Chapter LII The Results of Love and Wine
Chapter LIII A Day in the City
Chapter LVI Father Barham Visits London
Chapter LVII Lord Nidderdale Tries His Hand Again
Chapter LVIII Mr Squercum Is Employed
Chapter LX Miss Longestaffe’s Lover
Chapter LXI Lady Monogram Prepares for the Party
Chapter LXIII Mr Melmotte on the Day of the Election
Chapter LXV Miss Longestaffe Writes Home
Chapter LXVI “So Shall Be My Enmity”
Chapter LXVII Sir Felix Protects His Sister
Chapter LXVIII Miss Melmotte Declares Her Purpose
Chapter LXIX Melmotte in Parliament
Chapter LXX Sir Felix Meddles With Many Matters
Chapter LXXI John Crumb Falls Into Trouble
Chapter LXXIII Marie’s Fortune
Chapter LXXIV Melmotte Makes a Friend
Chapter LXXVI Hetta and Her Lover
Chapter LXXVII Another Scene in Bruton Street
Chapter LXXVIII Miss Longestaffe Again at Caversham
Chapter LXXIX The Brehgert Correspondence
Chapter LXXX Ruby Prepares for Service
Chapter LXXXI Mr Cohenlupe Leaves London
Chapter LXXXII Marie’s Perseverance
Chapter LXXXIII Melmotte Again at the House
Chapter LXXXIV Paul Montague’s Vindication
Chapter LXXXV Breakfast in Berkeley Square
Chapter LXXXVI The Meeting in Bruton Street
Chapter LXXXVII Down at Carbury
Chapter LXXXIX “The Wheel of Fortune”
Chapter XCII Hamilton K. Fisker Again
Chapter XCIV John Crumb’s Victory
Chapter XCV The Longestaffe Marriages
Chapter XCVI Where “The Wild Asses Quench Their Thirst”
Chapter XCVII Mrs Hurtle’s Fate
Chapter XCVIII Marie Melmotte’s Fate
Chapter XCIX Lady Carbury and Mr Broune
Chapter I
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