to his daughter, so that in the event of unforeseen accidents on ’Change, he might retire to obscure comfort, and have the means perhaps of beginning again with whitewashed cleanliness.  When doing this, he had doubtless not anticipated the grandeur to which he would soon rise, or the fact that he was about to embark on seas so dangerous that this little harbour of refuge would hardly offer security to his vessel.  Marie had been quite correct in her story to her favoured lover.  And the Marquis’s lawyer had ascertained that if Marie ever married before she herself had restored this money to her father, her husband would be so far safe,—­with this as a certainty and the immense remainder in prospect.  The Marquis had determined to persevere.  Pickering was to be added.  Mr Melmotte had...