{"speaker": "Hetta", "text": "Oh, you! Somebody else would have made you happy. But do you know, Paul, I think he will never love any one else. I ought not to say so, because it seems to be making so much of myself. But I feel it. He is not so young a man, and yet I think that he never was in love before. He almost told me so once, and what he says is true. There is an unchanging way with him that is awful to think of. He said that he never could be happy unless I would do as he would have me,--and he made me almost believe even that. He speaks as though every word he says must come true in the end. Oh, Paul, I love you so dearly,--but I almost think that I ought to have obeyed him.", "pos": 1247130}
{"speaker": "Hetta", "text": "Do you know I almost feel that he is like a father to me,", "pos": 1248785}
{"speaker": "Paul Montague", "text": "Hetta, do you know, I doubt whether he will ever speak to me again.", "pos": 1248982}
{"speaker": "Hetta", "text": "I cannot believe that.", "pos": 1249052}
{"speaker": "Paul Montague", "text": "There is a sternness about him which it is very hard to understand. He has taught himself to think that as I met you in his house, and as he then wished you to be his wife, I should not have ventured to love you. How could I have known?", "pos": 1249077}
{"speaker": "Hetta", "text": "That would be unreasonable.", "pos": 1249316}
{"speaker": "Paul Montague", "text": "He is unreasonable--about that. It is not reason with him. He always goes by his feelings. Had you been engaged to him--", "pos": 1249346}
{"speaker": "Hetta", "text": "Oh, then, you never could have spoken to me like this.", "pos": 1249469}
{"speaker": "Paul Montague", "text": "But he will never look at it in that way;--and he will tell me that I have been untrue to him and ungrateful.", "pos": 1249526}
{"speaker": "Hetta", "text": "If you think, Paul--", "pos": 1249638}
{"speaker": "Paul Montague", "text": "Nay; listen to me. If it be so I must bear it. It will be a great sorrow, but it will be as nothing to that other sorrow, had that come upon me. I will write to him, and his answer will be all scorn and wrath. Then you must write to him afterwards. I think he will forgive you, but he will never forgive me. MY DEAR ROGER,-- I think it right to tell you at once what has occurred to-day. I have proposed to Miss Carbury and she has accepted me. You have long known what my feelings were, and I have also known yours. I have known, too, that Miss Carbury has more than once declined to take your offer. Under these circumstances I cannot think that I have been untrue to friendship in what I have done, or that I have proved myself ungrateful for the affectionate kindness which you have always shown me. I am authorised by Hetta to say that, had I never spoken to her, it must have been the same to you. I should not say so much by way of excusing myself, but that you once said, that should such a thing occur there must be a division between us ever after. If I thought that you would adhere to that threat, I should be very unhappy and Hetta would be miserable. Surely, if a man loves he is bound to tell his love, and to take the chance. You would hardly have thought it manly in me if I had abstained. Dear friend, take a day or two before you answer this, and do not banish us from your heart if you can help it. Your affectionate friend. PAUL MONTAGUE.", "pos": 1249661}
{"speaker": "Roger Carbury", "text": "There is an old French saying that he who makes excuses is his own accuser. You would not have written as you have done, had you not felt yourself to be false and ungrateful. You knew where my heart was, and there you went and undermined my treasure, and stole it away. You have destroyed my life, and I will never forgive you. You tell me not to banish you both from my heart. How dare you join yourself with her in speaking of my feelings! She will never be banished from my heart. She will be there morning, noon, and night, and as is and will be my love to her, so shall be my enmity to you. ROGER CARBURY.", "pos": 1251850}
{"speaker": "Hetta", "text": "Mamma, Mr. Paul Montague has been here.", "pos": 1252663}
{"speaker": "Lady Carbury", "text": "He always comes here when I am away,", "pos": 1252705}
{"speaker": "Hetta", "text": "That has been an accident. He could not have known that you were going to Messrs. Leadham and Loiter's.", "pos": 1252763}
{"speaker": "Lady Carbury", "text": "I'm not so sure of that, Hetta.", "pos": 1252869}
{"speaker": "Hetta", "text": "Then, mamma, you must have told him yourself, and I don't think you knew till just before you were going. But, mamma, what does it matter? He has been here, and I have told him--", "pos": 1252903}
{"speaker": "Lady Carbury", "text": "You have not accepted him?", "pos": 1253084}
{"speaker": "Hetta", "text": "Yes, mamma.", "pos": 1253113}
{"speaker": "Lady Carbury", "text": "Without even asking me?", "pos": 1253127}
{"speaker": "Hetta", "text": "Mamma, you knew. I will not marry him without asking you. How was I not to tell him when he asked me whether I--loved him?", "pos": 1253153}
{"speaker": "Lady Carbury", "text": "Marry him! How is it possible you should marry him? Whatever he had got was in that affair of Melmotte's, and that has gone to the dogs. He is a ruined man, and for aught I know may be compromised in all Melmotte's wickedness.", "pos": 1253278}
{"speaker": "Hetta", "text": "Oh, mamma, do not say that!", "pos": 1253507}
{"speaker": "Lady Carbury", "text": "But I do say it. It is hard upon me. I did think that you would try to comfort me after all this trouble with Felix. But you are as bad as he is;--or worse, for you have not been thrown into temptation like that poor boy! And you will break your cousin's heart. Poor Roger! I feel for him;--he that has been so true to us! But you think nothing of that.", "pos": 1253537}
{"speaker": "Hetta", "text": "I think very much of my cousin Roger.", "pos": 1253893}
{"speaker": "Lady Carbury", "text": "And how do you show it;--or your love for me? There would have been a home for us all. Now we must starve, I suppose. Hetta, you have been worse to me even than Felix.", "pos": 1253933}
{"speaker": "Sir Felix Carbury", "text": "to carry on the game.", "pos": 1254737}
{"speaker": "Ruby", "text": "Am I to be a slave?", "pos": 1259290}
{"speaker": "Sir Felix Carbury", "text": "supposed he might as well some day.", "pos": 1260440}
{"speaker": "Ruby", "text": "There, there!", "pos": 1260478}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Pipkin", "text": "There must be an end of this. You must not come here, Sir Felix, unless you puts it in writing.", "pos": 1260982}
{"speaker": "Hetta", "text": "I promised to give you a message,", "pos": 1262501}
{"speaker": "Sir Felix", "text": "It's all of no use now,", "pos": 1262547}
{"speaker": "Hetta", "text": "But I must tell you what she said. I think, you know, that she really loves you.", "pos": 1262585}
{"speaker": "Sir Felix", "text": "But what's the good of it? A man can't marry a girl when all the policemen in the country are dodging her.", "pos": 1262668}
{"speaker": "Hetta", "text": "She wants you to let her know what,--what you intend to do. If you mean to give her up, I think you should tell her.", "pos": 1262777}
{"speaker": "Sir Felix", "text": "How can I tell her? I don't suppose they would let her receive a letter.", "pos": 1262896}
{"speaker": "Hetta", "text": "Shall I write to her;--or shall I see her?", "pos": 1262971}
{"speaker": "Sir Felix", "text": "Just as you like. I don't care.", "pos": 1263016}
{"speaker": "Hetta", "text": "Felix, you are very heartless.", "pos": 1263050}
{"speaker": "Sir Felix", "text": "I don't suppose I'm much worse than other men;--or for the matter of that, worse than a great many women either. You all of you here put me up to marry her.", "pos": 1263083}
{"speaker": "Hetta", "text": "I never put you up to it.", "pos": 1263242}
{"speaker": "Sir Felix", "text": "Mother did. And now because it did not go off all serene, I am to hear nothing but reproaches. Of course I never cared so very much about her.", "pos": 1263270}
{"speaker": "Hetta", "text": "Oh, Felix, that is so shocking!", "pos": 1263415}
{"speaker": "Sir Felix", "text": "Awfully shocking I dare say. You think I am as black as the very mischief, and that sugar wouldn't melt in other men's mouths. Other men are just as bad as I am,--and a good deal worse too. You believe that there is nobody on earth like Paul Montague. I suppose you'd be surprised to hear that Master Paul is engaged to marry an American widow living at Islington.", "pos": 1263449}
{"speaker": "Hetta", "text": "Mr. Montague--engaged--to marry--an American widow! I don't believe it.", "pos": 1264022}
{"speaker": "Sir Felix", "text": "You'd better believe it if it's any concern of yours, for it's true. And it's true too that he travelled about with her for ever so long in the United States, and that he had her down with him at the hotel at Lowestoft about a fortnight ago. There's no mistake about it.", "pos": 1264096}
{"speaker": "Hetta", "text": "I don't believe it. Felix, how dare you say things so wicked as that to me?", "pos": 1264369}
{"speaker": "Sir Felix", "text": "What is there wicked in it? If you have been fool enough to become fond of the man, it is only right you should be told. He is engaged to marry Mrs. Hurtle, and she is lodging with one Mrs. Pipkin in Islington. I know the house, and could take you there to-morrow, and show you the woman. There, that's where she is;", "pos": 1264888}
{"speaker": "Hetta", "text": "It is not true. I am engaged to Mr. Montague, and I am sure he would not treat me in that way.", "pos": 1265277}
{"speaker": "Sir Felix", "text": "Then, by heaven, he shall answer it to me. If he has done that, it is time that I should interfere. As true as I stand here, he is engaged to marry a woman called Mrs. Hurtle whom he constantly visits at that place in Islington.", "pos": 1265432}
{"speaker": "Hetta", "text": "I do not believe it,", "pos": 1265689}
{"speaker": "Sir Felix", "text": "By George, this is beyond a joke. Will you believe it if Roger Carbury says it's true? I know you'd believe anything fast enough against me, if he told you.", "pos": 1265801}
{"speaker": "Hetta", "text": "Roger Carbury will not say so?", "pos": 1265960}
{"speaker": "Sir Felix", "text": "Have you the courage to ask him? I say he will say so. He knows all about it,--and has seen the woman.", "pos": 1265993}
{"speaker": "Hetta", "text": "How can you know? Has Roger told you?", "pos": 1266098}
{"speaker": "Sir Felix", "text": "I do know, and that's enough. I will make this square with Master Paul. By heaven, yes! He shall answer to me. But my mother must manage you. She will not scruple to ask Roger, and she will believe what Roger tells her.", "pos": 1266138}
{"speaker": "Hetta", "text": "I do not believe a word of it,", "pos": 1266360}
{"speaker": "Lady Carbury", "text": "What he has told you, my dear, is true. Much as I disapprove of Mr. Montague, you do not suppose that I would deceive you.", "pos": 1267990}
{"speaker": "Hetta", "text": "How can he know, mamma?", "pos": 1268115}
{"speaker": "Lady Carbury", "text": "He does know. I cannot explain to you how. He has been at the same house.", "pos": 1268141}
{"speaker": "Hetta", "text": "Has he seen her?", "pos": 1268217}
{"speaker": "Lady Carbury", "text": "I do not know that he has, but Roger Carbury has seen her. If I write to him you will believe what he says?", "pos": 1268236}
{"speaker": "Hetta", "text": "Don't do that, mamma. Don't write to him.", "pos": 1268346}
{"speaker": "Lady Carbury", "text": "But I shall. Why should I not write if he can tell me? If this other man is a villain am I not bound to protect you? Of course Felix is not steady. If it came only from him you might not credit it. And he has not seen her. If your cousin Roger tells you that it is true,--tells me that he knows the man is engaged to marry this woman, then I suppose you will be contented.", "pos": 1268390}
{"speaker": "Hetta", "text": "Contented, mamma!", "pos": 1268765}
{"speaker": "Lady Carbury", "text": "Satisfied that what we tell you is true.", "pos": 1268785}
{"speaker": "Hetta", "text": "I shall never be contented again. If that is true, I will never believe anything. It can't be true. I suppose there is something, but it can't be that.", "pos": 1268828}
{"speaker": "Lady Carbury", "text": "If, you know that there is such a person as Mrs. Hurtle, and if you know also that Mr. Montague has promised to make her his wife, of course you will tell me. You know, what my wishes are about Hetta, and how utterly opposed I am to Mr. Montague's interference. If it is true, as Felix says, that he is at the present moment entangled with another woman, he is guilty of gross insolence; and if you know all the circumstances you can surely protect us,--and also yourself.", "pos": 1269334}
{"speaker": "Hetta", "text": "I want to call upon Miss Melmotte, if you'll let me,", "pos": 1272192}
{"speaker": "Lady Carbury", "text": "Why should you want to see Miss Melmotte? I thought you hated the Melmottes?", "pos": 1272284}
{"speaker": "Hetta", "text": "I don't hate them, mamma. I certainly don't hate her. I have a message to take to her,--from Felix.", "pos": 1272363}
{"speaker": "Lady Carbury", "text": "A message--from Felix.", "pos": 1272465}
{"speaker": "Hetta", "text": "It is an answer from him. She wanted to know if all that was over. Of course it is over. Whether he said so or not, it would be so. They could never be married now;--could they, mamma?", "pos": 1272490}
{"speaker": "Lady Carbury", "text": "It is out of the question. That, like everything else with us, has been a wretched failure. You can go, if you please. Felix is under no obligation to them, and has taken nothing from them. I should much doubt whether the girl will get anybody to take her now. You can't go alone, you know,", "pos": 1273008}
{"speaker": "Melmotte", "text": "Do you want my daughter? She is not living here at present.", "pos": 1274794}
{"speaker": "Hetta", "text": "Oh,--I remember now,", "pos": 1274915}
{"speaker": "Melmotte", "text": "May I be allowed to tell her who was asking after her?", "pos": 1274950}
{"speaker": "Hetta", "text": "I am Miss Carbury,", "pos": 1275090}
{"speaker": "Melmotte", "text": "Oh, indeed;--Miss Carbury!--the sister of Sir Felix Carbury? Oh;--Sir Felix's sister! May I be permitted to ask whether--you have any business with my daughter? I wonder whether that is true. Because, you know, there has been a deal of falsehood and double dealing. Sir Felix has behaved infamously; yes,--by G----, infamously. A day or two before my daughter started, he gave me a written assurance that the whole thing was over, and now he sends you here. How am I to know what you are really after?", "pos": 1275143}
{"speaker": "Hetta", "text": "I have come because I thought I could do some good. I was speaking to your daughter at your party.", "pos": 1276408}
{"speaker": "Melmotte", "text": "Oh, you were there;--were you? It may be as you say, but how is one to tell? When one has been deceived like that, one is apt to be suspicious, Miss Carbury. You are not plotting another journey to Liverpool;--are you? May I hear what you say to her?", "pos": 1276552}
{"speaker": "Hetta", "text": "If you suspect me, Mr. Melmotte, I had better not see her at all. It is only that there may no longer be any doubt.", "pos": 1277210}
{"speaker": "Melmotte", "text": "You can say it all before me.", "pos": 1277328}
{"speaker": "Hetta", "text": "No;--I could not do that. But I have told you, and you can say it for me. If you please, I think I will go home now.", "pos": 1277360}
{"speaker": "Melmotte", "text": "Oh, you shall see her. I don't suppose she's such a fool as to try that kind of thing again.", "pos": 1277758}
{"speaker": "Marie", "text": "Miss Carbury, this is so good of you,--so good of you! I do so love you for coming to me! You said you would love me. You will; will you not?", "pos": 1278165}
{"speaker": "Hetta", "text": "Mr. Melmotte has told you why I have come.", "pos": 1278401}
{"speaker": "Marie", "text": "Yes;--that is, I don't know. I never believe what papa says to me. We are at daggers drawn. He thinks I ought to do just what he tells me, as though my very soul were not my own. I won't agree to that;--would you?", "pos": 1278446}
{"speaker": "Hetta", "text": "What does he say, dear? It must all be over, Miss Melmotte.", "pos": 1278891}
{"speaker": "Marie", "text": "Is that his message, Miss Carbury? But I have. It does not depend upon papa. If papa treats me badly, I can give it to my husband. I know I can. If I can venture, cannot he?", "pos": 1279067}
{"speaker": "Hetta", "text": "I think it is impossible.", "pos": 1279568}
{"speaker": "Marie", "text": "Impossible! Nothing should be impossible. All the people that one hears of that are really true to their loves never find anything impossible. Does he love me, Miss Carbury? It all depends on that. That's what I want to know. Call me Marie. You said you would love me;--did you not? I don't even know what your name is. Hetta;--that's short for something. But it's very pretty. I have no brother, no sister. And I'll tell you, though you must not tell anybody again;--I have no real mother. Madame Melmotte is not my mamma, though papa chooses that it should be thought so. And papa is so cruel to me! He beats me sometimes. But I never will yield a bit for that. When he boxes and thumps me I always turn and gnash my teeth at him. Can you wonder that I want to have a friend? Can you be surprised that I should be always thinking of my lover? But,--if he doesn't love me, what am I to do then?", "pos": 1279596}
{"speaker": "Hetta", "text": "I don't know what I am to say,", "pos": 1280941}
{"speaker": "Marie", "text": "I wonder whether you love anybody, and whether he loves you,", "pos": 1281160}
{"speaker": "Hetta", "text": "I wish I could tell you something for your own comfort.", "pos": 1281371}
{"speaker": "Marie", "text": "He will not try again, you think?", "pos": 1281429}
{"speaker": "Hetta", "text": "I am sure he will not.", "pos": 1281465}
{"speaker": "Marie", "text": "I wonder what he fears. I should fear nothing,--nothing. Why should not we walk out of the house, and be married any way? Nobody has a right to stop me. Papa could only turn me out of his house. I will venture if he will.", "pos": 1281490}
{"speaker": "Hetta", "text": "I cannot listen to it. Indeed I cannot listen to it. My brother is sure that he cannot--cannot--", "pos": 1281883}
{"speaker": "Marie", "text": "Cannot love me, Hetta! Say it out, if it is true.", "pos": 1281982}
{"speaker": "Hetta", "text": "It is true,", "pos": 1282034}
{"speaker": "Marie", "text": "Yes; I did. Men are not, I think, like girls. I suppose not. What liars they are, what brutes;--what wretches! Why should he tell me lies like that? Why should he break my heart? That other man never said that he loved me. Did he never love me,--once?", "pos": 1282326}
{"speaker": "Hetta", "text": "It is better that you should think of him no more.", "pos": 1282720}
{"speaker": "Marie", "text": "Are you like that? If you had loved a man and told him of it, and agreed to be his wife and done as I have, could you bear to be told to think of him no more,--just as though you had got rid of a servant or a horse? I won't love him. No;--I'll hate him. But I must think of him. I'll marry that other man to spite him, and then, when he finds that we are rich, he'll be broken-hearted.", "pos": 1282773}
{"speaker": "Hetta", "text": "You should try to forgive him, Marie.", "pos": 1283161}
{"speaker": "Marie", "text": "Never. Do not tell him that I forgive him. I command you not to tell him that. Tell him,--tell him, that I hate him, and that if I ever meet him, I will look at him so that he shall never forget it. I could,--oh!--you do not know what I could do. Tell me;--did he tell you to say that he did not love me?", "pos": 1283201}
{"speaker": "Hetta", "text": "I wish I had not come,", "pos": 1283508}
{"speaker": "Marie", "text": "I am glad you have come. It was very kind. I don't hate you. Of course I ought to know. But did he say that I was to be told that he did not love me? Then how do you know? What did he say?", "pos": 1283545}
{"speaker": "Hetta", "text": "That it was all over.", "pos": 1283766}
{"speaker": "Marie", "text": "Because he is afraid of papa. Are you sure he does not love me?", "pos": 1283790}
{"speaker": "Hetta", "text": "I am sure.", "pos": 1283856}
{"speaker": "Marie", "text": "Then he is a brute. Tell him that I say that he is a false-hearted liar, and that I trample him under my foot. I despise him;--despise him. They are all bad, but he is the worst of all. Papa beats me, but I can bear that. Mamma reviles me and I can bear that. He might have beaten me and reviled me, and I could have borne it. But to think that he was a liar all the time;--that I can't bear. You can tell papa that I will marry Lord Nidderdale whenever he pleases.", "pos": 1283869}
{"speaker": "Madame Melmotte", "text": "Your papa, will be very glad to hear that you have thought better of this at last. Lord Nidderdale is, I am sure, a very good young man.", "pos": 1284900}
{"speaker": "Marie", "text": "Yes. I'll marry Lord Nidderdale, or that horrid Mr. Grendall who is worse than all the others, or his old fool of a father,--or the sweeper at the crossing,--or the black man that waits at table, or anybody else that he chooses to pick up. I don't care who it is the least in the world. But I'll lead him such a life afterwards! I'll make Lord Nidderdale repent the hour he saw me! You may tell papa.", "pos": 1285051}
{"speaker": "Melmotte", "text": "I would lose no time in settling matters as to the purchase of Pickering.", "pos": 1289331}
{"speaker": "Mr. Squercum", "text": "on his client's behalf he should open the matter before the Lord Mayor.", "pos": 1291067}
{"speaker": "Mr. Beauclerk", "text": "I don't think we ought to throw him over. It wouldn't hurt you, Lupton,", "pos": 1292724}
{"speaker": "Lupton", "text": "Not at all, but I also, like Nidderdale, am a young man and of no use,--and a great deal too bashful.", "pos": 1293307}
{"speaker": "Conservative leader", "text": "You had better let me accompany you,", "pos": 1294309}
{"speaker": "father", "text": "Old Cure tells me he doesn't believe a word of it,", "pos": 1295411}
{"speaker": "son", "text": "There's some hitch about Dolly Longestaffe's money, sir,", "pos": 1295541}
{"speaker": "father", "text": "What's that to us if he has our money ready? I suppose it isn't always easy even for a man like that to get a couple of hundred thousand together. I know I've never found it easy to get a thousand. If he has borrowed a trifle from Longestaffe to make up the girl's money, I shan't complain. You stand to your guns. There's no harm done till the parson has said the word.", "pos": 1295614}
{"speaker": "son", "text": "You couldn't let me have a couple of hundred;--could you, sir?", "pos": 1295987}
{"speaker": "father", "text": "No, I couldn't,", "pos": 1296071}
{"speaker": "son", "text": "I'm awfully hard up.", "pos": 1296139}
{"speaker": "father", "text": "So am I.", "pos": 1296162}
{"speaker": "Miles Grendall", "text": "You've heard it, I suppose,", "pos": 1296488}
{"speaker": "Lord Nidderdale", "text": "Heard what?", "pos": 1296550}
{"speaker": "Lord Grasslough", "text": "I believe he doesn't know! By Jove, Nidderdale, you're in a mess like some others.", "pos": 1296564}
{"speaker": "Lord Nidderdale", "text": "What's up now?", "pos": 1296673}
{"speaker": "Miles Grendall", "text": "Only fancy that they shouldn't have known down at the House! Vossner has bolted!", "pos": 1296690}
{"speaker": "Lord Nidderdale", "text": "Bolted!", "pos": 1296773}
{"speaker": "Lord Grasslough", "text": "Bolted. Bolted by George! He has sold all our acceptances to a fellow in Great Marlbro' that's called 'Flatfleece.'", "pos": 1296870}
{"speaker": "Lord Nidderdale", "text": "I know him,", "pos": 1297156}
{"speaker": "Miles Grendall", "text": "I should think so,", "pos": 1297204}
{"speaker": "Lord Nidderdale", "text": "A bottle of champagne!", "pos": 1297246}
{"speaker": "waiter", "text": "there was not a bottle of champagne in the house.", "pos": 1297550}
{"speaker": "Lord Nidderdale", "text": "Good G----,", "pos": 1297601}
{"speaker": "young lord", "text": "It's true,", "pos": 1297709}
{"speaker": "waiter", "text": "there was some port left.", "pos": 1297864}
{"speaker": "Lord Nidderdale", "text": "Brandy? Send out and get some brandy,", "pos": 1297922}
{"speaker": "Dolly Longestaffe", "text": "Here's a go. One thing atop of another! There'll be nothing left for anybody soon. Is that brandy you're drinking, Nidderdale? There was none here when I left.", "pos": 1299145}
{"speaker": "Lord Nidderdale", "text": "Had to send round the corner for it, to the public.", "pos": 1299321}
{"speaker": "Dolly Longestaffe", "text": "We shall be sending round the corner for a good many things now. Does anybody know anything of that fellow Melmotte?", "pos": 1299375}
{"speaker": "Lord Nidderdale", "text": "He's down in the House, as big as life. He's all right I think.", "pos": 1299494}
{"speaker": "Dolly Longestaffe", "text": "I wish he'd pay me my money then. That fellow Flatfleece was here, and he showed me notes of mine for about £1,500! I write such a beastly hand that I never know whether I've written it or not. But, by George, a fellow can't eat and drink £1,500 in less than six months!", "pos": 1299579}
{"speaker": "Lord Grasslough", "text": "There's no knowing what you can do, Dolly,", "pos": 1299852}
{"speaker": "Lord Nidderdale", "text": "He's paid some of your card money, perhaps,", "pos": 1299919}
{"speaker": "Dolly Longestaffe", "text": "I don't think he ever did. Carbury had a lot of my I. O. U.'s while that was going on, but I got the money for that from old Melmotte. How is a fellow to know? If any fellow writes D. Longestaffe, am I obliged to pay it? Everybody is writing my name! How is any fellow to stand that kind of thing? Do you think Melmotte's all right?", "pos": 1299982}
{"speaker": "Lord Nidderdale", "text": "I do think so.", "pos": 1300339}
{"speaker": "Dolly Longestaffe", "text": "I wish he wouldn't go and write my name then. That's a sort of thing that a man should be left to do for himself. I suppose Vossner is a swindler; but, by Jove, I know a worse than Vossner.", "pos": 1300355}
{"speaker": "Melmotte", "text": "Mr. Brown is all wrong. Yes, you are,", "pos": 1307231}
{"speaker": "the Speaker", "text": "The honourable member, is not perhaps as yet aware that he should not call another member by his name. He should speak of the gentleman to whom he alluded as the honourable member for Whitechapel. And in speaking he should address, not another honourable member, but the chair.", "pos": 1307624}
{"speaker": "the good-natured gentleman", "text": "You should take your hat off,", "pos": 1307980}
{"speaker": "Melmotte", "text": "What he said was all wrong, and I should have thought a man out of the City, like Mr. Brown, ought to have known better. I ought to know something about it,", "pos": 1308309}
{"speaker": "the leader of the House", "text": "We are sure that the honourable member for Westminster does understand the subject, and we shall be very glad to hear his remarks. The House I am sure will pardon ignorance of its rules in so young a member.", "pos": 1309011}
{"speaker": "Cohenlupe", "text": "Well, that was plucky!", "pos": 1309639}
{"speaker": "Melmotte", "text": "I don't see any pluck in it. That old fool Brown didn't know what he was talking about, and I wanted to tell them so. They wouldn't let me do it, and there's an end of it. It seems to me to be a stupid sort of a place.", "pos": 1309718}
{"speaker": "Cohenlupe", "text": "Has Longestaffe's money been paid?", "pos": 1309939}
{"speaker": "Melmotte", "text": "Don't you trouble your head about Longestaffe, or his money either, do you leave Mr. Longestaffe and his money to me. I hope you are not such a fool as to be scared by what the other fools say. When men play such a game as you and I are concerned in, they ought to know better than to be afraid of every word that is spoken.", "pos": 1310057}
{"speaker": "Cohenlupe", "text": "Oh, dear; yes; You don't suppose that I am afraid of anything.", "pos": 1310428}
{"speaker": "Sir Felix", "text": "Then, by heaven, he shall answer it to me,", "pos": 1312839}
{"speaker": "Hetta", "text": "Felix, you won't mention that to Mr. Montague!", "pos": 1313698}
{"speaker": "Sir Felix", "text": "Mention what? Oh! about that woman, Mrs. Hurtle? Indeed I shall. A man who does that kind of thing ought to be crushed;--and, by heavens, if he does it to you, he shall be crushed.", "pos": 1313759}
{"speaker": "Hetta", "text": "I want to tell you, Felix. If it is so, I will see him no more.", "pos": 1313942}
{"speaker": "Sir Felix", "text": "If it is so! I tell you I know it.", "pos": 1314008}
{"speaker": "Hetta", "text": "Mamma has written to Roger. At least I feel sure she has.", "pos": 1314045}
{"speaker": "Sir Felix", "text": "What has she written to him for? What has Roger Carbury to do with our affairs?", "pos": 1314105}
{"speaker": "Hetta", "text": "Only you said he knew! If he says so, that is, if you and he both say that he is to marry that woman,--I will not see Mr. Montague again. Pray do not go to him. If such a misfortune does come, it is better to bear it and to be silent. What good can be done?", "pos": 1314187}
{"speaker": "Sir Felix", "text": "Leave that to me. Montague. I believe I am right in saying that you are engaged to marry that American lady, Mrs. Hurtle.", "pos": 1314447}
{"speaker": "Paul Montague", "text": "Then let me tell you that you were never more wrong in your life. What business have you with Mrs. Hurtle?", "pos": 1315058}
{"speaker": "Sir Felix", "text": "When a man proposes to my sister, I think I've a great deal of business,", "pos": 1315167}
{"speaker": "Paul Montague", "text": "Well;--yes; I admit that fully. If I answered you roughly, I beg your pardon. Now as to the facts. I am not going to marry Mrs. Hurtle. I suppose I know how you have heard her name;--but as you have heard it, I have no hesitation in telling you so much. As you know where she is to be found you can go and ask her if you please. On the other hand, it is the dearest wish of my heart to marry your sister. I trust that will be enough for you.", "pos": 1315258}
{"speaker": "Sir Felix", "text": "You were engaged to Mrs. Hurtle?", "pos": 1315702}
{"speaker": "Paul Montague", "text": "My dear Carbury, I don't think I'm bound to tell you all the details of my past life. At any rate, I don't feel inclined to do so in answer to hostile questions. I dare say you have heard enough of Mrs. Hurtle to justify you, as your sister's brother, in asking me whether I am in any way entangled by a connection with her. I tell you that I am not. If you still doubt, I refer you to the lady herself. Beyond that, I do not think I am called on to go; and beyond that I won't go,--at any rate, at present. Of course, Carbury. I wish to regard you as a brother; and if I am rough to you, it is only because you are rough to me.", "pos": 1315737}
{"speaker": "Sir Felix", "text": "What the deuce is Vossner about? Do you mean to say I can't come in? By George!", "pos": 1316922}
{"speaker": "Ruby", "text": "Who do you think is in town? John Crumb; but though he came here ever so smart, I wouldn't so much as speak to him, except to tell him to go away. I don't know I'm sure what he should come after me for, and me telling him as plain as the nose on his face that I never want to see him again.", "pos": 1318616}
{"speaker": "Sir Felix", "text": "He's not of much account,", "pos": 1319006}
{"speaker": "Ruby", "text": "He would marry me out and out immediately, if I'd have him. And he has everything comfortable in the way of furniture, and all that. And they do say he's ever so much money in the bank. But I detest him,", "pos": 1319052}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Pipkin", "text": "Well, now, Sir Felix, if things is square, of course you're welcome to see my niece.", "pos": 1319661}
{"speaker": "Sir Felix", "text": "And what if they're round, Mrs. Pipkin?", "pos": 1319761}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Pipkin", "text": "Well, or round either, so long as they're honest.", "pos": 1319851}
{"speaker": "Sir Felix", "text": "Ruby and I are both honest;--ain't we, Ruby? I want to take her out to dinner, Mrs. Pipkin. She shall be back before late;--before ten; she shall indeed. Come, Ruby, get your hat and change your dress, and we'll be off. I've ever so many things to tell you.", "pos": 1319903}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Pipkin", "text": "Have it been put in writing, Sir Felix Carbury?", "pos": 1320646}
{"speaker": "Sir Felix", "text": "Writing be bothered,", "pos": 1320932}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Pipkin", "text": "That's all very well, Sir Felix. Writing do bother, very often. But when a gentleman has intentions, a bit of writing shows it plainer nor words. Ruby don't go no where to dine unless you puts it into writing.", "pos": 1320971}
{"speaker": "Ruby", "text": "Aunt Pipkin!", "pos": 1321183}
{"speaker": "Sir Felix", "text": "What do you think I'm going to do with her?", "pos": 1321227}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Pipkin", "text": "If you want to make her your wife, put it in writing. And if it be as you don't, just say so, and walk away,--free.", "pos": 1321290}
{"speaker": "Ruby", "text": "I shall go. I'm not going to be kept here a prisoner for any one. I can go when I please. You wait, Felix, and I'll be down in a minute.", "pos": 1321408}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Pipkin", "text": "She don't come back no more here, Sir Felix. She ain't nothing to me, no more than she was my poor dear husband's sister's child. There ain't no blood between us, and won't be no disgrace. But I'd be loth to see her on the streets.", "pos": 1321681}
{"speaker": "Sir Felix", "text": "Then why won't you let me bring her back again?", "pos": 1321961}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Pipkin", "text": "'Cause that'd be the way to send her there. You don't mean to marry her. You're not thinking of that. It's just a bit of sport,--and then there she is, an old shoe to be chucked away, just a rag to be swept into the dust-bin. I've seen scores of 'em, and I'd sooner a child of mine should die in a workus', or be starved to death. But it's all nothing to the likes o' you.", "pos": 1322012}
{"speaker": "Sir Felix", "text": "I haven't done her any harm,", "pos": 1322420}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Pipkin", "text": "Then go away, and don't do her any. That's Mrs. Hurtle's door open. You go and speak to her. She can talk a deal better nor me.", "pos": 1322486}
{"speaker": "Sir Felix", "text": "Mrs. Hurtle hasn't been able to manage her own affairs very well.", "pos": 1322616}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Pipkin", "text": "Mrs. Hurtle's a lady, Sir Felix, and a widow, and one as has seen the world.", "pos": 1322684}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Hurtle", "text": "Sir Felix Carbury. I am afraid you are doing that poor girl no good, and are intending to do her none. Would it not be better that you should leave her to become the wife of a man who is really fond of her?", "pos": 1322922}
{"speaker": "Sir Felix", "text": "Upon my word, ma'am. I'm very much obliged to you, but I don't quite know to what I owe the honour of your--your--", "pos": 1324004}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Hurtle", "text": "Interference you mean.", "pos": 1324132}
{"speaker": "Sir Felix", "text": "I didn't say so, but perhaps that's about it.", "pos": 1324157}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Hurtle", "text": "I'd interfere to save any woman that God ever made. We're all apt to wait a little too long, because we're ashamed to do any little good that chance puts in our way. You must go and leave her, Sir Felix.", "pos": 1324205}
{"speaker": "Sir Felix", "text": "I suppose she may do as she pleases about that.", "pos": 1324443}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Hurtle", "text": "Do you mean to make her your wife?", "pos": 1324493}
{"speaker": "Sir Felix", "text": "Does Mr. Paul Montague mean to make you his wife?", "pos": 1324557}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Hurtle", "text": "I do not see, that there is any parallel between the two cases. I, at any rate, am old enough to take care of myself. Should he not marry me, I am as I was before. Will it be so with that poor girl if she allows herself to be taken about the town by you at night?", "pos": 1325141}
{"speaker": "Sir Felix", "text": "If you'll answer me, I'll answer you. Does Mr. Montague mean to make you his wife?", "pos": 1325643}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Hurtle", "text": "It does not concern you to know. The question is insolent.", "pos": 1325746}
{"speaker": "Sir Felix", "text": "It does concern me,--a great deal more than anything about Ruby can concern you. And as you won't answer me, I won't answer you.", "pos": 1325838}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Hurtle", "text": "Then, sir, that girl's fate will be upon your head.", "pos": 1325969}
{"speaker": "Sir Felix", "text": "I know all about that,", "pos": 1326023}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Hurtle", "text": "And the young man who has followed her up to town will probably know where to find you,", "pos": 1326066}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Pipkin", "text": "You don't come in here again to-night, if you goes out of that there door with that there young man.", "pos": 1326719}
