should not have betrayed his trust.  But she had steeled herself to obstinacy against him in all things.  Even yet, after all that had passed, although she had consented to marry Lord Nidderdale, though she had been forced by what she had learned to despise Sir Felix Carbury, there was present to her an idea that she might escape with the man she really loved.  But any such hope could depend only on the possession of the money which she now claimed as her own.  Melmotte had endeavoured to throw a certain supplicatory pathos into the question he had asked her; but, though he was in some degree successful with his voice, his eyes and his mouth and his forehead still threatened her.  He was always threatening her.  All her thoughts respecting him reverted to that inward assertion that he might &lsquo...