"As returning officer for the constituency of westminster," "I declare that the votes were cast as follows:" "Ferdinand alf, 10,167 votes." "Augustus john melmotte, 10,443." "I hereby declare that augustus john melmotte is elected member of parliament for the constituency of westminster." "Brown mp:" "The house will," "I am sure, agree with me that the entire english, er, glovemaking industry is in danger of extinction if these cheap imports continue from countries whose citizens have never even heard of income tax." "( Laughter ) and that it is our patriotic duty as englishmen to demand a levy on these imports." "( Loud murmuring ) no, no... no, no." "That's all wrong." "Mr. Brown here is a city man, and he ought to know that protectionism don't work." "It never has and it never will." "You cannot stop trade that way only a damn fool would try." "Mps:" "Take your hat off!" "( Chanting "off" )" "order!" "Order!" "( Continuous chanting "off" )" "speaker:" "Order!" "Order!" "Order!" "The honorable member is not yet aware that he should not call another member by his name, but allude to the honorable member for whitechapel." "All:" "Hear, hear!" "Order!" "Order!" "And when a member is speaking, he should remove his hat." "( Laughter ) order!" "Proceed, mr." "Melmotte." "Proceed." "( Laughter subsiding ) enough." "( Laughing and cheering ) well, I've had my say." "It's all wrong, and they ought to know better." "That's all." "Speaker:" "I call on the honorable member for grimsby." "( Booing ) this is a damned stupid place." "I don't know why i went through the trouble to get myself elected." "Speaker:" "Order!" "Ah!" "Mr. Montague!" "Always a pleasure to see you in the city." "Rather busy today, as you can see." "If you would just wait for a moment-- no, I wouldn'T." "I'll go in now." "You'll go in now." "Mr. Montague." "Back from mexico." "I gather the work went well then?" "It's a shame it had to be curtailed." "It had to be curtailed because the funds you promised never materialized." "That's only temporary." "This sort of thing is usual in large undertakings." "We've many outgoings, liquidity desirable for many eventualities." "Don't worry, mr." "Montague, you'll get your railway, by-and-by." "No." "I won't be put off like that again." "I believe you have been milking the company to fund a whole number of other schemes you've floated." "I also believe you've used the company's money to buy property for your own personal use and to fund your election expenses." "Oh, you do, do you?" "I'm going to have to make public everything I know." "You don't want to do that, you know." "You're a good sort of fellow, even though you've been a bit of a thorn in my side." "But we have got a lot in common, you and me." "We can see things the other fellow can'T." "And we both know it's not about money, it's about creating something great-- changing the world, eh?" "Doing something that we'll be remembered for." "Look... public confidence is the essence in these things." "And once you've got that... you can do anything." "Mmm?" "Including robbing your own company?" "That's not worthy of you, mr." "Montague." "I tell you what's in my heart, and you answer with cheap and petty accusations!" "Well, two can play at that game!" "Anymore along those lines, and you'll find yourself in court, young man, and in jail soon afterwards!" "I tried to help you!" "But if you want to ruin yourself, you-- you go ahead." "Harm the company!" "Augustus melmotte is big enough to weather the storm." "Croll... show the gentleman out." "I can find my own way." "Thank you for your trouble." "Good afternoon, mr." "Croll." "Always a pleasure to see you, sir." "( Door closes ) he'll do for us, mr." "Melmotte." "No, he won'T." "We weathered worse than this." "( Door closes ) allow me to wish you every happiness." "Don't say what you don't mean." "You think I would wish to see you unhappy?" "What's done is done." "I may not be going to marry paul montague after all." "I don't understand." "That is why i asked you to come." "Felix told me something about paul." "Something hateful." "He says that paul keeps a mistress." "An american woman, a mrs." "Hurtle." "Is it true?" "Feeling as I do about you, how can I be fair to him?" "Easily... just tell me the truth." "Very well." "Paul montague was involved with a mrs." "Hurtle in america." "I believe they were engaged to be married." "He has told me that that engagement is over." "It's true that she is in the country now." "And that they have seen each other." "More than that," "I cannot--I cannot say." "Our friendship is over, but I won't slander him." "I think you should ask him yourself." "Mr. Alf:" "Well, mr." "Montague, this is... just about what I suspected all along." "Though I never