{"speaker": "Ruby", "text": "Then I shall,", "pos": 1326896}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Pipkin", "text": "Baggage! Slut! after all I've done for you, just as one as though you were my own flesh and blood.", "pos": 1326961}
{"speaker": "Ruby", "text": "I've worked for it, I suppose;--haven't I?", "pos": 1327082}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Pipkin", "text": "You send for your things to-morrow, for you don't come in here no more. You ain't nothing to me no more nor no other girl. But I'd 've saved you, if you'd but a' let me. As for you, only because I've lodgings to let, and because of the lady upstairs, I'd shake you that well, you'd never come here no more after poor girls.", "pos": 1327142}
{"speaker": "John Crumb", "text": "He'll have it hot some day,", "pos": 1328807}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Hurtle", "text": "Of course you must let her in,", "pos": 1329331}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Pipkin", "text": "We usen't to have our ways like that when I was young,", "pos": 1329647}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Hurtle", "text": "She's headstrong, Mr. Crumb,", "pos": 1330188}
{"speaker": "John Crumb", "text": "She is that, ma'am. And it was along wi' the baro-nite she went?", "pos": 1330237}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Hurtle", "text": "It was so, Mr. Crumb.", "pos": 1330304}
{"speaker": "John Crumb", "text": "Baro-nite! Well;--perhaps I shall catch him some of these days;--went to dinner wi' him, did she? Didn't she have no dinner here?", "pos": 1330328}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Pipkin", "text": "no starvation nor yet no stint in her house.", "pos": 1330722}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Pipkin", "text": "It's very good of you, Mr. Crumb, to think of an old woman like me,--particularly when you've such a deal of trouble with a young 'un.", "pos": 1331595}
{"speaker": "John Crumb", "text": "It's like the smut in the wheat, Mrs. Pipkin, or the d'sease in the 'tatoes;--it has to be put up with, I suppose. Is she very partial, ma'am, to that young baro-nite?", "pos": 1331732}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Hurtle", "text": "Just a fancy for the time, Mr. Crumb,", "pos": 1331942}
{"speaker": "John Crumb", "text": "They never thinks as how their fancies may well-nigh half kill a man! Sir Felix Carbury! I'll Sir Felix him some of these days. If it was only dinner, wouldn't she be back afore this, ma'am?", "pos": 1331997}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Hurtle", "text": "I suppose they've gone to some place of amusement,", "pos": 1332579}
{"speaker": "John Crumb", "text": "Like enough,", "pos": 1332650}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Pipkin", "text": "She's that mad after dancing as never was,", "pos": 1332697}
{"speaker": "John Crumb", "text": "And where is it as 'em dances? Does 'em dance all night at them places, Mrs. Pipkin?", "pos": 1332760}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Pipkin", "text": "They do pretty nearly all that they oughtn't to do,", "pos": 1333090}
{"speaker": "John Crumb", "text": "I never knowed as she was fond o' dancing. I'd a had dancing for her down at Bungay,--just as ready as anything. D'ye think, ma'am, it's the dancing she's after, or the baro-nite?", "pos": 1333291}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Hurtle", "text": "I suppose they go together,", "pos": 1333524}
{"speaker": "John Crumb", "text": "Domn him! Domn him! What 'ad I ever dun to him? Nothing! Did I ever interfere wi' him? Never! But I wull. I wull. I wouldn't wonder but I'll swing for this at Bury!", "pos": 1333670}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Pipkin", "text": "Mr. Crumb is a little disturbed, but he'll get over it presently. She's a nasty slut to go and treat a young man as she's treating you,", "pos": 1333894}
{"speaker": "John Crumb", "text": "No, ma'am;--she ain't nasty. But she's crou'll--horrid crou'll. It's no more use my going down about meal and pollard, nor business, and she up here with that baro-nite,--no, no more nor nothin'! When I handles it I don't know whether its middlings nor nothin' else. If I was to twist his neck, ma'am, would you take it on yourself to say as I was wrong?", "pos": 1334070}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Hurtle", "text": "I'd sooner hear that you had taken the girl away from him,", "pos": 1334445}
{"speaker": "John Crumb", "text": "I could pretty well eat him,--that's what I could. Half past eleven; is it? She must come some time, mustn't she?", "pos": 1334524}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Hurtle", "text": "I don't know that I think better of the man for having Mr. Carbury's friendship,", "pos": 1335554}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Pipkin", "text": "Mr. Carbury ain't any way like his cousin, Mrs. Hurtle.", "pos": 1335647}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Hurtle", "text": "I don't think much of any of the Carburys, Mrs. Pipkin. It seems to me that everybody here is either too humble or too overbearing. Nobody seems content to stand firm on his own footing and interfere with nobody else. I suppose we may as well go to bed now. When that girl comes and knocks, of course we must let her in. If I hear her, I'll go down and open the door for her.", "pos": 1335705}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Pipkin", "text": "I don't mind saying it now, Mrs. Hurtle, but your being here is ever so much to me. I ain't nothing to depend on,--only lodgers, and them as is any good is so hard to get!", "pos": 1336639}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Pipkin", "text": "Laws a mercy; what is it?", "pos": 1337614}
{"speaker": "Ruby", "text": "He's been and murdered him! He has! He's been and murdered him!", "pos": 1337661}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Hurtle", "text": "She is living here,", "pos": 1337816}
{"speaker": "John Crumb", "text": "I won't;--I won't,", "pos": 1339403}
{"speaker": "Ruby", "text": "It's no good--I won't.", "pos": 1339480}
{"speaker": "Ruby", "text": "If it isn't John Crumb!", "pos": 1340903}
{"speaker": "John Crumb", "text": "Get up, you wiper. You sholl get up. Now, Ruby, he's a-going to have it,", "pos": 1341096}
{"speaker": "the baronet", "text": "Don't hit a man when he's down,", "pos": 1341466}
{"speaker": "John", "text": "I wunt, but I'll hit a fellow when 'un's up.", "pos": 1341551}
{"speaker": "John Crumb", "text": "He's about got enough of it. I know'd he'd have to have it,", "pos": 1342070}
{"speaker": "John Crumb", "text": "dropped into the baro-nite", "pos": 1343354}
{"speaker": "One lady", "text": "so mashed and mauled come to", "pos": 1344054}
{"speaker": "A precocious youth", "text": "all one as a dead 'un.", "pos": 1344167}
{"speaker": "A cabman", "text": "'ad it awful 'eavy.", "pos": 1344223}
{"speaker": "John Crumb", "text": "I'm John Crumb of Bungay, and I ain't afeared of nothin' nor nobody. And I ain't a been a drinking; no, I ain't. Mauled 'un! In course I've mauled 'un. And I meaned it. That ere young woman is engaged to be my wife.", "pos": 1346062}
{"speaker": "Ruby", "text": "No, I ain't,", "pos": 1346291}
{"speaker": "John Crumb", "text": "But she is,", "pos": 1346320}
{"speaker": "Ruby", "text": "Well then, I never will,", "pos": 1346356}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Hurtle", "text": "Miss Ruggles, if that young man doesn't conquer you at last you can't have a heart in your bosom.", "pos": 1346709}
{"speaker": "Ruby", "text": "Indeed and I have then, and I don't mean to give it him if it's ever so. He's been and killed Sir Felix.", "pos": 1346829}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "ASK HIMSELF.", "pos": 1347080}
{"speaker": "Roger Carbury", "text": "What's this about Felix?", "pos": 1351803}
{"speaker": "Hetta", "text": "Oh Roger, I am so glad to see you. Felix did not come home last night, and this morning there came a man from the hospital in the city to say that he is there.", "pos": 1351919}
{"speaker": "Roger Carbury", "text": "What has happened to him?", "pos": 1352081}
{"speaker": "Hetta", "text": "Somebody,--somebody has,--beaten him. And mamma has gone to fetch him,", "pos": 1352109}
{"speaker": "Roger Carbury", "text": "That's John Crumb. You have not been told about John Crumb? No;--you would not hear of him.", "pos": 1352663}
{"speaker": "Hetta", "text": "Why should John Crumb beat Felix like that?", "pos": 1352850}
{"speaker": "Roger Carbury", "text": "They say, Hetta, that women are the cause of most troubles that occur in the world. If it be as I suppose. John Crumb has considered himself to be aggrieved and has thus avenged himself.", "pos": 1352896}
{"speaker": "Hetta", "text": "Did you--know of him before?", "pos": 1353212}
{"speaker": "Roger Carbury", "text": "Yes indeed;--very well. He is a neighbour of mine and was in love with a girl, with all his heart; and he would have made her his wife and have been good to her. He had a home to offer her, and is an honest man with whom she would have been safe and respected and happy. Your brother saw her and, though he knew the story, though he had been told by myself that this honest fellow had placed his happiness on the girl's love, he thought,--well, I suppose he thought that such a pretty thing as this girl was too good for John Crumb.", "pos": 1353243}
{"speaker": "Hetta", "text": "But Felix has been going to marry Miss Melmotte!", "pos": 1353778}
{"speaker": "Roger Carbury", "text": "You're old-fashioned, Hetta. It used to be the way,--to be off with the old love before you are on with the new; but that seems to be all changed now. Such fine young fellows as there are now can be in love with two at once. That I fear is what Felix has thought;--and now he has been punished.", "pos": 1353829}
{"speaker": "Hetta", "text": "You know all about it then?", "pos": 1354126}
{"speaker": "Roger Carbury", "text": "No;--I don't know. But I think it has been so. I do know that John Crumb had threatened to do this thing, and I felt sure that sooner or later he would be as good as his word. If it has been so, who is to blame him?", "pos": 1354156}
{"speaker": "Hetta", "text": "It is very shocking,", "pos": 1355174}
{"speaker": "Roger Carbury", "text": "Shocking;--yes. One is shocked at it all. I pity your mother, and I pity you.", "pos": 1355207}
{"speaker": "Hetta", "text": "It seems to me that nothing ever will be happy for us,", "pos": 1355287}
{"speaker": "Roger Carbury", "text": "I do not know whether to wait for your mother or not,", "pos": 1355458}
{"speaker": "Hetta", "text": "Pray wait for her if you are not very busy.", "pos": 1355543}
{"speaker": "Roger Carbury", "text": "I came up only to see her, but perhaps she would not wish me to be here when she brings Felix back to the house.", "pos": 1355589}
{"speaker": "Hetta", "text": "Indeed she will. She would like you always to be here when there are troubles. Oh, Roger, I wish you could tell me.", "pos": 1355704}
{"speaker": "Roger Carbury", "text": "Tell you what?", "pos": 1355822}
{"speaker": "Hetta", "text": "She has written to you;--has she not?", "pos": 1355839}
{"speaker": "Roger Carbury", "text": "Yes; she has written to me.", "pos": 1355879}
{"speaker": "Hetta", "text": "And about me?", "pos": 1355909}
{"speaker": "Roger Carbury", "text": "Yes;--about you, Hetta. And, Hetta, Mr. Montague has written to me also.", "pos": 1355925}
{"speaker": "Hetta", "text": "He told me that he would,", "pos": 1356000}
{"speaker": "Roger Carbury", "text": "Did he tell you of my answer?", "pos": 1356045}
{"speaker": "Hetta", "text": "No;--he has told me of no answer. I have not seen him since.", "pos": 1356077}
{"speaker": "Roger Carbury", "text": "You do not think that it can have been very kind, do you? I also have something of the feeling of John Crumb, though I shall not attempt to show it after the same fashion.", "pos": 1356140}
{"speaker": "Hetta", "text": "Did you not say the girl had promised to love that man?", "pos": 1356314}
{"speaker": "Roger Carbury", "text": "I did not say so;--but she had promised. Yes, Hetta; there is a difference. The girl then was fickle and went back from her word. You never have done that. I am not justified in thinking even a hard thought of you. I have never harboured a hard thought of you. It is not you that I reproach. But he,--he has been if possible more false than Felix.", "pos": 1356372}
{"speaker": "Hetta", "text": "Oh, Roger, how has he been false?", "pos": 1356722}
{"speaker": "Roger Carbury", "text": "He should have left the place and never have come near you, when he found how it was likely to be with him. He owed it to me not to take the cup of water from my lips.", "pos": 1356940}
{"speaker": "Hetta", "text": "But, Roger, it would have been the same.", "pos": 1357495}
{"speaker": "Roger Carbury", "text": "You may think so. You may feel it. You may know it. I at any rate will not contradict you when you say that it must have been so. But he didn't feel it. He didn't know it. He was to me as a younger brother,--and he has robbed me of everything. I understand, Hetta, what you mean. I should never have succeeded! My happiness would have been impossible if Paul had never come home from America. I have told myself so a hundred times, but I cannot therefore forgive him. And I won't forgive him, Hetta. Whether you are his wife, or another man's, or whether you are Hetta Carbury on to the end, my feeling to you will be the same. While we both live, you must be to me the dearest creature living. My hatred to him--", "pos": 1357550}
{"speaker": "Hetta", "text": "Oh, Roger, do not say hatred.", "pos": 1358265}
{"speaker": "Roger Carbury", "text": "My hostility to him can make no difference in my feeling to you. I tell you that should you become his wife you will still be my love. As to not coveting,--how is a man to cease to covet that which he has always coveted? But I shall be separated from you. Should I be dying, then I should send for you. You are the very essence of my life. I have no dream of happiness otherwise than as connected with you. He might have my whole property and I would work for my bread, if I could only have a chance of winning you to share my toils with me.", "pos": 1358297}
{"speaker": "Hetta", "text": "Roger. I have given it all away now. It cannot be given twice.", "pos": 1358885}
{"speaker": "Roger Carbury", "text": "If he were unworthy would your heart never change?", "pos": 1358962}
{"speaker": "Hetta", "text": "I think--never. Roger, is he unworthy?", "pos": 1359015}
{"speaker": "Roger Carbury", "text": "How can you trust me to answer such a question? He is my enemy. He has been ungrateful to me as one man hardly ever is to another. He has turned all my sweetness to gall, all my flowers to bitter weeds; he has choked up all my paths. And now you ask me whether he is unworthy! I cannot tell you.", "pos": 1359056}
{"speaker": "Hetta", "text": "If you thought him worthy you would tell me,", "pos": 1359354}
{"speaker": "Roger Carbury", "text": "No;--I will tell you nothing. Go to some one else, not to me;", "pos": 1359449}
{"speaker": "Hetta", "text": "Roger, if you knew him to be good you would tell me,--because you yourself are so good. Even though you hated him you would say so. It would not be you to leave a false impression even against your enemies. I ask you because, however it may be with you, I know I can trust you. I can be nothing else to you, Roger; but I love you as a sister loves, and I come to you as a sister comes to a brother. He has my heart. Tell me;--is there any reason why he should not also have my hand?", "pos": 1359602}
{"speaker": "Roger Carbury", "text": "Ask himself, Hetta.", "pos": 1360087}
{"speaker": "Hetta", "text": "And you will tell me nothing? You will not try to save me though you know that I am in danger? Who is--Mrs. Hurtle?", "pos": 1360109}
{"speaker": "Roger Carbury", "text": "Have you asked him?", "pos": 1360227}
{"speaker": "Hetta", "text": "I had not heard her name when he parted from me. I did not even know that such a woman lived. Is it true that he has promised to marry her? Felix told me of her, and told me also that you knew. But I cannot trust Felix as I would trust you. And mamma says that it is so;--but mamma also bids me ask you. There is such a woman?", "pos": 1360249}
{"speaker": "Roger Carbury", "text": "There is such a woman certainly.", "pos": 1360578}
{"speaker": "Hetta", "text": "And she has been,--a friend of Paul's?", "pos": 1360613}
{"speaker": "Roger Carbury", "text": "Whatever be the story, Hetta, you shall not hear it from me. I will say neither evil nor good of the man except in regard to his conduct to myself. Send for him and ask him to tell you the story of Mrs. Hurtle as it concerns himself. I do not think he will lie, but if he lies you will know that he is lying.", "pos": 1360654}
{"speaker": "Hetta", "text": "And that is all?", "pos": 1360965}
{"speaker": "Roger Carbury", "text": "All that I can say, Hetta. You ask me to be your brother; but I cannot put myself in the place of your brother. I tell you plainly that I am your lover, and shall remain so. Your brother would welcome the man whom you would choose as your husband. I can never welcome any husband of yours. I think if twenty years were to pass over us, and you were still Hetta Carbury, I should still be your lover,--though an old one. What is now to be done about Felix, Hetta?", "pos": 1360984}
{"speaker": "Hetta", "text": "Ah,--what can be done? I think sometimes that it will break mamma's heart.", "pos": 1361449}
{"speaker": "Roger Carbury", "text": "Your mother makes me angry by her continual indulgence.", "pos": 1361526}
{"speaker": "Hetta", "text": "But what can she do? You would not have her turn him into the street?", "pos": 1361584}
{"speaker": "Roger Carbury", "text": "I do not know that I would not. For a time it might serve him perhaps. Here is the cab. Here they are. Yes; you had better go down and let your mother know that I am here. They will perhaps take him up to bed, so that I need not see him.", "pos": 1361656}
{"speaker": "Hetta", "text": "Roger is up-stairs, mamma,", "pos": 1362429}
{"speaker": "Lady Carbury", "text": "Has he heard about Felix;--has he come about that?", "pos": 1362482}
{"speaker": "Hetta", "text": "He has heard only what I have told him. He has come because of your letter. He says that a man named Crumb did it.", "pos": 1362535}
{"speaker": "Lady Carbury", "text": "Then he does know. Who can have told him? He always knows everything. Oh, Hetta, what am I to do? Where shall I go with this wretched boy?", "pos": 1362652}
{"speaker": "Hetta", "text": "Is he hurt, mamma?", "pos": 1362793}
{"speaker": "Lady Carbury", "text": "Hurt;--of course he is hurt; horribly hurt. The brute tried to kill him. They say that he will be dreadfully scarred for ever. But oh, Hetta;--what am I to do with him? What am I to do with myself and you?", "pos": 1362814}
{"speaker": "Lady Carbury", "text": "What am I to do with him? It is no use telling me to leave him. I can't do that. I know he is bad. I know that I have done much to make him what he is. But he is my child. What am I to do with him now?", "pos": 1364394}
{"speaker": "Roger Carbury", "text": "Perhaps I should take him abroad,", "pos": 1365024}
{"speaker": "Lady Carbury", "text": "Would he be better abroad than here?", "pos": 1365069}
{"speaker": "Roger Carbury", "text": "He would have less opportunity for vice, and fewer means of running you into debt.", "pos": 1365108}
{"speaker": "Lady Carbury", "text": "Yes. I suppose it would be so. I only wish that I might die, so that were an end of it.", "pos": 1366025}
{"speaker": "Roger Carbury", "text": "He might go out to one of the Colonies,", "pos": 1366127}
{"speaker": "Lady Carbury", "text": "Yes;--be sent away that he might kill himself with drink in the bush, and so be got rid of. I have heard of that before. Wherever he goes I shall go.", "pos": 1366181}
{"speaker": "Roger Carbury", "text": "If you like to let your house for a period, mine is open to you.", "pos": 1366807}
{"speaker": "Lady Carbury", "text": "But, Felix?", "pos": 1366885}
{"speaker": "Roger Carbury", "text": "You shall take him there. I am all alone in the world. I can make a home for myself at the cottage. It is empty now. If you think that would save you you can try it for six months.", "pos": 1366899}
{"speaker": "Lady Carbury", "text": "And turn you out of your own house? No, Roger. I cannot do that. And, Roger;--what is to be done about Hetta?", "pos": 1367082}
{"speaker": "Roger Carbury", "text": "Hetta can be trusted to judge for herself,", "pos": 1367647}
{"speaker": "Lady Carbury", "text": "How can you say that when she has just accepted this young man? Is it not true that he is even now living with an American woman whom he has promised to marry?", "pos": 1367701}
{"speaker": "Roger Carbury", "text": "No;--that is not true.", "pos": 1367863}
{"speaker": "Lady Carbury", "text": "What is true, then? Is he not engaged to the woman?", "pos": 1367888}
{"speaker": "Roger Carbury", "text": "I do not know that even that is true. When last he spoke to me about it he declared that the engagement was at an end. I have told Hetta to ask himself. Let her tell him that she has heard of this woman from you, and that it behoves her to know the truth. I do not love him, Lady Carbury. He has no longer any place in my friendship. But I think that if Hetta asks him simply what is the nature of his connexion with Mrs. Hurtle, he will tell her the truth.", "pos": 1367968}
{"speaker": "Marie", "text": "I know, papa. It is that you may have the money to do what you like with. You have been so unkind to me about Sir Felix Carbury that I won't do it. If I ever marry the money will belong to my husband!", "pos": 1377238}
{"speaker": "Melmotte", "text": "I suppose you thought Sir Felix would have had the entire sum,", "pos": 1377939}
{"speaker": "Marie", "text": "And he would;--if he had the spirit to take it,", "pos": 1378041}
{"speaker": "Mr. Bideawhile", "text": "We are not asking for payment of a commercial debt, but for the price of a considerable property which you have purchased.", "pos": 1379039}
{"speaker": "Melmotte", "text": "You have no right whatever to demand the title-deeds. You can only claim the sum due, and I have already told you how I propose to pay it.", "pos": 1379545}
{"speaker": "Mr. Bideawhile", "text": "Do you mean to tell me, Mr. Melmotte, that you have not got the money to pay for what you have bought, and that nevertheless the title-deeds have already gone out of your hands?", "pos": 1380379}
{"speaker": "Melmotte", "text": "I have property to ten times the value, twenty times the value, thirty times the value, but you must know I should think by this time that a man engaged in large affairs cannot always realise such a sum as eighty thousand pounds at a day's notice.", "pos": 1380559}
{"speaker": "Cohenlupe", "text": "Offer 'em again. He must take the bills sooner or later.", "pos": 1384133}
{"speaker": "Melmotte", "text": "Have you seen Marie lately?", "pos": 1384290}
{"speaker": "Lord Nidderdale", "text": "I'm going up to your house almost immediately,", "pos": 1385083}
{"speaker": "Melmotte", "text": "You'll find the women at tea to a certainty between five and six,", "pos": 1385149}
{"speaker": "Lord Nidderdale", "text": "Have you been thinking any more about it?", "pos": 1385272}
{"speaker": "Marie", "text": "I have thought ever so much more about it,", "pos": 1385422}
{"speaker": "Lord Nidderdale", "text": "And what's the result?", "pos": 1385479}
{"speaker": "Marie", "text": "Oh,--I'll have you.", "pos": 1385504}
{"speaker": "Lord Nidderdale", "text": "That's right,", "pos": 1385526}
{"speaker": "Marie", "text": "Wait a moment, Lord Nidderdale,", "pos": 1385648}
{"speaker": "Lord Nidderdale", "text": "You might as well call me John.", "pos": 1385692}
{"speaker": "Marie", "text": "Then wait a moment,--John. You think you might as well marry me, though you don't love me a bit.", "pos": 1385726}
{"speaker": "Lord Nidderdale", "text": "That's not true, Marie.", "pos": 1385825}
{"speaker": "Marie", "text": "Yes it is;--it's quite true. And I think just the same,--that I might as well marry you, though I don't love you a bit.", "pos": 1385851}
{"speaker": "Lord Nidderdale", "text": "But you will.", "pos": 1385973}
{"speaker": "Marie", "text": "I don't know. I don't feel like it just at present. You had better know the exact truth, you know. I have told my father that I did not think you'd ever come again, but that if you did I would accept you. But I'm not going to tell any stories about it. You know who I've been in love with.", "pos": 1385989}
{"speaker": "Lord Nidderdale", "text": "But you can't be in love with him now.", "pos": 1386281}
{"speaker": "Marie", "text": "Why not? I can't marry him. I know that. And if he were to come to me, I don't think that I would. He has behaved bad.", "pos": 1386322}
{"speaker": "Lord Nidderdale", "text": "Have I behaved bad?", "pos": 1386443}
{"speaker": "Marie", "text": "Not like him. You never did care, and you never said you cared.", "pos": 1386465}
{"speaker": "Lord Nidderdale", "text": "Oh yes,--I have.", "pos": 1386531}
{"speaker": "Marie", "text": "Not at first. You say it now because you think that I shall like it. But it makes no difference now. I don't mind about your arm being there if we are to be married, only it's just as well for both of us to look on it as business.", "pos": 1386550}
{"speaker": "Lord Nidderdale", "text": "How very hard you are, Marie.", "pos": 1386783}
{"speaker": "Marie", "text": "No, I ain't. I wasn't hard to Sir Felix Carbury, and so I tell you. I did love him.", "pos": 1386815}
{"speaker": "Lord Nidderdale", "text": "Surely you have found him out now.", "pos": 1386901}
{"speaker": "Marie", "text": "Yes, I have. He's a poor creature.", "pos": 1386938}
{"speaker": "Lord Nidderdale", "text": "He has just been thrashed, you know, in the streets,--most horribly. You hadn't heard it?", "pos": 1386989}
{"speaker": "Marie", "text": "Who has thrashed him?", "pos": 1387156}
{"speaker": "Lord Nidderdale", "text": "I don't want to tell the story against him, but they say he has been cut about in a terrible manner.", "pos": 1387180}
{"speaker": "Marie", "text": "Why should anybody beat him? Did he do anything?", "pos": 1387283}
{"speaker": "Lord Nidderdale", "text": "There was a young lady in the question, Marie.", "pos": 1387334}
{"speaker": "Marie", "text": "A young lady! What young lady? I don't believe it. But it's nothing to me. I don't care about anything, Lord Nidderdale;--not a bit. I suppose you've made up all that out of your own head.", "pos": 1387383}
{"speaker": "Lord Nidderdale", "text": "Indeed, no. I believe he was beaten, and I believe it was about a young woman. But it signifies nothing to me, and I don't suppose it signifies much to you. Don't you think we might fix a day, Marie?", "pos": 1387574}
{"speaker": "Marie", "text": "I don't care the least. The longer it's put off the better I shall like it;--that's all.", "pos": 1387776}
{"speaker": "Lord Nidderdale", "text": "Because I'm so detestable?", "pos": 1387881}
{"speaker": "Marie", "text": "No,--you ain't detestable. I think you are a very good fellow; only you don't care for me. But it is detestable not being able to do what one wants. It's detestable having to quarrel with everybody and never to be good friends with anybody. And it's horribly detestable having nothing on earth to give one any interest.", "pos": 1387910}
{"speaker": "Lord Nidderdale", "text": "You couldn't take any interest in me?", "pos": 1388232}
{"speaker": "Marie", "text": "Not the least.", "pos": 1388272}
{"speaker": "Lord Nidderdale", "text": "Suppose you try. Wouldn't you like to know anything about the place where we live?", "pos": 1388289}
{"speaker": "Marie", "text": "It's a castle, I know.", "pos": 1388374}
{"speaker": "Lord Nidderdale", "text": "Yes;--Castle Reekie; ever so many hundred years old.", "pos": 1388399}
{"speaker": "Marie", "text": "I hate old places. I should like a new house, and a new dress, and a new horse every week,--and a new lover. Your father lives at the castle. I don't suppose we are to go and live there too.", "pos": 1388454}
{"speaker": "Lord Nidderdale", "text": "We shall be there sometimes. When shall it be?", "pos": 1388647}
{"speaker": "Marie", "text": "The year after next.", "pos": 1388696}
{"speaker": "Lord Nidderdale", "text": "Nonsense, Marie.", "pos": 1388719}
{"speaker": "Marie", "text": "To-morrow.", "pos": 1388738}
{"speaker": "Lord Nidderdale", "text": "You wouldn't be ready.", "pos": 1388751}
{"speaker": "Marie", "text": "You may manage it all just as you like with papa. Oh, yes,--kiss me; of course you may. If I'm to belong to you what does it matter? No;--I won't say that I love you. But if ever I do say it, you may be sure it will be true. That's more than you can say of yourself,--John.", "pos": 1388776}
{"speaker": "Melmotte", "text": "Have you been up with the ladies?", "pos": 1389739}
{"speaker": "Lord Nidderdale", "text": "Oh yes.", "pos": 1389795}
{"speaker": "Melmotte", "text": "And what does Marie say?", "pos": 1389805}
{"speaker": "Lord Nidderdale", "text": "That you must fix the day.", "pos": 1389832}
{"speaker": "Melmotte", "text": "We'll have it very soon then;--some time next month. You'll want to get away in August. And to tell the truth so shall I. I never was worked so hard in my life as I've been this summer. The election and that horrid dinner had something to do with it. And I don't mind telling you that I've had a fearful weight on my mind in reference to money. I never had to find so many large sums in so short a time! And I'm not quite through it yet.", "pos": 1389861}
{"speaker": "Lord Nidderdale", "text": "I wonder why you gave the dinner then.", "pos": 1390301}
{"speaker": "Melmotte", "text": "My dear boy, as regards expenditure that was a flea-bite. Nothing that I could spend myself would have the slightest effect upon my condition,--one way or the other.", "pos": 1390342}
{"speaker": "Lord Nidderdale", "text": "I wish it could be the same way with me,", "pos": 1390585}
{"speaker": "Melmotte", "text": "If you chose to go into business with me instead of taking Marie's money out, it very soon would be so with you. But the burden is very great. I never know whence these panics arise, or why they come, or whither they go. But when they do come, they are like a storm at sea. It is only the strong ships that can stand the fury of the winds and waves. And then the buffeting which a man gets leaves him only half the man he was. I've had it very hard this time.", "pos": 1390645}
{"speaker": "Lord Nidderdale", "text": "I suppose you are getting right now.", "pos": 1391107}
{"speaker": "Melmotte", "text": "Yes;--I am getting right. I am not in any fear if you mean that. I don't mind telling you everything as it is settled now that you are to be Marie's husband. I know that you are honest, and that if you could hurt me by repeating what I say you wouldn't do it.", "pos": 1391146}
{"speaker": "Lord Nidderdale", "text": "Certainly I would not.", "pos": 1391408}
{"speaker": "Melmotte", "text": "You see I've no partner,--nobody that is bound to know my affairs. My wife is the best woman in the world, but is utterly unable to understand anything about it. Of course I can't talk freely to Marie. Cohenlupe whom you see so much with me is all very well,--in his way, but I never talk over my affairs with him. He is concerned with me in one or two things,--our American railway for instance, but he has no interest generally in my house. It is all on my own shoulders, and I can tell you the weight is a little heavy. It will be the greatest comfort to me in the world if I can get you to have an interest in the matter.", "pos": 1391433}
{"speaker": "Lord Nidderdale", "text": "I don't suppose I could ever really be any good at business,", "pos": 1392061}
{"speaker": "Melmotte", "text": "You wouldn't come and work, I suppose. I shouldn't expect that. But I should be glad to think that I could tell you how things are going on. Of course you heard all that was said just before the election. For forty-eight hours I had a very bad time of it then. The fact was that Alf and they who were supporting him thought that they could carry the election by running me down. They were at it for a fortnight,--perfectly unscrupulous as to what they said or what harm they might do me and others. I thought that very cruel. They couldn't get their man in, but they could and did have the effect of depreciating my property suddenly by nearly half a million of money. Think what that is!", "pos": 1392151}
{"speaker": "Lord Nidderdale", "text": "I don't understand how it could be done.", "pos": 1392842}
{"speaker": "Melmotte", "text": "Because you don't understand how delicate a thing is credit. They persuaded a lot of men to stay away from that infernal dinner, and consequently it was spread about the town that I was ruined. The effect upon shares which I held was instantaneous and tremendous. The Mexican railway were at 117, and they fell from that in two days to something quite nominal,--so that selling was out of the question. Cohenlupe and I between us had about 8,000 of these shares. Think what that comes to! That's what I call a blow;--a terrible blow. When a man is concerned as I am with money interests, and concerned largely with them all, he is of course exchanging one property for another every day of his life,--according as the markets go. I don't keep such a sum as that in one concern as an investment. Nobody does. Then when a panic comes, don't you see how it hits?", "pos": 1392885}
{"speaker": "Lord Nidderdale", "text": "Will they never go up again?", "pos": 1393823}
{"speaker": "Melmotte", "text": "Oh yes;--perhaps higher than ever. But it will take time. And in the meantime I am driven to fall back upon property intended for other purposes. That's the meaning of what you hear about that place down in Sussex which I bought for Marie. I was so driven that I was obliged to raise forty or fifty thousand wherever I could. But that will be all right in a week or two. And as for Marie's money,--that, you know, is settled.", "pos": 1393854}
{"speaker": "Dolly Longestaffe", "text": "By George! the world, must be coming to an end. There's that infernal scoundrel sitting in Parliament just as if he had not robbed me of my property, and forged my name, and--and--by George! he ought to be hung. If any man ever deserved to be hung, that man deserves to be hung.", "pos": 1398372}
{"speaker": "Lord Nidderdale", "text": "Dolly, do not go on in that way about Melmotte when I am in the room. I have no doubt you are mistaken, and so you'll find out in a day or two. You don't know Melmotte.", "pos": 1398972}
{"speaker": "Dolly Longestaffe", "text": "Mistaken! Am I mistaken in supposing that I haven't been paid my money?", "pos": 1399154}
{"speaker": "Lord Nidderdale", "text": "I don't believe it has been owing very long.", "pos": 1399282}
{"speaker": "Dolly Longestaffe", "text": "Am I mistaken in supposing that my name has been forged to a letter?", "pos": 1399329}
{"speaker": "Lord Nidderdale", "text": "I am sure you are mistaken if you think that Melmotte had anything to do with it.", "pos": 1399400}
{"speaker": "Dolly Longestaffe", "text": "Squercum says--", "pos": 1399484}
{"speaker": "Lord Nidderdale", "text": "Never mind Squercum. We all know what are the suspicions of a fellow of that kind.", "pos": 1399502}
{"speaker": "Dolly Longestaffe", "text": "I'd believe Squercum a deuced sight sooner than Melmotte.", "pos": 1399587}
{"speaker": "Lord Nidderdale", "text": "Look here, Dolly. I know more probably of Melmotte's affairs than you do or perhaps than anybody else. If it will induce you to remain quiet for a few days and to hold your tongue here,--I'll make myself responsible for the entire sum he owes you.", "pos": 1399647}
{"speaker": "Dolly Longestaffe", "text": "The devil you will.", "pos": 1399897}
{"speaker": "Lord Nidderdale", "text": "I will indeed.", "pos": 1399919}
{"speaker": "Dolly Longestaffe", "text": "That's out of the question, you know. How could I take your money? The truth is, Nidderdale, the man is a thief, and so you'll find out, sooner or later. He has broken open a drawer in my father's room and forged my name to a letter. Everybody knows it. Even my governor knows it now,--and Bideawhile. Before many days are over you'll find that he will be in gaol for forgery.", "pos": 1400085}
{"speaker": "Lord Nidderdale", "text": "Since you will speak about it in this public way--", "pos": 1400598}
{"speaker": "Dolly Longestaffe", "text": "I think it ought to be spoken about in a public way,", "pos": 1400669}
{"speaker": "Lord Nidderdale", "text": "I deny it as publicly. I can't say anything about the letter except that I am sure Mr. Melmotte did not put your name to it. From what I understand there seems to have been some blunder between your father and his lawyer.", "pos": 1400736}
{"speaker": "Dolly Longestaffe", "text": "That's true enough, but it doesn't excuse Melmotte.", "pos": 1400960}
{"speaker": "Lord Nidderdale", "text": "As to the money, there can be no more doubt that it will be paid than that I stand here. What is it?--twenty-five thousand, isn't it?", "pos": 1401028}
