On the 3rd of September Madame Melmotte, Marie, Mrs Hurtle, Hamilton K. Fisker, and Herr Croll left Liverpool for New York; and the three ladies were determined that they never would revisit a country of which their reminiscences certainly were not happy.  The writer of the present chronicle may so far look forward,—­carrying his reader with him,—­as to declare that Marie Melmotte did become Mrs Fisker very soon after her arrival at San Francisco.

CHAPTER XCIX — LADY CARBURY AND MR BROUNE

When Sir Felix Carbury declared to his friends at the Beargarden that he intended to devote the next few months of his life to foreign travel, and that it was his purpose to take with him a Protestant divine,—­as was much the habit with young men of rank and fortune some years since,—­he...