expected to be given the evidence by one of the directors of the company." "You will swear to it?" "You won't go back on your word?" "No, I shan'T." "Whatever the consequences." "There will be consequences." "Mr. Melmotte, he'll try and muzzle us with the law." "But we shall publish all the same, and it'll just about knock the city sideways." "Mr. Melmotte's pie shall fall right out of the sky." "I imagine you will got rid of most of your shares before the price starts falling?" "No." "It was never a consideration for me." "All I wanted to do was build a railway." "And that's still what I want to do." "I'll get one of my best men on this right away." ""No railway in mexico," eh?" ""Where did the money go?"" "Not bad." "You've set the cat among the pigeons here, mr." "Montague." "( Knocking ) lady carbury." "Sir felix." "Hetta-- before you say anything more, mr." "Montague, let me tell you that you are not welcome in this house and you are to have no future conversation with my daughter." "You may regard your engagement at an end." "I don't--I don't understand." "What's this all about?" "You know damn well, sir!" "It's about that mistress you keep in islington." "Hetta:" "Felix." "Mother." "I want to speak to mr." "Montague alone." "Is she your mistress, as felix says?" "No, she is not." "Are you engaged to her?" "I was engaged to her more than two years ago." "I swear to you it was all over between us before I met you." "Were you in love with her?" "I thought I was." "But it's all over now." "I love you." "Then what is she doing in england now?" "Why are you still seeing her?" "I thought I would never see her again." "I thought it was over for her as it was for me." "And so you took her to lowestoft?" "Yes, I did." "At her request-- it was for her health." "Have you seen her since then?" "Once only." "It is truly over, hetta." "You must believe this." "And you never said a word about her-- all the time you were making love to me." "Why should I believe you now?" "Because it's the truth." "I thought I could end it with her without you ever needing to find out about it." "I see now that was the wrong thing to do." "But hetta--hetta, you must acknowledge i have tried to do the honorable thing by both of you." "You loved her once and you abandoned her." "How do I know you won't abandon me?" "No." "I think you better go back to your mrs." "Hurtle and tell her that you're ready to honor your engagement to her." "Hetta, you don't mean that." "Why shouldn't I mean it?" "Because you love me-- no, don't touch me." "You have no right to talk to me about love." "I'd like you to leave now." "You're really throwing me over?" "As you did with her." "Good-bye... mr." "Montague." "So you've published the announcement for you and our ruby, have you?" "Yes." "That's it." "Or, rather, it will be in the paper next week." "When we've read it in black and white, you can see our ruby." "Till then you don'T." "Auntie!" "When he's come all this way?" "If I were you, miss pipkin," "I shouldn't take him at his word." "I found these english gentlemen to take their promises pretty lightly." "I say, don't take that tone with me!" "I know all about you, you know!" "You and that fellow montague." "That's no business of yours, sir felix." "Oh, isn't it?" "Well, I say it is." "I have my sister's honor to protect, you know." "Your sister's honor is perfectly safe, sir felix." "There is no longer anything between me and mr." "Montague." "Oh... oh, mrs." "Hurtle..." "I think you should go now, sir felix." "I'm sure you'll be very welcome when your engagement to ruby is made public." "Witness, the great carlini always escapes." "Good evening, ma'am." "Sorry to bother you so late." "I know who you are." "Mr. Crumb, the miller." "And you've come to see our ruby." "That's right, mrs." "Pipkin." "I am and I have." "( Booing and screaming ) they were ever so mean about you felix, saying I was a silly girl to believe you." "You will be publishing the announcement and marrying me, won't you?" "Yes, yes, by and by, of course, you know." "Yes, but when?" "I want to know." "I've got things to get ready." "I haven't even bought my wedding clothes yet." "Look here, I'm just about sick of this game." "I'm very fond of you and all that, but you never really thought i would be able to marry you, did you?" "But you promised." "Look!" "I've got to marry a rich girl." "What am I going to have to live on?" "We have a jolly time, don't we?" "If mrs." "Hurtle can have her fun, then so can we." "Stop being so silly and come upstairs like a good girl." "No, I will not!" "I'm going and I'm finished with you!" "I thought you loved me, but you've just been playing around with me." "I know a man worth ten of you!" "No!" "Let go!" "( Sobbing ) ruby!" "Ruby!" "Ruby!" "Leave me alone!" "Stop being such a damn silly girl!" "Yes!" "I know now that's what you thought me all the time." "It's over now, and you shan't see me ever again!" "All right, then, damn you!" "I'll give you something to remember me by!" "Get off me, you nasty thing!" "Shut your little mouth and open your legs!" "Help!" "Police!" "No!" "Stop!" "No!" "Police!" "Police!" "Is it ruby?" "I'm here, ruby!" "Oh, john... ( coughs )" "( breathing heavily ) now, you... all right... you blackguard... come on, then!" "You're the blackguard, mister." "Oh, john... ( felix groans )" "( coughs ) come on!" "Get up, you wiper!" "No thanks." "I've had sufficient." "No, you ain't!" "( Police whistle )" "john, don't kill him!" "Look after this young lady, officer." "She's very precious to me." "You can arrest me now if you like." "I done that... and I ain't sorry." "How many were there this time, felix?" "About six, mother." "Trapped me in a dark alley." "Well, darling, you shouldn't go down dark alleys at night." "No wonder you get attacked." "It was all for hetta's sake." "I saw her, hetta, montague's mistress." "She was very rude to me, as a matter of fact." "Told me to mind my own business." "I don't care what she said." "She can have paul montague, or not, as she chooses." "I shall never see him again." "Does that mean you'll marry your cousin roger after all?" "No, mother." "How very vexing that girl is!" "( Felix groans ) he's here." "Show him in, croll." "Ah, mr." "Alf... it's very good of you to come." "Please, take a seat." "Thank you." "Dare say you're surprised i sent for you." "Not entirely." "I imagine you're stepping down as member for westminster, and you've a statement to make for the press." "( Chuckling ) no, then you imagine wrong." "I won that election fair and square, and I'm not about to step down... for anyone." "I want you to call your dogs off." "( Chuckling ) call my dogs off?" "All this nonsense." "It's irresponsible." "Have you seen the share price this morning?" "Good men are jumping out of windows because of you." "Their widows and children are starving in the streets, thanks to you." "My paper reports the facts." "The fact is you undertook to build a railway, huh?" "And the fact is... you haven'T." "But the great fact is," "I will!" "If you had come to me, man to man," "I would've explained it all to you!" "It's all a question of timing, you see." "And between you and me, if you were to buy now, you'd see the share price go up again, and those chaps that panicked will be smiling on the other side of their faces." "( Chuckling )" "I don't think so." "And I think I should tell you i've sent a man to vienna, too." "Look here, ralph, you and I, we shouldn't be enemies." "We've both come up the hard way." "Always had to fight and struggle in this world." "Not like these princes, baronets, dukes, and what have you." "We've come from nothing, but made something of ourselves." "Now, I respect you for that, and you should respect me." "I don't care for privilege anymore than you do." "But I do care about honesty, justice, and truth!" "Yes!" "And so do I!" "But in this world, a man is obliged to cut a few corners now and then, just to get the job done for the good of others." "I've never found it necessary, sir." "Then you're either a liar or a fool." "I hope I'm neither." "I just use my newspaper to tell the truth as best I can, and I don't take kindly to being insulted, so I'll take my leave now." "You think you're the great shining sword of truth, do you?" "It's easy for the likes of you, alf, standing on the sidelines, watching while better men than you change the world and move mountains." "You might find the world to be a better place if you tried to something for the good of it." "That might be a fair criticism, mr." "Melmotte, if you did change the world and move mountains." "But from what I can see, the only thing you move is money from the pockets of other men into your own!" "Good day, mr." "Melmotte." "Croll:" "Good afternoon, sir." "Always a pleasure to see you in the city." "Croll:" "They want their money for pickering park, or they want the title deeds back." "And, um, mr." "Brehgert, he's very sorry, but he has to ask to see security for the new loan." "Already?" "Feeling a little tired, croll." "I think I shall go home early." "I should use the back way, sir." "I shall." "Just a little tired, that's all." "Just a little tired of keeping it all going for them all." "Little gratitude wouldn't come amiss now and then." "I'm grateful... mr." "Melmotte." "I know you are, croll." "I know you are." "Are we going to be all right, mr." "Melmotte?" "Certainly we are." "Certainly we are." "Marquis of auld reekie:" "Is it true?" "Is he really done for?" "Don't see