{"speaker": "Dolly Longestaffe", "text": "Eighty thousand, the whole.", "pos": 1401164}
{"speaker": "Lord Nidderdale", "text": "Well,--eighty thousand. It's impossible to suppose that such a man as Melmotte shouldn't be able to raise eighty thousand pounds.", "pos": 1401194}
{"speaker": "Dolly Longestaffe", "text": "Why don't he do it then?", "pos": 1401326}
{"speaker": "Dolly Longestaffe", "text": "By George. I think everything is going to come to an end. I do indeed. I never heard of such a thing before as a man being done in this way. And then Vossner has gone off, and it seems everybody is to pay just what he says they owed him. And now one can't even get up a game of cards. I feel as though there were no good in hoping that things would ever come right again.", "pos": 1401922}
{"speaker": "Squercum", "text": "I suppose you give it up about the letter having been signed by my client,", "pos": 1404991}
{"speaker": "Bideawhile", "text": "I give up nothing and I assert nothing. Whether the letter be genuine or not we had no reason to believe it to be otherwise. The young gentleman's signature is never very plain, and this one is about as like any other as that other would be like the last.", "pos": 1405127}
{"speaker": "Squercum", "text": "It's a stiff resemblance;--such as he never could have written had he tried it ever so.", "pos": 1405573}
{"speaker": "Bideawhile", "text": "Perhaps not, Mr. Squercum. We are not generally on the lookout for forgeries in letters from our clients or our clients' sons.", "pos": 1405663}
{"speaker": "Squercum", "text": "Just so, Mr. Bideawhile. But then Mr. Longestaffe had already told you that his son would not sign the letter.", "pos": 1405792}
{"speaker": "Bideawhile", "text": "How is one to know when and how and why a young man like that will change his purpose?", "pos": 1405905}
{"speaker": "Squercum", "text": "Just so, Mr. Bideawhile. But you see after such a declaration as that on the part of my client's father, the letter,--which is in itself a little irregular perhaps--", "pos": 1405994}
{"speaker": "Bideawhile", "text": "I don't know that it's irregular at all.", "pos": 1406162}
{"speaker": "Squercum", "text": "Well;--it didn't reach you in a very confirmatory manner. We'll just say that. What Mr. Longestaffe can have been at to wish to give up his title-deeds without getting anything for them--", "pos": 1406205}
{"speaker": "Bideawhile", "text": "Excuse me, Mr. Squercum, but that's between Mr. Longestaffe and us.", "pos": 1406395}
{"speaker": "Squercum", "text": "Just so;--but as Mr. Longestaffe and you have jeopardised my client's property it is natural that I should make a few remarks. I think you'd have made a few remarks yourself, Mr. Bideawhile, if the case had been reversed. I shall bring the matter before the Lord Mayor, you know. And I think I understand you now that you do not intend to insist on the signature as being genuine.", "pos": 1406465}
{"speaker": "Bideawhile", "text": "I say nothing about it, Mr. Squercum. I think you'll find it very hard to prove that it's not genuine.", "pos": 1406890}
{"speaker": "Squercum", "text": "My client's oath, Mr. Bideawhile.", "pos": 1406995}
{"speaker": "Bideawhile", "text": "I'm afraid your client is not always very clear as to what he does.", "pos": 1407031}
{"speaker": "Squercum", "text": "I don't know what you mean by that, Mr. Bideawhile. I fancy that if I were to speak in that way of your client you would be very angry with me. Besides, what does it all amount to? Will the old gentleman say that he gave the letter into his son's hands, so that, even if such a freak should have come into my client's head, he could have signed it and sent it off? If I understand, Mr. Longestaffe says that he locked the letter up in a drawer in the very room which Melmotte occupied, and that he afterwards found the drawer open. It won't, I suppose, be alleged that my client knew so little what he was about that he broke open the drawer in order that he might get at the letter. Look at it whichever way you will, he did not sign it, Mr. Bideawhile.", "pos": 1407101}
{"speaker": "Bideawhile", "text": "I have never said he did. All I say is that we had fair ground for supposing that it was his letter. I really don't know that I can say anything more.", "pos": 1407858}
{"speaker": "Squercum", "text": "Only that we are to a certain degree in the same boat together in this matter.", "pos": 1408011}
{"speaker": "Bideawhile", "text": "I won't admit even that, Mr. Squercum.", "pos": 1408092}
{"speaker": "Squercum", "text": "The difference being that your client by his fault has jeopardised his own interests and those of my client, while my client has not been in fault at all. I shall bring the matter forward before the Lord Mayor to-morrow, and as at present advised shall ask for an investigation with reference to a charge of fraud. I presume you will be served with a subpoena to bring the letter into court.", "pos": 1408133}
{"speaker": "Bideawhile", "text": "If so you may be sure that we shall produce it.", "pos": 1408527}
{"speaker": "Squercum", "text": "Every rap will have been made over,", "pos": 1409468}
{"speaker": "Dolly Longestaffe", "text": "By George, it's hardly worth having if one is to take all this trouble about it,", "pos": 1410526}
{"speaker": "Mr. Bideawhile", "text": "Now, Mr. Longestaffe, perhaps you will show us where you think you put the letter.", "pos": 1410880}
{"speaker": "Mr. Longestaffe", "text": "I don't think at all. Since the matter has been discussed the whole thing has come back upon my memory.", "pos": 1410988}
{"speaker": "Dolly Longestaffe", "text": "I never signed it,", "pos": 1411105}
{"speaker": "Mr. Longestaffe", "text": "Nobody says you did, sir. If you will condescend to listen we may perhaps arrive at the truth.", "pos": 1411206}
{"speaker": "Dolly Longestaffe", "text": "But somebody has said that I did. I've been told that Mr. Bideawhile says so.", "pos": 1411346}
{"speaker": "Mr. Bideawhile", "text": "No, Mr. Longestaffe; no. We have never said so. We have only said that we had no reason for supposing the letter to be other than genuine. We have never gone beyond that.", "pos": 1411426}
{"speaker": "Dolly Longestaffe", "text": "Nothing on earth would have made me sign it. Why should I have given my property up before I got my money? I never heard such a thing in my life.", "pos": 1411599}
{"speaker": "Mr. Bideawhile", "text": "Now, Mr. Longestaffe, let us see where you put the letter.", "pos": 1411874}
{"speaker": "Mr. Longestaffe", "text": "There, the letter was not placed in the envelope but on the top of it, and the two were the two first documents in the bundle.", "pos": 1412149}
{"speaker": "Dolly Longestaffe", "text": "Of course he picked the lock, and stole the letter. It's as plain as a pike-staff. It's clear enough to hang any man.", "pos": 1412819}
{"speaker": "Mr. Bideawhile", "text": "I am afraid that it falls short of evidence, however strong and just may be the suspicion induced. Your father for a time was not quite certain about the letter.", "pos": 1412953}
{"speaker": "Dolly Longestaffe", "text": "He thought that I had signed it,", "pos": 1413136}
{"speaker": "Mr. Longestaffe", "text": "I am quite certain now. A man has to collect his memory before he can be sure of anything.", "pos": 1413183}
{"speaker": "Mr. Bideawhile", "text": "I am thinking you know how it would go to a jury.", "pos": 1413307}
{"speaker": "Dolly Longestaffe", "text": "What I want to know is how we are to get the money. I should like to see him hung,--of course; but I'd sooner have the money. Squercum says--", "pos": 1413359}
{"speaker": "Mr. Longestaffe", "text": "Adolphus, we don't want to know here what Mr. Squercum says.", "pos": 1413517}
{"speaker": "Dolly Longestaffe", "text": "I don't know why what Mr. Squercum says shouldn't be as good as what Mr. Bideawhile says. Of course Squercum doesn't sound very aristocratic.", "pos": 1413580}
{"speaker": "Mr. Bideawhile", "text": "Quite as much so as Bideawhile, no doubt,", "pos": 1413724}
{"speaker": "Dolly Longestaffe", "text": "No; Squercum isn't aristocratic, and Fetter Lane is a good deal lower than Lincoln's Inn. Nevertheless Squercum may know what he's about. It was Squercum who was first down upon Melmotte in this matter, and if it wasn't for Squercum we shouldn't know as much about it as we do at present.", "pos": 1413794}
{"speaker": "Mr. Bideawhile", "text": "Nothing more. It may be that I shall have to instruct counsel, and I thought it well that I should see in the presence of both of you exactly how the thing stood. You speak so positively, Mr. Longestaffe, that there can be no doubt?", "pos": 1414788}
{"speaker": "Mr. Longestaffe", "text": "There is no doubt.", "pos": 1415046}
{"speaker": "Mr. Bideawhile", "text": "And now perhaps you had better lock the drawer in our presence. Stop a moment--I might as well see whether there is any sign of violence having been used. Whoever has done it, did it very well,", "pos": 1415067}
{"speaker": "Dolly Longestaffe", "text": "Of course Melmotte did it,", "pos": 1415552}
{"speaker": "Melmotte", "text": "Gentlemen, perhaps you think that I am intruding at the present moment. I fear that you do think I am intruding, but I trust that what I have to say will be held to excuse me. I see, sir, that you have been examining your desk. I hope that you will be more careful in locking it than you were when you left it before.", "pos": 1416866}
{"speaker": "Mr. Longestaffe", "text": "The drawer was locked when I left it. I make no deductions and draw no conclusions, but the drawer was locked.", "pos": 1417651}
{"speaker": "Melmotte", "text": "Then I should say it must have been locked when you returned to it.", "pos": 1417788}
{"speaker": "Mr. Longestaffe", "text": "No, sir, I found it open. I make no deductions and draw no conclusions,--but I left it locked and I found it open.", "pos": 1417858}
{"speaker": "Dolly Longestaffe", "text": "I should make a deduction and draw a conclusion, and that would be that somebody else had opened it.", "pos": 1417975}
{"speaker": "Mr. Bideawhile", "text": "This can answer no purpose at all,", "pos": 1418092}
{"speaker": "Melmotte", "text": "It was but a chance remark. I did not come here out of the City at very great personal inconvenience to myself to squabble about the lock of the drawer. As I was informed that you three gentlemen would be here together, I thought the opportunity a suitable one for meeting you and making you an offer about this unfortunate business. Mr. Bideawhile, I believe. If I remember rightly I wrote to you offering to pay the money due to your clients--", "pos": 1418146}
{"speaker": "Dolly Longestaffe", "text": "Squercum is my lawyer,", "pos": 1418907}
{"speaker": "Melmotte", "text": "That will make no difference.", "pos": 1418944}
{"speaker": "Dolly Longestaffe", "text": "It makes a deal of difference,", "pos": 1418976}
{"speaker": "Melmotte", "text": "I wrote, offering my bills at three and six months' date.", "pos": 1419021}
{"speaker": "Dolly Longestaffe", "text": "They couldn't be accepted, Mr. Melmotte.", "pos": 1419103}
{"speaker": "Melmotte", "text": "I would have allowed interest. I never have had my bills refused before.", "pos": 1419146}
{"speaker": "Mr. Bideawhile", "text": "You must be aware, Mr. Melmotte, that the sale of a property is not like an ordinary mercantile transaction in which bills are customarily given and taken. The understanding was that money should be paid in the usual way. And when we learned, as we did learn, that the property had been at once mortgaged by you, of course we became,--well, I think I may be justified in saying more than suspicious. It was a most,--most--unusual proceeding. You say you have another offer to make, Mr. Melmotte.", "pos": 1419221}
{"speaker": "Melmotte", "text": "Of course I have been short of money. I have had enemies whose business it has been for some time past to run down my credit, and, with my credit, has fallen the value of stocks in which it has been known that I have been largely interested. I tell you the truth openly. When I purchased Pickering I had no idea that the payment of such a sum of money could inconvenience me in the least. When the time came at which I should pay it, stocks were so depreciated that it was impossible to sell. Very hostile proceedings are threatened against me now. Accusations are made, false as hell, but which at the present crisis may do me most cruel damage. I have come to say that, if you will undertake to stop proceedings which have been commenced in the City, I will have fifty thousand pounds,--which is the amount due to these two gentlemen,--ready for payment on Friday at noon.", "pos": 1419738}
{"speaker": "Mr. Bideawhile", "text": "I have taken no proceedings as yet,", "pos": 1420688}
{"speaker": "Dolly Longestaffe", "text": "It's Squercum,", "pos": 1420743}
{"speaker": "Melmotte", "text": "Well, sir, let me assure you that if these proceedings are stayed the money will be forthcoming;--but if not, I cannot produce the money. I little thought two months ago that I should ever have to make such a statement in reference to such a sum as fifty thousand pounds. But so it is. To raise that money by Friday, I shall have to cripple my resources frightfully. It will be done at a terrible cost. But what Mr. Bideawhile says is true. I have no right to suppose that the purchase of this property should be looked upon as an ordinary commercial transaction. The money should have been paid,--and, if you will now take my word, the money shall be paid. But this cannot be done if I am made to appear before the Lord Mayor to-morrow. The accusations brought against me are damnably false. I do not know with whom they have originated. Whoever did originate them, they are damnably false. But unfortunately, false as they are, in the present crisis, they may be ruinous to me. Now gentlemen, perhaps you will give me an answer.", "pos": 1420772}
{"speaker": "Mr. Bideawhile", "text": "I, on behalf of my client, will consent to wait till Friday at noon.", "pos": 1422040}
{"speaker": "Mr. Longestaffe", "text": "I presume, Adolphus, that you will say as much,", "pos": 1422134}
{"speaker": "Dolly Longestaffe", "text": "I'll ask Squercum, you know,", "pos": 1422859}
{"speaker": "Mr. Bideawhile", "text": "Of course Mr. Squercum will act as you instruct him,", "pos": 1422899}
{"speaker": "Dolly Longestaffe", "text": "I'll ask Squercum. I'll go to him at once. I can't do any more than that. And upon my word, Mr. Melmotte, you've given me a great deal of trouble.", "pos": 1422971}
{"speaker": "Hetta", "text": "Paul,", "pos": 1427842}
{"speaker": "Roger Carbury", "text": "Ask himself.", "pos": 1428441}
{"speaker": "Henrietta Carbury", "text": "Most affectionately your own Hetta", "pos": 1428902}
{"speaker": "Paul Montague", "text": "Ah, this is the trouble of which I spoke to you.", "pos": 1430180}
{"speaker": "Hetta", "text": "Paul, let me hear about all this--first.", "pos": 1432291}
{"speaker": "Paul Montague", "text": "And so you have heard of Mrs. Hurtle,", "pos": 1432468}
{"speaker": "Hetta", "text": "Yes;--Felix told me, and Roger evidently had heard about her.", "pos": 1432550}
{"speaker": "Paul Montague", "text": "Oh yes; Roger Carbury has heard about her from the beginning;--knows the whole history almost as well as I know it myself. I don't think your brother is as well informed.", "pos": 1432614}
{"speaker": "Hetta", "text": "Perhaps not. But--isn't it a story that--concerns me?", "pos": 1432787}
{"speaker": "Paul Montague", "text": "Certainly it so far concerns you, Hetta, that you ought to know it. And I trust you will believe that it was my intention to tell it you.", "pos": 1432843}
{"speaker": "Hetta", "text": "I will believe anything that you will tell me.", "pos": 1432983}
{"speaker": "Paul Montague", "text": "If so, I don't think that you will quarrel with me when you know all. I was engaged to marry Mrs. Hurtle.", "pos": 1433032}
{"speaker": "Hetta", "text": "Is she a widow? I suppose she must be a widow if you were going to marry her.", "pos": 1433140}
{"speaker": "Paul Montague", "text": "Yes;--she is a widow. She was divorced.", "pos": 1433255}
{"speaker": "Hetta", "text": "Oh, Paul! And she is an American?", "pos": 1433297}
{"speaker": "Paul Montague", "text": "Yes.", "pos": 1433333}
{"speaker": "Hetta", "text": "And you loved her?", "pos": 1433340}
{"speaker": "Paul Montague", "text": "If you will allow me I will tell it you all from beginning to end.", "pos": 1433446}
{"speaker": "Hetta", "text": "Oh, certainly. But I suppose you loved her. If you meant to marry her you must have loved her.", "pos": 1433515}
{"speaker": "Paul Montague", "text": "Yes;--I loved her once; but I will tell you all.", "pos": 1433705}
{"speaker": "Hetta", "text": "Had she been divorced then? because I believe they get themselves divorced just when they like.", "pos": 1434161}
{"speaker": "Paul Montague", "text": "I could only know what she told me,", "pos": 1434326}
{"speaker": "Hetta", "text": "Did you give her up then?", "pos": 1434515}
{"speaker": "Paul Montague", "text": "I can hardly tell you how terrible that was to me, for I had by that time become quite aware that my happiness must depend upon you.", "pos": 1434903}
{"speaker": "Hetta", "text": "But Felix says you took her to Lowestoft,--quite the other day.", "pos": 1435257}
{"speaker": "Paul Montague", "text": "It was on account of her health.", "pos": 1435522}
{"speaker": "Hetta", "text": "Oh;--on account of her health. And did you go to the play with her?", "pos": 1435557}
{"speaker": "Paul Montague", "text": "I did.", "pos": 1435627}
{"speaker": "Hetta", "text": "Was that for her--health?", "pos": 1435636}
{"speaker": "Paul Montague", "text": "Oh, Hetta, do not speak to me like that! Cannot you understand that when she came here, following me, I could not desert her?", "pos": 1435664}
{"speaker": "Hetta", "text": "I cannot understand why you deserted her at all. You say you loved her, and you promised to marry her. It seems horrid to me to marry a divorced woman,--a woman who just says that she was divorced. But that is because I don't understand American ways. And I am sure you must have loved her when you took her to the theatre, and down to Lowestoft,--for her health. That was only a week ago.", "pos": 1435792}
{"speaker": "Paul Montague", "text": "It was nearly three weeks,", "pos": 1436198}
{"speaker": "Hetta", "text": "Oh;--nearly three weeks! That is not such a very long time for a gentleman to change his mind on such a matter. You were engaged to her, not three weeks ago.", "pos": 1436249}
{"speaker": "Paul Montague", "text": "No, Hetta, I was not engaged to her then.", "pos": 1436409}
{"speaker": "Hetta", "text": "I suppose she thought you were when she went to Lowestoft with you.", "pos": 1436453}
{"speaker": "Paul Montague", "text": "She wanted then to force me to--to--to--. Oh, Hetta, it is so hard to explain, but I am sure that you understand. I do know that you do not, cannot think that I have, even for one moment, been false to you.", "pos": 1436523}
{"speaker": "Hetta", "text": "But why should you be false to her? Why should I step in and crush all her hopes? I can understand that Roger should think badly of her because she was--divorced. Of course he would. But an engagement is an engagement. You had better go back to Mrs. Hurtle and tell her that you are quite ready to keep your promise. You had better go back to Mrs. Hurtle.", "pos": 1436732}
{"speaker": "Paul Montague", "text": "She knows now that it is all over.", "pos": 1437051}
{"speaker": "Hetta", "text": "I dare say you will be able to persuade her to reconsider it. When she came all the way here from San Francisco after you, and when she asked you to take her to the theatre, and to Lowestoft--because of her health, she must be very much attached to you. And she is waiting here,--no doubt on purpose for you. She is a very old friend,--very old,--and you ought not to treat her unkindly. Good bye, Mr. Montague. I think you had better lose no time in going--back to Mrs. Hurtle.", "pos": 1437088}
{"speaker": "Paul Montague", "text": "You don't mean to tell me, Hetta, that you are going to quarrel with me!", "pos": 1437698}
{"speaker": "Hetta", "text": "I don't know about quarrelling. I don't wish to quarrel with any one. But of course we can't be friends when you have married--Mrs. Hurtle.", "pos": 1437773}
{"speaker": "Paul Montague", "text": "Nothing on earth would induce me to marry her.", "pos": 1437915}
{"speaker": "Hetta", "text": "Of course I cannot say anything about that. When they told me this story I did not believe them. No; I hardly believed Roger when,--he would not tell it for he was too kind,--but when he would not contradict it. It seemed to be almost impossible that you should have come to me just at the very same moment. For, after all, Mr. Montague, nearly three weeks is a very short time. That trip to Lowestoft couldn't have been much above a week before you came to me.", "pos": 1437964}
{"speaker": "Paul Montague", "text": "What does it matter?", "pos": 1438428}
{"speaker": "Hetta", "text": "Oh no; of course not;--nothing to you. I think I will go away now, Mr. Montague. It was very good of you to come and tell me all. It makes it so much easier.", "pos": 1438451}
{"speaker": "Paul Montague", "text": "Do you mean to say that--you are going to--throw me over?", "pos": 1438611}
{"speaker": "Hetta", "text": "I don't want you to throw Mrs. Hurtle over. Good bye.", "pos": 1438671}
{"speaker": "Paul Montague", "text": "Hetta!", "pos": 1438727}
{"speaker": "Hetta", "text": "No; I will not have you lay your hand upon me. Good night, Mr. Montague.", "pos": 1438736}
{"speaker": "Hetta", "text": "I don't want you to throw Mrs. Hurtle over,", "pos": 1440446}
{"speaker": "Lady Carbury", "text": "Well; what has he said?", "pos": 1441579}
{"speaker": "Hetta", "text": "You have found that what we told you about that woman was all true. Enough of it was true,", "pos": 1441734}
{"speaker": "Lady Carbury", "text": "What do you mean by that, Hetta? Had you not better speak to me openly?", "pos": 1441956}
{"speaker": "Hetta", "text": "I say, mamma, that enough was true. I do not know how to speak more openly. I need not go into all the miserable story of the woman. He is like other men, I suppose. He has entangled himself with some abominable creature and then when he is tired of her thinks that he has nothing to do but to say so,--and to begin with somebody else.", "pos": 1442030}
{"speaker": "Lady Carbury", "text": "Roger Carbury is very different.", "pos": 1442368}
{"speaker": "Hetta", "text": "Oh, mamma, you will make me ill if you go on like that. It seems to me that you do not understand in the least.", "pos": 1442403}
{"speaker": "Lady Carbury", "text": "I say he is not like that.", "pos": 1442517}
{"speaker": "Hetta", "text": "Not in the least. Of course I know that he is not in the least like that.", "pos": 1442546}
{"speaker": "Lady Carbury", "text": "I say that he can be trusted.", "pos": 1442622}
{"speaker": "Hetta", "text": "Of course he can be trusted. Who doubts it?", "pos": 1442654}
{"speaker": "Lady Carbury", "text": "And that if you would give yourself to him, there would be no cause for any alarm.", "pos": 1442700}
{"speaker": "Hetta", "text": "Mamma, how can you talk to me in that way? As soon as one man doesn't suit, I am to give myself to another! Oh, mamma, how can you propose it? Nothing on earth will ever induce me to be more to Roger Carbury than I am now.", "pos": 1442785}
{"speaker": "Lady Carbury", "text": "You have told Mr. Montague that he is not to come here again?", "pos": 1443035}
{"speaker": "Hetta", "text": "I don't know what I told him, but he knows very well what I mean.", "pos": 1443099}
{"speaker": "Lady Carbury", "text": "That it is all over? Hetta, I have a right to ask that, and I have a right to expect a reply. I do not say that you have hitherto behaved badly about Mr. Montague.", "pos": 1443167}
{"speaker": "Hetta", "text": "I have not behaved badly. I have told you everything. I have done nothing that I am ashamed of.", "pos": 1443356}
{"speaker": "Lady Carbury", "text": "But we have now found out that he has behaved very badly. He has come here to you,--with unexampled treachery to your cousin Roger--", "pos": 1443454}
{"speaker": "Hetta", "text": "I deny that,", "pos": 1443589}
{"speaker": "Lady Carbury", "text": "And at the very time was almost living with this woman who says that she is divorced from her husband in America! Have you told him that you will see him no more?", "pos": 1443621}
{"speaker": "Hetta", "text": "He understood that.", "pos": 1443786}
{"speaker": "Lady Carbury", "text": "If you have not told him so plainly, I must tell him.", "pos": 1443808}
{"speaker": "Hetta", "text": "Mamma, you need not trouble yourself. I have told him very plainly.", "pos": 1443864}
{"speaker": "Melmotte", "text": "Is she here?", "pos": 1447410}
{"speaker": "Madame Melmotte", "text": "I will send for her. I have told her.", "pos": 1447435}
{"speaker": "Melmotte", "text": "You haven't frightened her?", "pos": 1447475}
{"speaker": "Madame Melmotte", "text": "Why should I frighten her? It is not very easy to frighten her, Melmotte. She is changed since these young men have been so much about her.", "pos": 1447505}
{"speaker": "Melmotte", "text": "I shall frighten her if she does not do as I bid her. Bid her come now.", "pos": 1447647}
{"speaker": "Melmotte", "text": "Marie. I spoke to you the other day about some property which for certain purposes was placed in your name just as we were leaving Paris.", "pos": 1448848}
{"speaker": "Marie", "text": "Yes, papa.", "pos": 1449000}
{"speaker": "Melmotte", "text": "You were such a child then,--I mean when we left Paris,--that I could hardly explain to you the purpose of what I did.", "pos": 1449013}
{"speaker": "Marie", "text": "I understood it, papa.", "pos": 1449134}
{"speaker": "Melmotte", "text": "You had better listen to me, my dear. I don't think you did quite understand it. It would have been very odd if you had, as I never explained it to you.", "pos": 1449159}
{"speaker": "Marie", "text": "You wanted to keep it from going away if you got into trouble.", "pos": 1449314}
{"speaker": "Melmotte", "text": "I wanted to lay aside a large sum of money which should not be liable to the ordinary fluctuations of commercial enterprise.", "pos": 1449537}
{"speaker": "Marie", "text": "So that nobody could get at it.", "pos": 1449664}
{"speaker": "Melmotte", "text": "You are a little too quick, my dear.", "pos": 1449698}
{"speaker": "Madame Melmotte", "text": "Marie, why can't you let your papa speak?", "pos": 1449737}
{"speaker": "Melmotte", "text": "But of course, my dear, I had no idea of putting the money beyond my own reach. Such a transaction is very common; and in such cases a man naturally uses the name of some one who is very near and dear to him, and in whom he is sure that he can put full confidence. And it is customary to choose a young person, as there will then be less danger of the accident of death. It was for these reasons, which I am sure that you will understand, that I chose you. Of course the property remained exclusively my own.", "pos": 1449825}
{"speaker": "Marie", "text": "But it is really mine,", "pos": 1450336}
{"speaker": "Melmotte", "text": "No, miss; it was never yours. How could it become yours, Marie? Did I ever make you a gift of it?", "pos": 1450373}
{"speaker": "Marie", "text": "But I know that it did become mine,--legally.", "pos": 1450547}
{"speaker": "Melmotte", "text": "By a quibble of law,--yes; but not so as to give you any right to it. I always draw the income.", "pos": 1450595}
{"speaker": "Marie", "text": "But I could stop that, papa,--and if I were married, of course it would be stopped.", "pos": 1450693}
{"speaker": "Melmotte", "text": "As we are thinking of your marriage, it is necessary that a change should be made. Settlements must be drawn for the satisfaction of Lord Nidderdale and his father. The old Marquis is rather hard upon me, but the marriage is so splendid that I have consented. You must now sign these papers in four or five places. Mr. Croll is here, in the next room, to witness your signature, and I will call him.", "pos": 1450937}
{"speaker": "Marie", "text": "Wait a moment, papa.", "pos": 1451350}
{"speaker": "Melmotte", "text": "Why should we wait?", "pos": 1451373}
{"speaker": "Marie", "text": "I don't think I will sign them.", "pos": 1451395}
{"speaker": "Melmotte", "text": "Why not sign them? You can't really suppose that the property is your own. You could not even get it if you did think so.", "pos": 1451429}
{"speaker": "Marie", "text": "I don't know how that may be; but I had rather not sign them. If I am to be married, I ought not to sign anything except what he tells me.", "pos": 1451553}
{"speaker": "Melmotte", "text": "He has no authority over you yet. I have authority over you. Marie, do not give more trouble. I am very much pressed for time. Let me call in Mr. Croll.", "pos": 1451694}
{"speaker": "Marie", "text": "No, papa,", "pos": 1451849}
{"speaker": "Melmotte", "text": "I am sure, Marie, that you will not refuse to do this when I explain to you its importance to me. I must have that property for use in the city to-morrow, or--I shall be ruined.", "pos": 1452512}
{"speaker": "Madame Melmotte", "text": "Oh!", "pos": 1452781}
{"speaker": "Melmotte", "text": "It is true. These harpies have so beset me about the election that they have lowered the price of every stock in which I am concerned, and have brought the Mexican Railway so low that they cannot be sold at all. I don't like bringing my troubles home from the city; but on this occasion I cannot help it. The sum locked up here is very large, and I am compelled to use it. In point of fact it is necessary to save us from destruction.", "pos": 1452806}
{"speaker": "Marie", "text": "But you told me just now you wanted it because I was going to be married,", "pos": 1453301}
{"speaker": "Melmotte", "text": "I think you misunderstood me, Marie. I meant you to understand that settlements must be made, and that of course I must get my own property back into my own hands before anything of that kind can be done. I tell you once more, my dear, that if you do not do as I bid you, so that I may use that property the first thing to-morrow, we are all ruined. Everything will be gone.", "pos": 1453834}
{"speaker": "Marie", "text": "This can't be gone,", "pos": 1454211}
{"speaker": "Melmotte", "text": "Marie,--do you wish to see me disgraced and ruined? I have done a great deal for you.", "pos": 1454277}
{"speaker": "Marie", "text": "You turned away the only person I ever cared for,", "pos": 1454365}
{"speaker": "Madame Melmotte", "text": "Marie, how can you be so wicked? Do as your papa bids you,", "pos": 1454429}
{"speaker": "Melmotte", "text": "She does not care who is ruined, because we saved her from that reprobate.", "pos": 1454533}
{"speaker": "Madame Melmotte", "text": "She will sign them now,", "pos": 1454610}
{"speaker": "Marie", "text": "No; No;--I will not sign them.", "pos": 1454658}
{"speaker": "Melmotte", "text": "No;--I will not sign them. If I am to be married to Lord Nidderdale as you all say, I am sure I ought to sign nothing without telling him. And if the property was once made to be mine, I don't think I ought to give it up again because papa says that he is going to be ruined. I think that's a reason for not giving it up again.", "pos": 1454672}
{"speaker": "Marie", "text": "If I am to be married to Lord Nidderdale as you all say, I am sure I ought to sign nothing without telling him. And if the property was once made to be mine, I don't think I ought to give it up again because papa says that he is going to be ruined. I think that's a reason for not giving it up again.", "pos": 1454699}
{"speaker": "Melmotte", "text": "It isn't yours to give. It's mine,", "pos": 1455002}
{"speaker": "Marie", "text": "Then you can do what you like with it without my signing,", "pos": 1455073}
{"speaker": "Melmotte", "text": "Marie, will you do this to save your father from destruction?", "pos": 1455331}
{"speaker": "Melmotte", "text": "will you do this now,--to save us all from ruin?", "pos": 1457046}
{"speaker": "Marie", "text": "No; I don't think I ought,--and I won't.", "pos": 1457132}
{"speaker": "Melmotte", "text": "You won't! Do you mean that you, my own child, will attempt to rob your father just at the moment you can destroy him by your wickedness?", "pos": 1457419}
{"speaker": "Marie", "text": "Nec pueros coram populo Medea trucidet.", "pos": 1457649}
{"speaker": "Madame Melmotte", "text": "Marie!", "pos": 1457867}
{"speaker": "Melmotte", "text": "Will you sign them now? Oh, Mr. Melmotte, vat is de matter? Marie. Pig! wicked, ungrateful pig.", "pos": 1458154}
{"speaker": "Croll", "text": "Ah, Ma'am-moiselle, you should oblige your fader.", "pos": 1458931}
{"speaker": "Melmotte", "text": "Wretched, wicked girl!", "pos": 1459079}
{"speaker": "Marie", "text": "I wish he had killed me,", "pos": 1460711}
{"speaker": "Melmotte", "text": "He knows that the game is pretty well over. You had better return to the city now. I shall follow you in half an hour. It is quite possible that I may bring my daughter with me. If I can make her understand this thing I shall do so. In that case I shall want you to be ready.", "pos": 1463226}
{"speaker": "Georgiana", "text": "Indeed, papa, I think it's very hard,", "pos": 1464755}
{"speaker": "Mr. Longestaffe", "text": "What's hard? I think a great many things are hard; but I have to bear them.", "pos": 1464805}
{"speaker": "Georgiana", "text": "You can do nothing for me.", "pos": 1464883}
{"speaker": "Mr. Longestaffe", "text": "Do nothing for you! Haven't you got a home to live in, and clothes to wear, and a carriage to go about in,--and books to read if you choose to read them? What do you expect?", "pos": 1464912}
{"speaker": "Georgiana", "text": "You know, papa, that's nonsense.", "pos": 1465088}
{"speaker": "Mr. Longestaffe", "text": "How do you dare to tell me that what I say is nonsense?", "pos": 1465123}
{"speaker": "Georgiana", "text": "Of course there's a house to live in and clothes to wear; but what's to be the end of it? Sophia, I suppose, is going to be married.", "pos": 1465181}
{"speaker": "Mr. Longestaffe", "text": "I am happy to say she is,--to a most respectable young man and a thorough gentleman.", "pos": 1465316}
{"speaker": "Georgiana", "text": "And Dolly has his own way of going on.", "pos": 1465403}
{"speaker": "Mr. Longestaffe", "text": "You have nothing to do with Adolphus.", "pos": 1465444}
{"speaker": "Georgiana", "text": "Nor will he have anything to do with me. If I don't marry what's to become of me? It isn't that Mr. Brehgert is the sort of man I should choose.", "pos": 1465484}
{"speaker": "Mr. Longestaffe", "text": "Do not mention his name to me.", "pos": 1465631}
{"speaker": "Georgiana", "text": "But what am I to do? You give up the house in town, and how am I to see people? It was you sent me to Mr. Melmotte.", "pos": 1465664}
{"speaker": "Mr. Longestaffe", "text": "I didn't send you to Mr. Melmotte.", "pos": 1465782}
{"speaker": "Georgiana", "text": "It was at your suggestion I went there, papa. And of course I could only see the people he had there. I like nice people as well as anybody.", "pos": 1465819}
{"speaker": "Mr. Longestaffe", "text": "There's no use talking any more about it.", "pos": 1465962}
{"speaker": "Georgiana", "text": "I don't see that. I must talk about it, and think about it too. If I can put up with Mr. Brehgert I don't see why you and mamma should complain.", "pos": 1466006}
{"speaker": "Mr. Longestaffe", "text": "A Jew!", "pos": 1466153}
{"speaker": "Georgiana", "text": "People don't think about that as they used to, papa. He has a very fine income, and I should always have a house in--", "pos": 1466162}
{"speaker": "Mr. Longestaffe", "text": "Look here, if you mean to tell me that you will marry that man without my consent, I can't prevent it. But you shall not marry him as my daughter. You shall be turned out of my house, and I will never have your name pronounced in my presence again. It is disgusting,--degrading,--disgraceful!", "pos": 1466366}
{"speaker": "Sophia", "text": "Oh, Georgey, this is wonderful news!", "pos": 1468516}
{"speaker": "Georgiana", "text": "I suppose it seems wonderful that anybody should be going to be married except yourself.", "pos": 1468570}
{"speaker": "Sophia", "text": "No;--but such a very odd match!", "pos": 1468661}
{"speaker": "Georgiana", "text": "Look here, Sophia. If you don't like it, you need not talk about it. We shall always have a house in town, and you will not. If you don't like to come to us, you needn't. That's about all.", "pos": 1468695}
{"speaker": "Sophia", "text": "George wouldn't let me go there at all,", "pos": 1468886}
{"speaker": "Georgiana", "text": "Then--George--had better keep you at home at Toodlam. Where's mamma? I should have thought somebody might have come and met me to say a word to me, instead of allowing me to creep into the house like this.", "pos": 1468941}
{"speaker": "Sophia", "text": "Mamma isn't at all well; but she's up and in her own room. You mustn't be surprised, Georgey, if you find mamma very--very much cut up about this.", "pos": 1469149}
{"speaker": "Georgiana", "text": "So I've come back,", "pos": 1469435}
{"speaker": "Lady Pomona", "text": "Oh, Georgiana; oh, Georgiana! This is dreadful. It will kill me. It will indeed. I didn't expect it from you.", "pos": 1469510}
{"speaker": "Georgiana", "text": "What is the good of all that, mamma?", "pos": 1469710}
