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Mother’s House
93
    13
The Longestaffes
98
    14
Carbury Manor
107
    15
‘You Should Remember that I am his Mother’
114
    16
The Bishop and the Priest
122
    17
Marie Melmotte Hears a Love Tale
132
    18
Ruby Ruggles Hears a Love Tale
141
    19
Hetta Carbury Hears a Love Tale
146
    20
Lady Pomona’s Dinner-Party
155
    21
Everybody Goes to Them
160
    22
Lord Nidderdale’s Morality
170
    23
‘Yes, I’m a Baronet’
177
    24
Miles Grendall’s Triumph
186
    25
In Grosvenor Square
193
    26
Mrs Hurtle
199
    27
Mrs Hurtle Goes to the Play
208
    28
Dolly Longestaffe Goes into the City
217
    29
Miss Melmotte’s Courage
222
    30
Mr Melmotte’s Promise
229
    31
Mr Broune Has Made up his Mind
237
    32
Lady Monogram
244
    33
John Crumb
252
    34
Ruby Ruggles Obeys her Grandfather
262
    35
Melmotte’s Glory
267
    36
Mr Broune’s Perils
275
    37
The Board-room
280
    38
Paul Montague’s Troubles
291
    39
‘I do love Him’
298
    40
Unanimity is the Very Soul of these Things
308
    41
All Prepared
313
    42
‘Can You Ready in Ten Minutes?’
318
    43
The City Road
327
    44
The Coming Election
337
    45
Mr Melmotte is Pressed for Time
344
    46
Roger Carbury and his Two Friends
351
    47
Mrs Hurtle at Lowestoffe
359
    48
Ruby a Prisoner
369
    49
Sir Felix Makes Himself Ready
374
    50
The Journey to Liverpool
381
    51
Which Shall It Be?
389
    52
The Results of Love and Wine
397
    53
A Day in the City
404
    54
‘The India Office’
413
    55
Clerical Charities
422
    56
Father Barham Visits London
427
    57
Lord Nidderdale Tries his Hand Again
435
    58
Mr Squercum is Employed
442
    59
The Dinner
450
    60
Miss Longestaffe’s Lover
457
    61
Lady Monogram Prepares for the Party
465
    62
The Party
469
    63
Mr Melmotte on the Day of the Election
480
    64
The Election
487
    65
Miss Longestaffe Writes Home
496
    66
‘So Shall Be my Enmity’
502
    67
Sir Felix Protects his Sister
510
    68
Miss Melmotte Declares her Purpose
516
    69
Melmotte in Parliament
523
    70
Sir Felix Meddles with Many Matters
533
    71
John Crumb Falls into Trouble
540
    72 ‘
Ask Himself
’ 547
    73
Marie’s Fortune
556
    74
Melmotte Makes a Friend
562
    75
In Bruton Street
570
    76
Hetta and her Lover
578
    77
Another Scene in Bruton Street
587
    78
Miss Longestaffe Again at Caversham
595
    79
The Brehgert Correspondence
601
    80
Ruby Prepares for Service
611
    81
Mr Cohenlupe Leaves London
617
    82
Marie’s Perseverance
627
    83
Melmotte Again at the House
635
    84
Paul Montague’s Vindication
642
    85
Breakfast in Berkeley Square
650
    86
The Meeting in Bruton Street
656
    87
Down at Carbury
663
    88
The Inquest
671
    89
The Wheel of Fortune
678
    90
Hetta’s Sorrow
687
    91
The Rivals
693
    92
Hamilton K. Fisker Again
701
    93
A True Lover
709
    94
John Crumb’s Victory
717
    95
The Longestaffe Marriages
724
    96
Where ‘The Wild Asses Quench their Thirst’
731
    97
Mrs Hurtle’s Fate
738
    98
Marie Melmotte’s Fate
746
    99
Lady Carbury and Mr Broune
753
    100
Down in Suffolk
761

CHAPTER 1

Three Editors
    Let the reader be introduced to Lady Carbury, upon whose character and doings much will depend of whatever interest these pages may have, as she sits at her writing-table in her own room in her own house in Welbeck Street. Lady Carbury spent many hours at her desk, and wrote many letters – wrote also very much beside letters. She spoke of herself in these days as a woman devoted to Literature, always spelling the word with a big L. Something of the nature of her devotion may be learned by the perusal of three letters which on this morning she had written with a quickly running hand. Lady Carbury was rapid in everything, and in nothing more rapid than in the writing of letters. Here is Letter No. 1: –
    â€˜Thursday, Welbeck Street.
    â€˜ 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