18/27 I won't go to Caversham to meet old mother Melmotte.' 'My dear boy,' continued the mother, '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 ?' 'Half the fellows in London are after her,' said Dolly. 'If you've a mind to try it you'll have a chance which nobody else can have just at present.' 'But I haven't any mind to try it. Good gracious me;--oh dear! it isn't at all in my way, mother.' 'I knew he wouldn't,' said Georgiana. |