little attempt had also been communicated in the papers;
and Sir Felix, though he was not recognized as being
‘real Suffolk’ himself, was so far connected
with Suffolk by name as to add something to this feeling
of reality respecting the Melmottes generally.
Suffolk is very old-fashioned. Suffolk, taken
as a whole, did not like the Melmotte fashion.
Suffolk, which is, I fear, persistently and irrecoverably
Conservative, did not believe in Melmotte as a Conservative
Member of Parliament. Suffolk on this occasion
was rather ashamed of the Longestaffes, and took occasion
to remember that it was barely the other day, as Suffolk
counts days, since the original Longestaffe was in
trade. This selling of Pickering, and especially
the selling of it to Melmotte, was a mean thing.
Suffolk, as a whole, thoroughly believed that Melmotte
had picked the very bones...