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Chapter 9 THE GREAT RAILWAY TO VERA CRUZ.

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he smartest private rooms of the great railway hotel at Liverpool, and they were addressed to a young Englishman who was sitting opposite to him. Between them there was a table covered with maps, sch

and Montague, was the American, and the Englishman

even speak to

tifies you in introducing me. We are not going to ask you

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e that. The moneyed men would go in with him at once, because they know that he understands the game and has got the pluck. A man who has done what he has by financing in Europe,-by George! there's no limit to what he might do with us. We're a bigger people than any of you and have more room. We

artners, I think I ought to let you know that many

in his mouth, and then closed one eye. "There is always

, into the territory of the Mexican Republic, run by the city of Mexico, and come out on the gulf at the port of Vera Cruz. Mr. Fisker admitted at once that it was a great undertaking, acknowledged that the distance might be perhaps something over 2,000 miles, a

liked Fisker,-and perhaps not the less so because when in California he had never found himself able to resist the man's good humour, audacity, and cleverness combined. He had found himself talked into agreeing with any project which Mr. Fisker might have in hand. It was altogether against the grai

was clearly his idea that fortunes were to be made out of the concern before a spadeful of earth had been moved. If brilliantly printed programmes might avail anything, with gorgeous maps, and beautiful little pictures of trains running into tunnels beneath snowy mountains and coming out of them on the margin of sunlit lakes, Mr. Fisker had certainly done much. But Paul, when he saw all these pretty things, could not keep his mind from thinking whence had come the money to pay for them. Mr. Fisker had declared that he had come over to obtain his partner's consent, but it seemed to that partner that a great deal had been done without any consent. And Paul's fears on this hand were not allayed by finding that on all these beautiful papers he himself was described as one of the agents and gener

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you weren't there, and so the two resident partners acted for the

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ousand dollars a year. We've got the concession from the United States Government through the territories, and we're in correspo

e money to

all these undertakings? If we can float the shares, the money'll come

ousand pounds!"

ll at a premium. If we can run them up even to 110, there would be three hundred thousand dollars. Bu

t know

and you can sign it." Whereupon Mr.

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greatest work of the age,-namely, the South Central Pacific and Mexican Railway, which is to give direct communication between San Francisco and the Gulf of Mexico. He is very anxious to see you upon his arrival, as he is aware

elmotte for a very pleasant even

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hn Bull Englishmen are so full of scruples that you lose as

of Paul's uncle as to have been allowed to do what he liked with the funds of the partnership, Paul could not stop it. On the following morning they went up to London together, and in the course of the afternoon Mr. Fisker presented himself in Abchurch Lane. The letter written at Liverpoo

nd the world around him therefore was not repelled. Fisker, on the other hand, was a shining little man,-perhaps about forty years of age, with a well-twisted moustache, greasy brown hair, which was becoming bald at the top, good-looking if his features were analysed, but insignificant in appearance. He was gorgeously dressed, with a silk waistcoat an

as no business to which he would refuse his co-operation on certain terms. But he had never burthened himself with a partner in the usual sense of the term. Here Fisker found three or four clerks seated at desks, and was desired to walk up-stairs. The steps were narrow and crooked, and the rooms were small and irregular. Her

, "the gentleman who has done me th

intance with a great many gents whom I don't remember afterwards. My partner I

man called Sir

"Our account here in London is kept with the City and West End Joint Stock. But I have only just arrived, and as my chief object i

I do for you

res before Mr. Melmotte's eyes, taking care that Mr. Melmotte should see how often the names of Fisker, Montague, and Montague, reappeared upon them. As Mr. Melmotte read the documents, Fisker from time to time put in a word. But the words had no reference at all to the futu

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n't get it taken up in your

motte, that nothing encourages this kind of thing like competition. When they hear at St. Louis and Chicago that the thing is alive in London, the

r have

States Congress. We're to have the land for nothing, of course, and a grant of o

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not ask the question in reference to any value that he might attach to the possession of such land

ou want me to

a spot on which it was indicated that there was, or was to be, a chairman of

our directors he

one of the Directors of the City and West End. But we would leave it all to you,-as also the amount of stock you would like to take yourself. If you gav

t with a certain amou

andages. Look at what we've done already, sir, by having our limbs pretty free. Look a

" The interview was over, and Mr. Fisker was contented with it. Had Mr. Melmotte not intended at least to think of it he would not have given ten minutes to the subject. After all, what w

Felix Carbury, Samuel Cohenlupe, Esq., Member of Parliament for Staines, a gentleman of the Jewish persuasion, Lord Nidderdale, who was also in Parliament, and Mr. Paul Montague. It may be thought that the directory was not strong, and tha