how he can come back from it." "No, it's that fellow, alf, and his evening pulpit." "And that fellow, montague." "How much are the shares down?" "Fifty percent?" "Forty-two percent of the issue value." "Well, I hope it's not as bad as it sounds." "He still owes us eighteen thou on pickering park." "We haven't seen a penny yet." "Sold your shares yet, grendall?" "No, not I." "No, it's all talk." "I'm hanging on." "So should you." "Ha!" "There speaks a brave man." "( Sighs ) dear mrs." "Hurtle, mr." "Paul montague has referred me to you and, no doubt, he has spoken of me." "I shall be very grateful if you would allow me to call on you on any afternoon you choose." "Well... miss carbury." "Yes..." "I am glad that you came." "One imagines so many things, but... you are very much as he described you." "Do sit down, miss carbury." "So why did you come?" "Was it simply to triumph over me?" "No." "I want to know whether you-- you still consider yourself engaged to mr." "Montague." "What does he say?" "He says it is all over between you." "Does he?" "Then he lies." "He may wish it were all over between us, but it is not." "Even though he no longer feels for you what he once did?" "What do you presume to know about his feelings for me?" "Only what he tells me." "You have no business to pry into his feelings for me or mine for him!" "He loves me now." "What good can come of an engagement where love is gone?" "And what makes you think that our love is gone?" "If paul montague had no feelings for me, do you suppose he would have visited me here again and again!" "Here, in my private lodgings!" "Do you suppose he would have taken me, unaccompanied, to a seaside place and stayed with me in the same hotel?" "He told me that he took you there... at your request for the sake of your health." "Oh, yes, I imagine he would have put it like that." "You english have a gift for that kind of thing." "Did he... did he make love to you there?" "Do you think you have a right to ask me that?" "I don't know, but I do ask it." "Well... what do you think generally happens, miss carbury, between a man and a woman staying together as a couple in a seaside hotel?" "I hope you don't want me to go into details." "No." "Thank you, mrs." "Hurtle." "Thank you for seeing me." "That is all I wanted to know." "Good-bye." "( Reporters clamoring ) mr." "Brehgert, do you have any news about the mexican railway collapse?" "Will melmotte and co." "Be hammered, sir?" "I don't think it's come to that yet, gentlemen." "Every cloud has a silver lining." "Tell him to settle his grocery bills then!" "Damn it!" "This is a solid company, mr." "Brehgert, founded on rock." "It'S...solid as the bank of england." "We shall wipe the grins off their faces, mr." "Brehgert." "I'm very glad to hear that, mr." "Melmotte." "Even so, though, with the drop in the share prices, my partners will need to see some security now." "Or we shall, very reluctantly, have to call in the debt." "Oh... you don't want to do that, mr." "Brehgert." "You might see nothing at all." "Then things really are as bad as everyone fears?" "( Chuckling ) not a bit of it." "Come on, I'm only joking." "Melmotte's got plenty of money, but it's tucked away." "Only he don't like to touch it, that's all." "He's a little superstitious like that." "But you have been a very good friend to melmotte, and you shall see it." "You shall see that melmotte and company are as sound as a bell." "Come on, sit down." "It's marie's money, do you see?" "I put it in the bank in her name, just in case, you know, and I've added to it every year, and it's a very substantial sum, and I've never cared to dip into it, that's all." "If the money is there, mr." "Melmotte, then there is no need to dip into it at this stage." "But the bank must see that it is there." "And that it is available to you." "And that's only fair." "And the railway will be built." "I stake my life on it, mr." "Brehgert." "Stake my life on it... between you and me, we are a little overstretched just now." "Because we've got so many opportunities coming so close together." "We've got india, canada, china." "These are great enterprises, mr." "Brehgert." "They could turn this little island into the greatest trading country in the world." "They should be grateful to me that I chose to become an englishman, but they're not." "They're like a--a pack of snapping dogs!" "( Mimics dog barking ) we'll put the matter of security in hand immediately." "Mr. Melmotte... ( clears throat ) you have been very kind to me." "You have been the means of making me acquainted with the lady that i hope soon to make my wife." "Now, I think you are troubled." "Tell me, is there any way in which I could help you?" "( Whispering ) you could write if off as a bad