{"speaker": "Lady Pomona", "text": "It seems to me that it can't be possible. It's unnatural. It's worse than your wife's sister. I'm sure there's something in the Bible against it. You never would read your Bible, or you wouldn't be going to do this.", "pos": 1469749}
{"speaker": "Georgiana", "text": "Lady Julia Start has done just the same thing,--and she goes everywhere.", "pos": 1469967}
{"speaker": "Lady Pomona", "text": "What does your papa say? I'm sure your papa won't allow it. If he's fixed about anything, it's about the Jews. An accursed race;--think of that, Georgiana;--expelled from Paradise.", "pos": 1470042}
{"speaker": "Georgiana", "text": "Mamma, that's nonsense.", "pos": 1470225}
{"speaker": "Lady Pomona", "text": "Scattered about all over the world, so that nobody knows who anybody is. And it's only since those nasty Radicals came up that they have been able to sit in Parliament.", "pos": 1470251}
{"speaker": "Georgiana", "text": "One of the greatest judges in the land is a Jew,", "pos": 1470422}
{"speaker": "Lady Pomona", "text": "Nothing that the Radicals can do can make them anything else but what they are. I'm sure that Mr. Whitstable, who is to be your brother-in-law, will never condescend to speak to him.", "pos": 1470538}
{"speaker": "Georgiana", "text": "Then Mr. Whitstable may keep himself at home at Toodlam and not trouble his head at all about me or my husband. I'm sure I shan't trouble myself as to what a poor creature like that may think about me. George Whitstable knows as much about London as I do about the moon.", "pos": 1471606}
{"speaker": "Sophia", "text": "He has always been in county society, and was staying only the other day at Lord Cantab's.", "pos": 1471879}
{"speaker": "Georgiana", "text": "Then there were two fools together,", "pos": 1471987}
{"speaker": "Lady Pomona", "text": "Mr. Whitstable is an excellent young man, and I am sure he will make your sister happy; but as for Mr. Brehgert,--I can't bear to have his name mentioned in my hearing.", "pos": 1472078}
{"speaker": "Georgiana", "text": "Then, mamma, it had better not be mentioned. At any rate it shan't be mentioned again by me.", "pos": 1472249}
{"speaker": "Sophia", "text": "Poor mamma is very ill,", "pos": 1476230}
{"speaker": "Georgiana", "text": "I won't stand it if I'm to be treated like this. I'll go away somewhere.", "pos": 1476268}
{"speaker": "Sophia", "text": "How can I help it, Georgey? It's your own doing. Of course you must have known that you were going to separate yourself from us. Mamma, thinks you ought to know how Dolly feels about it.", "pos": 1476361}
{"speaker": "Dolly Longestaffe", "text": "Can it be true that Georgey is thinking of marrying that horrid vulgar Jew, old Brehgert? The fellows say so; but I can't believe it. I'm sure you wouldn't let her. You ought to lock her up.", "pos": 1476864}
{"speaker": "Georgiana", "text": "How can mamma be such a hypocrite as to pretend to care what Dolly says? Who doesn't know that he's an idiot? And papa has thought it worth his while to send that down here for me to see! Well, after that I must say that I don't much care what papa does.", "pos": 1477717}
{"speaker": "Sophia", "text": "I don't see why Dolly shouldn't have an opinion as well as anybody else,", "pos": 1477974}
{"speaker": "Georgiana", "text": "As well as George Whitstable? As far as stupidness goes they are about the same. But Dolly has a little more knowledge of the world.", "pos": 1478061}
{"speaker": "Sophia", "text": "Of course we all know, Georgiana, that for cuteness and that kind of thing one must look among the commercial classes, and especially among a certain sort.", "pos": 1478196}
{"speaker": "Georgiana", "text": "I've done with you all. I'll have nothing more to do with any one of you.", "pos": 1478382}
{"speaker": "Georgiana", "text": "Well! to send a pottle of gooseberries to his lady love across the country! Who but George Whitstable would do that?", "pos": 1481880}
{"speaker": "Sophia", "text": "I dare say you get nothing but gems and gold. I don't suppose that Mr. Brehgert knows what a gooseberry is. I suppose that's from Mr. Brehgert,", "pos": 1482024}
{"speaker": "Georgiana", "text": "I don't think it matters much to you who it's from.", "pos": 1482276}
{"speaker": "Brehgert", "text": "MY DEAR GEORGIANA. Your father came to me the day after I was to have met you at Lady Monogram's party. I told him then that I would not write to you till I had taken a day or two to consider what he said to me;--and also that I thought it better that you should have a day or two to consider what he might say to you. He has now repeated what he said at our first interview, almost with more violence; for I must say that I think he has allowed himself to be violent when it was surely unnecessary. The long and short of it is this. He altogether disapproves of your promise to marry me. He has given three reasons;--first that I am in trade; secondly that I am much older than you, and have a family; and thirdly that I am a Jew. In regard to the first I can hardly think that he is earnest. I have explained to him that my business is that of a banker; and I can hardly conceive it to be possible that any gentleman in England should object to his daughter marrying a banker, simply because the man is a banker. There would be a blindness of arrogance in such a proposition of which I think your father to be incapable. This has merely been added in to strengthen his other objections. As to my age, it is just fifty-one. I do not at all think myself too old to be married again. Whether I am too old for you is for you to judge,--as is also that question of my children who, of course, should you become my wife will be to some extent a care upon your shoulders. As this is all very serious you will not, I hope, think me wanting in gallantry if I say that I should hardly have ventured to address you if you had been quite a young girl. No doubt there are many years between us;--and so I think there should be. A man of my age hardly looks to marry a woman of the same standing as himself. But the question is one for the lady to decide,--and you must decide it now. As to my religion, I acknowledge the force of what your father says,--though I think that a gentleman brought up with fewer prejudices would have expressed himself in language less likely to give offence. However I am a man not easily offended; and on this occasion I am ready to take what he has said in good part. I can easily conceive that there should be those who think that the husband and wife should agree in religion. I am indifferent to it myself. I shall not interfere with you if you make me happy by becoming my wife, nor, I suppose, will you with me. Should you have a daughter or daughters I am quite willing that they should be brought up subject to your influence. But no doubt your father objects to me specially because I am a Jew. If I were an atheist he might, perhaps, say nothing on the subject of religion. On this matter as well as on others it seems to me that your father has hardly kept pace with the movements of the age. Fifty years ago whatever claim a Jew might have to be as well considered as a Christian, he certainly was not so considered. Society was closed against him, except under special circumstances, and so were all the privileges of high position. But that has been altered. Your father does not admit the change; but I think he is blind to it, because he does not wish to see. I say all this more as defending myself than as combating his views with you. It must be for you and for you alone to decide how far his views shall govern you. He has told me, after a rather peremptory fashion, that I have behaved badly to him and to his family because I did not go to him in the first instance when I thought of obtaining the honour of an alliance with his daughter. I have been obliged to tell him that in this matter I disagree with him entirely, though in so telling him I endeavoured to restrain myself from any appearance of warmth. I had not the pleasure of meeting you in his house, nor had I any acquaintance with him. And again, at the risk of being thought uncourteous, I must say that you are to a certain degree emancipated by age from that positive subordination to which a few years ago you probably submitted without a question. If a gentleman meets a lady in society, as I met you in the home of our friend Mr. Melmotte, I do not think that the gentleman is to be debarred from expressing his feelings because the lady may possibly have a parent. Your father, no doubt with propriety, had left you to be the guardian of yourself, and I cannot submit to be accused of improper conduct because, finding you in that condition, I availed myself of it. And now, having said so much, I must leave the question to be decided entirely by yourself. I beg you to understand that I do not at all wish to hold you to a promise merely because the promise has been given. I readily acknowledge that the opinion of your family should be considered by you, though I will not admit that I was bound to consult that opinion before I spoke to you. It may well be that your regard for me or your appreciation of the comforts with which I may be able to surround you, will not suffice to reconcile you to such a breach from your own family as your father, with much repetition, has assured me will be inevitable. Take a day or two to think of this and turn it well over in your mind. When I last had the happiness of speaking to you, you seemed to think that your parents might raise objections, but that those objections would give way before an expression of your own wishes. I was flattered by your so thinking; but, if I may form any judgment from your father's manner, I must suppose that you were mistaken. You will understand that I do not say this as any reproach to you. Quite the contrary. I think your father is irrational; and you may well have failed to anticipate that he should be so. As to my own feelings they remain exactly as they were when I endeavoured to explain them to you. Though I do not find myself to be too old to marry, I do think myself too old to write love letters. I have no doubt you believe me when I say that I entertain a most sincere affection for you; and I beseech you to believe me in saying further that should you become my wife it shall be the study of my life to make you happy. It is essentially necessary that I should allude to one other matter, as to which I have already told your father what I will now tell you. I think it probable that within this week I shall find myself a loser of a very large sum of money through the failure of a gentleman whose bad treatment of me I will the more readily forgive because he was the means of making me known to you. This you must understand is private between you and me, though I have thought it proper to inform your father. Such loss, if it fall upon me, will not interfere in the least with the income which I have proposed to settle upon you for your use after my death; and, as your father declares that in the event of your marrying me he will neither give to you nor bequeath to you a shilling, he might have abstained from telling me to my face that I was a bankrupt merchant when I myself told him of my loss. I am not a bankrupt merchant nor at all likely to become so. Nor will this loss at all interfere with my present mode of living. But I have thought it right to inform you of it, because, if it occur,--as I think it will,--I shall not deem it right to keep a second establishment probably for the next two or three years. But my house at Fulham and my stables there will be kept up just as they are at present. I have now told you everything which I think it is necessary you should know, in order that you may determine either to adhere to or to recede from your engagement. When you have resolved you will let me know,--but a day or two may probably be necessary for your decision. I hope I need not say that a decision in my favour will make me a happy man. I am, in the meantime, your affectionate friend. EZEKIEL BREHGERT.", "pos": 1482491}
{"speaker": "Georgiana", "text": "Mamma, have you any idea what papa means to do?", "pos": 1494369}
{"speaker": "Lady Pomona", "text": "In what way, my dear?", "pos": 1494419}
{"speaker": "Georgiana", "text": "Well;--I suppose he must have some plan.", "pos": 1494574}
{"speaker": "Lady Pomona", "text": "You must explain yourself. I don't know why he should have any particular plan.", "pos": 1494617}
{"speaker": "Georgiana", "text": "Will he go to London next year?", "pos": 1494699}
{"speaker": "Lady Pomona", "text": "That will depend upon money, I suppose. What makes you ask?", "pos": 1494733}
{"speaker": "Georgiana", "text": "Of course I have been very cruelly circumstanced. Everybody must see that. I'm sure you do, mamma. The long and the short of it is this;--if I give up my engagement, will he take us abroad for a year?", "pos": 1494795}
{"speaker": "Lady Pomona", "text": "Why should he?", "pos": 1494998}
{"speaker": "Georgiana", "text": "You can't suppose that I should be very comfortable in England. If we are to remain here at Caversham, how am I to hope ever to get settled?", "pos": 1495015}
{"speaker": "Lady Pomona", "text": "Sophy is doing very well.", "pos": 1495158}
{"speaker": "Georgiana", "text": "Oh, mamma, there are not two George Whitstables;--thank God. I don't mean but what Sophy may be very happy, and I am sure that I hope she will. But that won't do me any good. I should be very unhappy here.", "pos": 1495186}
{"speaker": "Lady Pomona", "text": "I don't see how you are to find any one to marry you by going abroad, and I don't see why your papa is to be taken away from his own home. He likes Caversham.", "pos": 1495507}
{"speaker": "Georgiana", "text": "Then I am to be sacrificed on every side,", "pos": 1495688}
{"speaker": "Georgiana", "text": "Mamma, as you and papa take it so much to heart, I have broken off everything with Mr. Brehgert.", "pos": 1502248}
{"speaker": "Lady Pomona", "text": "Of course it must be broken off. Have you heard from the man?", "pos": 1502359}
{"speaker": "Georgiana", "text": "I have written to him, and he has answered me; and it is all settled. I thought that you would have said something kind to me.", "pos": 1502547}
{"speaker": "Lady Pomona", "text": "It was so dreadful, --so very dreadful. I never heard of anything so bad. When young what's-his-name married the tallow-chandler's daughter I thought it would have killed me if it had been Dolly; but this was worse than that. Her father was a methodist.", "pos": 1502730}
{"speaker": "Georgiana", "text": "They had neither of them a shilling of money,", "pos": 1503005}
{"speaker": "Lady Pomona", "text": "And your papa says this man was next door to a bankrupt. But it's all over?", "pos": 1503085}
{"speaker": "Georgiana", "text": "Yes, mamma.", "pos": 1503163}
{"speaker": "Lady Pomona", "text": "And now we must all remain here at Caversham till people forget it. It has been very hard upon George Whitstable, because of course everybody has known it through the county. I once thought he would have been off, and I really don't know that we could have said anything. It's all over between Georgiana and the--man,", "pos": 1503177}
{"speaker": "Sophia", "text": "I knew it would be,", "pos": 1503643}
{"speaker": "Lady Pomona", "text": "Of course it could never have really taken place,", "pos": 1503678}
{"speaker": "Georgiana", "text": "And now I beg that nothing more may be said about it. I suppose, mamma, you will write to papa?", "pos": 1503749}
{"speaker": "Sophia", "text": "You must send him back his watch and chain, Georgey,", "pos": 1503865}
{"speaker": "Georgiana", "text": "What business is that of yours?", "pos": 1503933}
{"speaker": "Sophia", "text": "Of course she must. Her papa would not let her keep it.", "pos": 1503967}
{"speaker": "John", "text": "You come down to Bungay, and I'll show you how we live there.", "pos": 1506430}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Pipkin", "text": "You see, she's a thinking how heavy you were upon that young gentleman.", "pos": 1506744}
{"speaker": "John Crumb", "text": "But I wasn't;--not particular. Lord love you, he ain't a hair the wuss.", "pos": 1506838}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Hurtle", "text": "You let her alone for a time. A little neglect will do her good.", "pos": 1506912}
{"speaker": "John", "text": "Maybe, only I wouldn't like her to have it bad. You'll let her have her wittles regular, Mrs. Pipkin.", "pos": 1506999}
{"speaker": "John Crumb", "text": "any hextras,", "pos": 1507600}
{"speaker": "Ruby", "text": "I thought as he was in prison,", "pos": 1507792}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Pipkin", "text": "What should they keep him in prison for? He hasn't done nothing as he oughtn't to have done. That young man was dragging you about as far as I can make out, and Mr. Crumb just did as anybody ought to have done to prevent it. Of course they weren't going to keep him in prison for that. Prison indeed! It isn't him as ought to be in prison.", "pos": 1507836}
{"speaker": "Ruby", "text": "And where is he now, aunt?", "pos": 1508198}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Pipkin", "text": "Gone down to Bungay to mind his business, and won't be coming here any more of a fool's errand. He must have seen now pretty well what's worth having, and what ain't. Beauty is but skin deep, Ruby.", "pos": 1508227}
{"speaker": "Ruby", "text": "John Crumb 'd be after me again to-morrow, if I'd give him encouragement. If I'd hold up my finger he'd come.", "pos": 1508427}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Pipkin", "text": "Then John Crumb's a fool for his pains, that's all; and now do you go about your work.", "pos": 1508552}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Hurtle", "text": "I wonder whether he has any ideas at all in his head,", "pos": 1510121}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Pipkin", "text": "Ruby, you know, this must come to an end now.", "pos": 1510931}
{"speaker": "Ruby", "text": "What must come to an end?", "pos": 1510979}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Pipkin", "text": "You can't stay here always, you know.", "pos": 1511007}
{"speaker": "Ruby", "text": "I'm sure I work hard, Aunt Pipkin, and I don't get no wages.", "pos": 1511047}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Pipkin", "text": "I can't do with more than one girl,--and there's the keep if there isn't wages. Besides, there's other reasons. Your grandfather won't have you back there; that's certain.", "pos": 1511110}
{"speaker": "Ruby", "text": "I wouldn't go back to grandfather, if it was ever so.", "pos": 1511284}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Pipkin", "text": "But you must go somewheres. You didn't come to stay here always,--nor I couldn't have you. You must go into service.", "pos": 1511340}
{"speaker": "Ruby", "text": "I don't know anybody as 'd have me,", "pos": 1511459}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Pipkin", "text": "You must put a 'vertisement into the paper. You'd better say as nursemaid, as you seems to take kindly to children. And I must give you a character;--only I shall say just the truth. You mustn't ask much wages just at first. It has got to be done sooner or later, so you may as well put the 'vertisement in this afternoon.", "pos": 1511508}
{"speaker": "Ruby", "text": "You're going to turn me out, Aunt Pipkin.", "pos": 1511979}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Pipkin", "text": "Well;--if that's turning out, I am. You see you never would be said by me as though I was mistress. You would go out with that rapscallion when I bid you not. Now when you're in a regular place like, you must mind when you're spoke to, and it will be best for you. You've had your swing, and now you see you've got to pay for it. You must earn your bread, Ruby, as you've quarrelled both with your lover and with your grandfather.", "pos": 1512023}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Hurtle", "text": "Because, you know, she must stay here really, till Mr. Crumb comes and takes her away.", "pos": 1512591}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Pipkin", "text": "baggage soft", "pos": 1512750}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Hurtle", "text": "I hope you like your place, Ruby,", "pos": 1513903}
{"speaker": "Ruby", "text": "Indeed then I don't like it at all. They're the ugliest children you ever see, Mrs. Hurtle.", "pos": 1513990}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Hurtle", "text": "Ugly children must be minded as well as pretty ones.", "pos": 1514084}
{"speaker": "Ruby", "text": "And the mother of 'em is as cross as cross.", "pos": 1514139}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Hurtle", "text": "It's your own fault, Ruby; isn't it?", "pos": 1514185}
{"speaker": "Ruby", "text": "I don't know as I've done anything out of the way.", "pos": 1514224}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Hurtle", "text": "Don't you think it's anything out of the way to be engaged to a young man and then to throw him over? All this has come because you wouldn't keep your word to Mr. Crumb. Only for that your grandfather wouldn't have turned you out of his house.", "pos": 1514277}
{"speaker": "Ruby", "text": "He didn't turn me out. I ran away. And it wasn't along of John Crumb, but because grandfather hauled me about by the hair of my head.", "pos": 1514523}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Hurtle", "text": "But he was angry with you about Mr. Crumb. When a young woman becomes engaged to a young man, she ought not to go back from her word. Of course you have brought trouble on yourself. I am sorry that you don't like the place. I'm afraid you must go to it now.", "pos": 1514659}
{"speaker": "Ruby", "text": "I am agoing,--I suppose,", "pos": 1515063}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Hurtle", "text": "I shall write and tell Mr. Crumb where you are placed.", "pos": 1515224}
{"speaker": "Ruby", "text": "Oh, Mrs. Hurtle, don't. What should you write to him for? It ain't nothing to him.", "pos": 1515281}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Hurtle", "text": "I told him I'd let him know if any steps were taken.", "pos": 1515366}
{"speaker": "Ruby", "text": "You can forget that, Mrs. Hurtle. Pray don't write. I don't want him to know as I'm in service.", "pos": 1515421}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Hurtle", "text": "I must keep my promise. Why shouldn't he know? I don't suppose you care much now what he hears about you.", "pos": 1515519}
{"speaker": "Ruby", "text": "Yes I do. I wasn't never in service before, and I don't want him to know.", "pos": 1515627}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Hurtle", "text": "What harm can it do you?", "pos": 1515703}
{"speaker": "Ruby", "text": "Well, I don't want him to know. It is such a come down, Mrs. Hurtle.", "pos": 1515730}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Hurtle", "text": "There is nothing to be ashamed of in that. What you have to be ashamed of is jilting him. It was a bad thing to do;--wasn't it, Ruby?", "pos": 1515801}
{"speaker": "Ruby", "text": "I didn't mean nothing bad, Mrs. Hurtle; only why couldn't he say what he had to say himself, instead of bringing another to say it for him? What would you feel, Mrs. Hurtle, if a man was to come and say it all out of another man's mouth?", "pos": 1515937}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Hurtle", "text": "I don't think I should much care if the thing was well said at last. You know he meant it.", "pos": 1516177}
{"speaker": "Ruby", "text": "Yes;--I did know that.", "pos": 1516270}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Hurtle", "text": "And you know he means it now?", "pos": 1516295}
{"speaker": "Ruby", "text": "I'm not so sure about that. He's gone back to Bungay, and he isn't no good at writing letters no more than at speaking. Oh,--he'll go and get somebody else now.", "pos": 1516327}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Hurtle", "text": "Of course he will if he hears nothing about you. I think I'd better tell him. I know what would happen.", "pos": 1516490}
{"speaker": "Ruby", "text": "What would happen, Mrs. Hurtle?", "pos": 1516596}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Hurtle", "text": "He'd be up in town again in half a jiffey to see what sort of a place you'd got. Now, Ruby, I'll tell you what I'll do, if you'll say the word. I'll have him up here at once and you shan't go to Mrs. Buggins'. I will. But if he comes you mustn't behave this time as you did before.", "pos": 1516630}
{"speaker": "Ruby", "text": "But I'm to go to Mrs. Buggins' to-morrow.", "pos": 1516980}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Hurtle", "text": "We'll send to Mrs. Buggins and tell her to get somebody else. You're breaking your heart about going there;--are you not?", "pos": 1517024}
{"speaker": "Ruby", "text": "I don't like it, Mrs. Hurtle.", "pos": 1517148}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Hurtle", "text": "And this man will make you mistress of his house. You say he isn't good at speaking; but I tell you I never came across an honester man in the whole course of my life, or one who I think would treat a woman better. What's the use of a glib tongue if there isn't a heart with it? What's the use of a lot of tinsel and lacker, if the real metal isn't there? Sir Felix Carbury could talk, I dare say, but you don't think now he was a very fine fellow.", "pos": 1517180}
{"speaker": "Ruby", "text": "He was so beautiful, Mrs. Hurtle!", "pos": 1517631}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Hurtle", "text": "But he hadn't the spirit of a mouse in his bosom. Well, Ruby, you have one more choice left you. Shall it be John Crumb or Mrs. Buggins?", "pos": 1517667}
{"speaker": "Ruby", "text": "He wouldn't come, Mrs. Hurtle.", "pos": 1517806}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Hurtle", "text": "Leave that to me, Ruby. May I bring him if I can? And there shall be no more nonsense?", "pos": 1517839}
{"speaker": "Ruby", "text": "No,", "pos": 1518046}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Hurtle", "text": "DEAR MR. CRUMB, If you will come back to London I think you will find Miss Ruby Ruggles all that you desire. Yours faithfully, WINIFRID HURTLE.", "pos": 1518424}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Pipkin", "text": "She's had a deal more done for her than I ever knew to be done for young women in my time, and I'm not at all so sure that she has deserved it.", "pos": 1518569}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Hurtle", "text": "John Crumb will think she has.", "pos": 1518735}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Pipkin", "text": "John Crumb's a fool;--and as to Ruby; well, I haven't got no patience with girls like them. Yes; it is for the best; and as for you, Mrs. Hurtle, there's no words to say how good you've been. I hope, Mrs. Hurtle, you ain't thinking of going away because this is all done.", "pos": 1518768}
{"speaker": "Dolly Longestaffe", "text": "By George! Perhaps I oughtn't to have promised,", "pos": 1520395}
{"speaker": "Squercum", "text": "Well; I don't think you ought, if you ask me,", "pos": 1520884}
{"speaker": "Dolly Longestaffe", "text": "You weren't there to be asked, old fellow.", "pos": 1520947}
{"speaker": "Squercum", "text": "Bideawhile shouldn't have asked you to agree to anything in my absence. It was a very unprofessional thing on his part, and so I shall take an opportunity of telling him.", "pos": 1520992}
{"speaker": "Dolly Longestaffe", "text": "It was you told me to go.", "pos": 1521194}
{"speaker": "Squercum", "text": "Well;--yes. I wanted you to see what they were at in that room; but I told you to look on and say nothing.", "pos": 1521222}
{"speaker": "Dolly Longestaffe", "text": "I didn't speak half-a-dozen words.", "pos": 1521331}
{"speaker": "Squercum", "text": "You shouldn't have spoken those words. Your father then is quite clear that you did not sign the letter?", "pos": 1521368}
{"speaker": "Dolly Longestaffe", "text": "Oh, yes;--the governor is pig-headed, you know, but he's honest.", "pos": 1521475}
{"speaker": "Squercum", "text": "That's a matter of course. All men are honest; but they are generally specially honest to their own side. Bideawhile's honest; but you've got to fight him deuced close to prevent his getting the better of you. Melmotte has promised to pay the money on Friday, has he?", "pos": 1521542}
{"speaker": "Dolly Longestaffe", "text": "He's to bring it with him to Bruton Street.", "pos": 1521831}
{"speaker": "Squercum", "text": "I don't believe a word of it;--and I'm sure Bideawhile doesn't. In what shape will he bring it? He'll give you a cheque dated on Monday, and that'll give him two days more, and then on Monday there'll be a note to say the money can't be lodged till Wednesday. There should be no compromising with such a man. You only get from one mess into another. I told you neither to do anything or to say anything.", "pos": 1521877}
{"speaker": "Dolly Longestaffe", "text": "I suppose we can't help ourselves now. You're to be there on Friday. I particularly bargained for that. If you're there, there won't be any more compromising. If I was a sharp fellow like you, you know, of course I should get along better; but I ain't, you know.", "pos": 1522283}
{"speaker": "junior clerk", "text": "You know what's up now;--don't you?", "pos": 1525976}
{"speaker": "Mr. Croll", "text": "A good deal will be up soon,", "pos": 1526102}
{"speaker": "junior clerk", "text": "Cohenlupe has gone!", "pos": 1526150}
{"speaker": "Mr. Croll", "text": "And to vere has Mr. Cohenlupe gone?", "pos": 1526172}
{"speaker": "junior clerk", "text": "He hasn't been civil enough to leave his address. I fancy he don't want his friends to have to trouble themselves by writing to him. Nobody seems to know what's become of him.", "pos": 1526210}
{"speaker": "Mr. Croll", "text": "New York,", "pos": 1526388}
{"speaker": "junior clerk", "text": "They seem to think not. They're too hospitable in New York for Mr. Cohenlupe just at present. He's travelling private. He's on the continent somewhere,--half across France by this time; but nobody knows what route he has taken. That'll be a poke in the ribs for the old boy;--eh, Croll? I wonder what has become of Miles Grendall,", "pos": 1526421}
{"speaker": "Mr. Croll", "text": "Ven de rats is going avay it is bad for de house. I like de rats to stay.", "pos": 1526806}
{"speaker": "junior clerk", "text": "There seems to have been a regular manufactory of Mexican Railway scrip.", "pos": 1526882}
{"speaker": "Mr. Croll", "text": "Our governor knew noding about dat,", "pos": 1526957}
{"speaker": "junior clerk", "text": "He has a hat full of them at any rate. If they could have been kept up another fortnight they say Cohenlupe would have been worth nearly a million of money, and the governor would have been as good as the bank. Is it true they are going to have him before the Lord Mayor about the Pickering title-deeds?", "pos": 1527007}
{"speaker": "Mr. Croll", "text": "It's a bad thing,", "pos": 1527836}
{"speaker": "Melmotte", "text": "Yes;--it is bad. He had a vast amount of my property in his hands. Where has he gone? It never rains but it pours. Well; I'll weather it all yet. I've been worse than I am now, Croll, as you know, and have had a hundred thousand pounds at my banker's,--loose cash,--before the month was out.", "pos": 1527872}
{"speaker": "Mr. Croll", "text": "Yes, indeed,", "pos": 1528207}
{"speaker": "Melmotte", "text": "But the worst of it is that every one around me is so damnably jealous. It isn't what I've lost that will crush me, but what men will say that I've lost. Ever since I began to stand for Westminster there has been a dead set against me in the City. The whole of that affair of the dinner was planned,--planned by G----, that it might ruin me. It was all laid out just as you would lay the foundation of a building. It is hard for one man to stand against all that when he has dealings so large as mine.", "pos": 1528234}
{"speaker": "Mr. Croll", "text": "Very hard, Mr. Melmotte.", "pos": 1528738}
{"speaker": "Melmotte", "text": "But they'll find they're mistaken yet. There's too much of the real stuff, Croll, for them to crush me. Property's a kind of thing that comes out right at last. It's cut and come again, you know, if the stuff is really there. But I mustn't stop talking here. I suppose I shall find Brehgert in Cuthbert's Court.", "pos": 1528765}
{"speaker": "Mr. Croll", "text": "I should say so, Mr. Melmotte. Mr. Brehgert never leaves much before six.", "pos": 1529079}
{"speaker": "Brehgert", "text": "So Cohenlupe hasn't been seen in the City to-day,", "pos": 1530741}
{"speaker": "Melmotte", "text": "He has gone,", "pos": 1530808}
{"speaker": "Brehgert", "text": "I think I once told you that Cohenlupe was not the man for large dealings.", "pos": 1530847}
{"speaker": "Melmotte", "text": "Yes, you did,", "pos": 1530924}
{"speaker": "Brehgert", "text": "Well;--it can't be helped; can it? And what is it now?", "pos": 1530955}
{"speaker": "Brehgert", "text": "You will leave them with me this evening,", "pos": 1531561}
{"speaker": "Melmotte", "text": "Oh, Wednesday! Of course it is,", "pos": 1535513}
{"speaker": "Madame Melmotte", "text": "Is anything going to happen, Melmotte?", "pos": 1541433}
{"speaker": "Melmotte", "text": "A good deal is going to happen. Are they here in this house, or in Grosvenor Square?", "pos": 1541474}
{"speaker": "Madame Melmotte", "text": "They are here.", "pos": 1541561}
{"speaker": "Melmotte", "text": "Then have them all packed up,--as small as you can; never mind about wool and cases and all that. Have them close to your hand so that if you have to move you can take them with you. Do you understand?", "pos": 1541578}
{"speaker": "Madame Melmotte", "text": "Yes; I understand.", "pos": 1541782}
{"speaker": "Melmotte", "text": "Why don't you speak, then?", "pos": 1541803}
{"speaker": "Madame Melmotte", "text": "What is going to happen, Melmotte?", "pos": 1541832}
{"speaker": "Melmotte", "text": "How can I tell? You ought to know by this time that when a man's work is such as mine, things will happen. You'll be safe enough. Nothing can hurt you.", "pos": 1541869}
{"speaker": "Madame Melmotte", "text": "Can they hurt you, Melmotte?", "pos": 1542023}
{"speaker": "Melmotte", "text": "Hurt me! I don't know what you call hurting. Whatever there is to be borne, I suppose it is I must bear it. I have not had it very soft all my life hitherto, and I don't think it's going to be very soft now.", "pos": 1542054}
{"speaker": "Madame Melmotte", "text": "Shall we have to move?", "pos": 1542264}
{"speaker": "Melmotte", "text": "Very likely. Move! What's the harm of moving? You talk of moving as though that were the worst thing that could happen. How would you like to be in some place where they wouldn't let you move?", "pos": 1542289}
{"speaker": "Madame Melmotte", "text": "Are they going to send you to prison?", "pos": 1542484}
{"speaker": "Melmotte", "text": "Hold your tongue.", "pos": 1542524}
{"speaker": "Madame Melmotte", "text": "Tell me, Melmotte;--are they going to?", "pos": 1542544}
{"speaker": "Melmotte", "text": "I didn't ask you to come here for a scene. Do as I bid you about your own jewels, and Marie's. The thing is to have them in small compass, and that you should not have it to do at the last moment, when you will be flurried and incapable. Now you needn't stay any longer, and it's no good asking any questions because I shan't answer them.", "pos": 1542645}
{"speaker": "Melmotte", "text": "Is it anything special? Ask him if he has breakfasted, and if not give him something in the study.", "pos": 1543574}
{"speaker": "Melmotte", "text": "Well, Croll, what brings you here so early?", "pos": 1545979}
{"speaker": "Croll", "text": "Herr Brehgert vas vid me last night,", "pos": 1546162}
{"speaker": "Melmotte", "text": "Eh!", "pos": 1546213}
{"speaker": "Croll", "text": "And he thought I had better bring these back to you. That's all.", "pos": 1546219}
{"speaker": "Melmotte", "text": "Eh!", "pos": 1546484}
{"speaker": "Croll", "text": "Mr. Brehgert came to me, because one signature was wanting. It was very late, so I took them home with me. I said I'd bring them to you in the morning. It vas a strong order, Mr. Melmotte. I vill not be back in the Lane, Mr. Melmotte.", "pos": 1547024}
{"speaker": "Melmotte", "text": "Not back at the office, Croll?", "pos": 1547819}
{"speaker": "Croll", "text": "I tink not;--no. De leetle money coming to me, you will send it. Adieu.", "pos": 1547852}
{"speaker": "Marie", "text": "Papa. I think that perhaps I was wrong yesterday.", "pos": 1552820}
{"speaker": "Melmotte", "text": "Of course you were wrong;--but it doesn't matter now.", "pos": 1552918}
{"speaker": "Marie", "text": "If you wish it I'll sign those papers. I don't suppose Lord Nidderdale means to come any more;--and I'm sure I don't care whether he does or not.", "pos": 1552974}
{"speaker": "Melmotte", "text": "What makes you think that, Marie?", "pos": 1553122}
{"speaker": "Marie", "text": "I was out last night at Lady Julia Goldsheiner's, and he was there. I'm sure he doesn't mean to come here any more.", "pos": 1553158}
{"speaker": "Melmotte", "text": "Was he uncivil to you?", "pos": 1553276}
{"speaker": "Marie", "text": "O dear no. He's never uncivil. But I'm sure of it. Never mind how. I never told him that I cared for him and I never did care for him. Papa, is there something going to happen?", "pos": 1553301}
