to his daughter, so that in the event of unforeseen
accidents on ’Change, he might retire to obscure
comfort, and have the means perhaps of beginning again
with whitewashed cleanliness. When doing this,
he had doubtless not anticipated the grandeur to which
he would soon rise, or the fact that he was about to
embark on seas so dangerous that this little harbour
of refuge would hardly offer security to his vessel.
Marie had been quite correct in her story to her favoured
lover. And the Marquis’s lawyer had ascertained
that if Marie ever married before she herself had restored
this money to her father, her husband would be so far
safe,—with this as a certainty and the
immense remainder in prospect. The Marquis had
determined to persevere. Pickering was to be added.
Mr Melmotte had...