debt and say nothing about it." "Mr. Melmotte," "I think you know-- come on, come on!" "I'm only joking." "Don't worry about melmotte." "You shall get your money." "Now... go and talk sweet nothings to that lovely fianc of yours." "Go on!" "Go, go, go!" "I long to leave this house." "Then let it be soon, my dearest." "Have you had word from your family?" "Yes." "Papa's been utterly beastly about the whole affair." "I'm not sure i shall ever bring myself to speak to him again." "Your father has written to me and in very intemperate language." "Well, I have been used to that in my lifetime." "But the world is changing, and perhaps when we are married, he may change and soften, too." "But if he does not?" "Mr. Brehgert, you must understand that I may be cutting myself off from my whole family and a good part of my friends in marrying A... in marrying out of my religion." "And so it is vitally important that we are quite clear about what it is you are offering me." "Of course, I would wish everything to be quite clear, too." "As to religion," "I am very happy that you should practice your own." "And that should we be blessed with children, they might be brought up subject to your influence." "Oh, I had not thought of that." "As to the children of my first marriage" "I don't think i can be expected to have anything to do with them." "Nothing at all?" "They have a governess, but, naturally," "I was hoping-- naturally?" "I don't see what's natural about it." "They're not my children, are they?" "No, they are not." "But they are mine, georgiana." "They are, as it were, a part of me." "I would have that when you accept me, you accept all that I am, and have." "I don't see that at all, mr." "Brehgert." "You're not asking me to come and work at the bank with you?" "No." "But that isn't quite the same thing." "Please do not bring up the question of your children again." "I assume they will be living at your house in fulham, so there will be no need for me to see them." "As to that," "I am sorry to say-- you're not going back on the london house?" "Only for the present." "The fact is," "I am anticipating a very heavy loss in the next week or so." "I authorized my bank to make a large loan to a business that is likely to go under very soon." "So you are to be bankrupt now?" "Oh, no, no, no." "Far from it." "But...a second house... a london house in a fashionable location with all the furniture and servants that you would expect and deserve, that won't be possible for a year or two." "I'm very sorry." "Are you telling me you want me to go live in fulham?" "I wish it were not so, georgiana, but regrettably-- let me make myself clear, mr." "Brehgert." "When we first talked about marriage, a london house was promised." "Perhaps you did not understand then that a proper establishment is an absolute necessity for me." "I must be in town for the season." "I wonder that you should be so obtuse." "It grieves me to disappoint you, georgiana, but, as I say, it will only be for a while." "Still you say this!" "Don't you understand?" "!" "It is entirely unacceptable that I should go and live in fulham with your jew children for a week...for a day!" "You should not have proposed to me if you were not able or prepared to make the necessary financial outlay." "No, I should not." "I see that now." "Thank you for enlightening me, miss longestaffe." "You may regard our engagement as at an end." "What?" "May I say that I was never under the illusion that you had formed a passionate attachment for me." "But I did deceive myself into thinking that your interest was, shall we say, not entirely mercenary." "It seems we both made a mistake." "I wish you every happiness." "Good-bye, miss longestaffe." "Mr. Brehgert?" "( Sobbing ) he's gone." "It's all over." "I've been jilted by a jew!" "( Reporters clamoring )" "( laughing ) my dearest, hetta," "I cannot bear to think that I have lost you forever." "I have been a fool, and I realize now that I should have told you the truth from the start, but I never lied to you." "Whatever passed between mrs." "Hurtle and me... my love for her was over before I met you." "Hetta, if you really love me," "I beg you not to separate yourself from me." "My love for you is so absolute and intense that I cannot see my way to living without you." "Paul montague for miss carbury." "Hetta, you have every right to be angry with me, but you are breaking my heart and, I believe, your own." "Please let me see you again... your most affectionate, paul montague." "Mr. Longestaffe, sr.," "Mr. Longestaffe, jr.," "And a mr." "Squercum to see mr." "Melmotte as a matter of urgency." "He's not at home." "Lean on the door, mr." "Longestaffe, sir." "( Yelling and screaming ) it is a matter of urgency as I