{"speaker": "Melmotte", "text": "What do you mean?", "pos": 1553480}
{"speaker": "Marie", "text": "Some misfortune! Oh, papa, why didn't you let me marry that other man?", "pos": 1553500}
{"speaker": "Melmotte", "text": "He is a penniless adventurer.", "pos": 1553573}
{"speaker": "Marie", "text": "But he would have had this money that I call my money, and then there would have been enough for us all. Papa, he would marry me still if you would let him.", "pos": 1553605}
{"speaker": "Melmotte", "text": "Have you seen him since you went to Liverpool?", "pos": 1553764}
{"speaker": "Marie", "text": "Never, papa.", "pos": 1553813}
{"speaker": "Melmotte", "text": "Or heard from him?", "pos": 1553828}
{"speaker": "Marie", "text": "Not a line.", "pos": 1553849}
{"speaker": "Melmotte", "text": "Then what makes you think he would marry you?", "pos": 1553863}
{"speaker": "Marie", "text": "He would if I got hold of him and told him. And he is a baronet. And there would be plenty of money for us all. And we could go and live in Germany.", "pos": 1553911}
{"speaker": "Melmotte", "text": "We could do that just as well without your marrying.", "pos": 1554062}
{"speaker": "Marie", "text": "But I suppose, papa, I am to be considered as somebody. I don't want after all to run away from London, just as if everybody had turned up their noses at me. I like him, and I don't like anybody else.", "pos": 1554117}
{"speaker": "Melmotte", "text": "He wouldn't take the trouble to go to Liverpool with you.", "pos": 1554320}
{"speaker": "Marie", "text": "He got tipsy. I know all about that. I don't mean to say that he's anything particularly grand. I don't know that anybody is very grand. He's as good as anybody else.", "pos": 1554380}
{"speaker": "Melmotte", "text": "It can't be done, Marie.", "pos": 1554549}
{"speaker": "Marie", "text": "Why can't it be done?", "pos": 1554576}
{"speaker": "Melmotte", "text": "There are a dozen reasons. Why should my money be given up to him? And it is too late. There are other things to be thought of now than marriage.", "pos": 1554600}
{"speaker": "Marie", "text": "You don't want me to sign the papers?", "pos": 1554748}
{"speaker": "Melmotte", "text": "No;--I haven't got the papers. But I want you to remember that the money is mine and not yours. It may be that much may depend on you, and that I shall have to trust to you for nearly everything. Do not let me find myself deceived by my daughter.", "pos": 1554788}
{"speaker": "Marie", "text": "I won't,--if you'll let me see Sir Felix Carbury once more.", "pos": 1555037}
{"speaker": "Melmotte", "text": "I tell you, you little fool, that it is out of the question. Why cannot you believe me? Has your mother spoken to you about your jewels? Get them packed up, so that you can carry them away in your hand if we have to leave this suddenly. You are an idiot to think of that young man. As you say, I don't know that any of them are very good, but among them all he is about the worst. Go away and do as I bid you.", "pos": 1555168}
{"speaker": "Marie", "text": "I dare say you don't remember me, Lady Carbury. I am Marie Melmotte.", "pos": 1556523}
{"speaker": "Lady Carbury", "text": "Yes, Miss Melmotte, I remember you.", "pos": 1556698}
{"speaker": "Marie", "text": "Yes;--I am Mr. Melmotte's daughter. How is your son? I hope he is better. They told me he had been horribly used by a dreadful man in the street.", "pos": 1556736}
{"speaker": "Lady Carbury", "text": "Sit down, Miss Melmotte. He is getting better.", "pos": 1556884}
{"speaker": "Marie", "text": "I want to see him. I suppose he told you everything;--didn't he? You know that we were to have been married? I loved him very much, and so I do still. I am not ashamed of coming and telling you.", "pos": 1557485}
{"speaker": "Lady Carbury", "text": "I thought it was all off,", "pos": 1557770}
{"speaker": "Marie", "text": "I never said so. Does he say so? Your daughter came to me and was very good to me. I do so love her. She said that it was all over; but perhaps she was wrong. It shan't be all over if he will be true.", "pos": 1557817}
{"speaker": "Lady Carbury", "text": "I am afraid, that it would not be suitable.", "pos": 1558366}
{"speaker": "Marie", "text": "Why should it not be suitable? They can't take my money away. There is enough for all of us even if papa wanted to live with us;--but it is mine. It is ever so much;--I don't know how much, but a great deal. We should be quite rich enough. I ain't a bit ashamed to come and tell you, because we were engaged. I know he isn't rich, and I should have thought it would be suitable.", "pos": 1558424}
{"speaker": "Lady Carbury", "text": "I understand that your papa is opposed to it,", "pos": 1558952}
{"speaker": "Marie", "text": "Yes, he is;--but papa can't prevent me, and papa can't make me give up the money. It's ever so many thousands a year, I know. If I can dare to do it, why can't he?", "pos": 1559010}
{"speaker": "Lady Carbury", "text": "My son is up-stairs. I will go up and speak to him.", "pos": 1560132}
{"speaker": "Marie", "text": "Tell him I am here and that I have said that I will forgive him everything, and that I love him still, and that if he will be true to me, I will be true to him.", "pos": 1560198}
{"speaker": "Sir Felix", "text": "I couldn't go down to her, with my face all in this way.", "pos": 1560361}
{"speaker": "Lady Carbury", "text": "I don't think she would mind that.", "pos": 1560438}
{"speaker": "Sir Felix", "text": "I couldn't do it. Besides, I don't believe about her money. I never did believe it. That was the real reason why I didn't go to Liverpool.", "pos": 1560475}
{"speaker": "Lady Carbury", "text": "I think I would see her if I were you, Felix. We could find out to a certainty about her fortune. It is evident at any rate that she is very fond of you.", "pos": 1560616}
{"speaker": "Sir Felix", "text": "What's the use of that, if he is ruined?", "pos": 1560772}
{"speaker": "Lady Carbury", "text": "What shall I say to her?", "pos": 1561297}
{"speaker": "Sir Felix", "text": "She oughtn't to have come. I should tell her just that. You might send the maid to her to tell her that you couldn't see her again.", "pos": 1561342}
{"speaker": "Lady Carbury", "text": "Miss Melmotte, my son feels that everything has been so changed since he and you last met, that nothing can be gained by a renewal of your acquaintance.", "pos": 1561648}
{"speaker": "Marie", "text": "That is his message;--is it? Then he is indeed all that they have told me; and I am ashamed that I should have loved him. I am ashamed;--not of coming here, although you will think that I have run after him. I don't see why a girl should not run after a man if they have been engaged together. But I'm ashamed of thinking so much of so mean a person. Good-bye, Lady Carbury.", "pos": 1561815}
{"speaker": "Lady Carbury", "text": "Good-bye, Miss Melmotte. I don't think you should be angry with me.", "pos": 1562224}
{"speaker": "Marie", "text": "No;--no. I am not angry with you. You can forget me now as soon as you please, and I will try to forget him.", "pos": 1562294}
{"speaker": "Mr. Lupton", "text": "I wonder where he is,", "pos": 1565732}
{"speaker": "Mr. Beauchamp Beauclerk", "text": "They say he hasn't been in the City all day. I suppose he's in Longestaffe's house. That poor fellow has got it heavy all round. The man has got his place in the country and his house in town. There's Nidderdale. I wonder what he thinks about it all.", "pos": 1565835}
{"speaker": "Lord Nidderdale", "text": "This is awful;--ain't it?", "pos": 1566088}
{"speaker": "Mr. Lupton", "text": "It might have been worse, I should say, as far as you are concerned,", "pos": 1566133}
{"speaker": "Lord Nidderdale", "text": "Well, yes. But I'll tell you what, Lupton. I don't quite understand it all yet. Our lawyer said three days ago that the money was certainly there.", "pos": 1566224}
{"speaker": "Lupton", "text": "And Cohenlupe was certainly here three days ago, but he isn't here now. It seems to me that it has just happened in time for you.", "pos": 1566373}
{"speaker": "Sir Orlando Drought", "text": "There's Brown. He'll be able to tell us where he is. It was rumoured, you know, an hour ago, that he was off to the continent after Cohenlupe.", "pos": 1566582}
{"speaker": "Chancellor of the Exchequer", "text": "Do you know anything about it?", "pos": 1567360}
{"speaker": "Secretary of State for the Home Department", "text": "I understand that no order has been given for his arrest. There is a general opinion that he has committed forgery; but I doubt whether they've got their evidence together.", "pos": 1567482}
{"speaker": "Chancellor of the Exchequer", "text": "He's a ruined man, I suppose,", "pos": 1567657}
{"speaker": "Secretary of State", "text": "I doubt whether he ever was a rich man. But I'll tell you what;--he has been about the grandest rogue we've seen yet. He must have spent over a hundred thousand pounds during the last twelve months on his personal expenses. I wonder how the Emperor will like it when he learns the truth.", "pos": 1567710}
{"speaker": "Melmotte", "text": "Have you been up with Marie to-day?", "pos": 1573007}
{"speaker": "Lord Nidderdale", "text": "No;--I've not,", "pos": 1573060}
{"speaker": "Melmotte", "text": "Why don't you go? She's always asking about you now. I hope we shall be in our own house again next week, and then we shall be able to make you comfortable.", "pos": 1573095}
{"speaker": "Lord Nidderdale", "text": "I'll tell you what it is. I think you had better see my governor again, Mr. Melmotte.", "pos": 1573359}
{"speaker": "Melmotte", "text": "There's nothing wrong, I hope.", "pos": 1573466}
{"speaker": "Lord Nidderdale", "text": "Well;--I don't know. You'd better see him. I'm going now. I only just came down to enter an appearance.", "pos": 1573499}
{"speaker": "Melmotte", "text": "Good night, my boy,", "pos": 1573697}
{"speaker": "Lionel Lupton", "text": "You know what has happened, Nidderdale?", "pos": 1574178}
{"speaker": "Lord Nidderdale", "text": "About Melmotte, you mean?", "pos": 1574220}
{"speaker": "Lupton", "text": "Yes, about Melmotte. He has been arrested in his own house within the last half-hour on a charge of forgery.", "pos": 1574248}
{"speaker": "Lord Nidderdale", "text": "I wish he had, with all my heart. If you go in you'll find him sitting there as large as life. He has been talking to me as though everything were all right.", "pos": 1574379}
{"speaker": "Lupton", "text": "Compton was here not a moment ago, and said that he had been taken under a warrant from the Lord Mayor.", "pos": 1574558}
{"speaker": "Lord Nidderdale", "text": "The Lord Mayor is a member and had better come and fetch his prisoner himself. At any rate he's there. I shouldn't wonder if he wasn't on his legs before long.", "pos": 1574664}
{"speaker": "Melmotte", "text": "You needn't think so much, you know, of what I said the other night. I didn't mean any offence.", "pos": 1577185}
{"speaker": "Hetta", "text": "I once loved another woman, and that woman is here now in London, a trouble to me, persecuting me, and her history is so and so, and the history of my love for her was after this fashion, and the history of my declining love is after that fashion, and of this at any rate you may be sure, that this woman has never been near my heart from the first moment in which I saw you;", "pos": 1583242}
{"speaker": "Hetta", "text": "Of course, my dear, I will send it back to him. Is there nothing else? No, mamma;--nothing else. I have no letters, and no other present. You always knew everything that took place. If you will just send that back to him,--without a word. You won't say anything,--will you, mamma? There is nothing for me to say if you have really made him understand you. I think he understood me, mamma. You need not doubt about that.", "pos": 1587795}
{"speaker": "Lady Carbury", "text": "He has behaved very, very badly,--from the beginning,", "pos": 1588223}
{"speaker": "Hetta", "text": "It's no good talking about that, mamma. I hope you will never talk of him any more.", "pos": 1588643}
{"speaker": "Lady Carbury", "text": "He is quite unworthy,", "pos": 1588729}
{"speaker": "Hetta", "text": "I can't bear to--have him--abused,", "pos": 1588772}
{"speaker": "Lady Carbury", "text": "My dear Hetta, I have no doubt this has made you for the time unhappy. Such little accidents do make people unhappy--for the time. But it will be much for the best that you should endeavour not to be so sensitive about it. The world is too rough and too hard for people to allow their feelings full play. You have to look out for the future, and you can best do so by resolving that Paul Montague shall be forgotten at once.", "pos": 1588829}
{"speaker": "Hetta", "text": "Oh, mamma, don't. How is a person to resolve? Oh, mamma, don't say any more.", "pos": 1589256}
{"speaker": "Lady Carbury", "text": "But, my dear, there is more that I must say. Your future life is before you, and I must think of it, and you must think of it. Of course you must be married.", "pos": 1589335}
{"speaker": "Hetta", "text": "There is no of course at all.", "pos": 1589495}
{"speaker": "Lady Carbury", "text": "Of course you must be married, and of course it is your duty to think of the way in which this may be best done. My income is becoming less and less every day. I already owe money to your cousin, and I owe money to Mr. Broune.", "pos": 1589527}
{"speaker": "Hetta", "text": "Money to Mr. Broune!", "pos": 1589782}
{"speaker": "Lady Carbury", "text": "Yes,--to Mr. Broune. I had to pay a sum for Felix which Mr. Broune told me ought to be paid. And I owe money to tradesmen. I fear that I shall not be able to keep on this house. And they tell me,--your cousin and Mr. Broune,--that it is my duty to take Felix out of London,--probably abroad.", "pos": 1589805}
{"speaker": "Hetta", "text": "Of course I shall go with you.", "pos": 1590099}
{"speaker": "Lady Carbury", "text": "It may be so at first; but, perhaps, even that may not be necessary. Why should you? What pleasure could you have in it? Think what my life must be with Felix in some French or German town!", "pos": 1590132}
{"speaker": "Hetta", "text": "Mamma, why don't you let me be a comfort to you? Why do you speak of me always as though I were a burden?", "pos": 1590324}
{"speaker": "Lady Carbury", "text": "Everybody is a burden to other people. It is the way of life. But you,--if you will only yield in ever so little,--you may go where you will be no burden, where you will be accepted simply as a blessing. You have the opportunity of securing comfort for your whole life, and of making a friend, not only for yourself, but for me and your brother, of one whose friendship we cannot fail to want.", "pos": 1590432}
{"speaker": "Hetta", "text": "Mamma, you cannot really mean to talk about that now?", "pos": 1590828}
{"speaker": "Lady Carbury", "text": "Why should I not mean it? What is the use of indulging in high-flown nonsense? Make up your mind to be the wife of your cousin Roger.", "pos": 1590884}
{"speaker": "Hetta", "text": "This is horrid. Cannot you understand that I am broken-hearted about Paul, that I love him from my very soul, that parting from him is like tearing my heart in pieces? I know that I must, because he has behaved so very badly,--and because of that wicked woman! And so I have. But I did not think that in the very next hour you would bid me give myself to somebody else! I will never marry Roger Carbury. You may be quite--quite sure that I shall never marry any one. If you won't take me with you when you go away with Felix, I must stay behind and try and earn my bread. I suppose I could go out as a nurse.", "pos": 1591020}
{"speaker": "Lady Carbury", "text": "If the girl has got the money--", "pos": 1594160}
{"speaker": "Mr. Broune", "text": "I don't believe a bit of it. From all that I can hear, I don't think that there is any money. And if there is, you may be sure that Melmotte would not let it slip through his fingers in that way. I would not have anything to do with it.", "pos": 1594238}
{"speaker": "Lady Carbury", "text": "You think it is all over with the Melmottes?", "pos": 1594492}
{"speaker": "Mr. Broune", "text": "A rumour reached me just now that he had been already arrested. But as I came away from my room, I heard that he was down at the House. That he will have to stand a trial for forgery, I think there cannot be a doubt, and I imagine that it will be found that not a shilling will be saved out of the property.", "pos": 1594539}
{"speaker": "Lady Carbury", "text": "What a wonderful career it has been!", "pos": 1594899}
{"speaker": "Mr. Broune", "text": "Yes,--the strangest thing that has come up in our days. I am inclined to think that the utter ruin at this moment has been brought about by his reckless personal expenditure.", "pos": 1594938}
{"speaker": "Lady Carbury", "text": "Why did he spend such a lot of money?", "pos": 1595115}
{"speaker": "Mr. Broune", "text": "Because he thought that he could conquer the world by it, and obtain universal credit. He very nearly succeeded too. Only he had forgotten to calculate the force of the envy of his competitors.", "pos": 1595155}
{"speaker": "Lady Carbury", "text": "You think he has committed forgery?", "pos": 1595351}
{"speaker": "Mr. Broune", "text": "Certainly, I think so. Of course we know nothing as yet.", "pos": 1595389}
{"speaker": "Lady Carbury", "text": "Then I suppose it is better that Felix should not have married her.", "pos": 1595448}
{"speaker": "Mr. Broune", "text": "Certainly better. No redemption was to have been had on that side, and I don't think you should regret the loss of such money as his. At any rate do not think of it any more. Ah, there. I feel myself less able to express an authoritative opinion.", "pos": 1595518}
{"speaker": "Lady Carbury", "text": "He doesn't owe a shilling, and he is really a fine gentleman.", "pos": 1595988}
{"speaker": "Mr. Broune", "text": "But if she doesn't like him?", "pos": 1596073}
{"speaker": "Lady Carbury", "text": "Oh, but she does. She thinks him to be the finest person in the world. She would obey him a great deal sooner than she would me. But she has her mind stuffed with nonsense about love.", "pos": 1596104}
{"speaker": "Mr. Broune", "text": "A great many people, Lady Carbury, have their minds stuffed with that nonsense.", "pos": 1596290}
{"speaker": "Lady Carbury", "text": "Yes;--and ruin themselves with it, as she will do. Love is like any other luxury. You have no right to it unless you can afford it. And those who will have it when they can't afford it, will come to the ground like this Mr. Melmotte. How odd it seems! It isn't a fortnight since we all thought him the greatest man in London.", "pos": 1596372}
{"speaker": "Paul Montague", "text": "DEAREST HETTA, I think you have been most unjust to me, and if you have ever loved me I cannot understand your injustice. I have never deceived you in anything, not by a word, or for a moment. Unless you mean to throw me over because I did once love another woman, I do not know what cause of anger you have. I could not tell you about Mrs. Hurtle till you had accepted me, and, as you yourself must know, I had had no opportunity to tell you anything afterwards till the story had reached your ears. I hardly know what I said the other day, I was so miserable at your accusation. But I suppose I said then, and I again declare now, that I had made up my mind that circumstances would not admit of her becoming my wife before I had ever seen you, and that I have certainly never wavered in my determination since I saw you. I can with safety refer to Roger as to this, because I was with him when I so determined, and made up my mind very much at his instance. This was before I had ever even met you.", "pos": 1597905}
{"speaker": "Dolly Longestaffe", "text": "I wonder whether it's true. He has an appointment to meet me and my governor at twelve o'clock to-morrow, and to pay us what he owes us. He swore yesterday that he would have the money to-morrow. But he can't keep his appointment, you know, if he's in prison.", "pos": 1604632}
{"speaker": "Lord Grasslough", "text": "You won't see the money, Dolly, you may swear to that,", "pos": 1604930}
{"speaker": "Dolly Longestaffe", "text": "I don't suppose I shall. By George, what an ass my governor has been. He had no more right than you have to give up the property. Here's Nidderdale. He could tell us where he is; but I'm afraid to speak to him since he cut up so rough the other night.", "pos": 1605004}
{"speaker": "Lord Nidderdale", "text": "Yes;--I left him in the House half an hour ago.", "pos": 1605426}
{"speaker": "Lord Grasslough", "text": "People are saying that he has been arrested.", "pos": 1605476}
{"speaker": "Lord Nidderdale", "text": "I heard that also; but he certainly had not been arrested when I left the House. I suppose you were about right the other night and I was about wrong; but you could understand what it was that I meant. I'm afraid this is a bad look out for both of us.", "pos": 1605523}
{"speaker": "Dolly Longestaffe", "text": "Yes;--I understand. It's deuced bad for me. I think you're very well out of it. But I'm glad there's not to be a quarrel. Suppose we have a rubber of whist. By George, I should like to have seen that!", "pos": 1605863}
{"speaker": "Lord Nidderdale", "text": "I am very glad I was not there,", "pos": 1606302}
{"speaker": "Marquis", "text": "I don't believe you'd get out of bed a moment sooner than you liked if you could save the whole property by it.", "pos": 1607899}
{"speaker": "Lord Nidderdale", "text": "You show me how I can make a guinea by it, sir, and see if I don't earn the money.", "pos": 1608013}
{"speaker": "Marquis", "text": "I suppose you were drinking last night,", "pos": 1608202}
{"speaker": "Lord Nidderdale", "text": "Not particular. The fact is, sir, I don't drink. Everybody knows that.", "pos": 1608263}
{"speaker": "Marquis", "text": "I know when you're in the country you can't live without champagne. Well;--what have you got to say about all this?", "pos": 1608393}
{"speaker": "Lord Nidderdale", "text": "What have you got to say?", "pos": 1608511}
{"speaker": "Marquis", "text": "You've made a pretty kettle of fish of it.", "pos": 1608539}
{"speaker": "Lord Nidderdale", "text": "I've been guided by you in everything. Come, now; you ought to own that. I suppose the whole thing is over?", "pos": 1608584}
{"speaker": "Marquis", "text": "I don't see why it should be over. I'm told she has got her own money. What the devil does that matter? You're not going to marry the man himself.", "pos": 1608694}
{"speaker": "Lord Nidderdale", "text": "I shouldn't wonder if he's in gaol now.", "pos": 1608965}
{"speaker": "Marquis", "text": "And what does that matter? She's not in gaol. And if the money is hers, she can't lose it because he goes to prison. Beggars mustn't be choosers. How do you mean to live if you don't marry this girl?", "pos": 1609007}
{"speaker": "Lord Nidderdale", "text": "I shall scrape on, I suppose. I must look for somebody else. At any rate, sir, I can't marry the daughter of a man who is to be put upon his trial for forgery.", "pos": 1609209}
{"speaker": "Marquis", "text": "I can't see what that has to do with you.", "pos": 1609526}
{"speaker": "Lord Nidderdale", "text": "I couldn't do it, sir. I'd do anything else to oblige you, but I couldn't do that. And, moreover, I don't believe in the money.", "pos": 1609570}
{"speaker": "Marquis", "text": "Then you may just go to the devil. They tell me, that one of those Goldsheiner girls will have a lot of money.", "pos": 1609700}
{"speaker": "Lord Nidderdale", "text": "A Jewess,", "pos": 1610049}
{"speaker": "Marquis", "text": "What difference does that make?", "pos": 1610083}
{"speaker": "Lord Nidderdale", "text": "Oh no;--not in the least;--if the money's really there. Have you heard any sum named, sir? There are two sisters and two brothers. I don't suppose the girls would have a hundred thousand each.", "pos": 1610117}
{"speaker": "Marquis", "text": "They say the widow of that brewer who died the other day has about twenty thousand a year.", "pos": 1610340}
{"speaker": "Lord Nidderdale", "text": "It's only for her life, sir.", "pos": 1610433}
{"speaker": "Marquis", "text": "She could insure her life. D----me, sir, we must do something. If you turn up your nose at one woman after another how do you mean to live?", "pos": 1610464}
{"speaker": "Lord Nidderdale", "text": "I don't think that a woman of forty with only a life interest would be a good speculation. Of course I'll think of it if you press it. You see, sir, I've been so much in earnest about this girl that I haven't thought of inquiring about any one else. There always is some one up with a lot of money. It's a pity there shouldn't be a regular statement published with the amount of money, and what is expected in return. It 'd save a deal of trouble.", "pos": 1610606}
{"speaker": "Marquis", "text": "If you can't talk more seriously than that you'd better go away,", "pos": 1611085}
{"speaker": "footman", "text": "I believe, my lord, he's one of the domestics from Mr. Melmotte's in Bruton Street,", "pos": 1611414}
{"speaker": "Marquis", "text": "You'd better go and see. Go and see Melmotte. Why should you be afraid to see him? Tell him that you are ready to marry the girl if you can see the money down, but that you won't stir a step till it has been actually paid over.", "pos": 1611685}
{"speaker": "Lord Nidderdale", "text": "He knows that already. Is there anything the matter?", "pos": 1612040}
{"speaker": "Melmotte's butler", "text": "Yes, my lord,--yes. Oh, dear,--oh, dear! I think you'll be sorry to hear it. There was none who came there he seemed to take to so much as your lordship.", "pos": 1612361}
{"speaker": "Lord Nidderdale", "text": "They've taken him to prison! What is it then? He can't be dead. Mr. Melmotte dead! He was in the House of Commons last night. I saw him myself. How did he die?", "pos": 1612517}
{"speaker": "Lord Nidderdale", "text": "Mr. Melmotte is--dead. This man says that he is dead, and here is a letter from Marie asking me to go there. How was it that he--died?", "pos": 1613635}
{"speaker": "butler", "text": "It was--poison. There has been a doctor already, and there isn't no doubt of that. He took it all by himself last night. He came home, perhaps a little fresh, and he had in brandy and soda and cigars;--and sat himself down all to himself. Then in the morning, when the young woman went in,--there he was,--poisoned! I see him lay on the ground, and I helped to lift him up, and there was that smell of prussic acid that I knew what he had been and done just the same as when the doctor came and told us.", "pos": 1613851}
{"speaker": "Marquis", "text": "What's the use? What good can you do? She'll only be falling into your arms, and that's what you've got to avoid,--at any rate, till you know how things are.", "pos": 1614628}
{"speaker": "his father", "text": "Don't you go and make a fool of yourself. This is just one of those times when a man may ruin himself by being soft-hearted.", "pos": 1615624}
{"speaker": "Marie", "text": "He may cut me into pieces, but he shall not make me do for his advantage that which I do not think he has a right to exact from me.", "pos": 1618896}
{"speaker": "Marie", "text": "I thought you would come when I sent for you.", "pos": 1623899}
{"speaker": "Lord Nidderdale", "text": "Of course I came.", "pos": 1623947}
{"speaker": "Marie", "text": "I knew you would be a friend, and I knew no one else who would. You won't be afraid, Lord Nidderdale, that I shall ever think any more of all those things which he was planning? You know what has happened?", "pos": 1623967}
{"speaker": "Lord Nidderdale", "text": "Your servant told us.", "pos": 1624267}
{"speaker": "Marie", "text": "What are we to do? Oh, Lord Nidderdale, it is so dreadful! Poor papa! Poor papa! When I think of all that he must have suffered I wish that I could be dead too.", "pos": 1624291}
{"speaker": "Lord Nidderdale", "text": "Has your mother been told?", "pos": 1624454}
{"speaker": "Marie", "text": "Oh yes. She knows. No one tried to conceal anything for a moment. It was better that it should be so;--better at last. But we have no friends who would be considerate enough to try to save us from sorrow. But I think it was better. Mamma is very bad. She is always nervous and timid. Of course this has nearly killed her. What ought we to do? It is Mr. Longestaffe's house, and we were to have left it to-morrow.", "pos": 1624483}
{"speaker": "Lord Nidderdale", "text": "He will not mind that now.", "pos": 1624898}
{"speaker": "Marie", "text": "Where must we go? We can't go back to that big place in Grosvenor Square. Who will manage for us? Who will see the doctor and the policemen?", "pos": 1624927}
{"speaker": "Lord Nidderdale", "text": "I will do that.", "pos": 1625070}
{"speaker": "Marie", "text": "But there will be things that I cannot ask you to do. Why should I ask you to do anything?", "pos": 1625088}
{"speaker": "Lord Nidderdale", "text": "Because we are friends.", "pos": 1625181}
{"speaker": "Marie", "text": "No, no. You cannot really regard me as a friend. I have been an impostor. I know that. I had no business to know a person like you at all. Oh, if the next six months could be over! Poor papa;--poor papa!", "pos": 1625207}
{"speaker": "Lord Nidderdale", "text": "I wish I knew what might comfort you,", "pos": 1625475}
{"speaker": "Marie", "text": "How can there be any comfort? There never can be comfort again! As for comfort, when were we ever comfortable? It has been one trouble after another,--one fear after another! And now we are friendless and homeless. I suppose they will take everything that we have.", "pos": 1625524}
{"speaker": "Lord Nidderdale", "text": "Your papa had a lawyer, I suppose?", "pos": 1625791}
{"speaker": "Marie", "text": "I think he had ever so many,--but I do not know who they were. His own clerk, who had lived with him for over twenty years, left him yesterday. I suppose they will know something in Abchurch Lane; but now that Herr Croll has gone I am not acquainted even with the name of one of them. Mr. Miles Grendall used to be with him.", "pos": 1625828}
{"speaker": "Lord Nidderdale", "text": "I do not think that he could be of much service.", "pos": 1626155}
{"speaker": "Marie", "text": "Nor Lord Alfred? Lord Alfred was always with him till very lately. I suppose not. They only came because papa had a big house. Oh, what a life it has been! And now,--now it's over. Who are they?", "pos": 1626206}
{"speaker": "Dolly Longestaffe", "text": "Don't we wish we may get it? I knew I'd got a coat just like that, and I never could make out what my fellow had done with it.", "pos": 1627750}
{"speaker": "Mr. Bideawhile", "text": "was no more. Dead!", "pos": 1628556}
{"speaker": "Mr. Longestaffe", "text": "Dead!", "pos": 1628681}
{"speaker": "Dolly Longestaffe", "text": "Dead! Who's dead?", "pos": 1628722}
{"speaker": "Squercum", "text": "It's about what I expected,", "pos": 1628879}
{"speaker": "Dolly Longestaffe", "text": "Are you in the house here?", "pos": 1630048}
{"speaker": "Lord Nidderdale", "text": "She sent for me. We live quite close, you know. She wanted somebody to tell her something. I must go up to her again now.", "pos": 1630121}
{"speaker": "Dolly Longestaffe", "text": "Had you seen him before?", "pos": 1630245}
{"speaker": "Lord Nidderdale", "text": "No indeed. I only came down when I heard your voices. I fear it will be rather bad for you;--won't it?", "pos": 1630272}
{"speaker": "Dolly Longestaffe", "text": "He was regularly smashed, I suppose?", "pos": 1630377}
{"speaker": "Lord Nidderdale", "text": "I know nothing myself. He talked to me about his affairs once, but he was such a liar that not a word that he said was worth anything. I believed him then. How it will go, I can't say.", "pos": 1630429}
{"speaker": "Dolly Longestaffe", "text": "That other thing is all over of course,", "pos": 1630616}
{"speaker": "Lord Nidderdale", "text": "They had come to see him. There was some appointment. He had told them to be all here at this hour.", "pos": 1631039}
{"speaker": "Marie", "text": "They didn't know, then?", "pos": 1631178}
{"speaker": "Lord Nidderdale", "text": "Nothing,--till the man told them.", "pos": 1631217}
{"speaker": "Marie", "text": "And did you go in?", "pos": 1631253}
{"speaker": "Lord Nidderdale", "text": "Yes; we all went into the room. I think the best thing I can do, is to go to Abchurch Lane, and find out from Smith who is the lawyer whom he chiefly trusted. I know Smith had to do with his own affairs, because he has told me so at the Board; and if necessary I will find out Croll. No doubt I can trace him. Then we had better employ the lawyer to arrange everything for you.", "pos": 1631274}
{"speaker": "Marie", "text": "And where had we better go to?", "pos": 1631716}
{"speaker": "Lord Nidderdale", "text": "Where would Madame Melmotte wish to go?", "pos": 1631749}
{"speaker": "Marie", "text": "Anywhere, so that we could hide ourselves. Perhaps Frankfort would be the best. But shouldn't we stay till something has been done here? And couldn't we have lodgings, so as to get away from Mr. Longestaffe's house? And now, my lord, I suppose that I never shall see you again,", "pos": 1631791}
{"speaker": "Lord Nidderdale", "text": "I don't know why you should say that.", "pos": 1632181}
{"speaker": "Marie", "text": "Because it will be best. Why should you? All this will be trouble enough to you when people begin to say what we are. But I don't think it has been my fault.", "pos": 1632221}
{"speaker": "Lord Nidderdale", "text": "Nothing has ever been your fault.", "pos": 1632381}
{"speaker": "Marie", "text": "Good-bye, my lord. I shall always think of you as one of the kindest people I ever knew. I thought it best to send to you for different reasons, but I do not want you to come back.", "pos": 1632417}
{"speaker": "Lord Nidderdale", "text": "Good-bye, Marie. I shall always remember you.", "pos": 1632600}
{"speaker": "Herr Croll", "text": "And dere vas a leetle ting he lay himself open by de oder day, dat vas nasty,--very nasty. My lor, de money of de yong lady is all her own. Nobody can toch it, not if he vas in debt millions.", "pos": 1634022}
{"speaker": "Lord Nidderdale", "text": "I am very glad to hear it for her sake,", "pos": 1634597}
{"speaker": "John Crumb", "text": "She's a coomin; she's a coomin,", "pos": 1642666}
{"speaker": "Roger Carbury", "text": "I am delighted to hear it. She has made it up with her grandfather?", "pos": 1642866}
{"speaker": "John Crumb", "text": "Don't know now't about grandfeyther. She have made it up wi' me. Know'd she would when I'd polish'd t'other un off a bit;--know'd she would.", "pos": 1642950}
{"speaker": "Roger Carbury", "text": "Has she written to you, then?", "pos": 1643093}
{"speaker": "John Crumb", "text": "Well, squoire,--she ain't; not just herself. I do suppose that isn't the way they does it. But it's all as one.", "pos": 1643125}
{"speaker": "John Crumb", "text": "She is a lady, who do be living with Mrs. Pipkin; and she is a lady as is a lady. True, squoire! I ha' nae a doubt it's true. What's again its being true? When I had dropped into t'other fellow, of course she made her choice. It was me as was to blame, because I didn't do it before. I ought to ha' dropped into him when I first heard as he was arter her. It's that as girls like. So, squoire, I'm just going again to Lon'on right away.", "pos": 1643922}
{"speaker": "John Crumb", "text": "You ain't a'taken it amiss, squoire, 'cause he was coosin to yourself?", "pos": 1645479}
{"speaker": "Roger Carbury", "text": "Not in the least, Mr. Crumb.", "pos": 1645552}
{"speaker": "John Crumb", "text": "That's koind now. I ain't a done the yong man a ha'porth o' harm, and I don't feel no grudge again him, and when me and Ruby's once spliced, I'm darned if I don't give 'un a bottle of wine the first day as he'll come to Bungay. Oh, ay, we'll be 'appy, squoire,", "pos": 1645583}
{"speaker": "Paul Montague", "text": "MY DEAR ROGER,-- Though I know that you have cast me off from you I cannot write to you in any other way, as any other way would be untrue. You can answer me, of course, as you please, but I do think that you will owe me an answer, as I appeal to you in the name of justice. You know what has taken place between Hetta and myself. She had accepted me, and therefore I am justified in feeling sure that she must have loved me. But she has now quarrelled with me altogether, and has told me that I am never to see her again. Of course I don't mean to put up with this. Who would? You will say that it is no business of yours. But I think that you would not wish that she should be left under a false impression, if you could put her right. Somebody has told her the story of Mrs. Hurtle. I suppose it was Felix, and that he had learned it from those people at Islington. But she has been told that which is untrue. Nobody knows and nobody can know the truth as you do. She supposes that I have willingly been passing my time with Mrs. Hurtle during the last two months, although during that very time I have asked for and have received the assurance of her love. Now, whether or no I have been to blame about Mrs. Hurtle,--as to which nothing at present need be said,--it is certainly the truth that her coming to England was not only not desired by me, but was felt by me to be the greatest possible misfortune. But after all that had passed I certainly owed it to her not to neglect her;--and this duty was the more incumbent on me as she was a foreigner and unknown to any one. I went down to Lowestoft with her at her request, having named the place to her as one known to myself, and because I could not refuse her so small a favour. You know that it was so, and you know also, as no one else does, that whatever courtesy I have shown to Mrs. Hurtle in England, I have been constrained to show her. I appeal to you to let Hetta know that this is true. She had made me understand that not only her mother and brother, but you also, are well acquainted with the story of my acquaintance with Mrs. Hurtle. Neither Lady Carbury nor Sir Felix has ever known anything about it. You, and you only, have known the truth. And now, though at the present you are angry with me, I call upon you to tell Hetta the truth as you know it. You will understand me when I say that I feel that I am being destroyed by a false representation. I think that you, who abhor a falsehood, will see the justice of setting me right, at any rate as far as the truth can do so. I do not want you to say a word for me beyond that. Yours always. PAUL MONTAGUE.", "pos": 1646580}
