human
You know what's up now;--don't you?
gpt
A good deal will be up soon,
human
Cohenlupe has gone!
gpt
And to vere has Mr. Cohenlupe gone?
human
He hasn't been civil enough to leave his address. I fancy he don't want his friends to have to trouble themselves by writing to him. Nobody seems to know what's become of him.
gpt
New York,
human
They seem to think not. They're too hospitable in New York for Mr. Cohenlupe just at present. He's travelling private. He's on the continent somewhere,--half across France by this time; but nobody knows what route he has taken. That'll be a poke in the ribs for the old boy;--eh, Croll? Croll merely shook his head.
gpt
I wonder what has become of Miles Grendall,
human
Ven de rats is going avay it is bad for de house. I like de rats to stay.
gpt
There seems to have been a regular manufactory of Mexican Railway scrip.
human
Our governor knew noding about dat,
gpt
He has a hat full of them at any rate. If they could have been kept up another fortnight they say Cohenlupe would have been worth nearly a million of money, and the governor would have been as good as the bank. Is it true they are going to have him before the Lord Mayor about the Pickering title-deeds?
human
It's a bad thing,
gpt
Yes;--it is bad. He had a vast amount of my property in his hands. Where has he gone? Croll shook his head.
human
It never rains but it pours, said Melmotte.
gpt
Well; I'll weather it all yet. I've been worse than I am now, Croll, as you know, and have had a hundred thousand pounds at my banker's,--loose cash,--before the month was out.
human
Yes, indeed,
gpt
But the worst of it is that every one around me is so damnably jealous. It isn't what I've lost that will crush me, but what men will say that I've lost. Ever since I began to stand for Westminster there has been a dead set against me in the City. The whole of that affair of the dinner was planned,--planned by G----, that it might ruin me. It was all laid out just as you would lay the foundation of a building. It is hard for one man to stand against all that when he has dealings so large as mine.
human
Very hard, Mr. Melmotte.
gpt
But they'll find they're mistaken yet. There's too much of the real stuff, Croll, for them to crush me. Property's a kind of thing that comes out right at last. It's cut and come again, you know, if the stuff is really there. But I mustn't stop talking here. I suppose I shall find Brehgert in Cuthbert's Court.
human
I should say so, Mr. Melmotte. Mr. Brehgert never leaves much before six.