said!" "Where is mr." "Melmotte?" "The master has not risen yet." "Then it's about time he did." "Come on!" "Where's his bedroom?" "Which way do you think?" "I say, I'm not sure this is quite the thing, wandering around another man's house." "Ah, gentlemen... you're very welcome." "But isn't it rather early?" "Have I mistook the time?" "My clients have urgent business with you, mr." "Melmotte." "Oh, have they?" "And who are you?" "Squercum, sir." "Squercum and co.," "Solicitors." "Fetter lane." "Never heard of you." "But you're very welcome." "Come, let's go down to the book room." "Will you take a glass of brandy and water with me, gentlemen?" "Ah, well-- certainly not!" "We have come for our money, the purchase price for pickering park, or the title deeds." "My client puts it most succinctly, mr." "Melmotte." "The money or the deeds." "This morning." "Eighty thousand." "M. This morning." "If it has to be this mor it will have to be the title deeds." "I don't carry that much money in my waistcoat pocket, do I croll?" "No, indeed, mr." "Melmotte." "The deeds it is then." "I say hold on." "Have you seen what he's done to it?" "He's pulled it half down to rebuild it." "We won't take it back like that." "Then perhaps you'd consider payment by installments." "Squercum:" "Certainly not." "Hold on, squercum, let's see what he proposes." "Fifty thousand on friday... the rest the following friday." "He hasn't got it." "It's all over the city." "He's busted!" "He's a gone coon." "Well, then you'd better take the title deeds, hadn't you?" "Will you put it in writing, sir?" "And sign to it." "With pleasure, gentlemen!" "Draw it up, croll!" "What a pleasure doing business with you, gentlemen." "( Reporters clamoring ) dolly, get in." "This is the most embarrassing day of my life." "Give me the papers." "You'd better wait here, croll." "I'll call for you to witness the signatures." "What a pleasant domestic scene." "What do you want, papa?" "Marie, my dear... you remember just before we left paris," "I placed rather a large sum of money in your name?" "Yes, papa." "You wanted me to make sure nobody could get at it if you got into trouble." "Who says I'm in trouble?" "Everybody does." "You're a little too quick, my dear." "Madame melmotte:" "Let your papa speak, dear." "I put it in your name, marie, but, of course, I never meant to put it beyond my own reach-- it is, after all, my property." "But it's really mine." "By a quibble of the law, yes, but not so as to give you any right to it, my dear." "In any case, this is for your own benefit." "In the matters concerning your forthcoming marriage with lord nidderdale, settlements must be drawn." "All you need to do is to sign these papers in one or two places." "Mr. Croll is waiting outside." "I'll call him in to witness your signature." "No, papa." "You say no to me?" "If I'm to be married, what's mine will be my husbands." "Why should I sign it away now?" "I don't believe you." "I think you've lost your own money, and now you want to steal mine." "Steal your money?" "It was never yours in the first place, damn you!" "In that case you can do what you like with it without my signing." "Marie... understand..." "I must have this money at my disposal for use in the city tomorrow... or I shall be ruined." "Now, think of all i have done for you." "Look around you." "We have traveled all this way from the gutters of europe, marie." "I've lived off scraps like a dog so you should have the life of a lady." "And look at you now." "About to marry a peer of the realm." "I never wanted the life of a lady." "Ungrateful girl." "Petite salope!" "Don't tell me about the gutters of europe!" "I was there," "I saw it all!" "I saw how you cheated and stole and bullied, and lied, and ran away leaving debts!" "For you!" "For you!" "You never loved me!" "It was all for you!" "For yourself!" "And what did you do with my mother?" "That couldn't be helped." "Marie... will you do this one thing for me now?" "And save us all from ruin?" "No..." "I won'T." "You...ungrateful... little beast!" "No, melmotte!" "Aaah!" "Mr. Croll!" "Mr. Melmotte!" "It's not the way." "Salope!" "Of course, there's no reason why I shouldn't sign the girl's name myself." "Well, I'm her father." "It is my money, after all." "Ah, but then, in order to satisfy brehgert and the rest, the signature would have to be witnessed." "We've known each other a long time, walter." "It's a small thing to put your name to a piece of paper to say I can have my own money." "Hmm?" "Go on then." "Go, go, back to the city." "I think I shall be able to persuade her." "In any case," "I'll come to you in half an hour." "Ja whol." "Auf english, croll!" "Auf english." "English gentleman to the last." "No... we haven't come to you