{"speaker": "Roger Carbury", "text": "I do not know that I am concerned to meddle in your affairs at all. I have told no tale against you, and I do not know that I have any that I wish to tell in your favour, or that I could so tell if I did wish. I think that you have behaved badly to me, cruelly to Mrs. Hurtle, and disrespectfully to my cousin. Nevertheless, as you appeal to me on a certain point for evidence which I can give, and which you say no one else can give, I do acknowledge that, in my opinion, Mrs. Hurtle's presence in England has not been in accordance with your wishes, and that you accompanied her to Lowestoft, not as her lover but as an old friend whom you could not neglect. You are at liberty to show this letter to Miss Carbury, if you please; but if she reads part she should read the whole!", "pos": 1652481}
{"speaker": "Dolly Longestaffe", "text": "By George, you know, I shall have to go to law with the governor. There's nothing else for it; is there, Squercum?", "pos": 1660868}
{"speaker": "Squercum", "text": "They say that the things in the square, and the plate, and the carriages and horses, and all that, ought to fetch between twenty and thirty thousand. There were a lot of jewels, but the women have taken them,", "pos": 1661284}
{"speaker": "Dolly Longestaffe", "text": "By George, they ought to be made to give up everything. Did you ever hear of such a thing;--the very house pulled down;--my house; and all done without a word from me in the matter? I don't suppose such a thing was ever known before, since properties were properties.", "pos": 1661510}
{"speaker": "Mr. Longestaffe", "text": "Mr. Brehgert must of course have access to my private room, as long as it is necessary,--absolutely necessary, but he will of course see the expediency of relieving me from such intrusion as soon as possible.", "pos": 1662675}
{"speaker": "Mr. Longestaffe", "text": "I have suffered great wrongs, but I must submit to them, and as I submit so must my wife and children. If our son were different from what he is the sacrifice might probably be made lighter. His nature I cannot alter, but from my daughters I expect cheerful obedience.", "pos": 1664154}
{"speaker": "Brehgert", "text": "Of course there's a difference between me and you. In our affairs, we expect gains, and of course look for occasional losses. When a gentleman in your position sells a property he expects to get the purchase-money.", "pos": 1666367}
{"speaker": "Mr. Longestaffe", "text": "Of course he does, Mr. Brehgert. That's what made it so hard.", "pos": 1666727}
{"speaker": "Brehgert", "text": "I can't even yet quite understand how it was with him, or why he took upon himself to spend such an enormous deal of money here in London. His business was quite irregular, but there was very much of it, and some of it immensely profitable. He took us in completely.", "pos": 1666790}
{"speaker": "Mr. Longestaffe", "text": "I suppose so.", "pos": 1667059}
{"speaker": "Brehgert", "text": "It was old Mr. Todd that first took to him;--but I was deceived as much as Todd, and then I ventured on a speculation with him outside of our house. The long and the short of it is that I shall lose something about sixty thousand pounds.", "pos": 1667075}
{"speaker": "Mr. Longestaffe", "text": "That's a large sum of money.", "pos": 1667315}
{"speaker": "Brehgert", "text": "Very large;--so large as to affect my daily mode of life. In my correspondence with your daughter, I considered it to be my duty to point out to her that it would be so. I do not know whether she told you.", "pos": 1667346}
{"speaker": "Brehgert", "text": "It was so,", "pos": 1668087}
{"speaker": "Mr. Longestaffe", "text": "No doubt;", "pos": 1668115}
{"speaker": "Brehgert", "text": "Yes; it was so. I had promised your daughter when she was good enough to listen to the proposition which I made to her, that I would maintain a second house when we should be married.", "pos": 1668181}
{"speaker": "Mr. Longestaffe", "text": "It was impossible,", "pos": 1668367}
{"speaker": "Brehgert", "text": "It would have been quite possible as things were when that proposition was made. But looking forward to the loss which I afterwards anticipated from the affairs of our deceased friend, I found it to be prudent to relinquish my intention for the present, and I thought myself bound to inform Miss Longestaffe.", "pos": 1668500}
{"speaker": "Mr. Longestaffe", "text": "There were other reasons,", "pos": 1668811}
{"speaker": "Brehgert", "text": "There may have been; but in the last letter which Miss Longestaffe did me the honour to write to me,--a letter with which I have not the slightest right to find any fault,--she seemed to me to confine herself almost exclusively to that reason.", "pos": 1669013}
{"speaker": "Mr. Longestaffe", "text": "Why mention this now, Mr. Brehgert; why mention this now? The subject is painful.", "pos": 1669259}
{"speaker": "Brehgert", "text": "Just because it is not painful to me, Mr. Longestaffe; and because I wish that all they who have heard of the matter should know that it is not painful. I think that throughout I behaved like a gentleman. I am sure, that I behaved like an honest man; and I didn't quite like that the matter should be passed over as if I was in any way ashamed of myself.", "pos": 1669343}
{"speaker": "Mr. Longestaffe", "text": "Perhaps on so delicate a subject the less said the soonest mended.", "pos": 1669885}
{"speaker": "Brehgert", "text": "I've nothing more to say, and I've nothing at all to mend.", "pos": 1669954}
{"speaker": "Mr. Alf", "text": "The Emperor has left Europe at last. Poor Melmotte poisoned himself on Friday, and the inquest sat yesterday. I don't know that there is anything of interest to-day.", "pos": 1678337}
{"speaker": "Lady Carbury", "text": "I am so tired,", "pos": 1679227}
{"speaker": "Mr. Alf", "text": "I hope I am not adding to your fatigue,", "pos": 1679330}
{"speaker": "Lady Carbury", "text": "Oh dear no. It is not the fatigue of the moment, but of the last six months. Just as you knocked at the door, I had finished the novel at which I have been working, oh, with such diligence!", "pos": 1679386}
{"speaker": "Mr. Alf", "text": "Oh,--a novel! When is it to appear, Lady Carbury?", "pos": 1679578}
{"speaker": "Lady Carbury", "text": "You must ask Leadham and Loiter that question. I have done my part of the work. I suppose you never wrote a novel, Mr. Alf?", "pos": 1679630}
{"speaker": "Mr. Alf", "text": "I? Oh dear no; I never write anything.", "pos": 1679756}
{"speaker": "Lady Carbury", "text": "I have sometimes wondered whether I have hated or loved it the most. One becomes so absorbed in one's plot and one's characters! One loves the loveable so intensely, and hates with such fixed aversion those who are intended to be hated. When the mind is attuned to it, one is tempted to think that it is all so good. One cries at one's own pathos, laughs at one's own humour, and is lost in admiration at one's own sagacity and knowledge.", "pos": 1679797}
{"speaker": "Mr. Alf", "text": "How very nice!", "pos": 1680238}
{"speaker": "Lady Carbury", "text": "But then there comes the reversed picture, the other side of the coin. On a sudden everything becomes flat, tedious, and unnatural. The heroine who was yesterday alive with the celestial spark is found to-day to be a lump of motionless clay. The dialogue that was so cheery on the first perusal is utterly uninteresting at a second reading. Yesterday I was sure that there was my monument, to-day I feel it to be only too heavy for a gravestone!", "pos": 1680255}
{"speaker": "Mr. Alf", "text": "One's judgment about one's-self always does vacillate,", "pos": 1680747}
{"speaker": "Lady Carbury", "text": "And yet it is so important that one should be able to judge correctly of one's own work! I can at any rate trust myself to be honest, which is more perhaps than can be said of all the critics.", "pos": 1680860}
{"speaker": "Mr. Alf", "text": "Dishonesty is not the general fault of the critics, Lady Carbury,--at least not as far as I have observed the business. It is incapacity. In what little I have done in the matter, that is the sin which I have striven to conquer. When we want shoes we go to a professed shoemaker; but for criticism we have certainly not gone to professed critics. I think that when I gave up the 'Evening Pulpit,' I left upon it a staff of writers who are entitled to be regarded as knowing their business.", "pos": 1681055}
{"speaker": "Lady Carbury", "text": "You given up the 'Pulpit'?", "pos": 1681547}
{"speaker": "Mr. Alf", "text": "Yes, Lady Carbury, I have given it up. It was a matter of course that I should do so when I stood for Parliament. Now that the new member has so suddenly vacated his seat, I shall probably stand again.", "pos": 1682111}
{"speaker": "Lady Carbury", "text": "And you are no longer an editor?", "pos": 1682315}
{"speaker": "Mr. Alf", "text": "I have given it up, and I suppose I have now satisfied the scruples of those gentlemen who seemed to think that I was committing a crime against the Constitution in attempting to get into Parliament while I was managing a newspaper. I never heard such nonsense. Of course I know where it came from.", "pos": 1682350}
{"speaker": "Lady Carbury", "text": "Where did it come from?", "pos": 1682651}
{"speaker": "Mr. Alf", "text": "Where should it come from but the 'Breakfast Table'? Broune and I have been very good friends, but I do think that of all the men I know he is the most jealous.", "pos": 1682677}
{"speaker": "Lady Carbury", "text": "That is so little,", "pos": 1682840}
{"speaker": "Mr. Alf", "text": "It seems to me that no man can be better qualified to sit in Parliament than an editor of a newspaper,--that is if he is capable as an editor.", "pos": 1682981}
{"speaker": "Lady Carbury", "text": "No one, I think, has ever doubted that of you.", "pos": 1683126}
{"speaker": "Mr. Alf", "text": "The only question is whether he be strong enough for the double work. I have doubted about myself, and have therefore given up the paper. I almost regret it.", "pos": 1683175}
{"speaker": "Lady Carbury", "text": "I dare say you do. I suppose you still retain an interest in the paper?", "pos": 1683335}
{"speaker": "Mr. Alf", "text": "Some pecuniary interest;--nothing more.", "pos": 1683502}
{"speaker": "Lady Carbury", "text": "Oh, Mr. Alf,--you could do me such a favour!", "pos": 1683544}
{"speaker": "Mr. Alf", "text": "Can I? If I can, you may be sure I will.", "pos": 1683591}
{"speaker": "Lady Carbury", "text": "Will you? I never asked you to do anything for me as long as you were editing the paper. Did I? I did not think it right, and I would not do it. I took my chance like others, and I am sure you must own that I bore what was said of me with a good grace. I never complained. Did I?", "pos": 1683826}
{"speaker": "Mr. Alf", "text": "Certainly not.", "pos": 1684199}
{"speaker": "Lady Carbury", "text": "But now that you have left it yourself,--if you would have the 'Wheel of Fortune' done for me,--really well done! The 'Wheel of Fortune'! That is the name of my novel. Just at this moment it would be the making of a fortune for me! And, oh, Mr. Alf, if you could but know how I want such assistance!", "pos": 1684216}
{"speaker": "Mr. Alf", "text": "I have nothing further to do with the editorial management, Lady Carbury.", "pos": 1684587}
{"speaker": "Lady Carbury", "text": "Of course you could get it done. A word from you would make it certain. A novel is different from an historical work, you know. I have taken so much pains with it.", "pos": 1684663}
{"speaker": "Mr. Alf", "text": "Then no doubt it will be praised on its own merits.", "pos": 1684829}
{"speaker": "Lady Carbury", "text": "Don't say that, Mr. Alf. The 'Evening Pulpit' is like,--oh, it is like,--like,--like the throne of heaven! Who can be justified before it? Don't talk about its own merits, but say that you will have it done. It couldn't do any man any harm, and it would sell five hundred copies at once,--that is if it were done really con amore. The paper stands so high, it can't hurt it to do that kind of thing once. A woman is asking you, Mr. Alf. It is for my children that I am struggling. The thing is done every day of the week, with much less noble motives.", "pos": 1684883}
{"speaker": "Mr. Alf", "text": "I do not think that it has ever been done by the 'Evening Pulpit.'", "pos": 1685499}
{"speaker": "Lady Carbury", "text": "I have seen books praised.", "pos": 1685568}
{"speaker": "Mr. Alf", "text": "Of course you have.", "pos": 1685597}
{"speaker": "Lady Carbury", "text": "I think I saw a novel spoken highly of.", "pos": 1685619}
{"speaker": "Mr. Alf", "text": "Why not? You do not suppose that it is the object of the 'Pulpit' to cry down novels?", "pos": 1685678}
{"speaker": "Lady Carbury", "text": "I thought it was; but I thought you might make an exception here. I would be so thankful;--so grateful.", "pos": 1685766}
{"speaker": "Mr. Alf", "text": "My dear Lady Carbury, pray believe me when I say that I have nothing to do with it. I need not preach to you sermons about literary virtue.", "pos": 1685872}
{"speaker": "Lady Carbury", "text": "Oh, no,", "pos": 1686014}
{"speaker": "Mr. Alf", "text": "The sceptre has passed from my hands, and I need not vindicate the justice of my successor.", "pos": 1686073}
{"speaker": "Lady Carbury", "text": "I shall never know your successor.", "pos": 1686167}
{"speaker": "Mr. Alf", "text": "But I must assure you that on no account should I think of meddling with the literary arrangement of the paper. I would not do it for my sister. Send the book out, and let it take its chance. How much prouder you will be to have it praised because it deserves praise, than to know that it has been eulogised as a mark of friendship.", "pos": 1686204}
{"speaker": "Lady Carbury", "text": "No, I shan't. I don't believe that anything like real selling praise is ever given to anybody, except to friends. I don't know how they manage it, but they do. Oh yes; that is all very well from you. Of course you have been a dragon of virtue; but they tell me that the authoress of the 'New Cleopatra' is a very handsome woman.", "pos": 1686577}
{"speaker": "Mr. Alf", "text": "At this moment I do not remember the name of the lady to whom you allude, and I am quite sure that the gentleman who reviewed the book,--if there be any such lady and any such book,--had never seen her!", "pos": 1687238}
{"speaker": "Lady Carbury", "text": "Will it be safe there?", "pos": 1689954}
{"speaker": "Mr. Leadham", "text": "Quite safe,--quite safe,", "pos": 1689999}
{"speaker": "Lady Carbury", "text": "It seemed to be,--put down there,--under the counter!", "pos": 1690185}
{"speaker": "Mr. Leadham", "text": "That's quite right, Lady Carbury. They're left there till they're packed.", "pos": 1690241}
{"speaker": "Lady Carbury", "text": "Packed!", "pos": 1690317}
{"speaker": "Mr. Leadham", "text": "There are two or three dozen going to our reader this week. He's down in Skye, and we keep them till there's enough to fill the sack.", "pos": 1690327}
{"speaker": "Lady Carbury", "text": "Do they go by post, Mr. Leadham?", "pos": 1690463}
{"speaker": "Mr. Leadham", "text": "Not by post, Lady Carbury. There are not many of them would pay the expense. We send them by long sea to Glasgow, because just at this time of the year there is not much hurry. We can't publish before the winter.", "pos": 1690498}
{"speaker": "Lady Carbury", "text": "So he has given up the paper?", "pos": 1691951}
{"speaker": "Mr. Broune", "text": "Well, yes;--nominally.", "pos": 1691983}
{"speaker": "Lady Carbury", "text": "Is that all?", "pos": 1692008}
{"speaker": "Mr. Broune", "text": "I don't suppose he'll really let it go out of his own hands. Nobody likes to lose power. He'll share the work, and keep the authority. As for Westminster, I don't believe he has a chance. If that poor wretch Melmotte could beat him when everybody was already talking about the forgeries, how is it likely that he should stand against such a candidate as they'll get now?", "pos": 1692023}
{"speaker": "Lady Carbury", "text": "He was here yesterday.", "pos": 1692396}
{"speaker": "Mr. Broune", "text": "And full of triumph, I suppose?", "pos": 1692421}
{"speaker": "Lady Carbury", "text": "He never talks to me much of himself. We were speaking of my new book,--my novel. He assured me most positively that he had nothing further to do with the paper.", "pos": 1692455}
{"speaker": "Mr. Broune", "text": "He did not care to make you a promise, I dare say.", "pos": 1692619}
{"speaker": "Lady Carbury", "text": "That was just it. Of course I did not believe him.", "pos": 1692672}
{"speaker": "Mr. Broune", "text": "Neither will I make a promise, but we'll see what we can do. If we can't be good-natured, at any rate we will say nothing ill-natured. Let me see,--what is the name?", "pos": 1692725}
{"speaker": "Lady Carbury", "text": "The Wheel of Fortune.", "pos": 1692894}
{"speaker": "Mr. Broune", "text": "Let them send it early,--a day or two before it's out, if they can. I can't answer, of course, for the opinion of the gentleman it will go to, but nothing shall go in that you would dislike. Good-bye. God bless you.", "pos": 1693023}
{"speaker": "Hetta Carbury", "text": "MADAM,--", "pos": 1699579}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Pipkin", "text": "That letter was from Mr. Montague?", "pos": 1704688}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Hurtle", "text": "How can you know that?", "pos": 1704785}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Pipkin", "text": "I'm sure it was. One does get to know handwritings when letters come frequent.", "pos": 1704810}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Hurtle", "text": "It was from him. And why not?", "pos": 1704891}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Pipkin", "text": "Oh dear no;--why not certainly? I wish he'd write every day of his life, so that things would come round again. Nothing ever troubles me so much as broken love. Why don't he come again himself, Mrs. Hurtle?", "pos": 1704923}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Hurtle", "text": "It is not at all likely that he should come again. It is all over, and there is no good in talking of it. I shall return to New York on Saturday week.", "pos": 1705132}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Pipkin", "text": "Oh, Mrs. Hurtle!", "pos": 1705285}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Hurtle", "text": "I can't remain here, you know, all my life doing nothing. I came over here for a certain purpose, and that has--gone by. Now I may just go back again.", "pos": 1705304}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Pipkin", "text": "I know he has ill-treated you. I know he has.", "pos": 1705457}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Hurtle", "text": "I am not disposed to talk about it, Mrs. Pipkin.", "pos": 1705505}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Pipkin", "text": "I should have thought it would have done you good to speak your mind out free. I know it would me if I'd been served in that way.", "pos": 1705556}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Hurtle", "text": "If I had anything to say at all after that fashion it would be to the gentleman, and not to any other else. As it is I shall never speak of it again to any one. You have been very kind to me, Mrs. Pipkin, and I shall be sorry to leave you.", "pos": 1705688}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Pipkin", "text": "Oh, Mrs. Hurtle, you can't understand what it is to me. It isn't only my feelings. The likes of me can't stand by their feelings only, as their betters do. I've never been above telling you what a godsend you've been to me this summer;--have I? I've paid everything, butcher, baker, rates and all, just like clockwork. And now you're going away!", "pos": 1705930}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Hurtle", "text": "I suppose I shall see Mr. Crumb before I go,", "pos": 1706309}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Pipkin", "text": "She don't deserve it; do she? And even now she never says a word about him that I call respectful. She looks on him as just being better than Mrs. Buggins's children. That's all.", "pos": 1706374}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Hurtle", "text": "She'll be all right when he has once got her home.", "pos": 1706555}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Pipkin", "text": "And I shall be all alone by myself,", "pos": 1706608}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Hurtle", "text": "DEAR MISS CARBURY,-- If you could make it convenient to yourself to call here either Thursday or Friday at any hour between two and four, I shall be very happy to see you. Yours sincerely, WINIFRID HURTLE.", "pos": 1709225}
{"speaker": "Lady Carbury", "text": "Hetta,", "pos": 1709567}
{"speaker": "Lady Carbury", "text": "why don't you speak to me?", "pos": 1711843}
{"speaker": "Lady Carbury", "text": "Hetta, why don't you speak to me?", "pos": 1712381}
{"speaker": "Hetta", "text": "Because, mamma, there is nothing we can talk about without making each other unhappy.", "pos": 1712436}
{"speaker": "Lady Carbury", "text": "What a dreadful thing to say! Is there no subject in the world to interest you except that wretched young man?", "pos": 1712524}
{"speaker": "Hetta", "text": "None other at all,", "pos": 1712637}
{"speaker": "Lady Carbury", "text": "What folly it is,--I will not say only to speak like that, but to allow yourself to entertain such thoughts!", "pos": 1712682}
{"speaker": "Hetta", "text": "How am I to control my thoughts? Do you think, mamma, that after I had owned to you that I loved a man,--after I had owned it to him and, worst of all, to myself,--I could have myself separated from him, and then not think about it? It is a cloud upon everything. It is as though I had lost my eyesight and my speech. It is as it would be to you if Felix were to die. It crushes me.", "pos": 1712793}
{"speaker": "Lady Carbury", "text": "You are ignorant of the world, Hetta,", "pos": 1713429}
{"speaker": "Hetta", "text": "I am having a lesson in it now, at any rate.", "pos": 1713479}
{"speaker": "Lady Carbury", "text": "Do you think it is worse than others have suffered before you? In what little you see around you do you think that girls are generally able to marry the men upon whom they set their hearts? Marie Melmotte was as warmly attached to your brother as you can be to Mr. Montague.", "pos": 1713526}
{"speaker": "Hetta", "text": "Marie Melmotte!", "pos": 1713851}
{"speaker": "Lady Carbury", "text": "She thinks as much of her feelings as you do of yours. The truth is you are indulging a dream. You must wake from it, and shake yourself, and find out that you, like others, have got to do the best you can for yourself in order that you may live. The world at large has to eat dry bread, and cannot get cakes and sweetmeats. A girl, when she thinks of giving herself to a husband, has to remember this. If she has a fortune of her own she can pick and choose, but if she have none she must allow herself to be chosen.", "pos": 1713869}
{"speaker": "Hetta", "text": "Then a girl is to marry without stopping even to think whether she likes the man or not?", "pos": 1714389}
{"speaker": "Lady Carbury", "text": "She should teach herself to like the man, if the marriage be suitable. I would not have you take a vicious man because he was rich, or one known to be cruel and imperious. Your cousin Roger, you know--", "pos": 1714480}
{"speaker": "Hetta", "text": "Mamma, you may as well believe me. No earthly inducement shall ever make me marry my cousin Roger. It is to me horrible that you should propose it to me when you know that I love that other man with my whole heart.", "pos": 1714684}
{"speaker": "Lady Carbury", "text": "How can you speak so of one who has treated you with the utmost contumely?", "pos": 1714941}
{"speaker": "Hetta", "text": "I know nothing of any contumely. What reason have I to be offended because he has liked a woman whom he knew before he ever saw me? It has been unfortunate, wretched, miserable; but I do not know that I have any right whatever to be angry with Mr. Paul Montague.", "pos": 1715018}
{"speaker": "Ruby", "text": "Oh laws,--Miss Carbury! Yes;--sure enough she must be Felix's sister.", "pos": 1716882}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Hurtle", "text": "Miss Carbury. I need not tell you how interested I am in seeing you. May I not ask you to lay aside your veil, so that we may look at each other fairly?", "pos": 1718219}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Hurtle", "text": "And so you have come to see me. Sit down so that I may look at you. I am glad that you have come to see me, Miss Carbury.", "pos": 1719045}
{"speaker": "Hetta", "text": "I am glad at any rate that you are not angry.", "pos": 1719188}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Hurtle", "text": "Why should I be angry? Had the idea been distasteful to me I should have declined. I know not why, but it is a sort of pleasure to me to see you. It is a poor time we women have,--is it not,--in becoming playthings to men? So this Lothario that was once mine, is behaving badly to you also. Is it so? He is no longer mine, and you may ask me freely for aid, if there be any that I can give you. If he were an American I should say that he had behaved badly to me;--but as he is an Englishman perhaps it is different. Now tell me;--what can I do, or what can I say?", "pos": 1719236}
{"speaker": "Hetta", "text": "He told me that you could tell me the truth.", "pos": 1719803}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Hurtle", "text": "What truth? I will certainly tell you nothing that is not true. You have quarrelled with him too. Is it not so?", "pos": 1719850}
{"speaker": "Hetta", "text": "Certainly I have quarrelled with him.", "pos": 1719964}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I am not curious;--but perhaps you had better tell me of that. I know him so well that I can guess that he should give offence. He can be full of youthful ardour one day, and cautious as old age itself the next. But I do not suppose that there has been need for such caution with you. What is it, Miss Carbury?", "pos": 1720004}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Hurtle", "text": "I had never heard your name when he first asked me to be his wife. Because,--oh, because--. Surely he ought, if it is true that he had once promised to marry you.", "pos": 1720401}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "That certainly is true.", "pos": 1720630}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Hurtle", "text": "That there was such a woman as Winifrid Hurtle interfering with him. Then you heard it by chance, and you were offended. Was it not so?", "pos": 1720787}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "And now he tells me that I have been unjust to him and he bids me ask you. I have not been unjust.", "pos": 1720925}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Hurtle", "text": "I am not so sure of that. Shall I tell you what I think? I think that he has been unjust to me, and that therefore your injustice to him is no more than his due. I cannot plead for him, Miss Carbury. To me he has been the last and worst of a long series of, I think, undeserved misfortune. But whether you will avenge my wrongs must be for you to decide. Because I asked him,--and because, like many men, he cannot be ill-natured although he can be cruel. He would have given a hand not to have gone, but he could not say me nay. As you have come here, Miss Carbury, you may as well know the truth. He did love me, but he had been talked out of his love by my enemies and his own friends long before he had ever seen you. I am almost ashamed to tell you my own part of the story, and yet I know not why I should be ashamed. I followed him here to England--because I loved him. I came after him, as perhaps a woman should not do, because I was true of heart. He had told me that he did not want me;--but I wanted to be wanted, and I hoped that I might lure him back to his troth. I have utterly failed, and I must return to my own country,--I will not say a broken-hearted woman, for I will not admit of such a condition,--but a creature with a broken spirit. He has misused me foully, and I have simply forgiven him; not because I am a Christian, but because I am not strong enough to punish one that I still love. I could not put a dagger into him,--or I would; or a bullet,--or I would. He has reduced me to a nothing by his falseness, and yet I cannot injure him! I, who have sworn to myself that no man should ever lay a finger on me in scorn without feeling my wrath in return, I cannot punish him. But if you choose to do so it is not for me to set you against such an act of justice.", "pos": 1721026}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "You have been very kind,", "pos": 1724342}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Hurtle", "text": "It is well that there should be some kindness where there has been so much that is unkind. Forgive me, Miss Carbury, if I speak plainly to you. Of course you will go back to him. Of course you will be his wife. You have told me that you love him dearly, as plainly as I have told you the same story of myself. Your coming here would of itself have declared it, even if I did not see your satisfaction at my account of his treachery to me.", "pos": 1724458}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Oh, Mrs. Hurtle, do not say that of me!", "pos": 1724899}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Hurtle", "text": "But it is true, and I do not in the least quarrel with you on that account. He has preferred you to me, and as far as I am concerned there is an end of it. You are a girl, whereas I am a woman,--and he likes your youth. I have undergone the cruel roughness of the world, which has not as yet touched you; and therefore you are softer to the touch. I do not know that you are very superior in other attractions; but that has sufficed, and you are the victor. I am strong enough to acknowledge that I have nothing to forgive in you;--and am weak enough to forgive all his treachery. so that I may know what his wife was like. In a few days I shall return to the States, and then neither of you will ever be troubled further by Winifrid Hurtle. Tell him that if he will come and see me once before I go, I will not be more unkind to him than I can help.", "pos": 1724941}
{"speaker": "Hetta", "text": "Hetta, wherever have you been? Mamma,", "pos": 1728229}
{"speaker": "Lady Carbury", "text": "Hetta, you must do nothing of the kind,", "pos": 1728380}
{"speaker": "Hetta", "text": "Yes, mamma. I have been unjust, and I must do so.", "pos": 1728463}
{"speaker": "Lady Carbury", "text": "It will be asking him to come back to you.", "pos": 1728515}
{"speaker": "Hetta", "text": "Yes, mamma:--that is what I mean. I shall tell him that if he will come, I will receive him. I know he will come. Oh, mamma, let us be friends, and I will tell you everything. Why should you grudge me my love?", "pos": 1728560}
{"speaker": "Lady Carbury", "text": "You have sent him back his brooch,", "pos": 1728772}
{"speaker": "Hetta", "text": "He shall give it me again. Hear what I have done. I have seen that American lady.", "pos": 1728837}
{"speaker": "Lady Carbury", "text": "Mrs. Hurtle!", "pos": 1728921}
{"speaker": "Hetta", "text": "Yes;--I have been to her. She is a wonderful woman.", "pos": 1728936}
{"speaker": "Lady Carbury", "text": "And she has told you wonderful lies.", "pos": 1728990}
{"speaker": "Hetta", "text": "Why should she lie to me? She has told me no lies. She said nothing in his favour.", "pos": 1729029}
{"speaker": "Lady Carbury", "text": "I can well believe that. What can any one say in his favour?", "pos": 1729114}
{"speaker": "Hetta", "text": "But she told me that which has assured me that Mr. Montague has never behaved badly to me. I shall write to him at once. If you like I will show you the letter.", "pos": 1729177}
{"speaker": "Lady Carbury", "text": "Any letter to him, I will tear,", "pos": 1729340}
{"speaker": "Hetta", "text": "Mamma, I have told you everything, but in this I must judge for myself.", "pos": 1729408}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "This is a terrible business,", "pos": 1731030}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "He was the last man I'd have thought would be cut up in that way.", "pos": 1731142}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "He was utterly ruined.", "pos": 1731210}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "He wouldn't have been ruined,--and couldn't have thought so if he'd known all he ought to have known. The South Central would have pulled him through a'most anything if he'd have understood how to play it.", "pos": 1731235}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "We don't think much of the South Central here now,", "pos": 1731443}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Ah;--that's because you've never above half spirit enough for a big thing. You nibble at it instead of swallowing it whole,--and then, of course, folks see that you're only nibbling. I thought that Melmotte would have had spirit.", "pos": 1731507}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "There is, I fear, no doubt that he had committed forgery. It was the dread of detection as to that which drove him to destroy himself.", "pos": 1731739}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I call it dam clumsy from beginning to end;--dam clumsy. I took him to be a different man, and I feel more than half ashamed of myself because I trusted such a fellow. That chap Cohenlupe has got off with a lot of swag. Only think of Melmotte allowing Cohenlupe to get the better of him!", "pos": 1731876}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I suppose the thing will be broken up now at San Francisco,", "pos": 1732166}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Bu'st up at Frisco! Not if I know it. Why should it be bu'st up? D'you think we're all going to smash there because a fool like Melmotte blows his brains out in London?", "pos": 1732244}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "He took poison.", "pos": 1732415}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Or p'ison either. That's not just our way. I'll tell you what I'm going to do; and why I'm over here so uncommon sharp. These shares are at a'most nothing now in London. I'll buy every share in the market. I wired for as many as I dar'd, so as not to spoil our own game, and I'll make a clean sweep of every one of them. Bu'st up! I'm sorry for him because I thought him a biggish man;--but what he's done 'll just be the making of us over there. Will you get out of it, or will you come back to Frisco with me?", "pos": 1732433}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "And now what about Winifrid Hurtle?", "pos": 1734376}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "What makes you ask? She's in London.", "pos": 1734428}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Oh yes, I know she's in London, and Hurtle's at Frisco, swearing that he'll come after her. He would, only he hasn't got the dollars.", "pos": 1734467}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "He's not dead then?", "pos": 1734603}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "Dead!--no, nor likely to die. She'll have a bad time of it with him yet.", "pos": 1734640}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "But she divorced him.", "pos": 1734715}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "She got a Kansas lawyer to say so, and he's got a Frisco lawyer to say that there's nothing of the kind. She hasn't played her game badly neither, for she's had the handling of her own money, and has put it so that he can't get hold of a dollar. Even if it suited other ways, you know, I wouldn't marry her myself till I saw my way clearer out of the wood.", "pos": 1734739}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "I'm not thinking of marrying her,--if you mean that.", "pos": 1735098}
{"speaker": "Unknown", "text": "There was a talk about it in Frisco;--that's all. And I have heard Hurtle say when he was a little farther gone than usual that she was here with you, and that he meant to drop in on you some of these days.", "pos": 1735153}
