About this story
The financier rises through railway shares, banquets and Parliament, and falls the night the windows break in Grosvenor Square. You stand in the Abchurch Lane crowd that came to see a door, hear Georgiana's terms read in plain English, and marry Paul Montague at Carbury church. Ninety chapters carry the age from Melmotte's red wax to violet ink from the West.
How it opens
Morning light found every polished surface in Lady Carbury's London room arranged to suggest easy fortune.
The unpaid bills inside her escritoire told a less flattering story than the silk curtains outside it.
Hetta, read this sentence and tell me whether gratitude sounds more sincere underlined.
Mr Broune must understand that my poor volume has enemies before he decides its merits.
Choose
Gratitude sounds sincere before it asks for a review.
Underline the title, not your gratitude.