yet." "Give this to mr." "Brehgert, at todd, brehgert and goldsheimer." "Make sure he gets it before close of business." "Lady carbury:" "Of course, nothing can be expected of him." "But hetta, that she should be so stubborn." "Oh, mr." "Broune," "I see nothing but ruin for us all." "Felix, where are you going?" "Just thought I'd take a little air, ma." "Oh, mr." "Broune, what am I to do?" "I must bear it as best I can," "I suppose." "I...at least i still have my pen." "I shall begin a new book." "What do you think of..." ""great mothers of history"?" "Lady carbury," "I can no longer bear to stand by and see you suffer alone." "Will you let me be the one to take your troubles from you?" "Oh, mr." "Broune... you are a kind and generous man, but I cannot allow you to shoulder such burdens." "I assure you... they will be as light as feathers to me." "I seem to have fallen through in everything I do." "I do not see what I can give you in return." "Yourself." "Oh, mr." "Broune, do you really mean... if only you knew how long and devoutly i have admired your beauty, your courage... you would not need to ask." "But I have no money." "I am not proposing to you for your money." "I have enough for the both of us." "And the children?" "Your daughter i can love as my own." "And it is proof of my devotion to you if I say..." "I can attempt the same for your son." "Do you really think you can deal with felix?" "I'm sure of it." "If you will let me." "Mmm." "Oh, mr." "Broune... how good you are." "( Chatting ) hello, felix." "Come to apologize, grendall... about the cheating." "Take it all back." "What do you say?" "Let bygones be bygones." "Come on, grendall." "Chap can't say fairer than that." "Shake hands, walt." "Going to play, carbury?" "Don't mind if I do." "( Onlookers chuckle )" "( gasping ) sir felix carbury?" "Mmm, yes, what of it?" "You're off on a short trip, sir." "What?" "To the continent." "In here." "Dover port, and don't stop on the way, driver." "Croll:" "Mr. Brehgert sent for me last night." "And he told me to take this back to you." "( Sighs ) he says you forgot to get one signature... this one." "It should say" ""W. Croll" there... as well." "( Devilish laughter ) it's a pretty strong order, mr." "Melmotte." "And brehgert knows it's a forgery?" "I think he does, sir." "And, uh, he's not going to the police?" "And nor shall I, mr." "Melmotte." "But I shan't be back in the lane anymore." "( Sighs ) what, you're not back at the office, croll?" "I think not... no." "So you're leaving me?" "There's a little money owing... but you'll send it, no?" "( Chuckling ) good-bye, mr." "Melmotte." "Lady carbury:" "Oh, hetta." "There's a lady waiting for you in the sitting room." "Forgive the intrusion, miss carbury." "I'm going back to the states, and I wanted to see you before I go." "You're leaving with mr." "Montague?" "I am traveling alone." "I've been doing some thinking since last we met." "I guess I've been playing a bad hand for too long." "He's yours, miss carbury, if you want him." "And I should take him, if I were you." "And tell him he has nothing to fear from me." "I've put away my pistols and my whips." "I shan't be taking my revenge, not this time." "I only wish i could've made him love me as he did a long time ago." "But when I came to see you before-- miss carbury... when I spoke to you before i let you think that paul montague and I made love at lowestoft." "I want to tell you now that... that wasn't true." "I asked him to spend one last night with me, but he refused... for your sake." "( Relieved ) there... when I spoke to you before," "I couldn't bear to let you triumph over me, but now I find I can." "I don't want to triumph over you." "Why not?" "!" "You've got him." "Are you telling me you don't want him now?" "Oh, it's so...messy, and complicated and compromised." "When I first fell in love with him," "I thought he was perfect." "None of them are." "None of us, come to that." "But as men go, he's about as good as they come." "Roger carbury is entirely good." "Maybe... but what use is a man like that to you or me?" "No passion... no spirit, no badness." "He might as well be stuffed in a museum." ""An english country gentleman, circa 1870."" "Paul wants you." "Take a chance on him." "It might not work out, but at least you'll have an interesting ride." "And I wish you every happiness." "Good-bye, miss carbury." "I am glad to have met you." "You better pack up your jewels." "Is something going to happen, melmotte?" "Pack them up small." "Keep them ready to hand." "You might have to travel without me." "And marie, too?" "( Chuckles ) no." "The girl's all right." "( Chuckles ) she has her own money." "Are we ruined, melmotte?" "Pretty much." "We stayed too long." "I enjoyed it too