{"speaker": "Lord Alfred", "text": "I should just go, because I'd taken a salary from the d---- Company, but when there I wouldn't say a word.", "pos": 1736477}
{"speaker": "Marie", "text": "I used to sign a paper every quarter,", "pos": 1741142}
{"speaker": "Mr. Fisker", "text": "You'll have to do the same now, only instead of giving the paper to any one you'll have to leave it in a banker's hands to draw the money for yourself.", "pos": 1741274}
{"speaker": "Marie", "text": "And can that be done over in California?", "pos": 1741428}
{"speaker": "Mr. Fisker", "text": "Just the same as here. Your bankers will manage it all for you without the slightest trouble. For the matter of that I'll do it, if you'll trust me. There's only one thing against it all, Miss Melmotte.", "pos": 1741471}
{"speaker": "Marie", "text": "And what's that?", "pos": 1741676}
{"speaker": "Mr. Fisker", "text": "After the sort of society you've been used to here, I don't know how you'll get on among us Americans. We're a pretty rough lot, I guess. Though, perhaps, what you lose in the look of the fruit, you'll make up in the flavour.", "pos": 1741695}
{"speaker": "Marie", "text": "I hate swells,", "pos": 1742133}
{"speaker": "Mr. Fisker", "text": "Do you now?", "pos": 1742187}
{"speaker": "Marie", "text": "Like poison. What's the use of 'em? They never mean a word that they say,--and they don't say so many words either. They're never more than half awake, and don't care the least about anybody. I hate London.", "pos": 1742201}
{"speaker": "Mr. Fisker", "text": "Do you now?", "pos": 1742410}
{"speaker": "Marie", "text": "Oh, don't I?", "pos": 1742424}
{"speaker": "Mr. Fisker", "text": "I wonder whether you'd hate Frisco?", "pos": 1742439}
{"speaker": "Marie", "text": "I rather think it would be a jolly sort of place.", "pos": 1742477}
{"speaker": "Mr. Fisker", "text": "Very jolly I find it. And I wonder whether you'd hate--me?", "pos": 1742529}
{"speaker": "Marie", "text": "Mr. Fisker, that's nonsense. Why should I hate anybody?", "pos": 1742590}
{"speaker": "Mr. Fisker", "text": "But you do. I've found out one or two that you don't love. If you do come to Frisco, I hope you won't just hate me, you know. I don't think much of you as a book-keeper, you know,", "pos": 1742648}
{"speaker": "Lord Nidderdale", "text": "Dear Mr. Fisker,--I really don't know anything about it. Yours, Nidderdale.", "pos": 1743980}
{"speaker": "Mr. Fisker", "text": "Upon my word, it's astonishing to me that Melmotte should have put up with this kind of thing. I suppose you understand something of business, Mr. Croll?", "pos": 1744277}
{"speaker": "Croll", "text": "It vas not my department, Mr. Fisker,", "pos": 1744453}
{"speaker": "Mr. Fisker", "text": "Nor anybody else's either. Of course it's on the cards, Mr. Grendall, that we shall have to put you into a witness-box, because there are certain things we must get at.", "pos": 1744510}
{"speaker": "Dolly Longestaffe", "text": "I shall just make Squercum allow me so much a month, and I shall have all the bills and that kind of thing sent to him, and he will do everything, and pull me up if I'm getting wrong. I like Squercum.", "pos": 1746366}
{"speaker": "Lord Nidderdale", "text": "Won't he rob you, old fellow?", "pos": 1746569}
{"speaker": "Dolly Longestaffe", "text": "Of course he will;--but he won't let any one else do it. One has to be plucked, but it's everything to have it done on a system. If he'll only let me have ten shillings out of every sovereign I think I can get along.", "pos": 1746623}
{"speaker": "Mr. Fisker", "text": "You'll get as much there as in London, if you like to part with them; and nobody 'll say anything about it there. You couldn't sell a locket or a chain here without all the world talking about it.", "pos": 1747863}
{"speaker": "Madame Melmotte", "text": "I shall do whatever he tells me. I'm sure I've nothing to keep me here in this country.", "pos": 1748704}
{"speaker": "Marie", "text": "I'm willing to go. I don't want to stay in London.", "pos": 1748815}
{"speaker": "Madame Melmotte", "text": "I suppose you'll take him if he asks you?", "pos": 1748882}
{"speaker": "Marie", "text": "I don't know anything about that. A man may be very well without one's wanting to marry him. I don't think I'll marry anybody. What's the use? It's only money. Nobody cares for anything else. Fisker's all very well; but he only wants the money. Do you think Fisker'd ask me to marry him if I hadn't got anything? Not he! He ain't slow enough for that.", "pos": 1748926}
{"speaker": "Madame Melmotte", "text": "I think he's a very nice young man,", "pos": 1749294}
{"speaker": "Hetta", "text": "Oh, Roger, I am so glad to see you,", "pos": 1759403}
{"speaker": "Roger Carbury", "text": "I could not write an answer, and so I came.", "pos": 1759482}
{"speaker": "Hetta", "text": "You always do the kindest thing that can be done.", "pos": 1759528}
{"speaker": "Roger Carbury", "text": "I don't know. I don't know that I can do anything now,--kind or unkind. It is all done without any aid from me. Hetta, you have been all the world to me.", "pos": 1759580}
{"speaker": "Hetta", "text": "Do not reproach me,", "pos": 1759736}
{"speaker": "Roger Carbury", "text": "No;--no. Why should I reproach you? You have committed no fault. I should not have come had I intended to reproach any one.", "pos": 1759768}
{"speaker": "Hetta", "text": "I love you so much for saying that.", "pos": 1759894}
{"speaker": "Roger Carbury", "text": "Let it be as you wish it,--if it must. I have made up my mind to bear it, and there shall be an end of it. And still you will be all the world to me. As you will not be my wife, you shall be my daughter.", "pos": 1759932}
{"speaker": "Hetta", "text": "I will be your sister, Roger.", "pos": 1760285}
{"speaker": "Roger Carbury", "text": "My daughter rather. You shall be all that I have in the world. I will hurry to grow old that I may feel for you as the old feel for the young. And if you have a child, Hetta, he must be my child. I have planned it all out in my mind, dear. There! If there be anything that I can do to add to your happiness, I will do it. You must believe this of me,--that to make you happy shall be the only enjoyment of my life.", "pos": 1760317}
{"speaker": "Hetta", "text": "Have you seen him?", "pos": 1761177}
{"speaker": "Roger Carbury", "text": "Seen whom?", "pos": 1761221}
{"speaker": "Hetta", "text": "Mr. Montague.", "pos": 1761234}
{"speaker": "Roger Carbury", "text": "No;--why should I have seen him? It is not for his sake that I am here.", "pos": 1761250}
{"speaker": "Hetta", "text": "But you will be his friend?", "pos": 1761324}
{"speaker": "Roger Carbury", "text": "Your husband shall certainly be my friend;--or, if not, the fault shall not be mine. It shall all be forgotten, Hetta,--as nearly as such things may be forgotten. But I had nothing to say to him till I had seen you. I have come up, to signify my adhesion to this marriage. I need not speak again of what were my own wishes. I have learned at last that it could not have been so.", "pos": 1761354}
{"speaker": "Lady Carbury", "text": "Why should you say so?", "pos": 1761944}
{"speaker": "Hetta", "text": "Pray, pray, mamma--,", "pos": 1761993}
{"speaker": "Lady Carbury", "text": "I do not know that it need be so at all. I think it is very much in your own hands. Of course it is not for me to press such an arrangement, if it be not in accord with your own wishes.", "pos": 1762095}
{"speaker": "Roger Carbury", "text": "I look upon her as engaged to marry Paul Montague,", "pos": 1762309}
{"speaker": "Lady Carbury", "text": "Not at all,", "pos": 1762374}
{"speaker": "Hetta", "text": "Yes; mamma,--yes. It is so. I am engaged to him.", "pos": 1762407}
{"speaker": "Lady Carbury", "text": "I beg to let your cousin know that it is not so with my consent,--nor, as far as I can understand at present, with the consent of Mr. Montague himself.", "pos": 1762480}
{"speaker": "Hetta", "text": "Mamma!", "pos": 1762634}
{"speaker": "Roger Carbury", "text": "Paul Montague! The consent of Paul Montague! I think I may take upon myself to say that there can be no doubt as to that.", "pos": 1762643}
{"speaker": "Lady Carbury", "text": "There has been a quarrel,", "pos": 1762795}
{"speaker": "Roger Carbury", "text": "Surely he has not quarrelled with you, Hetta?", "pos": 1762842}
{"speaker": "Hetta", "text": "I wrote to him,--and he has not answered me,", "pos": 1762890}
{"speaker": "Lady Carbury", "text": "The marriage is on every account objectionable. His means are precarious. His conduct with regard to that woman has been very bad. He has been sadly mixed up with that wretched man who destroyed himself. And now, when Henrietta has written to him without my sanction,--in opposition to my express commands,--he takes no notice of her. She, very properly, sent him back a present that he made her, and no doubt he has resented her doing so. I trust that his resentment may be continued.", "pos": 1763090}
{"speaker": "Roger Carbury", "text": "I think I had better see him. If, as I imagine, he has not received my cousin's letter, that matter will be set at rest. We must not take advantage of such an accident as that. As to his income,--that I think may be managed. His connection with Mr. Melmotte was unfortunate, but was due to no fault of his. I will see him, Lady Carbury, and then I will come to you again.", "pos": 1763838}
{"speaker": "Paul Montague", "text": "I don't know what letter you mean,", "pos": 1765024}
{"speaker": "Roger Carbury", "text": "You wrote to her?", "pos": 1765072}
{"speaker": "Paul Montague", "text": "Certainly I wrote to her. I wrote to her twice. My last letter was one which I think she ought to have answered. She had accepted me, and had given me a right to tell my own story when she unfortunately heard from other sources the story of my journey to Lowestoft with Mrs. Hurtle.", "pos": 1765092}
{"speaker": "Roger Carbury", "text": "She did answer your letter.", "pos": 1765501}
{"speaker": "Paul Montague", "text": "I have not had a line from her;--not a word!", "pos": 1765531}
{"speaker": "Roger Carbury", "text": "She did answer your letter.", "pos": 1765578}
{"speaker": "Paul Montague", "text": "What did she say to me?", "pos": 1765608}
{"speaker": "Roger Carbury", "text": "Nay,--you must ask her that.", "pos": 1765634}
{"speaker": "Paul Montague", "text": "But if she will not see me?", "pos": 1765665}
{"speaker": "Roger Carbury", "text": "She will see you. I can tell you that. And I will tell you this also;--that she wrote to you as a girl writes to the lover whom she does wish to see.", "pos": 1765695}
{"speaker": "Paul Montague", "text": "Is that true?", "pos": 1765847}
{"speaker": "Roger Carbury", "text": "I am here especially to tell you that it is true. I should hardly come on such a mission if there were a doubt. You may go to her, and need have nothing to fear,--unless, indeed, it be the opposition of her mother.", "pos": 1765891}
{"speaker": "Paul Montague", "text": "She is stronger than her mother,", "pos": 1766108}
{"speaker": "Roger Carbury", "text": "I think she is. And now I wish you to hear what I have to say.", "pos": 1766154}
{"speaker": "Paul Montague", "text": "Of course,", "pos": 1766219}
{"speaker": "Roger Carbury", "text": "You know what my feelings have been, and how deeply I have resented what I thought to be an interference with my affections. But no quarrel between you and me, whatever the rights of it may be--", "pos": 1766741}
{"speaker": "Paul Montague", "text": "I have never quarrelled with you,", "pos": 1766953}
{"speaker": "Roger Carbury", "text": "If you will listen to me for a moment it will be better. No anger between you and me, let it arise as it might, should be allowed to interfere with the happiness of her whom I suppose we both love better than all the rest of the world put together.", "pos": 1767001}
{"speaker": "Paul Montague", "text": "I do,", "pos": 1767252}
{"speaker": "Roger Carbury", "text": "And so do I;--and so I always shall. But she is to be your wife. She shall be my daughter. She shall have my property,--or her child shall be my heir. My house shall be her house,--if you and she will consent to make it so. You will not be afraid of me. You know me, I think, too well for that. You may now count on any assistance you could have from me were I a father giving you a daughter in marriage. I do this because I will make the happiness of her life the chief object of mine. Now good night. Don't say anything about it at present. By-and-by we shall be able to talk about these things with more equable temper.", "pos": 1767271}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Pipkin", "text": "all one mash of gore,", "pos": 1768815}
{"speaker": "John Crumb", "text": "few sich taps as them.", "pos": 1768910}
{"speaker": "John Crumb", "text": "It ain't jist like other folks, after all as we've been through,", "pos": 1769926}
{"speaker": "Ruby", "text": "That's out of the question,", "pos": 1771223}
{"speaker": "Mr. Ruggles", "text": "I don't see why I ain't to do as I likes with my own,", "pos": 1773708}
{"speaker": "Joe Mixet", "text": "She's your own flesh and blood, Mr. Ruggles,", "pos": 1773894}
{"speaker": "Mr. Ruggles", "text": "No; she ain't;--no more than she's a Pipkin. She's taken up with Mrs. Pipkin jist because I hate the Pipkinses. Let Mrs. Pipkin give 'em a breakfast.", "pos": 1773957}
{"speaker": "Joe Mixet", "text": "She is your own flesh and blood,--and your name, too, Mr. Ruggles. And she's going to be the respectable wife of a respectable man, Mr. Ruggles.", "pos": 1774109}
{"speaker": "Mr. Ruggles", "text": "I won't give 'em no breakfast;--that's flat,", "pos": 1774256}
{"speaker": "John Crumb", "text": "You could come in behind like, Joe, just as if I knew nothin' about it,", "pos": 1776845}
{"speaker": "Joe Mixet", "text": "Don't you say a word of me, and she won't say nothing, you may be sure. You ain't going to give in to all her cantraps that way, John? It was only just something for her to say. What have I done that she should object to me?", "pos": 1776936}
{"speaker": "John Crumb", "text": "You didn't ever go for to--kiss her,--did you, Joe?", "pos": 1777228}
{"speaker": "Joe Mixet", "text": "What a one'er you are! That wouldn't 'a set her again me. It is just because I stood up and spoke for you like a man that night at Sheep's Acre, when her mind was turned the other way. Don't you notice nothing about it. When we're all in the church she won't go back because Joe Mixet's there. I'll bet you a gallon, old fellow, she and I are the best friends in Bungay before six months are gone.", "pos": 1777282}
{"speaker": "John Crumb", "text": "Nay, nay; she must have a better friend than thee, Joe, or I must know the reason why. Ain't she bootiful now?", "pos": 1777682}
{"speaker": "Ruby", "text": "He is such a fool!", "pos": 1778534}
{"speaker": "Mr. Ruggles", "text": "Thou'rt come back then, Ruby,", "pos": 1778832}
{"speaker": "Ruby", "text": "I ain't going to trouble you long, grandfather,", "pos": 1778882}
{"speaker": "Mr. Ruggles", "text": "So best;--so best. And this is Mrs. Pipkin?", "pos": 1778947}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Pipkin", "text": "Yes, Mr. Ruggles; that's my name.", "pos": 1778993}
{"speaker": "Mr. Ruggles", "text": "I've heard your name. I've heard your name, and I don't know as I ever want to hear it again. But they say as you've been kind to that girl as 'd 'a been on the town only for that.", "pos": 1779029}
{"speaker": "Ruby", "text": "Grandfather, that ain't true. Now, Mrs. Pipkin, just you say, how was it possible for any girl to live with an old man like that?", "pos": 1779212}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Pipkin", "text": "But, Ruby, you might always have gone to live with the young man instead when you pleased.", "pos": 1779506}
{"speaker": "Ruby", "text": "You mean John Crumb.", "pos": 1779599}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Pipkin", "text": "Of course I mean John Crumb, Ruby.", "pos": 1779622}
{"speaker": "Ruby", "text": "There ain't much to choose between 'em. What one says is all spite; and the other man says nothing at all.", "pos": 1779659}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Pipkin", "text": "Oh Ruby, Ruby. I hope you'll come to learn some day, that a loving heart is better nor a fickle tongue,--specially with vittels certain.", "pos": 1779768}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Pipkin", "text": "What's the odds? Drat it,--you make me that angry I'm half minded to cuff you. Ain't he fond o' you? Ain't he got a house of his own? Ain't he well to do all round? Manners! What's manners? I don't see nothing amiss in his manners. He means what he says, and I call that the best of good manners.", "pos": 1780770}
{"speaker": "John Crumb", "text": "I, John,--take thee Ruby,--to my wedded wife,--to 'ave and to 'old,--from this day forrard,--for better nor worser,--for richer nor poorer--;", "pos": 1781689}
{"speaker": "Joe Mixet", "text": "Mrs. Crumb, you have my best wishes for your continued 'ealth and 'appiness,", "pos": 1783112}
{"speaker": "Ruby", "text": "It's very good of you to say so, Mr. Mixet.", "pos": 1783220}
{"speaker": "Joe Mixet", "text": "He's a good 'un; is he.", "pos": 1783266}
{"speaker": "Ruby", "text": "Oh, I dare say.", "pos": 1783292}
{"speaker": "Joe Mixet", "text": "You just be fond of him and stroke him down, and make much of him, and I'm blessed if you mayn't do a'most anything with him,--all's one as a babby.", "pos": 1783310}
{"speaker": "Ruby", "text": "A man shouldn't be all's one as a babby, Mr. Mixet.", "pos": 1783461}
{"speaker": "Joe Mixet", "text": "And he don't drink hard, but he works hard, and go where he will he can hold his own. He had had the pleasure of knowing John Crumb for a great many years, and the honour of being acquainted with Miss Ruby Ruggles,--he begged all their pardons, and should have said Mrs. John Crumb,--ever since she was a child.", "pos": 1783515}
{"speaker": "Ruby", "text": "That's a downright story,", "pos": 1784190}
{"speaker": "Joe Mixet", "text": "And he'd never known two young people more fitted by the gifts of nature to contribute to one another's 'appinesses. He had understood that Mars and Wenus always lived on the best of terms, and perhaps the present company would excuse him if he likened this 'appy young couple to them two 'eathen gods and goddesses. For Miss Ruby,--Mrs. Crumb he should say,--was certainly lovely as ere a Wenus as ever was; and as for John Crumb, he didn't believe that ever a Mars among 'em could stand again him. He didn't remember just at present whether Mars and Wenus had any young family, but he hoped that before long there would be any number of young Crumbs for the Bungay birds to pick up. 'Appy is the man as 'as his quiver full of 'em,--and the woman too, if you'll allow me to say so, Mrs. Crumb.", "pos": 1784257}
{"speaker": "John Crumb", "text": "Now, Ruby, give a fellow a buss,--as though you meant it,", "pos": 1785707}
{"speaker": "Ruby", "text": "Oh, John,--what nonsense!", "pos": 1785826}
{"speaker": "John Crumb", "text": "It ain't nonsense to me, I can tell you. I'd sooner have a kiss from you than all the wine as ever was swallowed.", "pos": 1785854}
{"speaker": "Sophia", "text": "Georgey, don't you think Mr. Brehgert's watch ought to go back to him without any more delay?", "pos": 1788549}
{"speaker": "Georgiana", "text": "What have you got to do with anybody's watch? The watch wasn't given to you.", "pos": 1788696}
{"speaker": "Sophia", "text": "I think it ought to go back. When papa finds that it has been kept I'm sure he'll be very angry.", "pos": 1788775}
{"speaker": "Georgiana", "text": "It's no business of yours whether he's angry or not.", "pos": 1788874}
{"speaker": "Sophia", "text": "If it isn't sent George will tell Dolly. You know what would happen then.", "pos": 1788929}
{"speaker": "Georgiana", "text": "I never will speak to George Whitstable again the longest day that ever I live,", "pos": 1789130}
{"speaker": "Lady Pomona", "text": "My dear, don't say anything so horrible as that,", "pos": 1789249}
{"speaker": "Georgiana", "text": "I do say it. What has George Whitstable to do with me? A miserably stupid fellow! Because you've landed him, you think he's to ride over the whole family.", "pos": 1789330}
{"speaker": "Sophia", "text": "I think Mr. Brehgert ought to have his watch and chain back,", "pos": 1789487}
{"speaker": "Lady Pomona", "text": "Certainly he ought. Georgiana, it must be sent back. It really must,--or I shall tell your papa.", "pos": 1789563}
{"speaker": "Georgiana", "text": "Mamma. I wonder whether papa has any intention at all about me.", "pos": 1793826}
{"speaker": "Lady Pomona", "text": "In what sort of way, my dear?", "pos": 1794049}
{"speaker": "Georgiana", "text": "In any way. Does he mean me to live here for ever and ever?", "pos": 1794081}
{"speaker": "Lady Pomona", "text": "I don't think he intends to have a house in town again.", "pos": 1794143}
{"speaker": "Georgiana", "text": "And what am I to do?", "pos": 1794201}
{"speaker": "Lady Pomona", "text": "I suppose we shall stay here at Caversham.", "pos": 1794224}
{"speaker": "Georgiana", "text": "And I'm to be buried just like a nun in a convent,--only that the nun does it by her own consent and I don't! Mamma, I won't stand it. I won't indeed.", "pos": 1794269}
{"speaker": "Lady Pomona", "text": "I think, my dear, that that is nonsense. You see company here, just as other people do in the country;--and as for not standing it, I don't know what you mean. As long as you are one of your papa's family of course you must live where he lives.", "pos": 1794422}
{"speaker": "Georgiana", "text": "Oh, mamma, to hear you talk like that!--It is horrible--horrible! As if you didn't know! As if you couldn't understand! Sometimes I almost doubt whether papa does know, and then I think that if he did he would not be so cruel. But you understand it all as well as I do myself. What is to become of me? Is it not enough to drive me mad to be going about here by myself, without any prospect of anything? Should you have liked at my age to have felt that you had no chance of having a house of your own to live in? Why didn't you, among you, let me marry Mr. Brehgert?", "pos": 1794669}
{"speaker": "Lady Pomona", "text": "You know, my dear, that your papa wouldn't hear of it.", "pos": 1795293}
{"speaker": "Georgiana", "text": "I know that if you would have helped me I would have done it in spite of papa. What right has he to domineer over me in that way? Why shouldn't I have married the man if I chose? I am old enough to know surely. You talk now of shutting up girls in convents as being a thing quite impossible. This is much worse. Papa won't do anything to help me. Why shouldn't he let me do something for myself?", "pos": 1795370}
{"speaker": "Lady Pomona", "text": "You can't regret Mr. Brehgert!", "pos": 1795768}
{"speaker": "Georgiana", "text": "Why can't I regret him? I do regret him. I'd have him to-morrow if he came. Bad as it might be, it couldn't be so bad as Caversham.", "pos": 1795801}
{"speaker": "Lady Pomona", "text": "You couldn't have loved him, Georgiana.", "pos": 1795935}
{"speaker": "Georgiana", "text": "Loved him! Who thinks about love nowadays? I don't know any one who loves any one else. You won't tell me that Sophy is going to marry that idiot because she loves him! Did Julia Triplex love that man with the large fortune? When you wanted Dolly to marry Marie Melmotte you never thought of his loving her. I had got the better of all that kind of thing before I was twenty.", "pos": 1795977}
{"speaker": "Lady Pomona", "text": "I think a young woman should love her husband.", "pos": 1796355}
{"speaker": "Georgiana", "text": "It makes me sick, mamma, to hear you talk in that way. It does indeed. When one has been going on for a dozen years trying to do something,--and I have never had any secrets from you,--then that you should turn round upon me and talk about love! Mamma, if you would help me I think I could still manage with Mr. Brehgert. You have not got to marry him.", "pos": 1796404}
{"speaker": "Lady Pomona", "text": "It is too horrid.", "pos": 1796784}
{"speaker": "Georgiana", "text": "Who would have to put up with it? Not you, or papa, or Dolly. I should have a house of my own at least, and I should know what I had to expect for the rest of my life. If I stay here I shall go mad,--or die.", "pos": 1796804}
{"speaker": "Lady Pomona", "text": "It is impossible.", "pos": 1797014}
{"speaker": "Georgiana", "text": "If you will stand to me, mamma, I am sure it may be done. I would write to him, and say that you would see him.", "pos": 1797034}
{"speaker": "Lady Pomona", "text": "Georgiana, I will never see him.", "pos": 1797148}
{"speaker": "Georgiana", "text": "Why not?", "pos": 1797183}
{"speaker": "Lady Pomona", "text": "He is a Jew!", "pos": 1797194}
{"speaker": "Georgiana", "text": "What abominable prejudice;--what wicked prejudice! As if you didn't know that all that is changed now! What possible difference can it make about a man's religion? Of course I know that he is vulgar, and old, and has a lot of children. But if I can put up with that, I don't think that you and papa have a right to interfere. As to his religion it cannot signify.", "pos": 1797209}
{"speaker": "Lady Pomona", "text": "Georgiana, you make me very unhappy. I am wretched to see you so discontented. If I could do anything for you, I would. But I will not meddle about Mr. Brehgert. I shouldn't dare to do so. I don't think you know how angry your papa can be.", "pos": 1797575}
{"speaker": "Georgiana", "text": "I'm not going to let papa be a bugbear to frighten me. What can he do? I don't suppose he'll beat me. And I'd rather he would than shut me up here. As for you, mamma, I don't think you care for me a bit. Because Sophy is going to be married to that oaf, you are become so proud of her that you haven't half a thought for anybody else.", "pos": 1797817}
{"speaker": "Lady Pomona", "text": "That's very unjust, Georgiana.", "pos": 1798154}
{"speaker": "Georgiana", "text": "I know what's unjust,--and I know who's ill-treated. I tell you fairly, mamma, that I shall write to Mr. Brehgert and tell him that I am quite ready to marry him. I don't know why he should be afraid of papa. I don't mean to be afraid of him any more, and you may tell him just what I say.", "pos": 1798187}
{"speaker": "Lady Pomona", "text": "Mr. Batherbolt!", "pos": 1799171}
{"speaker": "Sophia", "text": "She is walking with Mr. Batherbolt almost every day.", "pos": 1799212}
{"speaker": "Lady Pomona", "text": "But he is so very strict.", "pos": 1799267}
{"speaker": "Sophia", "text": "It is true, mamma.", "pos": 1799295}
{"speaker": "Lady Pomona", "text": "And he's five years younger than she! And he's got nothing but his curacy! And he's a celibate! I heard the bishop laughing at him because he called himself a celibate.", "pos": 1799316}
{"speaker": "Sophia", "text": "It doesn't signify, mamma. I know she is with him constantly. Wilson has seen them,--and I know it. Perhaps papa could get him a living. Dolly has a living of his own that came to him with his property.", "pos": 1799487}
{"speaker": "Lady Pomona", "text": "Dolly would be sure to sell the presentation,", "pos": 1799692}
{"speaker": "Sophia", "text": "Perhaps the bishop would do something, when he found that the man wasn't a celibate. Anything, mamma, would be better than the Jew. Of course it is a come-down to marry a curate,--but a clergyman is always considered to be decent.", "pos": 1799758}
{"speaker": "Dolly Longestaffe", "text": "I have spoken to Squercum, and Squercum won't hear of it. Squercum has made inquiries and he thinks the club very shaky. That's all very well for you, Grasslough; but if you knew the comfort of having a fellow who could keep you straight without preaching sermons at you you wouldn't despise Squercum. I've tried to go alone and I find that does not answer. Squercum's my coach, and I mean to stick pretty close to him.", "pos": 1806931}
{"speaker": "Lord Nidderdale", "text": "It is such a pity, because there never has been anything like it.", "pos": 1808110}
{"speaker": "Dolly Longestaffe", "text": "Smoke all over the house!", "pos": 1808197}
{"speaker": "Lord Grasslough", "text": "No horrid nonsense about closing, and no infernal old fogies wearing out the carpets and paying for nothing.", "pos": 1808237}
{"speaker": "Lord Nidderdale", "text": "Not a vestige of propriety, or any beastly rules to be kept! That's what I liked,", "pos": 1808367}
{"speaker": "Mr. Lupton", "text": "It's an old story, that if you put a man into Paradise he'll make it too hot to hold him. That's what you've done here.", "pos": 1808468}
{"speaker": "Dolly Longestaffe", "text": "What we ought to do, is to get some fellow like Vossner, and make him tell us how much he wants to steal above his regular pay. Then we could subscribe that among us. I really think that might be done. Squercum would find a fellow, no doubt.", "pos": 1808609}
{"speaker": "Dolly Longestaffe", "text": "By George, here's Carbury!", "pos": 1810477}
{"speaker": "Lord Nidderdale", "text": "Thought you were out of town. Haven't seen you for the last ever so long.", "pos": 1810662}
{"speaker": "Sir Felix", "text": "I have been out of town, down in Suffolk. But I'm back now. How are things going on here?", "pos": 1810757}
{"speaker": "Dolly Longestaffe", "text": "They're not going at all;--they're gone,", "pos": 1810871}
{"speaker": "Lord Nidderdale", "text": "Everything is smashed. We shall all have to pay, I don't know how much.", "pos": 1810926}
{"speaker": "Sir Felix Carbury", "text": "Wasn't Vossner ever caught?", "pos": 1811019}
{"speaker": "Dolly Longestaffe", "text": "Caught! No;--but he has caught us. I don't know that there has ever been much idea of catching Vossner. We close altogether next Monday, and the furniture is to be gone to law for. Flatfleece says it belongs to him under what he calls a deed of sale. Indeed, everything that everybody has seems to belong to Flatfleece. He's always in and out of the club, and has got the key of the cellar.", "pos": 1811068}
{"speaker": "Lord Nidderdale", "text": "That don't matter, as Vossner took care that there shouldn't be any wine.", "pos": 1811481}
{"speaker": "Dolly Longestaffe", "text": "He's got most of the forks and spoons, and only lets us use what we have as a favour.", "pos": 1811576}
{"speaker": "Sir Felix", "text": "I suppose one can get a dinner here?", "pos": 1811664}
{"speaker": "Dolly Longestaffe", "text": "Yes; to-day you can, and perhaps to-morrow.", "pos": 1811703}
{"speaker": "Sir Felix", "text": "Isn't there any playing?", "pos": 1811749}
{"speaker": "Dolly Longestaffe", "text": "I haven't seen a card this fortnight. There hasn't been anybody to play. Everything has gone to the dogs. There has been the affair of Melmotte, you know;--though, I suppose, you do know all about that.", "pos": 1811801}
{"speaker": "Sir Felix", "text": "Of course I know he poisoned himself.", "pos": 1812020}
{"speaker": "Dolly Longestaffe", "text": "Of course that had effect. Though why fellows shouldn't play cards because another fellow like that takes poison, I can't understand. Last year the only day I managed to get down in February, the hounds didn't come because some old cove had died. What harm could our hunting have done him? I call that rot.", "pos": 1812060}
{"speaker": "Lord Nidderdale", "text": "Melmotte's death was rather awful,", "pos": 1812407}
{"speaker": "Dolly Longestaffe", "text": "Not half so awful as having nothing to amuse one. And now they say the girl is going to be married to Fisker. I don't know how you and Nidderdale like that. I never went in for her myself. Squercum never seemed to see it.", "pos": 1812461}
{"speaker": "Lord Nidderdale", "text": "Poor dear! She's welcome for me, and I dare say she couldn't do better with herself. I was very fond of her;--I'll be shot if I wasn't.", "pos": 1812685}
{"speaker": "Dolly Longestaffe", "text": "And Carbury too, I suppose,", "pos": 1812842}
{"speaker": "Sir Felix", "text": "No; I wasn't. If I'd really been fond of her I suppose it would have come off. I should have had her safe enough to America, if I'd cared about it.", "pos": 1812884}
{"speaker": "Lord Nidderdale", "text": "Come into the smoking-room, Dolly. I can stand most things, and I try to stand everything; but, by George, that fellow is such a cad that I cannot stand him. You and I are bad enough,--but I don't think we're so heartless as Carbury.", "pos": 1813075}
{"speaker": "Dolly Longestaffe", "text": "I don't think I'm heartless at all. I'm good-natured to everybody that is good-natured to me,--and to a great many people who ain't. I'm going all the way down to Caversham next week to see my sister married, though I hate the place and hate marriages, and if I was to be hung for it I couldn't say a word to the fellow who is going to be my brother-in-law. But I do agree about Carbury. It's very hard to be good-natured to him.", "pos": 1813330}
{"speaker": "Sir Felix", "text": "Well;--yes. I've got a travelling companion;--a very pleasant fellow, who knows a lot, and will be able to coach me up in things. There's a deal to be learned by going abroad, you know.", "pos": 1814583}
{"speaker": "Dolly Longestaffe", "text": "A sort of a tutor. A parson, I suppose,", "pos": 1814771}
{"speaker": "Sir Felix", "text": "Well;--he is a clergyman. Who told you?", "pos": 1814844}
{"speaker": "Dolly Longestaffe", "text": "It's only my inventive genius. Well;--yes; I should say that would be nice,--travelling about Europe with a clergyman. I shouldn't get enough advantage out of it to make it pay, but I fancy it will just suit you.", "pos": 1814886}
{"speaker": "Sir Felix", "text": "It's an expensive sort of thing;--isn't it? Well;--it does cost something. But I've got so sick of this kind of life;--and then that railway Board coming to an end, and the club smashing up, and--", "pos": 1815101}
{"speaker": "Dolly Longestaffe", "text": "Marie Melmotte marrying Fisker,", "pos": 1815320}
{"speaker": "Sir Felix", "text": "That too, if you will. But I want a change, and a change I mean to have. I've seen this side of things, and now I'll have a look at the other.", "pos": 1815371}
{"speaker": "Lord Grasslough", "text": "We heard something about it, but we never got the right story.", "pos": 1815773}
{"speaker": "Sir Felix", "text": "Yes, a fellow attacked me in the street, coming behind me when I had a girl with me. He didn't get much the best of it though.", "pos": 1816332}
{"speaker": "Lord Grasslough", "text": "Oh;--didn't he? I think, upon the whole, you know, you're right about going abroad.", "pos": 1816472}
{"speaker": "Sir Felix", "text": "What business is it of yours?", "pos": 1816577}
{"speaker": "Lord Grasslough", "text": "Well;--as the club is being broken up, I don't know that it is very much the business of any of us.", "pos": 1816628}
{"speaker": "Sir Felix", "text": "I was speaking to my friends, Lord Nidderdale and Mr. Longestaffe, and not to you.", "pos": 1816730}
{"speaker": "Lord Grasslough", "text": "I quite appreciate the advantage of the distinction, and am sorry for Lord Nidderdale and Mr. Longestaffe.", "pos": 1816815}
{"speaker": "Sir Felix", "text": "What do you mean by that?", "pos": 1816948}
{"speaker": "Mr. Lupton", "text": "Don't let's have a quarrel here,", "pos": 1817175}
{"speaker": "Lord Nidderdale", "text": "If we must break up, let us break up in peace and quietness,", "pos": 1817263}
{"speaker": "Dolly Longestaffe", "text": "Of course, if there is to be a fight, I'm good to go out with anybody. When there's any beastly thing to be done, I've always got to do it. But don't you think that kind of thing is a little slow?", "pos": 1817343}
{"speaker": "Sir Felix", "text": "Who began it?", "pos": 1817556}
{"speaker": "Dolly Longestaffe", "text": "There's one comfort, you know,", "pos": 1817732}
{"speaker": "Sir Felix", "text": "Yes; it does, and I'm not going to be fool enough to be one of them.", "pos": 1817815}
{"speaker": "Lord Grasslough", "text": "Oh, yes, I meant it fast enough. What's the use of taking such a lot of trouble?", "pos": 1817943}
{"speaker": "Dolly Longestaffe", "text": "Of course he's a bad fellow. Most fellows are bad fellows in one way or another.", "pos": 1818432}
{"speaker": "Lord Grasslough", "text": "But he's bad all round,", "pos": 1818515}
{"speaker": "Lord Nidderdale", "text": "And so this is to be the end of the Beargarden,", "pos": 1818564}
{"speaker": "Mr. Lupton", "text": "If Solomon, Solon, and the Archbishop of Canterbury were rolled into one, they couldn't have spoken with more wisdom,", "pos": 1819112}
{"speaker": "Lord Nidderdale", "text": "Live and learn. I don't think anybody has liked the Beargarden so much as I have, but I shall never try this kind of thing again. I shall begin reading blue books to-morrow, and shall dine at the Carlton. Next session I shan't miss a day in the House, and I'll bet anybody a fiver that I make a speech before Easter. I shall take to claret at 20s. a dozen, and shall go about London on the top of an omnibus.", "pos": 1819249}
{"speaker": "Dolly Longestaffe", "text": "How about getting married?", "pos": 1819688}
{"speaker": "Lord Nidderdale", "text": "Oh;--that must be as it comes. That's the governor's affair. None of you fellows will believe me, but, upon my word, I liked that girl; and I'd 've stuck to her at last,--only that there are some things a fellow can't do. He was such a thundering scoundrel!", "pos": 1819730}
{"speaker": "Sir Felix", "text": "We can make up a rubber;--can't we?", "pos": 1820109}