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Contents

Chapter 1 THREE EDITORS. Chapter 2 THE CARBURY FAMILY. Chapter 3 THE BEARGARDEN. Chapter 4 MADAME MELMOTTE'S BALL. Chapter 5 AFTER THE BALL. Chapter 6 ROGER CARBURY AND PAUL MONTAGUE. Chapter 7 MENTOR. Chapter 8 LOVE-SICK. Chapter 9 THE GREAT RAILWAY TO VERA CRUZ. Chapter 10 MR. FISKER'S SUCCESS. Chapter 11 LADY CARBURY AT HOME.
Chapter 12 SIR FELIX IN HIS MOTHER'S HOUSE.
Chapter 13 THE LONGESTAFFES.
Chapter 14 CARBURY MANOR.
Chapter 15 YOU SHOULD REMEMBER THAT I AM HIS MOTHER.
Chapter 16 THE BISHOP AND THE PRIEST.
Chapter 17 MARIE MELMOTTE HEARS A LOVE TALE.
Chapter 18 RUBY RUGGLES HEARS A LOVE TALE.
Chapter 19 HETTA CARBURY HEARS A LOVE TALE.
Chapter 20 LADY POMONA'S DINNER PARTY.
Chapter 21 EVERYBODY GOES TO THEM.
Chapter 22 LORD NIDDERDALE'S MORALITY.
Chapter 23 YES;-I'M A BARONET.
Chapter 24 MILES GRENDALL'S TRIUMPH.
Chapter 25 IN GROSVENOR SQUARE.
Chapter 26 MRS. HURTLE.
Chapter 27 MRS. HURTLE GOES TO THE PLAY.
Chapter 28 DOLLY LONGESTAFFE GOES INTO THE CITY.
Chapter 29 MISS MELMOTTE'S COURAGE.
Chapter 30 MR. MELMOTTE'S PROMISE.
Chapter 31 MR. BROUNE HAS MADE UP HIS MIND.
Chapter 32 LADY MONOGRAM.
Chapter 33 JOHN CRUMB.
Chapter 34 RUBY RUGGLES OBEYS HER GRANDFATHER.
Chapter 35 MELMOTTE'S GLORY.
Chapter 36 MR. BROUNE'S PERILS.
Chapter 37 THE BOARD-ROOM.
Chapter 38 PAUL MONTAGUE'S TROUBLES.
Chapter 39 I DO LOVE HIM.
Chapter 40 UNANIMITY IS THE VERY SOUL OF THESE THINGS.
Chapter 41 ALL PREPARED.
Chapter 42 CAN YOU BE READY IN TEN MINUTES
Chapter 43 THE CITY ROAD.
Chapter 44 THE COMING ELECTION.
Chapter 45 MR. MELMOTTE IS PRESSED FOR TIME.
Chapter 46 ROGER CARBURY AND HIS TWO FRIENDS.
Chapter 47 MRS. HURTLE AT LOWESTOFT.
Chapter 48 RUBY A PRISONER.
Chapter 49 SIR FELIX MAKES HIMSELF READY.
Chapter 50 THE JOURNEY TO LIVERPOOL.
Chapter 51 WHICH SHALL IT BE
Chapter 52 THE RESULTS OF LOVE AND WINE.
Chapter 53 A DAY IN THE CITY.
Chapter 54 THE INDIA OFFICE.
Chapter 55 CLERICAL CHARITIES.
Chapter 56 FATHER BARHAM VISITS LONDON.
Chapter 57 LORD NIDDERDALE TRIES HIS HAND AGAIN.
Chapter 58 MR. SQUERCUM IS EMPLOYED.
Chapter 59 THE DINNER.
Chapter 60 MISS LONGESTAFFE'S LOVER.
Chapter 61 LADY MONOGRAM PREPARES FOR THE PARTY.
Chapter 62 THE PARTY.
Chapter 63 MR. MELMOTTE ON THE DAY OF THE ELECTION.
Chapter 64 THE ELECTION.
Chapter 65 MISS LONGESTAFFE WRITES HOME.
Chapter 66 SO SHALL BE MY ENMITY.
Chapter 67 SIR FELIX PROTECTS HIS SISTER.
Chapter 68 MISS MELMOTTE DECLARES HER PURPOSE.
Chapter 69 MELMOTTE IN PARLIAMENT.
Chapter 70 SIR FELIX MEDDLES WITH MANY MATTERS.
Chapter 71 JOHN CRUMB FALLS INTO TROUBLE.
Chapter 72 ASK HIMSELF.
Chapter 73 MARIE'S FORTUNE.
Chapter 74 MELMOTTE MAKES A FRIEND.
Chapter 75 IN BRUTON STREET.
Chapter 76 HETTA AND HER LOVER.
Chapter 77 ANOTHER SCENE IN BRUTON STREET.
Chapter 78 MISS LONGESTAFFE AGAIN AT CAVERSHAM.
Chapter 79 THE BREHGERT CORRESPONDENCE.
Chapter 80 RUBY PREPARES FOR SERVICE.
Chapter 81 MR. COHENLUPE LEAVES LONDON.
Chapter 82 MARIE'S PERSEVERANCE.
Chapter 83 MELMOTTE AGAIN AT THE HOUSE.
Chapter 84 PAUL MONTAGUE'S VINDICATION.
Chapter 85 BREAKFAST IN BERKELEY SQUARE.
Chapter 86 THE MEETING IN BRUTON STREET.
Chapter 87 DOWN AT CARBURY.
Chapter 88 THE INQUEST.
Chapter 89 THE WHEEL OF FORTUNE.
Chapter 90 HETTA'S SORROW.
Chapter 91 THE RIVALS.
Chapter 92 HAMILTON K. FISKER AGAIN.
Chapter 93 A TRUE LOVER.
Chapter 94 JOHN CRUMB'S VICTORY.
Chapter 95 THE LONGESTAFFE MARRIAGES.
Chapter 96 WHERE THE WILD ASSES QUENCH THEIR THIRST.
Chapter 97 MRS. HURTLE'S FATE.
Chapter 98 MARIE MELMOTTE'S FATE.
Chapter 99 LADY CARBURY AND MR. BROUNE.
Chapter 100 DOWN IN SUFFOLK.
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