much... being an english gentleman." "Perhaps I should have built that damn railroad after all." "I don't understand." "( Chuckles ) you don't?" "The shares are at nothing..." "I owe hundreds of thousands... with nothing to pay with." "So what are you staring at?" "What will you do?" "Will they send you to prison?" "Uh... if it comes to it." "I shall go down to the house... and if I fall... they shall see i can fall like a man." "( Jeering )" "( breathing heavily ) speaker:" "Order!" "A statement to the house from the chancellor of the exchequer." "Mr. Melmotte... do you wish to raise a point of order?" "( Jeering )" "( screaming and yelling ) order!" "Order!" "Order!" "( Breathing heavily )" "( growls loudly )" "( yelling and screaming )" "( people clamoring )" "( hears crowd screaming )" "( thunder )" "( sputters then laughs )" "( coughing )" "( continues laughing )" "( sniffing ) prussic acid." "( Sobbing ) is he your own doctor?" "Will he want money?" "No, no, please." "I wouldn't dream of it." "I, uh... it's all right." "I understand." "The engagement's all over." "What a life it has been." "Now it's over..." "I don't suppose i shall see you again." "I don't know why you should think that." "Yes, you do." "You like me well enough, but you have to marry fortune like all the rest." "Now, let's not pretend." "It's all right." "You can go now." "( Sobbing ) papa... croll:" "It was a bad shame, you know." "Too many things... if he'd stuck to the railway, he might have come out right." "Mr. Fisker arrived in london yesterday." "He can deal with the creditors." "Mademoiselle, your money is safe." "Nobody can touch it." "Not if he was in debt millions." "You're still a rich young lady." "You can... look after that one, no?" "If I choose to." "Thank you, mr." "Croll." "I feel as if i have to start my life all over again." "I didn't love my father." "But life will be so strange without him there." "What about you?" "Are you happy with the man you love?" "No..." "I have broken with him." "I found he was involved with another woman." "No...the beast!" "Does he love this other woman and not you?" "No, I think he loves me." "And I still love him." "Then take him." "You must." "Don't be a fool." "You don't understand..." "I understand this-- that we women must take our fates in our own hands." "I will never be like that woman in there, or my poor mother." "I will live my life to the full." "So must you." "Fisker:" "Paul... it is great to see you." "How is everything?" "I'm surprised you have the nerve to show your face here, fisker." "Hey, hey, hold heart, partner, listen." "I understand that things weren't so good the last time that we met." "But you can't blame me for that." "Things are a damn sight worse now, I suppose." "No doubt you've come over to wind up the company?" "Are you crazy?" "Have you not seen the price of the american stock?" "Paul, we're going to build the railway." "Come here." "Sit down." "Look... this is the new schedule of works." "Take a look at it." "No, go on, check it out." "After all, you're going to be the one who's in charge of it." "If that's still what you want." "Didn't I tell ya it always pans out like this." "The first wave of investors lose their shirts, but the second wave, they make their fortunes." "It's too bad that old melmotte got in too deep." "You know, I" "I had a lot of time for that man." "He made his mark in the world, all right, but he had to always push that a little too far." "I hope you held on to your shares." "So, come on, paul, what's it going to be?" "Are you in or are you out?" "Why should i believe a word you say?" "First, because we are partners." "That's why." "And second, because it is guaranteed in black and white, page 29, construction is to begin in one week's time." "And--and the money, it is in the bank." "So what's it going to be?" "Are you in or are you out?" "Hey, I thought that you wanted to build a railway." "Lady carbury:" "No, mr." "Montague," "I'm afraid that's out of the question." "Then would you tell her i came to say good-bye?" "I'm leaving the country shortly." "Probably forever." "I made a mess of things with your daughter, lady carbury." "And I dare say, she'll be as glad to see the back of me as you are." "I don't deserve her." "I know that." "But I never meant to make her unhappy." "It's a strange and complicated life-- the way we live now, and... things aren't always as clear-cut as we'd like them to be." "But one thing is as clear as day for me..." "I love hetta." "And I always will." "Will you tell her that for me?" "And that I hope she'll be happy... and that I shall be thinking of her every minute of every day." "Good-bye, lady carbury." "Good-bye, mr." "Montague." "Paul!" "Hetta!" "Paul!" "Take me with you."