{"speaker": "Lord Nidderdale", "text": "I should say not,", "pos": 1820156}
{"speaker": "Mr. Lupton", "text": "I shall not play,", "pos": 1820193}
{"speaker": "Dolly Longestaffe", "text": "There isn't a pack of cards in the house,", "pos": 1820230}
{"speaker": "Sir Felix", "text": "I wonder what has become of Miles Grendall. He hasn't paid me a shilling yet of the money he owes me. And I don't suppose he ever will. He is the biggest scoundrel I ever met,", "pos": 1820429}
{"speaker": "Lord Grasslough", "text": "I know one as big,", "pos": 1820758}
{"speaker": "Dolly Longestaffe", "text": "I never felt so much like crying in my life. Good-night, old fellows; good-bye. I'm going down to Caversham, and I shouldn't wonder if I didn't drown myself.", "pos": 1821470}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Pipkin", "text": "So he was Mr. Montague's partner,--was he now? To my thinking now he's a nicer man than Mr. Montague.", "pos": 1825057}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Hurtle", "text": "There's no accounting for tastes, Mrs. Pipkin.", "pos": 1825533}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Pipkin", "text": "And that's true, too, Mrs. Hurtle.", "pos": 1825582}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Hurtle", "text": "Mr. Montague is a gentleman.", "pos": 1825619}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Pipkin", "text": "I always did say that of him, Mrs. Hurtle.", "pos": 1825650}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Hurtle", "text": "And Mr. Fisker is--an American citizen.", "pos": 1825695}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Pipkin", "text": "Indeed now!", "pos": 1825801}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Hurtle", "text": "Mr. Fisker came to me with tidings from San Francisco which I had not heard before, and has offered to take me back with him. I must go some day, you know.", "pos": 1825910}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Pipkin", "text": "I suppose you must. I couldn't hope as you'd stay here always. I wish I could. I never shall forget the comfort it's been. There hasn't been a week without everything settled; and most ladylike,--most ladylike! You seem to me, Mrs. Hurtle, just as though you had the bank in your pocket.", "pos": 1826119}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Hurtle", "text": "Mr. Fisker isn't in any way a special friend of mine. But I hear that he will be taking other ladies with him, and I fancy I might as well join the party. It will be less dull for me, and I shall prefer company just at present for many reasons. We shall start on the first of September. By-the-bye, Mrs. Pipkin, I expect Mr. Montague to call to-morrow at eleven. Just show him up when he comes.", "pos": 1826488}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Pipkin", "text": "Mr. Montague;--oh! Of course, Mrs. Hurtle,--of course. I'll see to it myself.", "pos": 1827483}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Hurtle", "text": "I thought you would come and see me once again before I went. Sit there opposite, so that we can look at one another. I hope it has not been a trouble to you.", "pos": 1829155}
{"speaker": "Paul Montague", "text": "Of course I came when you left word for me to do so.", "pos": 1829401}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Hurtle", "text": "I certainly should not have expected it from any wish of your own.", "pos": 1829456}
{"speaker": "Paul Montague", "text": "I should not have dared to come, had you not bade me. You know that.", "pos": 1829525}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Hurtle", "text": "I know nothing of the kind;--but as you are here we will not quarrel as to your motives. Has Miss Carbury pardoned you as yet? Has she forgiven your sins?", "pos": 1829596}
{"speaker": "Paul Montague", "text": "We are friends,--if you mean that.", "pos": 1829753}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Hurtle", "text": "Of course you are friends. She only wanted to have somebody to tell her that somebody had maligned you. It mattered not much who it was. She was ready to believe any one who would say a good word for you. Perhaps I wasn't just the person to do it, but I believe even I was sufficient to serve the turn.", "pos": 1829790}
{"speaker": "Paul Montague", "text": "Did you say a good word for me?", "pos": 1830095}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Hurtle", "text": "Well; no; I will not boast that I did. I do not want to tell you fibs at our last meeting. I said nothing good of you. What could I say of good? But I told her what was quite as serviceable to you as though I had sung your virtues by the hour without ceasing. I explained to her how very badly you had behaved to me. I let her know that from the moment you had seen her, you had thrown me to the winds.", "pos": 1830129}
{"speaker": "Paul Montague", "text": "It was not so, my friend.", "pos": 1830557}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Hurtle", "text": "What did that matter? One does not scruple a lie for a friend, you know! I could not go into all the little details of your perfidies. I could not make her understand during one short and rather agonizing interview how you had allowed yourself to be talked out of your love for me by English propriety even before you had seen her beautiful eyes. There was no reason why I should tell her all my disgrace,--anxious as I was to be of service. Besides, as I put it, she was sure to be better pleased. But I did tell her how unwillingly you had spared me an hour of your company;--what a trouble I had been to you;--how you would have shirked me if you could!", "pos": 1830585}
{"speaker": "Paul Montague", "text": "Winifrid, that is untrue.", "pos": 1831244}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Hurtle", "text": "That wretched journey to Lowestoft was the great crime. Mr. Roger Carbury, who I own is poison to me--", "pos": 1831272}
{"speaker": "Paul Montague", "text": "You do not know him.", "pos": 1831377}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Hurtle", "text": "Knowing him or not I choose to have my own opinion, sir. I say that he is poison to me, and I say that he had so stuffed her mind with the flagrant sin of that journey, with the peculiar wickedness of our having lived for two nights under the same roof, with the awful fact that we had travelled together in the same carriage, till that had become the one stumbling block on your path to happiness.", "pos": 1831400}
{"speaker": "Paul Montague", "text": "He never said a word to her of our being there.", "pos": 1831801}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Hurtle", "text": "Who did then? But what matters? She knew it;--and, as the only means of whitewashing you in her eyes, I did tell her how cruel and how heartless you had been to me. I did explain how the return of friendship which you had begun to show me, had been frozen, harder than Wenham ice, by the appearance of Mr. Carbury on the sands. Perhaps I went a little farther and hinted that the meeting had been arranged as affording you the easiest means of escape from me.", "pos": 1831851}
{"speaker": "Paul Montague", "text": "You do not believe that.", "pos": 1832313}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Hurtle", "text": "You see I had your welfare to look after; and the baser your conduct had been to me, the truer you were in her eyes. Do I not deserve some thanks for what I did? Surely you would not have had me tell her that your conduct to me had been that of a loyal, loving gentleman. I confessed to her my utter despair;--I abased myself in the dust, as a woman is abased who has been treacherously ill-used, and has failed to avenge herself. I knew that when she was sure that I was prostrate and hopeless she would be triumphant and contented. I told her on your behalf how I had been ground to pieces under your chariot wheels. And now you have not a word of thanks to give me!", "pos": 1832340}
{"speaker": "Paul Montague", "text": "Every word you say is a dagger.", "pos": 1833011}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Hurtle", "text": "You know where to go for salve for such skin-deep scratches as I make. Where am I to find a surgeon who can put together my crushed bones? Daggers, indeed! Do you not suppose that in thinking of you I have often thought of daggers? Why have I not thrust one into your heart, so that I might rescue you from the arms of this puny, spiritless English girl? But, Paul, I spit out my words to you, like any common woman, not because they will hurt you, but because I know I may take that comfort, such as it is, without hurting you. You are uneasy for a moment while you are here, and I have a cruel pleasure in thinking that you cannot answer me. But you will go from me to her, and then will you not be happy? When you are sitting with your arm round her waist, and when she is playing with your smiles, will the memory of my words interfere with your joy then? Ask yourself whether the prick will last longer than the moment. But where am I to go for happiness and joy? Can you understand what it is to have to live only on retrospects?", "pos": 1833045}
{"speaker": "Paul Montague", "text": "I wish I could say a word to comfort you.", "pos": 1834195}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Hurtle", "text": "You cannot say a word to comfort me, unless you will unsay all that you have said since I have been in England. I never expect comfort again. But, Paul, I will not be cruel to the end. I will tell you all that I know of my concerns, even though my doing so should justify your treatment of me. He is not dead.", "pos": 1834239}
{"speaker": "Paul Montague", "text": "You mean Mr. Hurtle.", "pos": 1834551}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Hurtle", "text": "Whom else should I mean? And he himself says that the divorce which was declared between us was no divorce. Mr. Fisker came here to me with tidings. Though he is not a man whom I specially love,--though I know that he has been my enemy with you,--I shall return with him to San Francisco.", "pos": 1834574}
{"speaker": "Paul Montague", "text": "I am told that he is taking Madame Melmotte with him, and Melmotte's daughter.", "pos": 1834865}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Hurtle", "text": "So I understand. They are adventurers,--as I am, and I do not see why we should not suit each other.", "pos": 1834946}
{"speaker": "Paul Montague", "text": "They say also that Fisker will marry Miss Melmotte.", "pos": 1835049}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Hurtle", "text": "Why should I object to that? I shall not be jealous of Mr. Fisker's attentions to the young lady. But it will suit me to have some one to whom I can speak on friendly terms when I am back in California. I may have a job of work to do there which will require the backing of some friends. I shall be hand-and-glove with these people before I have travelled half across the ocean with them.", "pos": 1835103}
{"speaker": "Paul Montague", "text": "I hope they will be kind to you,", "pos": 1835494}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Hurtle", "text": "No;--but I will be kind to them. I have conquered others by being kind, but I have never had much kindness myself. Did I not conquer you, sir, by being gentle and gracious to you? Ah, how kind I was to that poor wretch, till he lost himself in drink! And then, Paul, I used to think of better people, perhaps of softer people, of things that should be clean and sweet and gentle,--of things that should smell of lavender instead of wild garlic. I would dream of fair, feminine women,--of women who would be scared by seeing what I saw, who would die rather than do what I did. And then I met you, Paul, and I said that my dreams should come true. I ought to have known that it could not be so. I did not dare quite to tell you all the truth. I know I was wrong, and now the punishment has come upon me. Well;--I suppose you had better say good-bye to me. What is the good of putting it off?", "pos": 1835540}
{"speaker": "Paul Montague", "text": "God bless you, Winifrid!", "pos": 1836529}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Hurtle", "text": "But he won't. Why should he,--if we are right in supposing that they who do good will be blessed for their good, and those who do evil cursed for their evil? I cannot do good. I cannot bring myself now not to wish that you would return to me. If you would come I should care nothing for the misery of that girl,--nothing, at least nothing now, for the misery I should certainly bring upon you. Look here;--will you have this back?", "pos": 1836594}
{"speaker": "Paul Montague", "text": "If you wish it I will,--of course,", "pos": 1837172}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Hurtle", "text": "I would not part with it for all the gold in California. Nothing on earth shall ever part me from it. Should I ever marry another man,--as I may do,--he must take me and this together. While I live it shall be next my heart. As you know, I have but little respect for the proprieties of life. I do not see why I am to abandon the picture of the man I love because he becomes the husband of another woman. Having once said that I love you I shall not contradict myself because you have deserted me. Paul, I have loved you, and do love you,--oh, with my very heart of hearts. For one moment you shall not banish me. For one short minute I will be here. Oh, Paul, my love;--my love!", "pos": 1837218}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Hurtle", "text": "There, there; you are released now, and not even my fingers shall ever be laid upon you again. If I have annoyed you, at this our last meeting, you must forgive me.", "pos": 1838675}
{"speaker": "Paul Montague", "text": "No;--but you cut me to the heart.", "pos": 1838889}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Hurtle", "text": "That we can hardly help;--can we? When two persons have made fools of themselves as we have, there must I suppose be some punishment. Yours will never be heavy after I am gone. I do not start till the first of next month because that is the day fixed by our friend, Mr. Fisker, and I shall remain here till then because my presence is convenient to Mrs. Pipkin; but I need not trouble you to come to me again. Indeed it will be better that you should not. Good-bye. No, sir; no; not again; never again, never,--never,--never again. Good-bye, Paul;--and now go.", "pos": 1838925}
{"speaker": "Mrs. Pipkin", "text": "They do tell bad things about them Americans, and I don't pretend to know. But for a lodger, I only wish Providence would send me another just like the one I have lost. She had that good nature about her she liked to see the bairns eating pudding just as if they was her own.", "pos": 1841351}
{"speaker": "Mr. Fisker", "text": "She's her father's own daughter,", "pos": 1842836}
{"speaker": "Croll", "text": "Ah; yees, but bigger. He vas passionate, and did lose his 'ead; and vas blow'd up vid bigness. 'E bursted himself, Mr. Fisker. 'E vas a great man; but the greater he grew he vas always less and less vise. 'E ate so much that he became too fat to see to eat his vittels. But Ma'me'selle,--ah, she is different. She vill never eat too moch, but vill see to eat alvays.", "pos": 1843157}
{"speaker": "Madame Melmotte", "text": "My dear, are you going to be married to Mr. Fisker?", "pos": 1848237}
{"speaker": "Marie", "text": "What makes you ask that?", "pos": 1848374}
{"speaker": "Madame Melmotte", "text": "It is so important I should know. Where am I to live? What am I to do? What money shall I have? Who will be a friend to me? A woman ought to know. You will marry Fisker if you like him. Why cannot you tell me?", "pos": 1848401}
{"speaker": "Marie", "text": "Because I do not know. When I know I will tell you. If you go on asking me till to-morrow morning I can say no more.", "pos": 1848613}
{"speaker": "Mr. Fisker", "text": "I have got excellent berths,", "pos": 1853345}
{"speaker": "Marie", "text": "I am to be alone?", "pos": 1853546}
{"speaker": "Mr. Fisker", "text": "Oh, yes. There is a cabin for Madame Melmotte and the maid, and a cabin for you. Everything will be comfortable. And there is another lady going,--Mrs. Hurtle,--whom I think you will like.", "pos": 1853566}
{"speaker": "Marie", "text": "Has she a husband?", "pos": 1853757}
{"speaker": "Mr. Fisker", "text": "Not going with us,", "pos": 1853778}
{"speaker": "Marie", "text": "But she has one?", "pos": 1853826}
{"speaker": "Mr. Fisker", "text": "Well, yes;--but you had better not mention him. He is not exactly all that a husband should be.", "pos": 1853845}
{"speaker": "Marie", "text": "Did she not come over here to marry some one else?", "pos": 1853943}
{"speaker": "Mr. Fisker", "text": "There is a story, and I dare say I shall tell you all about it some day. But you may be sure I should not ask you to associate with any one you ought not to know.", "pos": 1854108}
{"speaker": "Marie", "text": "Oh,--I can take care of myself.", "pos": 1854273}
{"speaker": "Mr. Fisker", "text": "No doubt, Miss Melmotte,--no doubt. I feel that quite strongly. But what I meant to observe was this,--that I certainly should not introduce a lady whom I aspire to make my own lady to any lady whom a lady oughtn't to know. I hope I make myself understood, Miss Melmotte.", "pos": 1854307}
{"speaker": "Marie", "text": "Oh, quite.", "pos": 1854581}
{"speaker": "Mr. Fisker", "text": "And perhaps I may go on to say that if I could go on board that ship as your accepted lover, I could do a deal more to make you comfortable, particularly when you land, than just as a mere friend, Miss Melmotte. You can't doubt my heart.", "pos": 1854594}
{"speaker": "Marie", "text": "I don't see why I shouldn't. Gentlemen's hearts are things very much to be doubted as far as I've seen 'em. I don't think many of 'em have 'em at all.", "pos": 1854834}
{"speaker": "Mr. Fisker", "text": "Miss Melmotte, you do not know the glorious west. Your past experiences have been drawn from this effete and stone-cold country in which passion is no longer allowed to sway. On those golden shores which the Pacific washes man is still true,--and woman is still tender.", "pos": 1854987}
{"speaker": "Marie", "text": "Perhaps I'd better wait and see, Mr. Fisker.", "pos": 1855259}
{"speaker": "Mr. Fisker", "text": "And then, the laws regulating woman's property there are just the reverse of those which the greediness of man has established here. The wife there can claim her share of her husband's property, but hers is exclusively her own. America is certainly the country for women,--and especially California.", "pos": 1855425}
{"speaker": "Marie", "text": "Ah;--I shall find out all about it, I suppose, when I've been there a few months.", "pos": 1855776}
{"speaker": "Mr. Fisker", "text": "But you would enter San Francisco, Miss Melmotte, under such much better auspices,--if I may be allowed to say so,--as a married lady or as a lady just going to be married.", "pos": 1855860}
{"speaker": "Marie", "text": "Ain't single ladies much thought of in California?", "pos": 1856035}
{"speaker": "Mr. Fisker", "text": "It isn't that. Come, Miss Melmotte, you know what I mean.", "pos": 1856088}
{"speaker": "Marie", "text": "Yes, I do.", "pos": 1856148}
{"speaker": "Mr. Fisker", "text": "Let us go in for life together. We've both done uncommon well. I'm spending 30,000 dollars a year,--at that rate,--in my own house. You'll see it all. If we put them both together,--what's yours and what's mine,--we can put our foot out as far as about any one there, I guess.", "pos": 1856161}
{"speaker": "Marie", "text": "I don't know that I care about putting my foot out. I've seen something of that already, Mr. Fisker. You shouldn't put your foot out farther than you can draw it in again.", "pos": 1856440}
{"speaker": "Mr. Fisker", "text": "You needn't fear me as to that, Miss Melmotte. I shouldn't be able to touch a dollar of your money. It would be such a triumph to go into Francisco as man and wife.", "pos": 1856614}
{"speaker": "Marie", "text": "I shouldn't think of being married till I had been there a while and looked about me.", "pos": 1856781}
{"speaker": "Mr. Fisker", "text": "And seen the house! Well;--there's something in that. The house is all there, I can tell you. I'm not a bit afraid but what you'll like the house. But if we were engaged, I could do every thing for you. Where would you be, going into San Francisco all alone? Oh, Miss Melmotte, I do admire you so much!", "pos": 1856869}
{"speaker": "Marie", "text": "I'll tell you how it must be then,", "pos": 1857309}
{"speaker": "Mr. Fisker", "text": "How shall it be?", "pos": 1857356}
{"speaker": "Marie", "text": "Not like that, Mr. Fisker. It shall be in this way. You may consider yourself engaged to me.", "pos": 1857450}
{"speaker": "Mr. Fisker", "text": "I'm the happiest man on this continent,", "pos": 1857578}
{"speaker": "Marie", "text": "But if I find when I get to Francisco anything to induce me to change my mind, I shall change it. I like you very well, but I'm not going to take a leap in the dark, and I'm not going to marry a pig in a poke.", "pos": 1857693}
{"speaker": "Mr. Fisker", "text": "There you're quite right, quite right.", "pos": 1857905}
{"speaker": "Marie", "text": "You may give it out on board the ship that we're engaged, and I'll tell Madame Melmotte the same. She and Croll don't mean going any farther than New York.", "pos": 1857958}
{"speaker": "Mr. Fisker", "text": "We needn't break our hearts about that;--need we?", "pos": 1858116}
{"speaker": "Marie", "text": "It don't much signify. Well;--I'll go on with Mrs. Hurtle, if she'll have me.", "pos": 1858168}
{"speaker": "Mr. Fisker", "text": "Too much delighted she'll be.", "pos": 1858248}
{"speaker": "Marie", "text": "And she shall be told we're engaged.", "pos": 1858280}
{"speaker": "Mr. Fisker", "text": "My darling!", "pos": 1858319}
{"speaker": "Marie", "text": "But if I don't like it when I get to Frisco, as you call it, all the ropes in California shan't make me do it. Well;--yes; you may give me a kiss I suppose now if you care about it.", "pos": 1858333}
{"speaker": "Mr. Broune", "text": "What is to be the end of it then? Do you mean to let him eat up everything you have to your last shilling, and then go to the workhouse with him?", "pos": 1862721}
{"speaker": "Lady Carbury", "text": "Oh, my friend, you know how I am struggling! Do not say such horrid things.", "pos": 1863275}
{"speaker": "Mr. Broune", "text": "It is because I know how you are struggling that I find myself compelled to say anything on the subject. What hardship will there be in his living for twelve months with a clergyman in Prussia? What can he do better? What better chance can he have of being weaned from the life he is leading?", "pos": 1863353}
{"speaker": "Lady Carbury", "text": "If he could only be married!", "pos": 1863648}
{"speaker": "Mr. Broune", "text": "Married! Who is to marry him? Why should any girl with money throw herself away upon him?", "pos": 1863679}
{"speaker": "Lady Carbury", "text": "He is so handsome.", "pos": 1863771}
{"speaker": "Mr. Broune", "text": "What has his beauty brought him to? Lady Carbury, you must let me tell you that all that is not only foolish but wrong. If you keep him here you will help to ruin him, and will certainly ruin yourself. He has agreed to go;--let him go. Your mother, has made up her mind that she will not absolutely beggar your sister and herself in order that your indulgence may be prolonged for a few months. She cannot make you go to Germany of course. But she can turn you out of her house, and, unless you go, she will do so.", "pos": 1863792}
{"speaker": "Sir Felix Carbury", "text": "I don't think she ever said that, Mr. Broune.", "pos": 1864584}
{"speaker": "Mr. Broune", "text": "No;--she has not said so. But I have said it for her in her presence; and she has acknowledged that it must necessarily be so. You may take my word as a gentleman that it will be so. If you take her advice £175 a year will be paid for your maintenance;--but if you remain in England not a shilling further will be paid.", "pos": 1864632}
{"speaker": "Mr. Broune", "text": "It will be just enough to bring him home,", "pos": 1866006}
{"speaker": "Lady Carbury", "text": "It will be gone, long before they reach their destination.", "pos": 1866267}
{"speaker": "Mr. Broune", "text": "Then why the deuce should you give it him? I wouldn't write another novel if I were you,", "pos": 1866340}
{"speaker": "Mr. Broune", "text": "I don't think you'd find it answer. Of course you can do it as well as a great many others. But then that is saying so little!", "pos": 1867522}
{"speaker": "Lady Carbury", "text": "I thought I could make some money.", "pos": 1867651}
{"speaker": "Mr. Broune", "text": "I don't think Mr. Leadham would hold out to you very high hopes;--I don't, indeed. I think I would turn to something else.", "pos": 1867688}
{"speaker": "Lady Carbury", "text": "It is so very hard to get paid for what one does.", "pos": 1867813}
{"speaker": "Lady Carbury", "text": "I shall give up this house. I can't afford to keep it; and in truth I shall not want it. I don't in the least know where to go, but I don't think that it much signifies. Any place will be the same to me now.", "pos": 1870690}
{"speaker": "Mr. Broune", "text": "I don't see why you should say that.", "pos": 1870912}
{"speaker": "Lady Carbury", "text": "What does it matter?", "pos": 1870951}
{"speaker": "Mr. Broune", "text": "You wouldn't think of going out of London.", "pos": 1870974}
{"speaker": "Lady Carbury", "text": "Why not? I suppose I had better go wherever I can live cheapest.", "pos": 1871019}
{"speaker": "Mr. Broune", "text": "I should be sorry that you should be settled where I could not see you,", "pos": 1871086}
{"speaker": "Lady Carbury", "text": "So shall I,--very. You have been more kind to me than anybody. But what am I to do? If I stay in London I can live only in some miserable lodgings. I know you will laugh at me, and tell me that I am wrong; but my idea is that I shall follow Felix wherever he goes, so that I may be near him and help him when he needs help. Hetta doesn't want me. There is nobody else that I can do any good to.", "pos": 1871189}
{"speaker": "Mr. Broune", "text": "I want you,", "pos": 1871586}
{"speaker": "Lady Carbury", "text": "Ah,--that is so kind of you. There is nothing makes one so good as goodness;--nothing binds your friend to you so firmly as the acceptance from him of friendly actions. You say you want me, because I have so sadly wanted you. When I go you will simply miss an almost daily trouble, but where shall I find a friend?", "pos": 1871631}
{"speaker": "Mr. Broune", "text": "When I said I wanted you, I meant more than that, Lady Carbury. Two or three months ago I asked you to be my wife. You declined, chiefly, if I understood you rightly, because of your son's position. That has been altered, and therefore I ask you again. I have quite convinced myself,--not without some doubts, for you shall know all; but, still, I have quite convinced myself,--that such a marriage will best contribute to my own happiness. I do not think, dearest, that it would mar yours.", "pos": 1871948}
{"speaker": "Mr. Broune", "text": "Well, what do you think of it? I never loved you better than I did for refusing me before, because I thought that you did so because it was not right that I should be embarrassed by your son.", "pos": 1873424}
{"speaker": "Lady Carbury", "text": "That was the reason,", "pos": 1873629}
{"speaker": "Mr. Broune", "text": "But I shall love you better still for accepting me now,--if you will accept me.", "pos": 1873683}
{"speaker": "Lady Carbury", "text": "You can hardly have thought of it enough,", "pos": 1875030}
{"speaker": "Mr. Broune", "text": "I have thought of it a good deal too. I have been thinking of it for six months at least.", "pos": 1875084}
{"speaker": "Lady Carbury", "text": "There is so much against me.", "pos": 1875176}
{"speaker": "Mr. Broune", "text": "What is there against you?", "pos": 1875207}
{"speaker": "Lady Carbury", "text": "They say bad things of me in India.", "pos": 1875236}
{"speaker": "Mr. Broune", "text": "I know all about that,", "pos": 1875274}
{"speaker": "Lady Carbury", "text": "And Felix!", "pos": 1875319}
{"speaker": "Mr. Broune", "text": "I think I may say that I know all about that also.", "pos": 1875332}
{"speaker": "Lady Carbury", "text": "And then I have become so poor!", "pos": 1875385}
{"speaker": "Mr. Broune", "text": "I am not proposing to myself to marry you for your money. Luckily for me,--I hope luckily for both of us,--it is not necessary that I should do so.", "pos": 1875419}
{"speaker": "Lady Carbury", "text": "And then I seem so to have fallen through in everything. I don't know what I've got to give to a man in return for all that you offer to give to me.", "pos": 1875569}
{"speaker": "Mr. Broune", "text": "Yourself,", "pos": 1875720}
{"speaker": "Lady Carbury", "text": "I don't know what you mean to live on. I don't see anything like an income, but I suppose Roger will make it right. He takes everything upon himself now it seems.", "pos": 1878582}
{"speaker": "Bishop", "text": "As to settling your property on her or her children, it is quite out of the question. Your lawyer would not allow you to do it. Where would you be if after all you were to marry?", "pos": 1885562}
{"speaker": "Roger Carbury", "text": "I shall never marry.", "pos": 1885762}
{"speaker": "Bishop", "text": "Very likely not,--but yet you may. How is a man of your age to speak with certainty of what he will do or what he will not do in that respect? You can make your will, doing as you please with your property;--and the will, when made, can be revoked.", "pos": 1885785}
{"speaker": "Roger Carbury", "text": "I think you hardly understand just what I feel, and I know very well that I am unable to explain it. But I wish to act exactly as I would do if she were my daughter, and as if her son, if she had a son, would be my natural heir.", "pos": 1886036}
{"speaker": "Bishop", "text": "But, if she were your daughter, her son wouldn't be your natural heir as long as there was a probability or even a chance that you might have a son of your own. A man should never put the power, which properly belongs to him, out of his own hands. If it does properly belong to you it must be better with you than elsewhere. I think very highly of your cousin, and I have no reason to think otherwise than well of the gentleman whom she intends to marry. But it is only human nature to suppose that the fact that your property is still at your own disposal should have some effect in producing a more complete observance of your wishes.", "pos": 1886281}
{"speaker": "Roger Carbury", "text": "I do not believe it in the least, my lord,", "pos": 1886920}
{"speaker": "Bishop", "text": "That is because you are so carried away by enthusiasm at the present moment as to ignore the ordinary rules of life. There are not, perhaps, many fathers who have Regans and Gonerils for their daughters;--but there are very many who may take a lesson from the folly of the old king. 'Thou hadst little wit in thy bald crown,' the fool said to him, 'when thou gav'st thy golden one away.' The world, I take it, thinks that the fool was right. Thou hadst little wit in thy bald crown, when thou gav'st thy golden one away.", "pos": 1886994}
{"speaker": "Roger Carbury", "text": "I hope all our troubles are over now,", "pos": 1887824}
{"speaker": "Hetta", "text": "You mean about Felix, and mamma?", "pos": 1887881}
{"speaker": "Roger Carbury", "text": "No, indeed. As to Felix I think that Lady Carbury has done the best thing in her power. No doubt she has been advised by Mr. Broune, and Mr. Broune seems to be a prudent man. And about your mother herself, I hope that she may now be comfortable. But I was not alluding to Felix and your mother. I was thinking of you--and of myself.", "pos": 1887931}
{"speaker": "Hetta", "text": "I hope that you will never have any troubles.", "pos": 1888266}
{"speaker": "Roger Carbury", "text": "I have had troubles. I mean to speak very freely to you now, dear. I was nearly upset,--what I suppose people call broken-hearted,--when I was assured that you certainly would never become my wife. I ought not to have allowed myself to get into such a frame of mind. I should have known that I was too old to have a chance.", "pos": 1888314}
{"speaker": "Hetta", "text": "Oh, Roger,--it was not that.", "pos": 1888640}
{"speaker": "Roger Carbury", "text": "Well,--that and other things. I should have known it sooner, and have got over my misery quicker. I should have been more manly and stronger. After all, though love is a wonderful incident in a man's life, it is not that only that he is here for. I have duties plainly marked out for me; and as I should never allow myself to be withdrawn from them by pleasure, so neither should I by sorrow. But it is done now. I have conquered my regrets, and I can say with safety that I look forward to your presence and Paul's presence at Carbury as the source of all my future happiness. I will make him welcome as though he were my brother, and you as though you were my daughter. All I ask of you is that you will not be chary of your presence there. That is what I wanted to say to you. You will teach yourself to regard me as your best and closest friend,--as he on whom you have the strongest right to depend, of all,--except your husband.", "pos": 1888671}
{"speaker": "Hetta", "text": "There is no teaching necessary for that,", "pos": 1889663}
{"speaker": "Roger Carbury", "text": "As a daughter leans on a father I would have you lean on me, Hetta. You will soon come to find that I am very old. I grow old quickly, and already feel myself to be removed from everything that is young and foolish.", "pos": 1889716}
{"speaker": "Hetta", "text": "You never were foolish.", "pos": 1889934}
{"speaker": "Roger Carbury", "text": "Nor young either, I sometimes think. But now you must promise me this. You will do all that you can to induce him to make Carbury his residence.", "pos": 1889960}
{"speaker": "Hetta", "text": "We have no plans as yet at all, Roger.", "pos": 1890107}
{"speaker": "Roger Carbury", "text": "Then it will be certainly so much the easier for you to fall into my plan. Of course you will be married at Carbury?", "pos": 1890148}
{"speaker": "Hetta", "text": "What will mamma say?", "pos": 1890267}
{"speaker": "Roger Carbury", "text": "She will come here, and I am sure will enjoy it. That I regard as settled. Then, after that, let this be your home,--so that you should learn really to care about and to love the place. It will be your home really, you know, some of these days. You will have to be Squire of Carbury yourself when I am gone, till you have a son old enough to fill that exalted position.", "pos": 1890290}
{"speaker": "Hetta", "text": "Oh, Roger, please do not talk like that.", "pos": 1890801}
{"speaker": "Roger Carbury", "text": "But it is necessary, my dear. I want you to know what my wishes are, and, if it be possible, I would learn what are yours. My mind is quite made up as to my future life. Of course, I do not wish to dictate to you,--and if I did, I could not dictate to Mr. Montague.", "pos": 1890844}
{"speaker": "Hetta", "text": "Pray,--pray do not call him Mr. Montague.", "pos": 1891112}
{"speaker": "Roger Carbury", "text": "Well, I will not;--to Paul then. There goes the last of my anger. There goes the last of my anger. I would not dictate either to you or to him, but it is right that you should know that I hold my property as steward for those who are to come after me, and that the satisfaction of my stewardship will be infinitely increased if I find that those for whom I act share the interest which I shall take in the matter. It is the only payment which you and he can make me for my trouble.", "pos": 1891156}
{"speaker": "Hetta", "text": "But Felix, Roger!", "pos": 1891688}
{"speaker": "Roger Carbury", "text": "To a sister. I will not say a word against her brother; but on that subject I claim a right to come to a decision on my own judgment. It is a matter in which I have thought much, and, I may say, suffered much. I have ideas, old-fashioned ideas, on the matter, which I need not pause to explain to you now. If we are as much together as I hope we shall be, you will, no doubt, come to understand them. The disposition of a family property, even though it be one so small as mine, is, to my thinking, a matter which a man should not make in accordance with his own caprices,--or even with his own affections. He owes a duty to those who live on his land, and he owes a duty to his country. And, though it may seem fantastic to say so, I think he owes a duty to those who have been before him, and who have manifestly wished that the property should be continued in the hands of their descendants. These things are to me very holy. In what I am doing I am in some respects departing from the theory of my life,--but I do so under a perfect conviction that by the course I am taking I shall best perform the duties to which I have alluded. I do not think, Hetta, that we need say any more about that.", "pos": 1891759}
{"speaker": "Ruby", "text": "John, what a fool you are!", "pos": 1894866}
{"speaker": "John", "text": "Yes, I be, but not such a fool as to a' missed a having o' you.", "pos": 1894978}
{"speaker": "Ruby", "text": "No, John; it was I was the fool then,", "pos": 1895058}
{"speaker": "John", "text": "We'll see about that when the bairn's born,", "pos": 1895109}